Pup & Blubber’s central characters are a quiet TV presenting duo, like the sombre ghosts of Ant & Dec or Sooty & Sweep. The double act attempt to explore human-machine interaction, taking us from the largest tech conference in the world to a tiny puppet theatre. The video considers the possibility for quotidian and staged ways of travelling outside of the body, in a process whereby an individual can insert their consciousness into non-living ‘hosts’, like cuddly toys, puppets, robots and data.

The video considers the possibility for quotidian and staged ways of travelling outside of the body, in a process whereby an individual can insert their soul or consciousness into non-living ‘hosts’, like cuddly toys, musical instruments, puppets, robots and data. Pup & Blubber frame this ‘astral-projection’ as a possible allegory for the literal commercialisation of health-based neurological research. Through a process of compression and collage, Brill creates an intimate world that questions and dissolves notions of the private internal and public external.

Pup & Blubber was developed during Hazel Brill's time on The FLAMIN Fellowship, and was commissioned by Block 336 and Arts Council England.

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