The Future Now
Ian Phillips McLaren’s practice combines video, sculpture, performance and animation. His current work is an investigation of the inner ‘self’ through a Jungian lens.
Phillips McLaren has crafted four effigies representing Jung’s four main archetypes, which, when combined, represent the whole ‘Self’.
Each video-sculpture characterises separate aspects of his identity, performing independently but at the same time, collectively creating a single self-portrait in a three-dimensional environment. These performances range in delivery and dialogue and are designed to engage the viewer on multiple levels.
Phillips McLaren disrupts any emotive response to the piece by revealing the mechanisms of its operation.
Exhibition Name
The Future Now
Project Name
Self Portrait/ There’s Someone in My Head…
September 3rd – September 9th 2021
The Ruskin Gallery & Studios, Cambridge.
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A three minute walk-through video of Ian’s ‘There’s Someone in My Head…’ installation which was part of the ‘The Future Now’ exhibition.
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A social media promo video for The Future Now! exhibition which lasts for 1min 25secs
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This video was put together as a one minute promo for Instagram.