An Evening With

Lizzy Deacon received a grant to develop An Evening With. This hologram installation reimagines the nineteenth-century Pepper's Ghost illusion to examine the ethics of posthumous hologram performances. While high-profile figures like Elvis Presley and Tupac Shakur have been revived through virtual performances, this hologram installation focuses on the untold digital legacies of ordinary people. In an age where the online remnants of a person continue to perform ‘labour’ for social media platforms long after death - data becoming intellectual property to be stored, analysed and sold off - this work questions the ownership and consent surrounding our digital afterlives. This project interprets the digital afterlives of everyday people in a holographic projection by re-imagining and re-staging their physicality.

Lizzy is an artist based in Amsterdam. She works predominantly with moving-image and performance to explore notions of entertainment, class and power, taking an intensely improvisational and personal approach. She develops long-term investigations which are led by personal encounters, drawing on the specific behaviours and the individual histories of the non-fictional characters that she interacts with in both IRL and URL domains. Through performance, she embodies and builds upon these personal conceptions by referencing specific stories and anecdotes. Using the characters in her work as a vessel, she experiments with displays of intimacy and tension, exposing the characters' vulnerabilities within the visual scenarios that she manufactures. She studied at Goldsmiths, Open School East and De Ateliers. Her work has been shown at Cubitt Gallery in London, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, The Millennium Film Workshop in New York, and LUX Moving Image in London.