2024 Speculative Evolution

Ideas that the diverse life on earth has evolved over time can be traced back to ancient Greece. But it was not until On…
2024 The Cryptid Hunter

A cryptid is a creature that may or may not exist. Unproven by science, and chronicled through anecdotal stories passed down…
2024 Recursion

Recursion: Model Collapse Text by Joey Holder The ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent devouring its own…
2024 Zouyu

Have you ever wondered what It might be like to just rip off your face, just like.. rip it off? become a hypa-god, a demon-lord?…
2023 Metis

The film's narrative follows the journey of the discovery of an unknown creature 'Metis' which had been lying dormant for…
2023 Model organism

In conversation with several Marine Scientists, 'Model Organism'* investigates the importance of marine plankton in our ecosystem,…
2023 Cryptid

Cryptid Text by Günseli Yalcinkaya “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. For the…
2023 Zoophyte

Zoophyte is an art installation dedicated to the rediscovery of cryptozoology, a pseudoscience that deals mainly with recovering…
2023 Feels Like Memeplex™

The exhibition, Feels Like Memeplex™, engineered by Omsk Social Club and Joey Holder, is an evolution of Memeplex™ - originally…
2022 The Waxing

The “compendious and occasionally accurate, glossary” of the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy handbook offers some information…
2022 Æquator

Æquator means equator in Latin, which means ‘to make equal’. The installation is formed of two symmetrical grids, which house…
2021 Memeplex™

“I will start by telling you a little about Memeplex™. We are a neutral hospital that specialises in neuro ops… which means…
2021 Abyssal Seeker BZ

ἄβυσσος (abussos) = bottomless βένθος (benthos) = depth (of the sea) —refers to the lowest surface and…
2021 Abyssal Seeker DZ

Abyssal Seeker depicts a slow, aquatic journey to a fictional brine lake at the bottom of an unnamed ocean. Protagonists…
2020 Mana

Mana is the name given to a force or power which is said to permeate the entire universe in Austronesian language and culture.…
2020 Khthon

The Greek word khthon is one of several for "earth"; it typically refers to that which is under the earth, rather than the…
2019 Semelparous

Joey Holder presents Semelparous, a site-specific installation in the Pool and Spa of the now-closed Springhealth Leisure…
2018 The Evolution Of The Spermalege

Insects have some of the strangest mating practices in the animal kingdom, for example honey bees penises snap off and explode,…
2018 Adcredo: The Deep Belief Network

‘Adcredo - The Deep Belief Network’ is a series of installations developed across several sites, as well as a research and…
2017 Selachimorpha

Commissioned for Conspiracy Week at The Photographers Gallery (Media Wall), Joey Holder takes a particular scene from the…
2017 XGLULX: The Exegesis of Swamp Brain

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2016 Tetragrammaton

A dialogue between two artists on themes of myth, ritual and meaning, as much about their exhaustion and propensity to bewilderment…
2016 Ophiux

Ophiux gives a glimpse into a near future that whilst fictional, is not far from reality and is founded on current scientific…
2015 Feldspar (Hadal Zone)

Feldspar (Hadal Zone), 2015, references both the deep ocean - the Hadal Zone is the delineation for the deepest trenches…
2015 Lament of Ur

Lament of Ur is an exhibition by Joey Holder and Viktor Timofeev inspired by themes of entrapment, conspiracy theories and…