PHOEBE EUSTANCE
Phoebe Eustance (they/them) is an artist and researcher based between London and Birmingham. Their work engages with sculptural and audio-visual practices, intertwining queer studies and spatial politics within the context of the clinic. They completed an MA (2016) at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths and a BA (2013) in Fine Art at Leeds and Lisbon Universities. They are currently completing a practice-based PhD at Birmingham School of Art. For the last five years Phoebe has worked with the arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms and is now a Research Consultant with them. They are part of the Conditions Studio Programme 2024-25.
Screenings, exhibitions, residencies: London Performance Studios (2024), Hauser & Wirth (2023, 2022), Centre Culturel Suisse (2023), Queercircle (2022), East Galley Norwich (2021), Hospitalfield (2021), Academy of Arts Vienna (2021), Nottingham Contemporary (2020), Goldsmiths CRA (2016), Maison de la culture d’Amiens (2014).
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Pathological
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The above stills are from a film examining the tension between clinical objectivity and embodied experience within psychiatric environments. Currently in progress.
2024 London Performance Studios
Performers: Jackie Wilford, Eliza Cass
Locations: Bethlem Hospital, LPS
A collection of clay works made during a research workshop where people were invited to make an object that resonated with their experiences of clinical environments.
2023 Birmingham School of Art
Medium-format photograph of a seclusion room in Shaftesbury Clinic taken just before it was demolished in December 2023.
2023 Shaftesbury Clinic, Springfield Hospital
Archive
2311 THE HOSPITAL JOINS THE PALACE
Phoebe Eustance in conversation with Staufer & Hasler Architekten. This event is part of Living in clostrophilia: Construction, practice and critique of the interior at Centre Culturel Suisse, a showcase for displaying new modes of design, experimental projects and prospective visions from the small scale of the home, the size of a spaceship, to that of the city or habitats in extreme environments.
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Digital collage, 2023, Phoebe Eustance2311—24/11/23
Centre Culturel Suisse
75003 Paris
2308 SENSING CLINICAL SPACES
A workshop exploring sensory encounters of the clinic through collage making and conversation. The event is part of the public programme of arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms' exhibition 'Holding Space' at Hauser & Wirth London.
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Phoebe Eustance2308—26/08/23
Hauser & Wirth
London W1S 2ET
2210 QUEER METHODS
Queer Methods was a workshop that took place at Queercircle to explore the potential for queer methods in arts and health research and activism. It was born out of a collaboration between Hel Spandler (Asylum Magazine), Frances Williams (Queercircle), and Phoebe Eustance (Hospital Rooms).
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Phoebe Eustance2210—17/10/22
Queercircle
London SE10 0BN
2209 RETHINKING MENTAL HEALTH CARE
A day of critical reflections on the spaces and politics of contemporary psychiatric care. Organised by Hospital Rooms and hosted by Hauser & Wirth. Speakers included: Hel Spandler, Abbas Zahedi, Jo Baudin, Jess Oglethorpe, Christopher Bailey and Phoeb Eustance.
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Pineapple Furniture
2209—10/09/22
Hauser & Wirth
London W1S 2ET
2111 HOSPITAL ROOMS
Northside House X Hospital Rooms publication includes texts, interviews and artworks. Northside House is a forensic medium secure mental health unit in Norwich. Texts: Hugh Nicholson & Phoebe Eustance. Design: Molly Bonnell & Tom Shepherd-Barron.
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Phoebe Eustance2111—07/11/21
Northside House
Norwich
2104 QUEERING THE WAITING ROOM
Queering the Waiting Room is a visual essay that reimagines the institution as malleable. Borrowing from Jean Oury’s notion of ‘pathoplasty’, which attributes sickness to the environment, the project redirects the pathological gaze away from individual patients and towards the social structure of the hospital itself. Originally made for SARA2021 conference and screened at Hospitalfield in May 2021.
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Screenshot of online talk, Phoebe Eustance
2104—07/04/21
Academy of Arts
1010 Vienna
1609 A MANUAL FOR LISTENING TO QUIET
A Manual for Listening to Quiet
Masters thesis project for the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths (University of London).
“That won’t help you,” said the policemen, who always became very quiet, almost sad, when K. began to shout, and in that way confused him or, to some extent, brought him to his senses.
The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925)
1609—05/09/16
Goldsmiths
University of London