Patrick Staff will speak about their show The Foundation followed by an in-conversation with IMA Executive Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh. Staff explores queer intergenerational relationships negotiated through historical materials. The Foundation combines footage shot at the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles, home to the archive of the erotic artist and gay icon and a community of people that care for it, with choreographic sequences shot within a specially constructed set.

Staff is based in London and Los Angeles. Their exhibitions, screenings, and performances include Scaffold see Scaffold, The Showroom, London; Art Turning Left, Tate Liverpool; L’Heure Des Sorcieres, Le Quartier, Quimper (all 2014); Mental Effort before Action: 1-5A-5B, South London Gallery; A Factory As It Might Be (Bournville), International Project Space, Birmingham; Society Is a Workshop, Banff Centre (all 2013); and Chewing Gum for the Social Body, Tate Modern, London (2012). Staff took part in the Lux Associate Artists Programme in 2010 and was the inaugural White Building/Lux Collection Residency artist in 2014.

Staff is also leading an experimental-choreography workshop on Saturday 15 August. More information here.