Ben Thompson

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Communication

  Programme

  MA Animation, 2011

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• In•divi•dual – Something enclosed that can be divided and shared, consisting of two parts.


  This video triptych stands to illustrate a divided being, chained to mania. Left stands the confused educated (Equivikal Equayshun), repeating a panic mantra of introjected worries. Right stands the irrational primitive (Endlss Fall), paranoid, fast to knowing of pending harm, delusional mostly, in continual decline. Central to these the representation of self (Eskaype Attempt / Self Erayzer), striving to abscond from the shared real world by rubbing out its anchoring body-object; the hope being that – in doing so&nbsp_place_holder;– it can arrange internal equilibrium through disconnection.


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• Degrees

• BA (Hons), Illustration and Animation, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008; Foundation Art and Design, Macclesfield College, 2005

• Experience

• Freelance animator, BBC, Manchester, 2009

• Exhibitions

• The King and The Minotaur , King's Cross, curated by Wignall & Moore, London, 2011; Exposures, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2008; Exposures, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2007