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ABOUT
ABOUT
2025
18-25 JUNE
DAVID JAGO
ARTIST STATEMENT
Dead Frequency
David Jago is a multimedia artist and storyteller whose work imagines societal collapse in rural Cumbria. His work weaves personal memory with the devastating effects of climate change in the nuclear age. Drawing inspiration from local history, family ties, and speculative futures, David constructs immersive 3D audio environments informed by research and narrative design. His fictional worlds are often set in a flooded, irradiated Cumbria—landscapes shaped by industrial negligence and ecological decay.
Recent work used cassette recordings and referenced Jonathan Nolan’s TV series Fallout (2024) and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) to evoke the mundane, day-to-day life of a lone survivor managing rising sea levels in the coastal town of Whitehaven.
His current installation features a survivor’s desk, simulating a fictional journey through post-apocalyptic Seascale. The piece is accompanied by a radio broadcast chronicling the character’s experiences, evoking a sense of isolation and desperation. David integrates 3D-printed props with hand-painted found objects to embody his “used future” aesthetic—offering a tactile, lived-in vision of what survival might look like after the collapse of a rural community within society.
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