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Tim Etchells
@timetchells.bsky.social
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Artist. Language. Performance. Forced Entertainment.
www.timetchells.com www.forcedentertainment.com
London.
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Europe in general and Pula specifically facing stark choices this summer. Come see me and Seke Chimutengwende perform Saturday evening at INK Pula. After show discussion with the amazing Vlatka Horvat.
Two flyposters on a wall. One for performance maker and artist Tim Etchells, the other for the singer Tom Jones.
June 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Screenshot of a text in a word processing document, the text highlighted in blue. It reads: and so it came to pass, that the ebbs, flows and traces of their identities, their needs, fears, perspectives, intimacies and heart-songs, their dreams, travel-plans, poems, night-sweats, desires, decisions and images, their secrets, loves, passions, medical traumas, dilemmas, anxieties, stories, hopes and whispered histories, became mere numbers for the opportunist frackers of the human, of value only as a part of the dataset, ripe for abstraction, aggregation and distant monetization, nothing more
March 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Gene Hackman, in a still from The Conversation. He sits to the left of the frame, playing saxophone, to the right his apartment with the walls and floor torn up.
February 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Signal to Noise from @forcedents.bsky.social is nominated for Nacktkritik Theatertreffen 2025. Please vote at the link: www.nachtkritik.de/nachtkritik-...
January 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Signal to Noise from @forcedents.bsky.social is nominated for Nacktkritik Theatertreffen 2025. Please vote at the link:
www.nachtkritik.de/nachtkritik-...
January 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Signal to Noise by @ForcedEnts is nominated for Nacktkritik Theatertreffen 2025. Vote at the link
www.nachtkritik.de/nachtkritik-...
January 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Signal to Noise from @forcedents.bsky.social is nominated for Nacktkritik Theatertreffen 2025. Please vote at the link: www.nachtkritik.de/nachtkritik-...
January 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Forced Entertainment's lip-sync delirium 'Signal to Noise' is nominated for the Nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2025. Please help support @forcedents.bsky.social and the work by voting for the project at this link! www.nachtkritik.de/nachtkritik-...
A logo/badge/icon that says Nachtkritik TheaterTreffen 25 and Nominierte Inszenierung (Nominated Production). Performer Seke Chimutengwende in a raincoat clutching a microphone in one hand and a bucket in the other, stands smiling anxiously beside an aluminum stepladder. Behind him on the white dancefloor in front of a plain plywood wall, four other performers holding microphones walk in different directions. In the centre of the stage there's a rectangle of green carpet and an office swivel chair.
January 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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a screenshot from a search engine. the user has typed 'how to conquer' - the list of suggested auto completions below reads: how to conquer fear how to conquer anxiety how to conquer fear of heights how to conquer fear of flying how to conquer the world how to conquer social anxiety how to conquer depression how to conquer fear of spiders how to conquer your mind how to conquer stage fright
January 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Very fabulous Apichatpong Weerasethakul show, ‘Particules de nuit’ at Pavillon Brancusi Centre Pompidou. So good.
A hand using a pen to write in a notebook. So far already written it says I read somewhere that the idea of constant time does not exist in dreams. In case you find a clock in your dream you’d see that the hands are not visible.
November 27, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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OK. Forced Entertainment's 'If All Else Fails' - Battersea Arts Centre, Tues 19 - Sat 23rd Nov, 7.30pm. Seke Chimutegwende shares the stage with Forced Ents lifer, Cathy Naden. The mood is strange, comical, unsettled. Don't miss this last event in Forced Entertainment's 40th birthday London Season.
In foreground to the right a woman in a grey t-shirt, out-of-focus, thinking. In the background a man in a blue shirt, his hands raised and pressed together as though he is making a sound with his fingertips. He looks as though he is listening intently.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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A screenshot of an 'error message' which says 'if you turn this off, some experiences won't be available to you'
January 22, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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Performances in London this Sat 9th December at VITRINE Fitzrovia to mark last days of my show ‘Continue Without Accepting’. The untitled improvised performances will take place at 2pm and 4pm. Expect language in loops and tangles, distance and intimacy.
www.vitrinegallery.com/events/tim-e...
Reflection in a window of a white neon sign by artist Tim Etchells. The lettering is reversed in the reflection but is still readable, it says 'continue without accepting'. A figure in silhouette can be seen walking past the sign.
December 4, 2023 at 8:23 PM
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My solo show of new neon works - Continue Without Accepting - continues just a little while longer at the fabulous VITRINE, Fitzrovia, until December 9th. It's a special one. Do check it out if you didn't get the chance already.
White neon sign viewed through a window. The sign by artist Tim Etchells comprises the single word 'problem' which has been installed upside-down.
November 24, 2023 at 8:19 PM
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The escalation and feverish denial of the climate catastrophe brought them to a broader rapture of desperate illogic that infected public discourse on almost all levels and topics. With carbon emission and rising temperatures effectively decoupled, myriad forms of causality and connection were susceptible to spurious challenge, fracture or unmaking, the social and political space of the planet recast as an apoplectic free-for-all in which nonsense often prevailed. Science and massacre, identity, and geopolitics – no subject was immune from this frenzy of counterfactual undoing. And amid this discursive sickness - arising from climate change denial and the profound disconnect between word and world it birthed - the LLM AIs emerged as both symptom and accelerant, spewing endless argument without ground, value, stake, or position. Into conversation that was already vexed, California summoned the scrambled voices of the dead to drown out the voices of the living.
November 20, 2023 at 10:29 AM
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Last chance (for now) to catch my piece How Goes the World, commissioned as part of the Histoire(s) du Théâtre series for @NTGent. Performers Aurélie Alessandroni, Aurélie Lannoy, John Rowley + Neil Callaghan. Sat 18th Nov at Minardschouwburg, Gent, 8pm. Just a few tickets left for tonight.
Performer Aurélie Alessandroni standing by a piano in Tim Etchells' performance How Goes the World.
November 18, 2023 at 8:02 AM
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None of that 'Inbox Zero' bs around here.
Screenshot of an OS message asking 'Are you sure you want to open 100,438 messages? Each message opens in a separate window.' Dialogue boxes offer the option to Cancel or Open.
October 22, 2023 at 10:08 AM
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Screenshot image of a survey. An empty check-box on the left, next to it the sentence 'I did not share my thoughts with anyone'.
October 22, 2023 at 7:40 AM
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Image of a text that reads: The more they wrecked the planet and its ecosystems the more they filled it with representations of what they’d lost; renderings, recordings and images conjured in stunning resolution. Entering the public toilets at Liverpool Street station that summer as the planet burned, they were greeted with both the stench of piss and the recorded sounds of a fabulous tropical forest, the calls of birds long dead or threatened with extinction rebounding in all directions from the tiles and glass.
October 10, 2023 at 6:53 AM
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Come celebrate this beautiful volume coming out this week from Spector - a survey of my works in neon + other interventions in public + gallery space. VITRINE Fitzrovia, Tues 10th Oct 6-8pm. I'll be in-conversation with writer + critic Orit Gat, talking about the work + about the book.
Book cover - a white neon sign glowing on top of a building against a dark blue sky, the sign reads LET'S PRETEND NONE OF THIS EVER HAPPENED, in all-capital letters.
October 8, 2023 at 3:09 PM
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Thanks to folks at opening for my show 'continue without accepting' at VITRINE Fitzrovia 2nite. Plus don't miss the book launch for 'Let's Pretend None of the Ever Happened, at VITRINE, Tues 10th October, 6-8pm where I'll be in conversation abt the book + the work, with writer + art critic Orit Gat.
Artist Tim Etchells stands next to his neon work 'Problems (Double Upside Down)' (2023). The white neon sign shows two identical versions of the word 'Problems' which are both installed upside down.
October 5, 2023 at 9:08 PM
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Continue without Accepting - Tim Etchells

VITRINE Fitzrovia, London 6 October – 9 December 2023
Preview: Thursday 5th October 6-8pm

Book Launch & Artist-in-Conversation with Orit Gat:
Tuesday 10 October, 6-8pm
White neon sign on a white wall. The letters are all lower-case. They spell out the words 'continue without accepting'.
October 1, 2023 at 11:35 AM
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(from the series Personal Statement, 2017)
A framed image of a drawing. In purple painted all-caps letters it says 'Black Sky Thinking'.
September 21, 2023 at 6:09 PM