Find the real question
Define the audience, the challenge and what the work should help people understand or do.
ADAM KNOXVILLE / VISUAL ARTIST · CREATOR
VOL. V / AK · MMXXVI
ART IS A CONTROLLED INTERRUPTION.
A practice of catching the moment before it disappears — across image, object, motion and sound.
— 001 PHASE / BREAK
Visual
Experiments.
"Studies in light, distortion and instinct — what happens when the apparatus refuses what I tell it to do."
Light, Brighton
After-image, Osaka
Heat, Paris
"PERSPECTIVE IS NOT THE TRUTH.
IT IS THE PLACE WHERE THE WORK STAYS HONEST."
— FIELD NOTE / AK · 2025
— 002 PHASE / TENSION
Form &
Function.
"Objects and systems under tension — the moments before something becomes itself."
Vessel, NYC
Frame, Singapore
Stone, Sydney
— 003 PHASE / SHIFT
Exhibition
Feature.
"Modus Vivendi" at Tate Modern — a 14-piece installation across two rooms and one corridor.
FEATURE — TATE MODERN · LONDON
"Modus Vivendi"
— a way of going on living.
Eighteen months of fieldwork condensed into a single installation. The work refuses a fixed reading; the rooms re-arrange between visitors, slowly, on a 14-hour cycle.
The exhibition runs through December 2026, then travels to Mori Tokyo and Pompidou Paris.
— 004 PHASE / RELEASE
Sound &
Motion.
"Audiovisual and rhythm studies — work where the soundtrack is the sculpture."
CAT 04 / AK · LOOP STUDIES
The rabbit
is never still.
A 40-minute audiovisual piece commissioned by IIIPoints festival. Eight cameras, four hydrophones, one tape loop running on a battery in a riverbed for nine days.
Released as a limited LP and 8K film. Both available through the studio archive — by application only.
— 005 STUDIO / CONVERSATION
Things I
can't explain.
"Uninvited creative ideas — captured before they go somewhere else."
A conversation with Daniel Moore
in the studio, March 2026.
[Q1] You've said work that finishes is no longer alive. What do you mean?
A finished piece tells you what it is. An unfinished piece keeps asking. The studio is where I get to keep the asking going — even after the work has shipped.
[Q2] What's the role of a place in the work?
Most pieces start with a place that doesn't have a name yet — a corner in a city I visited once, a stretch of light in a hallway. I keep returning until the place names itself.
[Q3] What are you reading right now?
Sebald. Always Sebald. And a 1973 manual about phototropism in plants. The two books have started talking to each other in ways I didn't expect.
A closer look / AK/INDEX
An idea, given physical form.
Share the space, medium and questions behind the project.
Discuss a collaborationBehind the work
A clear idea, carried all the way through.
Build a point of view
Explore a focused creative direction through prototypes, references and thoughtful conversation.
Make it work in the world
Refine the details and agree the deliverables, handover and support needed for launch.
Good to knowA few things
A few things
you might ask.
What makes a useful project brief?
Include your audience, the challenge, expected deliverables, timing and any budget parameters. An unfinished brief is still a good place to begin.
Can you work with an existing identity or team?
Outline the assets, collaborators and decisions already in place so the project can build on what is working.
How is a project scoped?
The proposal should define deliverables, review stages, responsibilities and timing before production begins.
The next step
Discuss a collaboration.
Share the space, medium and questions behind the project.