Flatness.eu is a long-term research and commissioning project run by Shama Khanna. It addresses the conditions of working semi-digitally whilst exploring the potentials of art distributed via screens and its discourses to express and share subjective and collective desires within the professionalised art world.

Lucy Clout’s work for Flatness marks a departure from earlier experiences of using web message boards to connect with people with similar concerns and desires. For part of it, she repurposed Focusmate, a productivity app for freelancers to work remotely alongside each other via webcams. Lucy invited people to simply share virtual company with her, de-weaponising the camera as a tool for (self-)surveillance, instead reinvigorating its capacity for social exchange and emotional support.

Alongside this Lucy produced two texts and an unnamed present for the curator.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/28009