Patrick Keiller is best known for his series of film essays, London 1994, Robinson in Space 1997, and Robinson in Ruins 2010, in which a fictional, unseen scholar Robinson undertakes exploratory journeys around England, prompting him to reflect on the relationship of landscape and place to greater global themes.
For Tate Britain, Keiller has extended this idea to create an
exhibition, The Robinson Institute, in which images of landmarks and locations in the English landscape are employed to illustrate the development of capitalism. The premise for The Robinson Institute is that a team of researchers has revisited Robinson’s last known journey, and has presented his findings and film footage as an exhibition, featuring works by artists, writers, historians, geographers, cartographers and geologists; and a variety of other objects.
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