Everything crashed out. For a moment we experienced the kind of nothingness physicists had believed to exist before they discovered that the vacuum was actually filled with life. Life and anti-life that is, matter and anti-matter. I remember reading something about vacuumed volumes borrowing matter from the future that stuck with me, some kind of quantum particle credit system. In their world, everything, from the quantum to the cosmic, runs on credit.


Harriet Middleton Baker is a performance and visual artist interested in the representations of power in structural narratives. She works on long-term research projects that operate as umbrellas to growing series of performances, choreographic works, films, and writing. She is currently one of six artists selected for the DRAF Live Art Commissions 2020-21. Recent exhibitions/performances include Civil War, SITE Projects at Mimosa House, 2019; Leaning in on Sheryl, Tenderbooks, 2018; The Company, Plexal Centre for Innovation, 2018; Gods, Monsters, Future’s Builders, 10 Year Anniversary for Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects, 2018; The War Room, an Opera!, Cell Project Space, 2018.