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What’s an art form that feels unpopular and pointless, but isn’t?

Camille Henrot's origin myths, Nauman's nightmares, Steve McQueen's prime-time hit, and who needs Pfizer when you have Michael Clark? Video art roundup

I could watch him all day: Michael Clark in Charles Atlas’s ‘Hail the New Puritan’, 1986. Credit: Alexander James 
issue 12 December 2020

How did the universe begin? Did the great god Bumba vomit us up, as the Kuba believe? Or did we emerge, as the Navajo think, from a cloud of coloured mist? Or do we listen to the ancient Egyptians who thought the curtain opened on a giant cobra slithering across the oceans?

Perhaps it starts with a computer screen: Milky Way wallpaper, a folder labelled ‘History_Of_Universe’ and a sharp intake of breath.

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