the vacuum cleaner is an art and activism collective of one. the vacuum cleaner employ various creative legal and illegal tactics and forms, attempting to mock, brandalise and disrupt concentrations of power.
the vacuum cleaner’s work has been exhibited throughout the UK, including commissions from Tate Modern, ICA, Fierce Festival, the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, and the Liverpool Biennial. Internationally they have presented work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) Wooster Collective (USA) Anti Festival (Finland) Centre d’Art Contemporain (Switzerland) Hebbel-Am-Ufer, Tanz Tendez (Germany) Khoj Live 08 (India). As well as commissioned works for BBC4, Channel 4 and Arte.
the vacuum cleaner is an Artsadmin Associate Artist and a co-founder of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (2004 − 2009).
| Date | Title | Venue | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7–9 March 2019 | Mental | Battersea Arts Centre | London |
| 26–27 November 2018 | Mental | Schwankhalle | Breman |
| 26–27 October 2018 | Mental | Schwankhalle | Bremen |
| 12–29 October 2018 | In Chains | Bebas Batas Festival, National Gallery of Indonesia | Jakarta |
| 20–21 September 2018 | Mental | Grenzenlos Kultur | Mainz |
| 7–11 September 2018 | The art of a culture of hope | Short Theatre | Rome |
| 26 June 2018 | Last Night Art Saved My Life | Live Art Development Agency | London |
| 3–15 June 2018 | the art of a culture of hope: Archive of Hope and Fear | Gessnerallee | Zurich |
| 25 April 2018 | the art of a culture of hope | Théâtre Vidy | Lausanne |
| 22–24 February 2018 | Mental | Kaaitheater | Brussels |
| 21–25 November 2017 | the art of a culture of hope | Vooruit, Dr Guislain Hospital | Ghent |
| 7–11 November 2017 | the art of a culture of hope | No Limits Festival, HAU | Berlin |
| 28–30 September 2017 | The Art of a Culture of Hope | Steirischer Herbst | Graz |
| 8 September 2017 | the art of a culture of hope | HOMO NOVUS | Riga |
| 10–14 August 2017 | The Art of a Culture of Hope: A Sharing | Far Festival | Nyon |
| 15–17 June 2017 | The Art of a Culture of Hope | B-Sides Festival | Lucerne |
| 2 June 2017 | The Art of a Culture of Hope | Roxy Theater | Basel |
| 11–13 May 2017 | Mental | Frascati | Amsterdam |
| 10 May 2017 | The Art of a Culture of Hope | Gessnerallee | Zurich |
| 15 September 2016 – 15 January 2017 | Madlove: A Designer Asylum | Wellcome Collection | London |
| 5–7 May 2016 | Mental | Vooruit | Gent |
| 28–29 April 2016 | Mental | Vårscenefest | Tromsø |
| 14–15 April 2016 | Mental | Theatre de l'Usine | Geneva |
| 17–20 March 2016 | Mental | Teatro Maria Mator | Lisbon |
| 7–8 May 2015 | Mental | Contact Theatre | Manchester |
| 10 April – 31 July 2015 | Ship of Fools Documentation | DADA Fest | Grand Rapids |
| 5 March – 17 May 2015 | Madlove - A Designer Asylum - Beta Version | FACT | Liverpool |
| 28–30 January 2015 | Mental | Gessnerallee | Zurich |
| 26 January 2015 | Madlove - A Designer Asylum - Design Workshop | Zurich | |
| 21–22 November 2014 | Mental | Südpol | Kriens |
| 14 November 2014 | Madlove - A Designer Asylum Workshop | Newcastle and Gateshead Art Studio (NAGAS) | Newcastle |
| 13 November 2014 | Madlove - A Designer Asylum Workshop | Nottingham Contemporary | Nottingham |
| 8 November 2014 – 11 January 2015 | Ship of Fools | DaDa Fest: Art of the Lived Experiment | Liverpool |
| 6 November 2014 | Madlove - A Designer Asylum Workshop | Fact Centre | Liverpool |
| 5 November 2014 | Madlove - A Designer Asylum Workshop | St Helens Central Library | St Helens |
| 24 October 2014 | Madlove Social | Toynbee Studios | |
| 14–15 October 2014 | The Assessment | The Arches | Glasgow |
| 7–24 August 2014 | Mental | The Bedroom - Pleasance pop-up | Edinburgh |
| 17 June 2014 | The Assessment | Anxiety Festival | London |
| 17–19 May 2014 | Mental | Mayfest | Bristol |
| 26 February 2014 | Mental | Colchester Arts Centre | Colchester |
| 8–9 November 2013 | Mental | Cooper House | Manchester |
| 3–5 October 2013 | Mental | Tramway 1 | Glasgow |
| 3–7 September 2013 | Mental | Homo Novus | Riga |
| 16 March 2013 | Mental | The Basement | Brighton |
| 5 March 2013 | I went Mental and all I got was this lousy T-shirt | Nottingham Contemporary | Nottingham |
| 4 March 2013 | I went Mental and all I got was this lousy T-shirt | Toynbee Studios | |
| 14–16 February 2013 | Mental | In Between Time | Bristol Avon |
| 11–13 October 2012 | Mental (a work in progress) | London | |
| 2 April 2012 | Metropolitan Lice on Channel Four Random Acts | ||
| 18 September 2010 | Pleasure Hunt |
