160:(2015) (with Simon Rittmeier) â is an artist book which investigates the agency of objects in Postcolonial collections of the Global North. Hopkins and Rittmeier sift through the traces that museum objects have left behind after the fictive disappearance of a collection of African art from a European museum.
190:(2019) (with Jens MĂŒhlhoff) is an installation that combines dramatised audio fragments and stage design to celebrate the fictional offline community DEZENT. The work explores the agency of the individual and the notion of independence in a networked world
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126:(2007 â ongoing) â In 2007 Hopkins co-initiated Slum TV, together with Julius Mwelu, Fred Otieno, Alex Nikolic and Lukas Pusch. Slum TV is a participatory media organisation that trains young men and women in the neighbourhood of
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