Aven Dighton

Through mess-making, installation and video I explore work and action, and the shrinking of their antitheses in boredom, laziness, exhaustion and empty time.

The work is a tongue-in-cheek investigation of the boundaries between art and work, nonart and nonwork and their varying temporalities. Challenging the increasingly inescapable logics of productivity and value through failure, mistakes, coincidence and clumsiness.

Accumulating (2026) is a degree show installation presented at UCA Canterbury. An accumulation of things and an inventory of activity — exploring the boundaries between art and work, nonart and nonwork, and their varying temporalities.