Catherine Yass

Artist Catherine Yass conducted research towards new work at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford.

Double Agent is the outcome of Yass's year-long residency in Oxford. The residency is part of the millennium celebrations for Year of the Artist. Year of the Artist began on 1 June 2000 and is the largest and most ambitious arts project ever mounted in England with over 1000 artists working in 1000 places nationally. It seeks to raise the status and profile of living artists and give them opportunities to take their work in new directions.

Yass works with photography and video. In both media, time and space are manipulated in order to disrupt a notion of the camera's objectivity and to suggest that unconscious drives, such as desire, fear, memory and fantasy, play a part in how reality is perceived.

The University of Oxford's contributions to Year of the Artist are being organised in association with The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.

Read more about the project at http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/lab/02/index.html