Patrick Staff is the recent recipient of the SPACE/Bloomberg ON annual studio award and Fogo Island Arts Residency. His videos, installations and performances interrogate the political, physical and material implications of social spaces, dissent and the body, forms of collectivity and the historical narration of counter cultural and radical action. Recent projects have taken place at Monte Vista, Los Angeles; Milton Keynes Gallery; The Showroom, London and Wysing Arts Centres and he was a LUX Associate Artist 2010-11. Staff subsequently presented a new commission, Chewing gum for the social body, at Tate Modern in October 2012.