Babeworld are an art collective based across Stoke-on-Trent and London. Babeworld’s work uses popular-culture inspired film, installation and sound design to interrogate themes of political and societal identity, disability, access, neurodivergence and race. By using a tongue-in-cheek approach to serious themes, Babeworld are able to playfully explore these themes whilst capturing the lived-experiences within the collective. Underpinning this work is an ongoing commitment to researching what it means to make, participate in and spectate art as marginalised individuals. Across their work, Babeworld aims to capture a life of contrast – one in which oscillating mental health, mania and delusion can make things feel hopeless and paralysing, or thrilling and obsessive.
Babeworlds aesthetics and world-building across their film and installations use autofiction narratives that do not create boundaries between online and offline worlds, devices, spaces or temporalities – capturing the role different online spaces have played in their understandings of themselves and their communities. Their work is underpinned by an ongoing body of research that explores what it means to make, participate in and spectate art as marginalised individuals. They are committed to capturing a version of themselves that feels like an authentic blend between all of the collective – whether that’s about their lived experience, or a funny reddit post they saw that day. Alongside this, Babeworld are consistently motivated by the questions – how can we make work for the CEX and Tumblr generation who may not feel comfortable in a traditional gallery? And how can we get another little residency to play board games and TTRPGS?
