Nothing Can Turn Into a Void

Vicki Bennett & People Like Us tell it like it is

UK artist Vicki Bennett has come a long way since I first met her in 1988. At that time, we were both interested in the magical, fantastic and psychedelic, and we tried different ways of expressing ourselves within these pretty vast fields. I liked the traditional ways of writing and taking photographs, whereas Vicki liked collages and video work. Almost forty years down the line, not much has changed. Except for maybe the fact that Vicki has now produced a large body of work and is an established artist. Besides the video- and collage work, she has also made a lot of music. All of this under the umbrella of ”People Like Us”, and quite often in collaborations with fellow experimentalists like Ergo Phizmiz, Wobbly and Matmos. After having followed her work from a distance for decades, I thought it would be nice to reconnect and see what has changed and what hasn’t since those early formative years. We met at a sound art festival in Stockholm in 2011, and then again in the UK in 2013, where we initiated a ”Round 2” of our conversations for the AAA film Nothing Can Turn Into a Void. What had happened, and why? And how would she define herself nowadays?