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Happy Birthday, Dear Speed - Hamish Pearch


1. How far is a light year?

2. What’s the best time to visit Margate?

3. How fast is first class post?

4. How do you keep flowers fresh?

5. Why does London have clay and sand geology?

6. How quick is London to Margate?

7. How slow does the earth spin?

8. What’s the moon tonight?

9. How slow is too slow running?

10. How far away is the moon?

11. What really happened?

12. How slowly to come off antidepressants?

13. What’s the best time to post on instagram?

14. How slowly should I release the breaks?

15. Why is it called a light year?

16. How far can a snail travel in a day?

17. What’s the worst time of day?

18. Why do I feel lightheaded?

19. How do I want my eggs in the morning?

20. What’s the worst that could happen?

21. How do I want to be loved?

22. How do I want to be seen by others?

23. Do you want to play a game?

24. Do you want to taste it?

25. How do I want to be remembered?

26. How dark can the human eye see?

27. How do you get out of a depression?

28. Do you want to know a secret?

29. What makes me angry?

30. How far is space from earth?

31. Who is my hero?

32. How long do snails sleep for?

33. How quick is Usain Bolt?

34. Do snails have feelings?

35. How slow is too slow running?

36. Can you see back in time through a telescope?

37. What does Margate look like?

38. Why is the sky blue? 39. What is size?

40. What is minimum wage?

41. What is distance?

42. Where is the horizon?

43. How do I keep myself awake?

44. What’s the median?

45. Why do stars die?

46. What’s the mode?

47. How do I keep a conversation going?

48. Why do we yawn?

49. How do I stop feeling sick?

50. Why does London water taste bad?

51. What does Margate smell like?

52. What’s the time?

53. What does Margate taste like?

54. What time does Dreamland open?

55. Do I want to dance?

56. How well can a snail see?

57. How do I keep fit?

58. How do you keep myself motivated?

59. What really matters?

60. Can I drink on SSRIs?

61. Why am I always tired?

62. How long do snails live for?

63. What’s the worst time to live in history?

64. What’s your biggest fear?

65. Why do we like music?

66. What is sound?

67. Why do we dance?

68. When did we first make music?

69. Do snails like music?

70. How can you tell someones age?

71. What is love?

72. When is the party over?

73. 3:08 (sleeping snail, mint, green match)

Hamish Pearch (b. 1993, London, UK) earned his BFA from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) in 2015 and received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London, 2019.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Solo presentation with Sans Titre (2016), Liste, Basel (2022); Amygdala Lost and Found, Sans Titre (2016), Paris, (2021); Thames Mud, front, Brussels, (2021); Head Above Water, Belsunce Projects/Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020); Nights, Soft Opening, London (2019) and On a day like this, Sans titre (2016), Paris (2018). Forthcoming exhibitions include, If things were different (solo), Galeria Mascota, CDMX (September. 2022). Curated and selected group exhibitions include: All season sanctuary, Mendes Wood DM, Retranchement (2022); The Art of Mushrooms, Park Serralves Foundation, Porto (2022); Glitch: The City as Palimpsest, Cooke Latham, London (2022); La Psychologie Des Surres, Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel, Swizterland (2021); 5th Edition, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, London (2021); Mushrooms, Somerset House, London (2020); Schools Show, Royal Academy of Art, London (2019); Ana Prata and Hamish Pearch curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli at Kupfer, London (2018); Go, Soft Opening, London (2018); Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London, (2018); Addams Outtakes, Roaming Projects, London, (2017); Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (co-curated and exhibited in with William Rees) at J Hammond Projects, London (2017); Le Laboratoire, Sans titre (2016), Marseille, (2017); Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Primary, Nottingham and ICA, London (2015). Pearch’s exhibition at Belsunce Projects won a grant from Fluxus Art Projects and the artist was a finalist for the XL Caitlin Prize in 2016. He took part in the Launch Pad LaB residency program (La Boissière, 2020).

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