Jeremy Hutchison^UK

Dead White Man is a live performance by British artist Jeremy Hutchison. The work shines a light on the global trade in textile waste – the 24 billion garments that end up in the secondhand market every year. The majority are sent to Africa, where they are often referred to as Dead White Men’s Clothes.

In this performance, Hutchison becomes the Dead White Man: a towering zombie made of textile waste. Having risen from the street markets of Senegal, he now returns to the Global North in search of his roots. He has already haunted shopping centres, fast fashion headquarters, Times Square, and even New York Fashion Week – now he’s coming to Roskilde Festival. 

You can experience him twice during the First Days – and a third time in an interactive workshop at Flokkr. Here, the audience is invited to help zombify the artist. Together, we open a bale of secondhand clothes and transform Hutchison’s body into a grotesque monster of textile waste – a haunting symbol of overconsumption. And then... we set him loose. 

Jeremy Hutchison is a British artist who works with performance, sculpture, and video. Exploring power and resistance, his practice challenges the logic of late capitalism, weaponizing humour to political ends. His work has been shown all over the world and he is the director of the artist-run space Kunsthallo. He lives and works in London.