During his time at OSE Kris Lock continued to develop works in response to a research based practice exploring the different mechanisms and components that underpin sociopolitical geographies in order to speculate on future or alternative relationships to places at the intersections of currency, technology and materialism.  Of note was a body of works produced for his first solo show ‘Exegesis for the Modern Detoxer’ which navigated interconnectivities between dead sea mud, wellbeing therapies and the formation of memory.

Kris contributed to the public programme through a series of performative lectures and workshops produced in collaboration with Jo Sweeney. Loosely based around libertarian ideology and the technological underground, the workshops adopted a materialist methodology as way to think about the dark web, cryptography and speculative tools for the future.

Work produced for the final show was influenced both by the public facing workshops he co-authored and by a close proximity to the sea. Research into artificial islands, seasteading and aquapelagos manifested as an assemblage of sculpture, sound and video and has provided a framework for further exploration which will be undertaken at a new project space co-founded in 2018 by OSE associates Chloe Ashley, George Harding, Kris Lock, Lou Lou Sainsbury and Emily Whitebread.