Compassion and Inconvenience delete our first reaction to anatomy

our first reaction to anatomy collapses into the arms of structure and the workings of the isolated body

and collapsing cities

is not learned

or pop culture

and the divine

Compassion and Inconvenience delete our first reaction to anatomyCompassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauers 30 minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)with its script reproduced alongside stills and audio descriptionsand her essay Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid 18th Century London (2025). Both these contributions engage with the historical context of the cultural scene in mid 18th century London, when