The video work Succession is modelled and animated using 3D software. It pictures a series of generic, virtual boardrooms typical of corporate and business meeting rooms. They appear, enlarge, and engulf the previous one in regular succession. Except they aren’t just virtual, they are also actual. Sourced from sets of virtual models manufactured by companies who offer actual boardrooms for purchase, these virtual models are displayed on the Internet so you can select one to fit out your office. So all these boardrooms must also exist somewhere in the world as actual builds. I don’t have an office to fit out with a boardroom, so I made these (sort of) pretend ones instead. And made a soundtrack to go with it. I consider rapid, global urbanization and the emerging digital world as the two great defining characteristics of the contemporary world. As per Marx’s explanation of historical materialism, they fundamentally shape all aspects of modern being, are the source of our greatest comforts and our greatest anxieties. This work reflects another aspect of those ongoing concerns, among other things.