Dutton and Swindells have been working together since 1998. The Institute of Beasts project tacitly suggests or invokes a realm within which doubt, reticence and inconclusiveness may be privileged over certain forms of knowledge.This book outlines the artists' current work, bringing together suites of works from a number of exhibitions.In the book the artists search for and play with images, objects and texts through processes of collage, appropriation and multiple-association; the book has an introductory essay by Emma Crocker.Dutton and Swindells most recent project, The Stag and Hound at PSL prioritised a sense of 'drift' from one approach or position to the next, manifested in the work through unruly groupings and conflations of ideas and objects.Dutton and Swindells current work is a call for perpetual adjustment as a way of being, a pathology that is able to manifest itself visually, technically, materially, emotionally and ultimately artistically.