Amanda Beech
E d u c a t i o n
2003 PhD. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
1998 M.A. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
1996 B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Class 1, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
E m p l o y m e n t
2012- present Dean of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA.
2010-2012 Professor of Fine Art, University of Kent, UK.
2004-10 Program Director, MA Critical Writing, Curatorial Practice, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK.
S c r e e n i n g s
2019 Constructing Time, Toronto, Canada
2018 We Never Close, SciARC, Los Angeles, USA.
2017 We Never Close. Middlesborough Art Weekender, UK.
2015 Falk, Yarnwork, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, February.
2014 Residency in review. Screening of selected works. Fieldwork, Marfa.
2013 Tegel: Speculations and Propositions, Site Gallery, Sheffield. Screening: You are Propelled Forward By the Vacuum in Front of You, Amanda Beech & Diann Bauer.
2012 Tegel: Speculations and Propositions, Babylon Cinema Berlin, Germany. Screening: You are Propelled Forward By the Vacuum in Front of You, Amanda Beech & Diann Bauer.
We Never Close, 2008 at Seeing and Telling, The Agency Gallery, London, 28th January.
The Real Thing Mardi 12 juin 2012, 19h, Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne
2011 Sanity Assassin, Armoury Show Los Angeles, California, USA. Paul Young Gallery, LA. 9-10 October.
Sanity Assassin, Edith Russ Haus web broadcast TV Video Visionen, Germany. April 29th.
2010 Sanity Assassin, Tate Britain with panel discussion. Sept.
2009 The Media Art Bath Film Exercise, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Screening of Statecraft.
2008 In A Manner of Speaking, Transmission, Glasgow, video screening curated by Lois Rowe. Screening of We Never Close
2007 Art Video Exchange, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway. Curated by Madeline Djerejian. Video screening of Little Private Governments
2006 S1 Salon, S1 Gallery, Sheffield. Screening of Little Private Governments
2004 Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London. Screening of Alien
2000 Polstar video screenings: Leicester Square, London. Curated by Alexander de Cadenet.
So l o E x h i b i t i o n s
2019 Covenant Transport Move or Die SAW Video, Knot project Space, Ottowa, Canada
2017 This Time, Online video commission for the Remai Modern Museum, Canada.
2016 Covenant Transport Move or Die, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Northumberland, UK. Oct 20th 2016 -Jan 29th 2017
2014 All Obstructing Walls Have Been Broken Down, Catalyst Arts Belfast, with new publication.
Everything Has led to this Moment, Xero, Kline, Coma, London, UK.
Interstate. Material Press, on-line exhibit, USA.
2013 Final Machine, Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, UK.
2012 The Church The Bank The Art Gallery, Banner Repeater London, UK.
2010 Sanity Assassin Spike Island, Bristol, UK (with publication)
2010 Predators and Pests, LoBe Gallery, Berlin http://www.lo-be.net/archives/493?lang=de
2009 Image-Force Urbanomic Studio, Falmouth, UK
2008 Statecraft The Temple of Utopias, temporary gallery, Harlow, Essex
2006 Falk MOT Gallery London (With publication)
2003 The Patriot, The Economist Plaza, London
2000 Misdemeanours Stuff Gallery, London.
1999 G O ! ! ! at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.
Runners, site-specific installation at Stroud BR station.
Act Intervention art works in Cheltenham.
1998 Public Information intervention art works in London.
‘Sandwich’– Making Space. Site specific artwork, Brick Lane, London.
1997 Square, XYZ Gallery, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
S e l e c t e d G r o u p E x h i b i t i o n s
2019 Snow Crash, IMT Gallery, London, curated by Kirsten Cooke.
Dallas Pavillion, Venice Biennale.
2017 Propositions for a Stage: 24 Frames of a Beautiful Heaven, Lasalle Institute of Contemporary Art, curated by Bridget Crone.
2016 Neocentric, as part of Vienna Calling, curated by Bassam El Baroni, Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
Radical Praxes, A Political Idiom, Group exhibit, Nationalmuseum Berlin, Germany, curated by Matthew Burbidge.
2015 Politics of Amnesia 2 Café Gallery, London
Speculative Aesthetics, Tate Britain, London
Beirut City Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Lebanon
Speculative Aesthetics, Tate Britain, May, exhibiting Predators and Pests (with D Bauer and screening Statecraft)
2014 Agitationism, EVA international, Irish Biennial. Limerick, Ireland curated by Bassam El Baroni.
A’venir, Looking Forward, Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Canada. Curated by Gregory Burke and Peggy Gale.
For Machine Use Only, Schneiderei Gallery, Nov 17-23 Art Week, Vienna, curated by Mohammad Salemy.
2013 Futures Project, Center for Living Arts, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Strange Loop, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland. http://www.atticusandalgernon.com/strange-loop.html
Asymmetrical Cinema, duo exhibition, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, curated by Dale Holmes and Kirsten Cooke.
The Objects of Culture, Duo show with Alison Jones, Ha Gamle Prestagard, Norway.
2012 Urbicide, Workshop Arte Contemporanea, Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy, curated by Diann Bauer.
Reading Room, Grand Union, Birmingham. Curated by Marialaura Ghidini.
2011 Community Without Propinquity, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
The Edge of Luxury, Fold Gallery, London
2010 The Mortar of Distribution, LoBe Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Curated by Matthew Poole.
2009 Greetings Comrades, The Image Has Now Changed its Status Brunswick Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia, and Arnolfini, Bristol. Curated by Bridget Crone
Commonwealth MGK 127, Toronto, Canada, curated by Denise Hawriyso
2008 Let us Pray For Those Now Residing in the Designated Area, DNA Gallery, Berlin, trio exhibition with Roman Vasseur and Diann Bauer
The Mortar of Distribution, dialogue event with Roman Vasseur, Artprojx, London
The Institute of Pyschoplasmics, Pump House Gallery. Group exhibition curated by Pil and Galia Kollectiv with publication.
2007 Foreign Body(ies) White Box gallery, New York, USA, Curated by Gerard Hemsworth.
One Way Street, Sheppard Gallery Reno, USA and KX Gallery Hamburg, Germany. Co-curated exhibition with Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Matthew Poole. Including artists Pierre Bismuth, Amanda Beech, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Roman Vasseur.
Local Operations, Serpentine Gallery, London, project space. Video Screening of State Line.
The Dream of Putrefaction, Metropole Gallery, Folkestone, Kent and Fieldgate Gallery, London. Curated by Dereck Harris.
2006 Little Private Governments, University Gallery, University of Essex. Co-curated with Matthew Poole. Including Jenny Holzer, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Martin Kippenberger, Roman Vasseur, Amanda Beech. Catalogue available.
2005-6 Episode, Co-curated project with J.J. Lester and M Poole. Temporarycontemporary Gallery, London, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds and South Florida Arts Centre, Miami, USA. Including Julie Henry, Mike Marshall, Giles Perry.
2005 LOT, Broadmead, Bristol, Poster exhibition with Jeremy Deller, Liam Gillick, Adam Dade.
2004 Showdown: Boys vs Girls Bristol. Including Gabriella Schutz, Mike Stubbs, Richard Kirwan.
Pilot: 1, Limehouse Town Hall, London, including Kerry Stewart, Liz McAlpine, Shez Dawood.
Zoo Art Fair, with Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London.
Willkommen The Metropole, Folkestone, Kent, with Bob and Roberta Smith, Michael Landy, Jeremy Deller. Curated by Luke Oxley.
Plaza Suite: Larden Fuer Nichts, Union Projects, London.
Curated by Brian Reed, Uwe K Guenther, Mike Dawson.
Death of Romance Carnaby Street, London. Co-curated exhibition. Including Annie Whiles, Aya Ben Ron, Gabriella Schutz, David Burrows, Wayne Lloyd, Nigel Cooke.
Gewalt Loushy Fine Art and Editions,Tel Aviv, Israel Curated by Suhail Malik. including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Aya Ben Ron, David Falconer, Candice Breitz and Nigel Cooke.
2003 Family Business Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London. Co-curated with Danielle Arnaud and Matthew Poole, inc. Kate Smith, Lynn Marsh, David Blandy, Jasone Miranda Bilbao.
18% Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, Curated by Kevin Rice and David Smith.
Don’t Fight It !!! Gasworks Gallery, London and Bergen Kunstsenter, Norway. 2004. Co-curated exhibition with Matthew Poole. Video works, with David Mollin, Francesca Gore, Renaud Bezy, Francis Lamb, Ole Hagen.
Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London. Curated, K. Rice and D Smith
2002 Kinetika Montpelier Arms. London.
Blow Up Your TV York City Art Gallery. Curated by David Mabb. Video works, with Paul Rooney, Mark Wallinger and Andy Warhol.
No Sleep ’til Hammersmith Central Space, London. Group Video works.
2001 Moving The Greyhound, Balls Pond Road, London, Co curated project, including Jeremy Deadman, David Mollin, David Mabb.
Trick Peaser at Mandarina Duck, London. Curated by Luke Oxley.
2000 Break at Gallery Clark, Montreal, Canada. Residency and exhibition. Duo exhibition.
Make Believe at Kingsgate Gallery, London. Co-curated project.
1999 Big Warm Open Cambridge Darkroom Gallery.
Not Enough Site Specific art work, Locations project, Gloucester.
Flashpoint Globe Gallery, Newcastle.
1998 Packed Lunch St. Monica’s Old School, Hoxton Square, London. Co-curated project with Barnaby Drabble, Matthew Poole.
Curated and exhibited, Flashpoint at The Globe Gallery, Tyne and Wear.
1997 Underworld Australia Council Studios, London.
On The Buses Installation, representing the Globe Gallery, showing at Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax, Hull Time Based Arts, 3 Month Gallery, Liverpool, Connected Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
E s s a y s – A r t i c l e s
2019 Language and Possible Worlds, contributing editor, Urbanomic Press.
‘Self Conception beyond the Post-Human’, in Constructing Cultures of Collective Freedom, forthcoming; Trevatt and Trafford eds. Rowan and Littlefield.
‘Exploding Horror’, in Diseases of the Head, Essays at the Intersection of Speculative Philosophy and Speculative Horror, anthology, Punctum Books.
2018 ‘Neo-Con Noir’ in Cold War Cold World, Eds. Beech, Wiltgen, Mackay, Urbanomic Press, 2017.
“Art and new Materialist Power: The Death of Anti Representationalist Critique”, in The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism III, anthology.
‘How Art Ought to Think’ in Art and Reason, Contrapuntal Media, CalArts.
2017 ‘Last Rights: The Non-Tragic Image and the Law’, in The Flood of Rights, Bard CCS, New York and the LUMA Foundation.
2016 ‘Heroic Realism: Violence, Conservatism, and the Fate of Culture’, essay published on Urbanomic website, https://www.urbanomic.com/document/heroic-realism-2/
‘Culture Without Mirrors’ in Site 0: Castilia, The Game of Ends and Means,
A Glass Bead Project. Eds. Fabien Giraud, Jeremy Lecomte, Vincent Normand, Ida Soulard and Inigo Wilkins.
‘Space is no Object’ in Reinventing Horizons, eds., Václav Janoščík, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling.
2015 ‘Art and its Science’ in Speculative Aesthetics, Urbanomic Redactions series.
‘Concept Without Difference, The Promise of the Generic’, Realism, Materialism, Art, Sternberg Press, Bard also translated into German with Merve.
“Future Impossible? Thinking the Image without Crisis”, Essay for L’Avenir, Montreal Biennale catalogue, Canada.
“Treason without Guilt: An alternative realism.” Essay for Agitationism, Irish Biennial repliche rolex milgauss catalogue, Ireland.
2013 ‘Exploding Horror’ in Horrible Cogitatu: Spekulativer Horror, Merve, 2013 (German)
‘Traversing the Paradigm, Concept Without Difference, Image Without Art’ in Art of the Concept, Frakcija, Performing Arts Journal, No 64/65 2013
‘Speculative Materialism’, Spike Quarterly, June 2013, roundtable discussion with Armen Avanessian, Suhail Malik and Robin Mackay.
2011 ‘An Exercise in Fatality’, catalogue essay for Anthony Gross’ Burnt Wood Stories, The Agency Gallery, London and Divus Umelec, 2012, April, issue.
‘Curatorial Futures with the image: Overcoming scepticism and Unbinding the Relational’ Journal of Visual Arts Practice, Volume 9.2: pp. 139-151, Intellect, 2011.
2010 ‘Body Count’ co-authored journal article with Robin Mackay, Parallax, Volume 16 Issue 2, 119
2007 ‘Don’t fight it: the embodiment of critique’, Journal of Visual Art Practice 6: 1, pp. xx–xx, doi: 10.1386/jvap.6.1.xx/x
‘Freedom from power; The Problem of Talking Them Down’, As If Something Once Mentioned Now Plain to See, book published by Colony Gallery, Birmingham, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9557411-0-4
2006 ‘Culture and the Real World, The Folly of Critique’ Transmissions, Speaking and Listening, Sheffield Hallam University, Essay and discussion
2005 ‘On Violent Ground, Heidegger, Jünger and Malick’ Journal Article, 2005, Inventory, Vol. 5, No’s 2 &3, October 2005, pp.14-30 180 pages. Cornerhouse, ISSN 1359 7671
2004 ‘Out For Justice’, text published in exhibition catalogue, Strategies Against Marketecture, Temporary Contemporary Gallery, London. Oct 2004
C a t s. / A u t h o r e d B o o k s/A r t B o o k s a n d P r o j e c t s
2018 Determinism Noir, Art project as comic book, for Art Margins Journal.
2016 Propositions for a Stage, ed. Bridget Crone, Lasalle, Singapore.
2015 Collapse, Casino Real, Urbanomic, The Church, the Bank, The Art Gallery, Art project dispersed in the journal.
First Machine Final Machine, Bookwork with new prints. Lanchester Gallery Projects with essays by Neil Mulholland, Ray Brassier, Reza Negarastani. Ed. Sadie Kerr.
2014 Agitationism, exh cat., EVA international, Irish Biennial. Limerick, Ireland curated by Bassam El Baroni.
A’venir, Looking Forward, exh cat., Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Canada. Curated by Gregory Burke and Peggy Gale.
All Obstructing Walls Have Been Broken Down, exh cat. Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Ireland.
2013 Who’s Who in Research, Intellect, 2013
Tegel: Speculations and Propositions, cat., Green Box, 2013
Final Machine, cat., contributing editor, Urbanomic Press, Falmouth. Foreword Robin Mackay, essays by Reza Naegarastani and Bridget Crone. http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/amanda+beech/bridget+crone/reza+negarestani/final+machine/9607460/
2010 Sanity Assassin, ed. A. Beech, R. Mackay, Urbanomic Press, Falmouth with essays by Suhail Malik, Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier. Interview with Jaspar-Joesph Lester and Amanda Beech
The Friend, Transmission: Host, with Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Art project in publication, Artwords Press
2009 Co-editor of Project Biennale, curatorial projects on paper.
2008 Episode: The Pleasure and Persuasion of Lens Based Media, contributing editor to a volume of new writing on media culture, with Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Matthew Poole. Published by Artwords press, London.
Institute of Psychoplasmics, exh cat, with essay “Matters of Freedom” Pump House Gallery, London. Eds., Pil and Galia Kollectiv
2006 Little Private Governments, exh. Cat. With essay “The Economies of Freedom” in collaboration with M Poole. Ed. Amanda Beech and Matthew Poole. Contributing essays by Suhail Malik and Roman Vasseur
Falk, artist’s book Amanda Beech; a collaboration with Roman Vasseur published by MOT International ISBN 10: 0-9554061-3-7 ISBN 13: 978-0-9554061-3-3
2004 Gewalt, Exh cat, Loushy Fine Art and Editions, Tel Aviv, Israel – including essay ‘Out for Justice’, by Amanda Beech
Tape 291, Exh Cat. 291 Gallery, London
R e v i e w s & E s s a y s o n W o r k
2019 Snow Crash, IMT Gallery, Henry Broome, Art Monthly, March.
2017 Amanda Beech: Covenant Transport, Move or Die, Baltic, Gateshead. Art Monthly, Feb, 2017.No. 403 Jonathan P Watts.
City Insight: Propositions for a Stage at ICA Singapore, Bruce Quek, Ocula, 24th October, 2017. https://ocula.com/magazine/insights/propositions-for-a-stage-24-frames-of-a-beaut/
Propositions for a Stage, 24 Frames of a Beautiful Heaven, Christine Han, Arthop, 4th Nov 2017. https://arthop.co/editorials/review-propositions-stage-24-frames-beautiful-heaven-icas-singapore-christine-han
2015 What Hope Looks Like After Hope, Troubling the Real
http://www.agendaculturel.com/Art_What_Hope_Looks_Like_After_Hope_l_experience_d_un_trouble_dans_le_reel
2014 Agitationism, Chris Clark, Art Monthly, issue 376, May.
Between Two Tomorrows, Hunter Braithwaite, The Miami Rail, Winter 2014.
Kate Scheibelbein, @BNLMTL 2014 Looking Forward, Montreal X, 2014.
Sara Greavu, “All Obstructing Walls Have Been Broken Down”, Collected, 2014. http://wearecollected.com/articles/amanda-beech-all-obstructing-walls-have-been-broken-down
“Agitation, politics and monkeys at Ireland’s art biennial” Aidan Funne, Irish Times, Friday June 6th 2014.
“11 Reasons To Check Out Ireland’s Art Scene” Huffington Post, Katherine Brooks, 3/7/14
Art Dublin, Hilary Murray, April 28th 2014 http://artdublinblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/artdublin-at-eva-limerick/
May 4th 2014, Rebecca O’Dwyer, http://rebeccaodwyer.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/agitationism/
http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/blog/see-arts-future-at-the-biennale-de-montreal-2014/
Len Ghio: http://thelenaghioparadox.blogspot.com/2014/11/biennale-montreal-221014-040115-looking.html
2013 Robin Mackay, Bridget Crone, Marie-Anne McQuay panel discussion with Amanda Beech, Lanchester Gallery Projects 2013. http://lanchestergalleryprojects.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/FM-AB-PANEL-.pdf
Ian Hunt: “Alison Jones and Amanda Beech: Audience into Community”
http://www.theobjectsofculture.com
‘Final Machine’, Mark Sheerin, http://www.criticismism.com/ March 7th 2013
Beth Bramich, Review “Amanda Beech: Final Machine” in This is Tomorrow http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=1730&Title=Amanda%20Beech:%20Final%20Machine
http://roskofrenija.blogspot.com/2013/09/amanda-beech-final-machine-2013.html
2012 ‘Staging Mobile Spectatorship in the Moving Image Installations of Amanda Beech, Philippe Parreno, and Ryan Trecartin/Lizzie Fitch’
Display/Dispositif : Aesthetic Modes of Thought, Kunsthistorisches Institut, University of Cologne, 10-12 May 2012.
Heather Newall, review The Church The Bank The Art Gallery, Banner Repeater, 2012. http://newellposts.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/amanda-beech-the-church-the-bank-the-art-gallery
2011 Review of ‘Anti-Humanist Curating’, Journal of Visual Arts Practice, Volume 9.2, Sophie Williamson, July 12th 2011
http://www.curating.info/archives/487-Review-Journal-of-Visual-Art-Practice-Anti-Humanist-Curating.html
2010 ‘The Real Thing’, The Wire Magazine, October, 2010, Brian Dillon.
‘The Real Thing, Art and Speculative Realism’ Sept 7th 2010 David Roden, http://enemyindustry.net/blog/?p=143
‘The Real Thing, Urbanomic at Tate (A journey)’
http://notesfromthevomitorium.blogspot.com/2010/09/real-thing-urbanomic-at-tate-journey.html
‘The Art of the Real’ Dec 11th 2010 S.C Hickman
http://earth-wizard.livejournal.com/45639.html
‘Some Notes on the Art of the Real’, Robert Jackson, Dec 30th 2010
http://robertjackson.info/index/2010/12/some-notes-on-the-art-of-the-real/
Sanity Assassin, Spike Island, Bristol.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/30/exhibitions-tim-etchells-chris-ofili
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/sculpture+%2526+installation/art75231
2008 ‘The Institute of Pyschoplasmics’ Mute Magazine, 25 Sept, 08. “Any Other But Ourselves” http://www.metamute.org/en/content/any_other_but_our_selves
‘The Institute of Pyschoplasmics’ Art Review, Issue 23 June 2008, reviewed by Alisdair Hopwood
‘Future Greats’ Art Review, March, 2008, Text by Suhail Malik
2007 Time Out, Review of ‘Falk’, Gabriel Coxhead, Fri 5th Jan 2007. http://www.timeout.com/london/art/events/310595/amanda_beech.html
2004 ‘Death of Romance’ Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, June 7th ‘04, 20.
2003 Review: Creative Week, ‘Family Business’ Emily Pacey, Oct 13th 2003.
Review: Time Out, ‘Don’t Fight It’ Sally O’Reilly, July 23, 2003 No. 1718.
C o n f e r e n c e s / P u b l i c S p e a k i n g
2018 Ecole Des Beaux Artes, Paris, Guest Speaker.
Language and its Possible Worlds, panel discussion, CalArts, December, with Daniel Sacilotto, Anna London, Inigo Wilkins.
2016 Art and Reason: How Art Thinks II. Panel discussion with Robin Mackay, Simon O Sullivan, Ida Soulard, Mo Salemy respondent, Ian Ground Chair. Baltic Museum of Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK.
Bots, Bodies and Beasts, conference Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, April 6-10th 2016. Paper, Maps, Mirrors, Projections.
2015 Art and Reason: How Art Thinks. Panel discussion with Robin Mackay, Bassam El Baroni, Diann Bauer, respondent Keith Tilford, Chair, Uta Kogelsberger. University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Video – http://thelenaghioparadox.blogspot.com/2014/11/biennale-montreal-221014-040115-looking.html
‘Culture Without Mirrors’, paper presentation for What Hope Looks Like After Hope, Beirut City Forum, 2015.
Yarnwork, Podcast interview with Robin Mackay, February 2015. www.urbanomic.com/yarnwork
Fixing the Future, guest speaker, Art and Reason with Patricia Reed and Diann Bauer.
Fixing the Future, guest respondent to Pete Wolfendale.
Speculative Aesthetics, Tate Britain, panel discussion round table.
2014 Artists’ talk, University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.Panel
Discussant, Montreal Biennale, October 2014
Chair and co-organiser: A Culture Beyond Crisis? Curating in a Time of Violence Goethe Institut Los Angeles, 24-25th October.
Interview for Marfa Public Radio with Kate Yolande, July, http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/west-texas-talk/in-studio-amanda-beech/
Fixing the Future, online discussion with Diann Bauer, On the Semantics of Art, chair, Joshua Johnson.
The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: The Cognitive Turn, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, paper “Art and the new materialist power: The death of anti-representationalist critique”.
Post Planetary Capital conference, Paper, “Space is no Object,” New School, New York, USA.
Incredible Machines: Digitality and the Modern System of Knowledge at the Threshold of the 21st Century, respondent. Vancouver, Canada.
2013 Science and its Fictions, Panel discussion with Reza Negarestani and Armen Avanassian. West Hollywood Public Library, LA, USA.
Generative Constraints, “Art Unlimited, Overcoming self conscious critique,” Royal Holloway and Kingston University London, Centre for Creative Collaboration. Nov 16th 2013
Luma Foundation conference on Human Rights, Arles, France, September. Paper “Last Rights: The Non-Tragic Image and the Law”.
Speculative Aesthetics, Artworkers Guild, London, March.
Final Machine Herbert Read Gallery Coventry, panel with Robin Mackay, February. Bridget Crone, chair, Marie-Anne McQuay
Final Machine Haus de Kultur der Welt, Berlin. March 7th.
Materialisms Chair, with Suhail Malik and Adrian Johnston. April 5th. West Hollywood Public Library, Los Angeles, USA.
2012 Art, Morality and Politics, University of Nanterre, Paris, France conference panel convenor: The Paradigm”. June 1-3rd.
Art, Politics and Irony, conference. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Paper: “Matters of Freedom”. April 9th-12th.
Keynote speaker: Exhibiting Video Conference, University of Westminster, March 23-25th London, UK. Paper: “Real Video. Politics and nomenclature”.
2011 Folkestone Triennial conference, Panel discussant, Art and Resistance
Chair: Royal Academy Schools, symposium Object Orientated Thinking David Lean lecture, Geology Society, London
http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2011/07/object-oriented-thinking-audio-amanda.html
ISEA conference, Istanbul, Sabanci University, paper ‘What would we mean by Realism?’
2010 Audiovisual Posthumanism, The University of the Aegean, Sept 24-26
Transmission Hospitality, Conference Sheffield Hallam University, 1-3rd July. Paper; ‘Becoming Unstuck’
Imploded Action, Dissonant Affects, Spike Island, Bristol. Symposium with Bridget Crone, Mikko Canini, Jaspar-Joseph-Lester, Marie-Anne McQuay. Paper; “What would we mean by realism?’
2009 In Dialogue with Robin Mackay, Spike Island SWAC artists’ talk
Image- Force, Urbanomic Studio Falmouth, interview with Robin Mackay
Transmission: Host, Friend, Sheffield Hallam University
Apocalypto Horse Hospital, London – Discussion seminar
2008 The Pleasure and Persuasion of Lens Based Media, conference at Tate Britain. Conference co-organiser and chair of session ‘On Force’
On Arts Writing, Chelsea College of Art, Panel discussion with JJ Charlesworth and Mark Wilsher.
The Institute of Psychoplasmics, panel discussion, Pump House gallery, Battersea, London
Symposium: Curating Video, Chelsea College of Art, London.
2007 Consequences of Capital, Panel discussion, from The Political Currency of Art, at PILOT:3 Artists’ and Curators’ Forum, Chelsea College of Art, London. (As part of Frieze-week London)
Ubiquitous Media, Tokyo University, Japan. Panel Convener and panel session: Episode: the Pleasure and Persuasion of Lens Based Media, Paper: “We Never Close: democracy and the technology of justice”.
Political Currency of Art, panel at Venice Biennale in association with PILOT Artists and Curators Forum and Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa.
Serpentine Gallery, London, Resistance and Invention, panel discussion as part of PoCA (downloadable as podcast through PoCA and Serpentine Gallery website).
Speaker The Dream Of Putrefaction, Metropole Gallery, Folkestone.
Chair, Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie Symposium, Gasworks Gallery, London, representing The Political Currency of Art research group.
2006 Tate Britain On Art and Liberty, co-organiser and chair. Paper: “Liberty: Metaphors of Contingency”.
AAH Conference, Leeds. Panel: “The Institution of Critique” Paper: “Don’t Fight It! The Embodiment of Critique”.
Symposium: Little Private Governments, The University of Essex.
2005 AAH Conference, University of Bristol: Dialogues Discourses Difference: Paper; “Out For Justice Consent and Disagreement in Fish and Seagal.”
2004 Speaker, Gewalt Symposium, Loushy Fine Art,Tel Aviv, Israel
2002 Speaker, Blow Up Your TV, York City Art Gallery.
2001 Speaker, The Facts Of Life exhibition, at the Hayward Gallery, London. Paper: “Fact as Fiction.”
R e s i d e n c i e s
2019 Montalvo, California, USA
2018 Fieldwork Marfa, Texas
2017 Boxo Projects Residency, Joshua Tree, CA, USA.
2014 Fieldwork residency, Marfa, Texas.
2009 SWACR Spike Island, Bristol
2005 Artist In Residence: Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway.
- Artist in Residence, Gallerie Clarke, Montreal, Canada.
Research links:
From 2006: Steering Committee member of The Political Currency of Art Research Group.
From 2003: Co Director of Curating Video Research Group
www.thepoliticalcurrencyofart.org.uk
Board of Trustees, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
Editorial Board: Journal of Visual Arts Practice, and Collapse, Journal of Philosophical Investigation.
Citations/pedagogy:
Bassam El Baroni
http://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/4524/bassam-el-baroni-how-to-do-things-with-theory-seminar
Robin Mackay, Goldsmiths Theory seminar.