Benedict Drew

email: benedictdrew@gmail.com

Forthcoming :

Solo show at Cell Project Space spring 2012

details soon.

A new extended version of The Persuaders will be at :

CURRENT :

BANNER REPEATER

Launch and exhibition of: PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS
Opening night: 12th November 6-9pm.  12th November - 27th November.

"Racing around a fireball is a blob of filth on which ladies stockings are sold and Gauguins prized, truly a most deplorable business..." Walter Serner, 1918.
 
PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS has been conceived as a collection of contemporary artists manifestos. Celebrating the stupidity of declaring your intentions to the world with the hope of changing it, PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS will be a tragi-comedy of baroque minimalist clownery, grandiose and ill conceived in extreme.

Like an over stuffed letterbox at election time, PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOSembraces all the half-baked ideas, dead ends and prejudiced rants that make artists’ manifestos wondrous works in themselves. Accepting the paucity of the written word, images made in the spirit of the manifesto will also be included in this landfill of a publication.

Edition 1, contributions from: Martin Erik Andersen, Patricia Ellis, Stewart Home, Ami Clarke, Mathieu Beausejour, Sarah Lucas, A.S.P., Pat Rock, Mark Beasley, Clunie Reid, David Blandy, Simon Fujiwara, Jessica Voorsanger, Cedar Lewisohn , Tanja Ritterbex, Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson, Dean Kenning, Benedict Drew, Colin Lowe, Mark Pearson, Shane Bradford, Jennet Thomas.  Compiled by Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson. 
 
Showing throughout the exhibition: "Sludge Manifesto" by Benedict Drew, video dur: 1.28 min.
 
The publication:PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS will be available for free, throughout the exhibition at Banner Repeater.

NEWS:

I am pleased to be on the LUX Associate Artists Programme 2011 - 2012. A year-long post-academic programme for artists who work with the moving image.

How I Failed To Make Man
Benedict Drew

Benedict Drew - an artist working in performance, sound and video - attempted to recreate Man using the four main elements found in humans: water, air, carbon, calcium.

2011
36 pages, uncoated paper, softcover, 190 x 190 mm
978-1907829017
edition of 100, signed & numbered

http://merkske.com/failedman/

Seeing in the Dark — A Group Show

THE FINAL NIGHT— 3 Live Performances

Saturday 12 November : 7.30 pm — 9 pm . Curtis Mayfield House, Newcastle upon Tyne
Benedict Drew & Rhodri Davies, Cara Tolmie, Peter Todd

a selction of video works and a new collaboration with Rhodri Davies presented by CIRCA  Newsctle

Seeing in the Dark is an exhibition of video, installation and performance work curated and presented by CIRCA Projects with Steven Ball, taking place on the fourth floor of Curtis Mayfield House, Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. 19 October –12 November

12 November: Peter Todd, Rhodri Davies & Benedict Drew, Cara Tolmie; Performances and Closing Event 6-9pm

Seeing in the Dark is an exhibition and series of events inspired by artist-run groups from the 1970s and ‘80s, such as Newcastle’s Ayton Basement and Basement Group, and London’s 2B Butler’s Wharf. These groups were formed by artists with diverse practices (music, performance, film and video) inhabiting vacant industrial spaces to produce opportunistic and eclectic events - their work resonates through and connects to the hybrid nature of many contemporary media and performance artists’ work today.

Seeing in the Dark will create a new experimental space to celebrate and explore the influence and legacy of these ‘70s and ‘80s artist-run spaces, and extend their practice into the present with a contemporary focus. Seeing in the Dark will feature works connected to the groups of the past alongside current artists whose cross-disciplinary practice reverberates with their spirit; in doing so it will bring together historical and contemporary moving image and live performance by some of the most innovative artists working in the UK, from the past thirty years to the present day. The exhibition and events will be complemented by a unique archival display of documentation from Ayton Basement, Basement Group, and 2B Butler’s Wharf.

John Adams, Kevin Atherton, Darren Banks, Jon Bewley, Ian Breakwell, Mike Leggett, David Critchley, Benedict Drew, Mat Flemming, Ken Gill, Richard Greyson, Emma Hart, Tina Keane, John Kippin, Hilary Koob Sassen, Heather Phillipson, Peter Todd, Maria Theodoraki, Belinda Williams

or-bits ON THE UPGRADE

ON THE UPGRADE (September 2011)
Box containing limited edition artworks by Patrick Coyle, Benedict Drew, Jamie George, Tamarin Norwood, Damien Roach and David Rule.
Edition series of 50
Published by or-bits.com

AUTO ITALIA LIVE

Episode 1: Talking Objects in Space : Broadcast LIVE at 8pm Saturday 24th September Nathan Budzinski Benedict Drew, Benedictions (Patricia Lennox-Boyd and Jamie Stevens featuring Jeremy Glogan, Steve Kado and Morag Keil) Narrated by: Saul Reichlin With an introduction performed by: Robert Carter, Tim Ivison, Andrew Kerton, Leslie Kulesh, Huw Lemmey, Michael Oswell, Eddie Peake, Francesco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson, Julia Tcharfas, Lorenzo Tebano, Jess Wiesner and Charlie Woolley The series can be watched as part of the live studio audience or via the website www.autoitaliasoutheast.org

Documentation of James Taylor Galley exhibition The Persauders 2011 here

new work added :::watched items:::

and a video lecture :::notes on the ecstatic:::

James Taylor Gallery

Collent Street
London E9 6SQ United Kingdom
T. 07886 138 295

Private View Friday 8th July 6.30-9.30pm
Exhibition runs until Sunday 31st July
Gallery open 12-6pm Thursday - Sunday

Gallery 1
Benedict Drew 
Within a specifically constructed cinema space Benedict Drew continues his interrogation of the mechanics of film, video, and music production re-appropriating their elemental components.

Gallery 2
Joshua Bilton
Through documented action Joshua Bilton sets out to question how we perceive and communicate a complex set of codes and structures of measurement within social-political history.

Gallery 3
Dean Kenning
Leftover body parts create the horror soundtrack to their own absent B- movie.

Gallery 4
Gibson/Martelli (igloo)
Inspired by the artists' travels to the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies, VISITOR comprises a full-scale replica of a trappers cabin housing an interactive virtual environment.

How I Failed To Make Man
36 pages, softcover, 190 x 190 mm
edition of 100, numbered

I am very pleased to anounce the publication of the photographic work How I Failed To Make Man. The book is published by merkske and available from there website. There will be a launch for it in the near future

a new blog: (0) (0) http://entoptic.tumblr.com/

Reclaim the Mural, The Work in Progress, Whitechapel Gallery

A new video work in the Acceleration programe over at or-bits

or-bits.com is an ongoing curatorial project, a platform displaying contemporary arts and a trigger for the production of new works. or-bits.com is devoted to exploring ways we perceive things, promoting practices and dialogues across and beyond media, and to thinking over and working with the empty web page.

JT Project 10::::::::::: Gesamtkunstwerk:::::::::::::

James Taylor Gallery
Hackney
The gallery is situated on Collent Street just off Well Street

13 Oct 2010 - 31 Oct 2010

DRUM LOOP 2010

Diapason Gallery New York presents:
Non-Cochlear Sound

Opening Friday, October 1, 7pm
Installations run Saturdays, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2pm-8pm

Diapason
882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street)
10th Floor
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Info: 718.499.5070 | www.diapasongallery.org

Subway: D, N, R to 36th Street/4th Avenue

Friday 13 August, 7pm-late
SYSTEMATIC STUDIO PERFORMANCE
For the duration of Systematic, a group of artists who work with systems has been using the building at 176 Prince of Wales Road as a studio to develop a live performance event including Paul B. Davis, Benedict Drew, Tom Richards and Richard Sides.

176 Prince of Wales Road
London NW5 3PT
T: +44(0)20 7428 8940
F: +44(0)20 7428 8949
info@projectspace176.com

Untitled Seven
Emma Hart & Benedict Drew
Apr 2, 2010 - Apr 11, 2010

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)
952 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario 
M6J 1G8, Canada

Programmed by and presented in conjunction with the 23rd Images Festival

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3, 2010, 8 -11 p.m.

Two new video works added :::::here:::::::

Untitled Performances
Emma Hart and Benedict Drew
Performa 09 at Light Industry
220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn
Tuesday, November 17 7:30pm

sea soaked sea songs

EMMA HART and BENEDICT DREW present new work at The Old Police Station, Deptford.
 
3pm Sunday 18th October for a performance/presentation
or see work in progress and other works Friday 16th Oct  and Saturday 17th Oct,   1 – 6pm.
 
The Old Police Station, 114 Amersham Vale, London, SE14 6LG
more info     theworkinprogress.org

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