Benedict Drew (b. 1977) works across video, performance, sound and other media. His work uses the apparatus of film, video and music to test and reflect upon technology and its oscillation between the exalted and the commonplace, between desire and redundancy. Using the idea of illusion and illusionism in the context of moving image, his work embraces both hi and low tech devices and tools in creating fantastical worlds that are conditioned by, but aim to resist, the hierarchies of authority and control..
He has frequently collaborated with a diverse mix of artists and musicians including Otomo Yoshihide, Rhodri Davies, Greg Pope, Emily Richardson, ‘The Work In Progress’, Sachiko M and Emma Hart performing often in the UK and internationally including the Tate Modern , London (with Sachiko M), the Yamaguchi Centre for Art, Japan (with Otomo Yoshihide. In collaboration with Emma Hart he has performed at Rotterdam Film Festival, ‘Kill Your Timid Notion’, Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, ICA London, ‘Performa 09’ New York and The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art as part of ‘images festival’ where they together received an ‘OCAD Off Screen Award’ for the installation ‘untitled seven’. Benedict Drew has made many radio works for Resonance FM , most recently the series ‘Unter Radio’. For many years he curated the ‘London Musicians’ Collective annual festival of experimental music’. |
SELECTED ACTIVITIES:
2012
Cell Project Space, London
Gliss
Solo exhibition
Circa Site / AV Festival
Stephenson Works, Newcastle
The Persuaders
Solo exhibition
Banner Repeater, London
The Map is the Territory
Exhibited the online essay
Notes on the Dumb Terminal
Zabludowicz Collection, London
The Glass Envelope
Solo exhibition
2011
Seeing in the dark. Newcastle
Group Exhibition
selected video works
Banner Repeater. London
Group exhibition
Sludge Manifesto
Auto Italia Live. London
Live broadcast
video & sound performance
Whitechapel Gallery. London
off-site commission as member of art collective The Work In Progress
Reclaim the Mural ( 2010 – ongoing )
James Taylor Gallery, London
Group exhibition
The Persuaders
Tomorrow's World
Nutbrook Studios. London
co-curated group screening of recent video
work
Slade School of Fine Art
final MFA exhibition
2010
JTP 10
James Taylor Gallery, London
Group exhibition
"The Majestic Mountain. 2010"
Resonance104.4fm presents ResoVision
Frieze Art Fair
Curated two video programs
Non-Cochlear Sound
Diapason Gallery, New York
Group exhibition
"Drum Loop. 2010"
Systematic Studio
176 Gallery, London
Site-specific video commission
"The Wah-Wah Shoe (an interpretation aid
for the Systematic exhibition) 2010"
Present Technology
Contemporary Art Research Centre at Kingston University.
Artist presentation at symposium
Fast Fertig
The Oubliette, London
Group exhibition
"The Weight of Books I Own But Have Not Read" (live version)
Images Festival
The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto Canada
Solo exhibition & performance "Untitled Seven" with Emma Hart
(winner of the OCAD Off Screen Award )
2009
Performa 09
Light Industry, New York
Three performances with Emma Hart
Untitled Performances
No.where London
Performance With Emma Hart
Artists Talk ( A Play )
The Shandy Show: A selection of works from The Shandy Collection
The Arts Gallery, London
Group exhibition
The Old Police Station, London
Performance With Emma Hart
Artists Talk ( A Play )
Unter Radio
Resonance Fm, London
Produced and Presented radio series exploring the frayed edge between radio art and research, the blurred lines between sound works and improvised music
The Work in Progress presents: NOISY IMAGE
Café Oto, London
Curated and produced event focused on video monitors in live performance
Café Oto, London
Performance with Tetsuya Umeda
The Unnamed Music Festival
Café Oto, London
Performance with Tom Chant, Angharad Davies, John Edwards
Cut & Splice: Living Rooms. Festival
Wilton's Music Hall, London
Performance with The Domestic Appliance Audio Research Society
Courtisane Festival Ghent, Belgium
Performance with Chris Watson and Emily Richardson
2008
Kill Your Timid Notion Tour
ICA London
Performance with Greg Pope
The Lux Presents Six Films by Emily Richardson, DVD Launch
Café Oto London
Performance with Chris Watson and Emily Richardson.
Cobra Mist
Sound track for the film by Emily Richardson.
Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
Performance of Untitled (2008) with Sachiko M.
Ensembles
Yamaguchi Centre for Arts and Media. Japan
Large scale video Installation Quartets.
In collaboration with Otomo Yoshihide
Nought To Sixty
ICA London
Performance of Untitled 5 with Emma Hart.
LMC Festival
Cafe Oto. London
Curated and produced three-day music festival.
Performance of Improvisation with Tom Chant, Angharad Davies and John Edwards.
LUX Presents Live Cinema
Arcola Theatre, London
performance of UNTITLED 4 with Emma Hart.
Untitled Colour:
Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Performance of Untitled 1 & 2 with Emma Hart.
Self-Cancellation:
Beaconsfield, London
Instal. The Arches, Glasgow
Curated and performed.
Mark & John Bain, John Butcher, Michael Colligan, Rhodri Davies, Benedict Drew, Robin Hayward, Gustav Metzger , Lee Patterson and Sarah Washington
Awards
Bois Travel Scholarship
LUX Associate Artists Programme
OCAD Off Screen Award
for Untitled Seven with Emma Hart
Publications and Editions
ON THE UPGRADE
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
September 2011
How i Failed To Make Man
Merkske
2011
ISBN 978-1907829017
Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance and Film
Tate Publishing 11 May 2011
ISBN 978-1854379740
Nought to Sixty
ICA
ISBN 978-1900300599
Emily Richardson Time Frames
Stour Valley Arts Ltd
ISBN 978-0953534081
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