Tony Benn

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Research Activity

           

arts research University of Brighton

2011

The ‘everyday’
Curated by Tony Benn

at Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge School of Art, November 2011.

Artists included; Amikam Toren, Christopher Stevens, Jo Stockham, John Wilkins, Luke Jackson, Paul Butler, Sam Jackson, Suzy Treister, Tony Benn.

The everyday is a contested term in current art debates. The everyday encourages associations with the domestic where the ordinary is more commonly encountered as beautiful rather than the sublime. Low-tech materials are often used as a means to access areas of aesthetic experience broaching the ordinary and the everyday. This would be a group exhibition using one or two pieces by each artist as well as other non fine art type objects. This exhibition ‘everyday’ seeks to draw attention to issues of value judgment and category definition. There are a number of artists where the issue of evaluating the good or merely appears redundant or contestable.

The exhibition seeks to show work from a variety of artists in which the everyday object or everyday activity of each artists, makes connections to issues of realism in art practices. The exhibition would also advance new forms of hybridity in art practices that reach out beyond fine art boundaries, for instance exhibiting craft objects that are fundamental to the everyday nature of life such as a small airplane engine.

 

2010

Bad painting: An examination of the phenomena of ‘Bad painting’ through the work of Pragmatist philosophy. Sztuka i Filozofia Number 35/2010 ISSN 1230-0330 (www.filozofia.uw.edu.pl/sztukaifilozofia/).

2009

  • Interview Leon Golub: produced in Turps Banana magazine Issue Four. ISSN 1749-3994
  • 'Next: Tomorrow' discussion, 1986 Women’s Audio Archive. The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY.

2008

Writing up PhD. Submission for examination 2008-09.

2007

 

'Central Reservation', redux art, Leeds.

2006

Title-sequence, Miser & Now 7, Keith Talent Gallery.

 

2004

Interview with Elaine Sturtevant, SITE 7, Dusseldorf.

Articles

  • Interview Leon Golub, produced in Turps Banana magazine, Issue Four. ISSN 1749-3994
  • 'Next: Tomorrow' discussion, 1986 Women’s Audio Archive. The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY.

Exhibitions

2006

'Inappropriate Behaviour', 23 November - 3 December, University of Brighton Gallery.

2005

'Wish You Were There', Small Mansions Gallery.

2004

'Secrets', Royal College of Art, London.

2003

  • 'Zoo Art Fair', Jeffreycharles Gallery, London.
  • 'Chockafuckingblocked', Jeffreycharles Gallery, London.

2002

'Red Snow', Ecology Gallery, London.

2001

  • 'Wildflower', Jeffreycharles Gallery, London.
  • 'Bitches Brew', Jeffreycharles Gallery, London.