30th Jan 2013 12:00pm-1:30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
Anna Best has a process-based practice founded on an investigation into the local and particular, into narrative structures and the complicated process of making art with other people. Participating in alternative pedagogic structures such as “Leleg”, Turkey, “Sqal/lp,” Brighton and “Shave” in Somerset has been a key part of her working process. Recently she has initiated “Road for the Future” in Dorset and is currently commissioned by Artlands to work on a major public commission in Gravesend, Kent.
Projects have combined autobiographical material with the specific politics of context - “The Sticky Silver Track” (2007) at the Barbican London and the film “Buddleia” with Plymouth Arts Centre. Her work covers a range of media, publishing books, broadsheets and websites, film and video as well as the ephemeral format of live events.
She has collaborated with a number of artists including Neil Chapman on “Occasional Sights - a guidebook of missed opportunities and things that aren’t always there” (Photographers’ Gallery 2003), and Paul Whitty on “Vauxhall Pleasure” (London 2004-9). Anna has taught on degree courses at Goldsmith’s, Oxford Brookes, Central St Martins and Brighton University.
The Monday Lecture series (since 1997) consists of presentations by contemporary artists and cultural practitioners who work across disciplines. This is an opportunity to hear artists, writers, cultural activists talk about the history of their practice and show examples of their work. The lecture series is curated by Mine Kaylan for The School of Arts and Media, as part of the Sallis Benney Theatre public lecture programme.
