DAVE BEECH

Dave Beech was a prominent member of the young London art scene in the years following the yBa explosion. He worked closely with BANK in seminal exhibitions such as Zombie Golf, Cocaine Orgasm, BANKTV and Dog-u-mental.

His work has been exhibited widely across Europe and the USA, including Tate Modern (in Century City). He contributed to the Matthew Higgs Bookworks project "Seven Wonders of the World", Kenny Schachters conTEMPorary Gallery, New York, as well as Gavin Wades "STRIKE" exhibition. His most recent exhibitions include text works for John Russells publication, "Frozen Tears", "strolling into history" for Artranspennine03 and he has recorded 19 songs for "Radio Radio" at International 3.

He is a regular writer for Art Monthly and other art magazines such as Untitled and Mute, and has contributed to several books, including the recent Verso anthology dedicated to his writing with John Roberts and selected responses "The Philistine Contoversy". He has written an chapter on Leonard Cohens song "Im Your Man" for the forthcoming anthology "Pop Fictions", a book about songs in the movies. He convened a session for the Association of Art Historians Conference, under the heading "Political Art Now" which was published as a special issue of Third Text.

He is currently the Subject Leader of Fine Art as Social Practice at the University of Wolverhampton after having taught on the MA Fine Art course at Chelsea College of Art. And is a Director of FLOATING IP gallery, Manchester.

 

CV - DAVE BEECH --print version

108 Slade Lane, Levenshulme, Manchester M19 2BA
07979 36 36 98 / 0161 256 4047
dave.beech@clara.co.uk

 

DATE OF BIRTH

25th April 1965

 

EDUCATION

1990-1993
MA Degree by Thesis
Royal College of Art

1985-1988
BA(Hons) Fine Art
Leicester Polytechnic

 

EXHIBITIONS

Strolling Into History in "Artranspennine03", public art project sited on a route between Liverpool and Hull
DVD Sampler: Single channel video work by artists based in Manchester¸ Lowry Gallery, Manchester
Thermo 03, Lowry Gallery, Manchester
PureScreen, 15th May, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
"Stretching the Truth", solo exhibition as part of the Tag Team Experiment series, curated by Billy McColl, Edinburgh
"Frozen Tears", book project edited/curated by John Russell
"Tensionism", group exhibition, Perry Street Rove Gallery, New York.
"Daily News", newspaper curated by Alexandra Mir for Greengrassi Gallery, London and Gavin Browns Enterprise, New York.
"The Anthology of Art", an internet-based platform for dialogue between 312 international artists and theorists (catalogue to be published in 2004), Ars Electronica, Linz
"Strike" curated by Gavin Wade, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
"Small Gold Medal", project for Bookworks curated by Elizabeth Price.
Co-Director of Floating IP Gallery, Manchester
"Dear Sarah", solo exhibition in the Project Space, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
"WHATSWRONG?", exhibition in which I asked over 80 leading international contemporary artists and writers to respond to the question "whats wrong?" at The Trade Apartment, London.
T.H.I.N.K., Institut For Nutidskunst, Copenhagen.
"Watch Out For the Agoraphobic Saviours of Mankind", solo show curated by Gavin Wade at FLAG gallery, London
"History Lessons" group show curated by Pete Lewis for the Kunstaus, Bregenz. With full colour publication.
"Dot", group show curated by Liz Price (London and touring). With publication.
"Seven Wonders of the World", group exhibition/publication curated/edited by Matthew Higgs for Bookworks, London.
curated show within a show for Banks "Dog-U-Mental" exhibition, Galerie Pooh-Pooh, London.
"Thud Thud Thud", two person show with David Burrows at The Conductors Hallway, London.
"Bank TV", group exhibition at Dog, London.
"Dogs Breath", group show curated by John Roberts at Bricks and Kicks gallery, Vienna.
"Cocaine Orgasm", group show curated by Bank at Bank, London.
"Zombie Golf", group show curated by Bank at Bank, London.

 

WRITING

edited "Art, Politics & Resistance?", a special issue of Third Text journal
"Video Purified of Television", Variant Magazine (co-written with John Beagles)
"Video Art", written and presented television programme for OU/BBC
The Philistine Controversy, book co-written and co-edited with John Roberts, Verso
"Cultural Bulimia", article in Variant magazine, number 16, Winter 2002, co-written with John Beagles, p10-11
Review of A. Dantos "The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy and the End of Taste" Historical Materialism, Volume 10, Issue 2, p255-266
Essay for Jeremy Dellers Life is to Blame for Everything: Collected Work & Projects 1992-99
catalogue essay for Georgina Starr, "The Bunny Lake Collection" at Artiglierie Arsenale, Castello, Venice.
"Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc", essay for Control magazine.
"Barthes, Barthes and Barthes", essay for Gymnasion catalogue, Bregenzer, Kunstverein
interview with Victor Burgin (co-written with Pete Lewis) for Gymnasion catalogue, Bregenzer, Kunstverein
interview with Bank for Untitled magazine
interview with Jeremy Deller for Untitled magazine
"Public Art After Virtue", article in Public Art Journal.
catalogue essay for Secession 1999 Annika Strom, in conversation with Ina Blom.
"Video After Diderot", article in Art Monthly.
interview with Keith Tyson, Everything magazine.
"Tolerating Impurities", article for New Left Review, co-written with John Roberts.
"Getting Carried Away", article in Variant magazine.
"Spectres of the Aesthetic", article in New Left Review, co-written with John Roberts.
"Chill Out", article in Everything magazine.
chapter in "Art Has No History!", Verso


PEER REVIEW

review of "Group Shows Are a Waste of Time", Catherine Grant, Flash Art, October 2003, p54
review of Artranspennine03, Neil Mulholland, Frieze, Issue 79, Nov/Dec 2003, p92
Aperto Manchester, article, Neil Mulholland, Flash Art, October 2003, p69-71
Review of Beagles and Ramsay, Artforum, October 2003
Chair of "Public?", a "sweatshop" panel discussion at the Serpentine Gallery
"Vandals and Philistines", head-to-head talk with Nigel Warburton at Tate Britain organised by Lisa Le Feuvre
Member of the Advisory Board for Article Press
Selection Panel for About Belief South London Gallery, London
David Lillington "small Gold Medal" review Art Monthly 254, pp37-8
Selection Panel for About Belief South London Gallery, London
David Lillington "small Gold Medal" review Art Monthly 254, pp37-8
Michael Bird review of "The Philistine Controversy" Modern Painters, Autumn 2002, p164
Hywell Williams "Before We All Go Drab" The Guardian, November 16th, 2002
Michael Sperlinger review of "The Philistine Controversy" Radical Philosophy, November/December 2002
Matthew Collings, Art Crazy Nation, 21 Publishing, p206
JJ Charlesworth review "Watch Out For the Agoraphobics of Mankind" solo show Art Monthly 235
JJ Charlesworth "The Art of the Third Way" Art Monthly 241, pp7-10
Julian Stallabrass "High Art Lite" Verso pp 72, 118-22
Mark Hutchinson Of Monsterology "Occupational Hazard" Black Dog Publishing pp 142-169
Jay Bernstein "Against Voluptuous Bodies" New Left Review, 225
Andrew Bowie "Confessions of a "New Aesthete" New Left Review, 225
Malcolm Bull "The Ecstasy of Philistinism" New Left Review, 219
Robert Garnett review "Thud Thud Thud" two person show Art Monthly, 201

TEACHING

2000-present
University of Wolverhampton
Responsibilties: Subject Leader in Fine Art as Social Practice. Leading modules in Fine Art as Social Pracise and Film and Video as Fine Art; writing modules; delivering module content; assessment; feedback; pastoral care; course development; research.
Senior Lecturer
Fine Art (Full Time)

1999-2001
Chelsea College of Art & Design
MA Fine Art
Responsibilties: tutorial group development; writing and delivering the course-wide theory lecture series; studio work assessment and feedback; written work monitoring, assessment and feedback; pastoral care; course development; research
(visiting tutor)

Westminster University
Responsibilties: writing and delivering the course-wide theory lecture series; written work monitoring, assessment and feedback; pastoral care; course development
BA Fine Art
(part time lecturer)

1995-2001
Educational Programmes Abroad
Modern European Art
Responsibilties: writing and delivering the Art History lecture series; written work monitoring, assessment and feedback; course development

1999, 94 & 95
Open University Summer School
A316: Modern Art Practices and Debates
Responsibilties: writing and delivering the Art History lecture and seminar sessions; written and project work monitoring, assessment and feedback

1998 & 92-95
Birkbeck Extra-Mural College
Introduction to Art History
Training: teaching mixed ability student groups; study time management for classrooms; student centred teaching techniques.
Responsibilties: writing and delivering the Art History lecture and seminar sessions; written work monitoring, assessment and feedback

1995
London Guildhall University
Foundation Course
Responsibilties: writing and delivering the course-wide Art History and Theory lecture series

London College of Printing
Contemporary Art Theory Option
Responsibilties: writing and delivering the course-wide Art History and Theory lecture series; written work monitoring, assessment and feedback

1992-1994
Birkbeck College
BA and MA Art History
Responsibilties: writing and delivering the course-wide Art History and Theory lecture series; written work monitoring, assessment and feedback