Anne Bean

Anne Bean (born 1950) is a Zambian-born London based internationally known installation and performance artist whose work is managed by Artsadmin.[1] She lives in Limehouse in the East End of London.

Education and Early Career

Resident in the UK, Bean moved to England after beginning her art education in South Africa at the University of Cape Town and attended Reading University, graduating in 1973.[2]

A central figure in the English live art scene, Anne Bean is a difficut artist to categorize. Her evocative work encompasses a range of media including slide projections, drawing, photography, video and sound using a wide range of materials from fire and pyrotechnics to weather balloons and wind to steam and honey. Since 1970, Anne has presented solo and collaborative projects incorporating static and time-based visual art, sound and performance extensively at art venues, festivals and unique sites throughout Europe, USA, Africa, Mexico and Japan.[3][4]

She was a founding member of the irreverent pseudo pop-band Moody and the Menstruators (1971–74),[5] which was imagined by the artist as an exploration of the boundaries between art and music.[6] The Moodies developed a cult following and found themselves featured in a double page spread in the Sunday Times in 1974.[7] Bean was also a regular collaborator with the audacious duo The Kipper Kids (1970-2005).[8]

Methodology

Informed by improvisational practices that celebrate the chaotic and polyvocal and driven by a deep interest in materials and what they might be able to do, Anne Bean's practice has been influenced Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture as well as the strange humour associated with the 1970s English performance art scene.[9] Bean's interest in collaborative processes continued to develop during her long time working relationship with Paul Burwell, and sculptor Richard Wilson. Together they formed the performance group, the Bow Gamelan Ensemble (1983–90).[10][11]

Recent Projects

PAVES Crossing Zones was initatied by Anne Bean in 2009. PAVES was a collaborative project between artists Anne Bean, Sinead O'Donnell, Poshya Kakl, Efi Ben-David and Vlasta Delimar that spanned England, Scotland, Ireland, Israel, Croatia and Palestine. The project focused on how political contexts shape artistic work.[12]

In 2012 Bean took on consciousness of artist and writer Chana Dubinski.[13] Bean spent a year as Chana in a small village in England and produced a series of artworks that were exhibited at the 2013 Venice Biennale.[14]

Awards

Anne Bean performed for Helmut Schmidt and Henry Kissinger and has been awarded the Time Out Dance and Performance Award twice.[15] In 2008 Bean was awarded the Legacy: Thinker in Residence award by Tate Research and the Live Art Development Agency with which she produced a DVD titled TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell.[16]

Related Publication

References

  1. ↑ http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/artist.php?id=37
  2. ↑ http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/bean/exhibition-2.php
  3. ↑ http://poutreapparente.free.fr/PULP_MUSIC/Pulp_Music_info.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/detail/seaclipse_anne_bean/
  5. ↑ "Moody & the Menstruators".
  6. ↑ "re.act.feminism- a performing archive". Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Brian Eno is More Dark Than Shark". Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  8. ↑ "The Kipper Kids(1970-2005)". Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  9. ↑ "Anne Bean European Live Art Archive". Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  10. ↑ http://poutreapparente.free.fr/PULP_MUSIC/Pulp_Music_info.htm
  11. ↑ http://twicezonked.blogspot.com/2010/01/bow-gamelan-ensemble-great-noises-that.html
  12. ↑ "Paves (2010)". Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  13. ↑ "Chana Dubinski - The Living Studio". Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  14. ↑ "Chana Dubinski". Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  15. ↑ http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/bean/education-1.php
  16. ↑ http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/legacy/index.html
  17. ↑ http://januszpodrazik.com/heads/anne-bean/

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