ARTIST TALK BY BENEDICT DREW
21 May 15
YARAT Contemporary Art Centre is delighted to invite you to the artist talk by renown British artist Benedict Drew whose recent work has been nominated for Jarman Award. His short video “Sludge Manifesto” (2011) will be screened among other films on May 20th at Yarat Centre.
‘Sludge Manifesto is part of a larger body of work. It has in part to do with considering an idea of a materialism of digital technology, and this led to the mining of rare earth metals. At the heart of many digital machines there are precious metals that are mined from the ground, so I was thinking about these and myths of the mine. These blobs of clay or golems are like the counterpoint to these rare earths. In this video we see a radicalised incarnation.(Benedict Drew)
Benedict Drew (b. 1977) works across video, sculpture, music and their associated technologies. He graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2011.
Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Heads May Roll’, Matt’s Gallery, London (2014); ‘The Persuaders’, Adelaide Festival, SASA Gallery (2014); ‘The Onesie Cycle’, Rhubarba, Edinburgh (2013); ‘Now Thing’, Whitstable Biennale (2012); ‘Gliss’, Cell Project Space, London (2012); and ‘The Persuaders’, Circa Site/AV Festival, Newcastle (2012). Drew was a LUX Associate Artist (2011–12). He is based in Whitstable.
May 21st , 2015
12:00
YARAT Centre (Multi-functional room).
Free admission.
The talk will be in English with consecutive translation to Azeri.
