Anne Bean and Ansuman Biswas, Candle / Stick, presented at DISCHARGE, Ugly Duck and Future Ritual, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason.
Thurs 10th & Fri 11th October 2024, VSSL Studio“Since ancient times, ceremony has allowed the processing of potent human experiences such as grief, fear, horror, joy, ecstasy, bewilderment, celebration, love and mystery, through collective acts of ritual. Art, for me, has proved to be a vital space to confront these cavernous expanses and to attempt to meaningfully share my own probings with others.”
In this Artist Lab, Anne Bean will talk about and show aspects of her work, as well as suggest collective actions, as catalysts towards creating our own ceremonies. The lab is offered as part of CEREMONY, Future Ritual’s year-long programme exploring performance as a mode of gathering and communing amidst the fragmentation of contemporary life.
> about CEREMONY
Key Info
Thurs 10th & Fri 11th October, 11am to 6pm. VSSL Studio, Resolution Way, Deptford (London), SE8 4AL.VSSL is a wheelchair accessible space (enter from Tidemill Way).
> SOLD OUT (£40/£30)
If price is a barrier please write to producing@futureritual.co.uk.
There is a £60 ‘pay it forward’ ticket, which supports us to offer further discounted tickets to those facing economic barriers.
Anne Bean
In a monograph on her work, Self Etc., 2018, the writer Dominic Johnson wrote: Anne Bean is a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. The art of Anne Bean makes strange our sense of time, memory, language, the body, and identity, particularly through soloand collaborative performances along a vital continuum between art and life.
In 2022/23 she had work commissioned and shown at Turner Contemporary (Margate), the Hatton Gallery (Newcastle), Somerset House, the Whitechapel Gallery, Matt’s Gallery, Paris Photo, PhotoLondon, as well as a solo show with England & Co at Frieze Masters.
In 2023 she was commissioned to make a major work for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival In Search of the Miraculous, with a resulting exhibition at England & Co in London and Reflect, a lightwork, for Lumiere, Durham. She has recently show work in Women in Revolt! at Tate.
“Reading Anne Bean’s CV is like following a continuous performance, a continuous response to the world… a ‘magicification’ of the world. The panoply of places she has worked, times of the day ornight, interiors, exteriors, seasons, publics, materials, concepts, tools, is astonishing: all shifting but all attuned to unique situations.”Guy Brett, Autobituary (2006) Monograph produced for solo exhibition at Matt’s Gallery
> www.annebeanarchive.com
> Future Ritual: In Search of the Miraculous
In 2022/23 she had work commissioned and shown at Turner Contemporary (Margate), the Hatton Gallery (Newcastle), Somerset House, the Whitechapel Gallery, Matt’s Gallery, Paris Photo, PhotoLondon, as well as a solo show with England & Co at Frieze Masters.
In 2023 she was commissioned to make a major work for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival In Search of the Miraculous, with a resulting exhibition at England & Co in London and Reflect, a lightwork, for Lumiere, Durham. She has recently show work in Women in Revolt! at Tate.
“Reading Anne Bean’s CV is like following a continuous performance, a continuous response to the world… a ‘magicification’ of the world. The panoply of places she has worked, times of the day ornight, interiors, exteriors, seasons, publics, materials, concepts, tools, is astonishing: all shifting but all attuned to unique situations.”Guy Brett, Autobituary (2006) Monograph produced for solo exhibition at Matt’s Gallery
> www.annebeanarchive.com
> Future Ritual: In Search of the Miraculous
Anne Bean, Kicking the bucket, 2016. Mile End Cemetery, London. Image courtesy of the artist.Future Ritual presents
The workshop is offered as part of CEREMONY, a year long programming cycle curated by Future Ritual, exploring how performance and art making can function as modes of gathering, communion and ceremony amidst the fragmentation of contemporary life.
> about Future Ritual: Ceremony