ts Beall

Residency Artist

Residency dates: 16 May – 18 June 2011

During her residency the following people visited ts Beall in the studio:
Philippa Lawrence – Artist
Jordan Kaplan and Danielle Arnaud – Curators
Nico de Oliveira – Curator and Director of MA Curating the Contemporary at London
Metropolitan University and Whitechapel Gallery
Beth Greenacre – Co-director, Rokeby Gallery
TJ Demos – Critic and writer

Studio visits arranged by ts Beall:
Mariele Neudecker – Artist
Lauren Dyer Amazeen – writer and Director of Vanguard Visions in New York

Off site visits:
Meeting with Philip Scofield at Bentham Projects
Site visit with Ron Henocq, Director at Cafe Gallery and Dilston Grove

ts Beall explores the notion of omnipotent vision and panoramic landscape structures that are often idealised, impossible constructions of vision and place. This ‘impossibility’ is explored throughout Beall’s practice.

During her residency and for her final public presentation of work at Standpoint, ts Beall researched possibilities for future installations. For this period of research, Beall produced numerous maquettes that resulted in the presentation of video work endless invasion, a poetic re-presentation of paratrooper exercises. The work encompassed a curved screen supported by three poles that positioned the screen at ceiling height. For this work in progress that formed part of her final public presentation, Beall was interested in researching the limitations of what is structurally possible in terms of installing moving image that explores our perception of motion and depth.

Along with this Beall presented snuff, a more experimental work that employs footage found from the Internet. In comparison to the ‘non-event’ tactic Beall often uses in her work, snuff depicts the actual moment when a person is killed in a military context. This was presented in the front space of the gallery and projected onto the window thus proving the full viewing of work impossible, with only reflections of the projection cast across the ceiling and wall. Here Beall was interested display strategies of such a work in contrast to the large screens installed for the projections of works such as endless invasion, or exploserama, a cycle of continuous explosions using found footage from online sources.

Alongside endless invasion and snuff, Beall presented a series of digital prints of images culled from recent video imagery. These were displayed both in the gallery and studio space.

Artist's website: stillstatic.tv