Amanda Beech

'Interstate'

16.5 in x 23.4 in, Burnt and drilled paper
edition #5-10 for MATERIAL

Price: $250

Amanda Beech

'Purolater'

16.5 in x 23.4 in, Burnt and drilled paper
edition #5-10 for MATERIAL

Price: $250

Amanda Beech


Shapes and patterns, data and information preside and insinuate facts that are embedded within a vista of visibility. The future is no longer possible as a thought, and instead we confront only the designs of reality; since a reality that really exists can supplant the false consciousness of our universal perceptual malaise. Every action and every thought is a decision, and everything is material violence. We are moving ideas, moving goods, moving things, moving networks, station to station, and account to account; moving mobile things. Exchange of icons, identity, goods, signs, words. A constant passage of incessant impact that drills down all things through time. Everything accounts for itself within this dynamic field. Arrest and change, stability and mobility are no longer held in opposition, because everything is under contract to move. Everything that is here is meant to be, everything that is here is necessary. Freeways crash and twist as the Earth’s curvature erupts forever, smashing the myth that the open road is the space of our freedom. Constrained to a new contract to mobility; a covenant to change, there is no horizon for us, and the image cranks up and against old standards that fabulize balance … inflicting new facts where fate is now something else.


Artist Bio

Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. Her work takes up the dynamic of image-force, through entangling narratives of power from philosophical theory, literature and real political events. Inspired by these discourses on power, her work proposes a new realist politics of the artwork and its possibilities in the context of contingency. Beech has exhibited her art work internationally; recent exhibitions include: Final Machine 2013, featuring in the next Irish Biennial 2014, also shown as a solo exhibit at Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, UK and Ha Gamle Prestagard, Norway, 2013; Asymmetrical Cinema, Beaconsfield Gallery, London; and, (Past Present) Future Tense, Center for Living Arts, Alabama, USA 2013. Recent publications include; Final Machine, Urbanomic, 2013; Sanity Assassin, Urbanomic, 2010 and new essays for the anthologies, Realism, Materialism, Art, Sternberg Press, 2014, Speculative Aesthetics, Urbanomic, 2014 and The Flood of Rights, Merve, 2014. Beech also regularly speaks at conferences and symposia including keynotes for “Generative Constraints”, London, 2103 and “Exhibiting Video”, London, 2012 and she will be artist in residence at Fieldwork Marfa 2014. She is Dean of Critical Studies at CalArts, USA.


Artist Site

www.amandabeech.com