LIAM BENSON // 'OVER VIEW' TRAVELLING INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF VIDEO ART

Image: Liam Benson, He Looks Just Like His Mother, 2012, HD Video, 2 mins 3 seconds

OVER VIEW
8 countries | 8 curators | 47 artists | 8 exhibitions | 240 minutes of film

Sydney-based inter-disciplinary artist, Liam Benson, has been selected for inclusion in Over View Travelling International Festival of Video Art, a film and video art project initiated in the Netherlands. 

Over View provides a spectrum of global visions from a compendium of artists, curators and countries and allows audiences to gain an ‘over view’ of creative practices in the world right now. Curators from participating countries have each composed a 30-minute screening program of contemporary moving image works from key artists in their homelands. The result is a significant collection of audio-visual ‘portraits’ from Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Egypt, Hong Kong, Mali, USA, and The Netherlands. 

The inaugural Over View festival commenced a world tour in 2014 and will now travel to Sydney during November 2015 for its Australian premiere. Presented by dLux Media Arts and UNSW, the Australian premier of Over View is curated by Sarah Vanderpeer from dLux Media Arts and opens  on Friday 6 November at UNSW Galleries. 

Sarah Vandepeer has curated a thirty minute program of video works to the theme of ‘what’s on’, in reference to current tendencies and dialectics in Australian contemporary art. Seven important emerging and established Australian artists have been selected: LIAM BENSON, JULIA DAVIS, JOHN A. DOUGLAS, NIKKI LAM, TONY LAWRENCE, LIAM O’BRIEN, NICOLA WALKERDEN.

Over View can be seen at UNSW Galleries from 6-7 November 2015.

LIAM BENSON / FREE FALL

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Liam Benson will be performing as part of the Free Fall line up at Oxford Art Factory over two nights on Friday 29th and Sat 30th June.

"Introduced in 2011, Free Fall transformed the glass cube of Oxford Art Factory into a series of live art installations. These installations, performed between the glass of the multi-roomed live music venue, interacted with the gig-goers and audience members, incorporating the use of colour, endurance, movement and other experimental processes.

Free Fall's founding curator and performer John A. Douglas is now ready to announce the launch of his 2012 program. Commencing Saturday June 9, Free Fall will return with some of the stand out and most talked about artists from 2011. 

All of the artists featured in this year's Free Fall have maintained a strong exhibition presence throughout the Australian contemporary art world since their debut, so this year expect to see some extraordinary work performed in the cube.

A myriad of themes and concepts - Greek mythology, the everyday, iconography, cultural identity, the carnvalesque, death and the body - will be explored through visual transformation and actions, often demanding unwavering physical endurance. Each performance will be documented on video and uploaded to the Free Fall Youtube  channel.

The Free Fall concept is a fresh approach to art making using spontaneity and imagination to connect with  audiences outside of the generic gallery space and into the bustling night time environment of the Oxford Art Factory." (Free Fall exhibition catalogue)