
Chelsea MA Curating course leader Amanda Beech has a solo show at Spike Island in Bristol. The show runs from 23 January – 11 April 2010 and see her presenting a new body of work entitled ‘Sanity Assassin’.
‘Sanity Assassin’ is a three-channel video installation with a sculptural element; a spotlit mirrored plinth, which displays a series of polished chainsaws. Situated in a custom designed waiting area, this glamorous structure with subliminal horror movie overtones is homage to the corporate lobby of a real Los Angeles showroom. Shot on location in Los Angeles the work is part of Beech’s on-going investigations into the forceful rhetoric played out within neo-liberal narratives of freedom in philosophy, politics, literature and popular culture.
To accompany the show there will be a seminar with Amanda Beech, Mikko Cannini, Bridget Crone, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Marie-Anne McQuay entitled ’Imploded Action, Dissonant Affects’. The seminar takes place on Saturday 20 March and will address the relation or non-relation between space, image and sound as well as our expectations for art’s effective and affective potential.
For more information visit – www.spikeisland.org.uk
Image: Amanda Beech, ‘Sanity Assassin’ (2010), installation view. Photo: Stuart Bunce.












