‘The mute arsehole’ essay at Locksmith Project Space, Sydney

Andrew Newman has written the catalogue essay accompanying Ben Terakes’ exhibition ‘Dum Dum’ currently on show at Locksmith Project Space in Alexandria. The essay, titled ‘The mute arsehole’, discusses Terakes’ recent painting and performance practice. The exhibition opens Thursday September 3 and runs until September 19. Newman will also be participating in the performance ‘Fight Night’ by Ben Terakes at Locksmith Project Space on Friday September 18. The second ‘Locksmith Project’ publication which will be launched on the same night of the performance and will feature Newman’s essay ‘Call to arms’. Locksmith Project can be purchased online from the Locksmith website.

Ben Terakes 'Performance Stain' 2009

Ben Terakes 'Performance Stain' 2009

About

Andrew Newman is an artist and researcher. His performative art practice poetically utilises methodologies from the communication sciences to examine value construction in contemporary culture. He is currently researching the application of Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture to economic markets and is exploring the existential elements of the economic theory of Andre Gorz.

Newman completed a MFA under Ryszard Dabek and John Conomos at the Sydney College of the Arts, exploring the application of Roland Barthe’s notion of pothos, the desire for the absent being, to televisual art practice. He has studied experimental media under German filmmaker Karl Kels at the Universität der Künste, Berlin and journalism and communication at the University of Technology in Sydney and the University of Hamburg. He has had his work exhibited in Sydney, Berlin and Tokyo.

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Writing by Newman

Writing about Newman

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