Artists > 2010: Framing Identity > Breda Beban
Breda Beban (with Will McLean) The Endless School photo: Thierry Bal
Work
Considering Tatton Park as a possible utopian model, Breda Beban’s project, The Endless School, developed with architect Will McLean is they say, “a proposal for a new landmark school that integrates a wide range of disciplines to explore new value systems for a fresh approach to human comfort and happiness.” Physically realised as an architectural model-cum-sculpture and research published in the form of a pamphlet, which is to be distributed to leading architects and those with a vested interest in the preservation of architecture, the work exists as a proposal that, “centers on what is essential to our everyday life, our survival, and our progress. Aiming at investing science and technology with poetic intuition and personal expression, the school creates a transition from the old knowledge-based society to the new creative-based society” as well as a physical manifestation, in the form of a “dolls house desk, which is itself a model of the school, a self-similar fragment of a pedagogic proposition. An ellipsoid conic vessel fabricated from plywood and skinned in exotic veneers that is both a desk and a motif for an Ark of ideas.”
Biography
Breda Beban is an artist, filmmaker, and a creative producer. Her productions are about something that is strongly felt on the edges of official stories about politics, geography and love. Born in Serbia, raised in Macedonia and Croatia, Beban lives and works in London and Sheffield where she is a Professor of Media Arts at the Sheffield Hallam University.
Recent exhibitions of Beban’s work have taken place at the Venice Biennial, Tate Britain, and the Museum of Modern Art Rijeka. Her work is in a range of permanent collections including Tate, UK; Weltkunst Foundation, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art, Serbia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Croatia and Speed Art Museum, USA.
Since 2005 Beban has been a lead curator of imagine art after, a multi-stage exhibition for gallery and broadcast whose fist edition was on show at Tate Britain (Oct 2007– Jan 2008). The second edition of imagine art after takes place from 2009-2012.