The widely ranging work of Justin Bennett is as rooted in the audiovisual and visual arts as it is in music. Central to his thinking and his work is a process-orientated approach and an interest in the elasticity of the concept of ‘space’. Bennett produces (reworked) field recordings, drawings, performances, installations, photographs, videos and essays. He brings the characteristic potentials and capacities of each medium into every new work, paying no heed to the divisions between these media. He gives lectures on his work throughout all of Europe, hosts workshops, produces soundtracks for experimental filmmakers, is an active curator for video presentations and a member of the performance group, BMB con., and the electronic improvisation trio, Grand Mal.
At the end of the 1980s, Justin Bennett (b. 1964) moved from Nuneaton, in Warwickshire, England, to the Netherlands. Bennett studied art at the Cumbria College of Art and Design, video, sculpture, performance and sound at the Sheffield City Polytechnic, followed courses in sonology at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague and did graduate research and production at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Accessed 4.11.06 from http://www.argosarts.org/catalogue.do?bio=96 |
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secret city |
An audio guide |
for the exhibition De Verborgen Stad, De Vleeshal, Middelburg |
1997 |
Netherlands |
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bridge |
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Stroom HCBK, Den Haag |
1998 |
Netherlands |
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displacements |
radio project |
Lokaal 01. Breda/Antwerpen. |
1998 |
Netherlands |
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soundhouse |
sound piece |
de Vaalseberg, Rotterdam |
1998 |
Netherlands |
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soundwalk |
A graphic section through a soundscape |
750m Den Haag |
1998 |
Netherlands |
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Accumulator(HD) |
Soundwork |
Freunde Guter Musik for the
exhibition High Density Über die Verdichtung von
Räumen Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin. |
1999 |
Germany |
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Exhibition at Box23 Lab de Arte |
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Barcelona |
2000 |
Spain |
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Rumours |
text/sound project |
Urban Rumours
project curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist at Fri-Art, Fribourg.
I presented text and sound as a live intervention at the Urban
Rumours conference in August 2000. |
2000 |
France |
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SITE (wasteland) |
Soundwork |
De Verschijning, Tilburg |
2000 |
Germany |
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Just About Now at
TENT, Rotterdam |
2000 |
Germany |
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Korzo Theater, Den Haag and the Zeppelin Festival,
CCCB, Barcelona |
2001 |
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Europa |
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Something is Rotten in the State of Europe. Lokaal 01, Antwerpen, 2001.
CCNOA, Brussels 2002.
Stroom HCBK, Den Haag 2002.
versions have been made for online presentation for PeepRadio (Denmark)
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Acoustic Gardens |
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For the exhibition Breeze of Air / Hortus Conclusus in Witte de With, Rotterdam |
2001 |
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Magnetic City |
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2001 |
Spain |
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Waiting Room |
Soundwork |
Station waiting room for CityJam project, Hooghuis, Arnhem |
2001 |
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rumours/resonances - Den Haag |
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Stroom HCBK,Den Haagand first presented at the exhibition
You Never Walk Alone, November |
2001 |
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Dertiende Mixer - Cleavage of acoustics/ Cacerolada |
Split LP |
http://www.stichtingmixer.nl/ |
2003 |
Netherlands |
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Noise Map |
Book and CD |
Crashcourse project of meinebank. Berlin |
2003 |
Germany |
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Ovipool |
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Moorroom, Rome, for the Sonícity
festival in the former wholesale market in Ostiense, Rome. |
2003 |
Italy |
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Synesthesia |
Images produced by visualisation of sonic processes. |
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Netherlands |
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Beirut Story |
Sound works for installation and 10 vinyl EP |
E-art, Barcelona in December |
2004 |
Spain |
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Berlaymont Dreaming |
Video and sound installation |
Argos festival, Brussels |
2004 |
Belgium |
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Haunted House |
Sound installation/Performance |
Close Encounters festival, Ypenburg. |
2004 |
Netherlands |
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Changing Soundscapes |
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Avontuurlijke Muziek in Leidsche Rijn |
2005 |
Netherlands |
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Shelters for Scarborough |
3 Seafront Installations |
Sonic Arts Network. Scarborough, Yorkshire |
2005 |
England |
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Sundial |
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Barcelona (2003), Den Haag, Rome, Guangzhou and Paris (2005). Each city, each location sounds completely different, but also the rhythm changes from place to place. New versions are planned for Vienna (October 2006) and Istanbul (2007 |
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Spain |
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