FREEE
Dave Beech, Andy Hewitt & Mel Jordan
Born, Warrington, Hull and London,UK
info@freee.org.uk www.freee.org.uk
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
How to be Hospitable, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2007
How to Make a Difference, International Project Space, Bournville Centre for Visual Arts, Birmingham, curated by Andrew Hunt
Protest is Beautiful, 1000000mph Gallery, London, curated by Esther Windsor
2006
How to Talk to Public Art, Video, BBC and Arts Council England commission for the Power of Art BBC commissioned by International 3, Manchester, UK
How to Talk to Buildings, Architecture Week, Arc, Hull, UK
2005
Three Functions, new Commission for VITRINE, ‘SituationLeeds’ Ar tin the Public Realm Festival 05, Leeds,
What are aesthetics? Strategic Question #31, by Gavin Wade, Ponte dei Barcaroli, Venice Biennale
2004
The Economic Function of Public Art is to Increase the Value of Private Property, Billboard, Sheffield, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Cast Some Light: a private view in a public space, screenings at Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow international Festival of Contemporary Visual Art
2007
Fusion Now! More Light, More Power, More People, curated by JJ Charlesworth, Rokeby, London
Slimvolume, Poster Publication, Neue Alte Bruke, Frankfurt, Germany & HOTEL, London
The Showroom Talks: I can’t live without..., The Showroom, London, Curated by Shama Khanna
2006
"Have you heard the one about the public sphere?" video, commissioned Hull Time Based Arts for 'If your names not on the list you're not coming in.', Hull, UK
Peace Camp, curated by Bob & Roberta Smith, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
I am the Fly, curated by Gail Pickering, Montevideo,
FRACPACA, Marseille, France
Miss Mao, Blacklist Projects London
Ideas Zoo, Space Station Sixty -Five, London, UK
Pimps and Hookers, 1000000mph Gallery, London, UK
EAST International 2006, Selectors Dirk Snauwaert & Jeremy Deller, Norwich Gallery
PrintROOM, Bureau, Manchester
2005
‘RISK: creative action in political culture’, curated by Ele Carpenter, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Second Guangzhou Triennale, ‘BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernisation’ curated by Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist (D-Lab) Public Structures project by Gavin Wade, China
London in Six Easy Steps - REAL ESTATE: Art in a Changing City, curated by B+B, Institute for Contemporary Art, London
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2008
Philistines and Monsters, Open University Study Day, Tate Modern, London.
2007
The Freee Manifesto for a Counter-Hegemonic Art II, Opening of spaces localization of public art. Warsaw, Poland. The conference is part of the Public Art Festival Passengers, www.passengers.pl
A Cultural Critique of Cultural Studies, Radical Philosophy Conference, Materials and Materialisms.
2006
Utopia, Art and the Counter-Public Sphere. The Utopian
Studies Conference, Plymouth University
Building Cultures: Art Activism and the Community, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Transmission: Speaking and Listening Daily Encounters, Site Gallery and Sheffield Hallam University. Other speakers included Carey Young, Doug Fishbone, Richard Wentworth and Becky Shaw.
2005
‘Art, Culture & Change’, Casa D’Os Dias da Agua, Lisbon, Portugal. An event in anticipation of the International Luzboa Biennale of Light Lisbon June 2006. Organized by Extramuros, French Embassy, British Council, Escola Superior de Arte e Design das Caldas da Rainha.
Functions, Functionality and Functionlessness, Public Sphere: Between Contestation and Reconciliation. Paper delivered for conference organized by National Association of Art Critics, Armenia.
GALLERY TALKS
2007
How to be Hospitable: Art and the Public Sphere Symposium
Freee Masterclass, Local Operations, Serpentine Gallery
Burning Public Art, Dialogue Journal, Axis
Meet The Interruptors: the truth about socially-engaged art practice, Whitechapel Art Gallery, to mark the publishing of Gavin Wade’s non-simultaneous novel ‘The Interruptors’. ISBN 1-873352-19-0, published by article press.
2006
Sideshow Seminar - in association with British Art Show, speakers include Becky Shaw, Adam Sutherland, John Byrne and Coinde and O’Dwyer
EAST discourse, presentation of current work.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS - presentations by HamesLevack, Freee and Loraine Leeson, ICA, London
2003
Summer Sweatshops, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Political Art Now and the Art, Culture and Resistance?
Author of book
2006
Manifesto for a Counter-Hegemonic Art, Freee Art Collective, published by Freee Publishing.
ISBN (10) 0-9554748-0-4
Author of chapter in edited books
2007
Public Sphere: Between Contestation and Reconciliation. Published by the National Association of Art Critics Armenian and Plymouth University. ISBN 99941-949-8-4
Transmission: Speaking and Listening Daily Encounters, Site Gallery and Sheffield Hallam University.
ISBN 1- 899926-71-2
Selected Reviews
Freee Untitled, FLUXSPACE, Jane Chavez-Dawson, pg114, Nov 07, issue 62
How To Make a Difference, Paul O’Neill, Art Monthly pg 37-38, Nov 07 No.311
How To Make a Difference, Stuart Tait, a-n Magazine, Dec 2007
Freee, Protest is Beautiful, Declan Clarke, Untitled Magazine, Autumn 2007
Protest is Beautiful Radical Philosophy, Front Cover, September/ October 2007, issue 145
Peace in Our Town, Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, pg 46, Dec 20 2006 - Jan 3 2007
EAST, Tom Morton, Frieze, Issue No.101, pg 122, Sept 2006
EAST International 2006, David Barrett, Art Monthly pg 28-29, Sept 2006 No.299
‘The function of public art for regeneration is to sex up the control of the under classes’, Sarah Carrington and Sophie Hope, Art & Architecture Journal, Number 63 Autumn 2005, pp 64
Ideas Grown From the Seeds of Revolution, Duncan Macmillian, The Scotsman, 15 April 2005
The Economic Function, ARTNOTES, Art Monthly pg14, June 2004 (No 277)
Articles
Cities and Cultures, Malcolm Miles pp116-117, pp187, published by Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-35443-1
Urban space and entrepreneurial property relations: resistance and the vernacular of outdoor advertising and graffiti, Anne M Cronin, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/papers/Cronin-advertisingandgraffiti.pdf
Get Real! Art, Regeneration, and Resistance, by Laura L. Sullivan, Metamute (culture and politics after the net) www.metamute.org
Interruptions: Testing the Rhetoric of Culturally Led Urban Development, by Malcolm Miles, Urban Studies, Vol 42, Nos 5/6, 889-911, May 2005, ISSN 0042-0980
The Moment of Quiet, Lucy Byatt, Industry & Idleness, March 2005, Produced by Plan 9, Bristol
Catalogues
FUSION NOW! MORE LIGHT, MORE POWER, MORE PEOPLE, in association with the Manifesto Club, ISBN 0-9550501-1
How to Make a Difference, catalogue text by Mark Hutchinson, interview with Andrew Hunt, ISBN 978-1-906424-00-8
Artist Links, British Council China, and Arts Council of England publication
EAST International 06, Catalogue text by Lynda Morris,
ISBN 1-872482-80-5
Second Guangzhou Triennale, ‘BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernisation’ curated by Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist, ISBN 7 - 5362 - 3231-4
London in Six Easy Steps, edited by Jens Hoffmann and Rob Bowman, ICA, London, ISBN 1900 300 47 8
Situation Leeds, Art in the Public Realm, essays by Axel Lapp and Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, ISBN 0955021715
The Three Functions, Catalogue for Vitrine, SituationLeeds, Art in the Public Realm, ISBN 0 9550217 0 7