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Benjamin Fallon

Upcoming / In Progress

The Exhibition and its Histories

A one day research symposium looking at the exhibition both through its history and contemporary manifestations

Speakers include Kirsteen Macdonald, Simon Sheikh, Lucy Steeds and Steven Ten Thije

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You are just in the middle of the beginning

'You are Just in the Middle of the Beginning' is a curatorial project exploring ideas of the temporalities of now particularly attentive to the intersections of technology with politics and their entanglement in our comprehension of time. The project will unfold over a period researching, developing and ultimately making public both artistic and theoretical articulations to open fresh angles of vision to think critically about the present.

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Lets get together and call ourselves an institute

A working group researching existing and potential forms of institutional practice.

About

Benjamin Fallon is an independent curator, writer and designer currently based in Stockholm where he is part of the CuratorLab programme at Konstfack. He served as co-director of Embassy Gallery between 2008 and 2010, was a member of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Artistic Programme Committee from 2006 to 2008, and ran his self-initiated project ONEZERO between 2005 and 2008. Ben is an occasional visiting lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh College on the Contemporary art practice course.

Recent projects include ‘Banal Inferno’ CCA Glasgow 2010, ‘Hello World’ Embassy Gallery, 2010, ‘Broadcast Yourself’ Tate Modern as part of ‘No Soul for Sale’, 2010 and ‘Warehouse of Horrors’ +44 141 Glasgow, 2009.

Benjamin is instigator of the working group ‘Let’s get together and call ourselves an institute.’ researching the possibilities for new forms of institutional practice.

Selected curatorial work

Banal Inferno

Group exhibition, CCA Glasgow

Hello World

Group exhibition, Embassy Gallery

Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven

Solo exhibition by Alex Hetherington, Embassy Gallery

I Can Haz Youtube Culture

Online forum and publication

Annuale: Festival of Independent Practice 2009/2010

I Pretend to Like Harold Pinter

2 Person exhibition, Patriothall Gallery

BROADCAST YOURSELF: The Exhibtion

Warehouse of Horrors

Group exhibition, +44 141 Gallery Glasgow

Embassy Professional Development Programme

Selected design work

Economy Exhibition

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Framework

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Ugandan Arts Trust

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Keith Farquhar

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Shona Macnaughton

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Writing

Can We Get a Witness

text for Curators and Collections project part of Glasgow International

You are Just in the Middle of the Beginning

Text accompanying the exhibition Banal Inferno

Some notes compiled whilst thinking about Alex Hetherington

Text accompanying the exhibition Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven