Michele Beck - Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

Beck, Michele

Michele Beck

MFA, Art History, Parsons School of Design; BA Art History, New York University

Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

Profile:

Over the past 10 years I have been working as a multidisciplinary artist using video, sound and performance. My work utilizes performative strategies in order to articulate the internal body and to investigate the connection between the individual and his or her environment and self.

I work with ideas that are difficult to articulate in words or images. For this reason, I know that the gap between concepts and materializing those concepts can be a formidable challenge. I see the classroom as a laboratory where students can experiment and find their own solutions to bridging this gap. Though learning technical skills, looking at artists’ work, discussion and critiques, I aim to give students the time, space and information they need to discover their own style and voice as videomakers.

Recent Publications:

My Little Membrane, Nurture Art Galley, Brooklyn, May 2008
Endoskeleton, PS122, New York, 2007
Il Giardino Segreto,Primo Piano Gallery, Italy, 2007
between to and from, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 2007
Experimental Video, The Incubator, Kansas City, MO, 2007

Email:
BeckM@newschool.edu

Research Interests:

Psychoanalysis
Voice, language and identity
Butoh Dance
Art of the Pacific Islands

Awards and Honors:

Grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Residencies at Yaddo, CAMAC in France and ARTELEKU in Spain.

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