Treat (or Trick), 2009.

"Whether working individually or collaboratively, Begg is careful to consider the role of the audience. Though highly political in its subject, her work marks a shift away from the dry earnestness often associated with certain activist art practices, and she has developed a characteristic humour and humility most clearly expressed in the elegant, affecting, hand-drawn animations that accompany the live footage in Treat (or Trick), What Would It Mean To Win? and her 2008 film Don’t Say Goodbye: An Exploration of Spatial Politics in Hong Kong. Moreover, Begg’s work operates at a range of social registers, from sophisticated analysis of the strategies and motivations of social movements, to projects geared toward audiences located well beyond the traditional activist and artistic communities" - Reuben Keehan, Of Beatial Acts and Rabbits in Hats, Broadsheet, Volume 38.3, Sep/Nov 2009.

Bio:

Zanny Begg lives and works in Sydney, Australia.To date her work has revolved around two key themes, an investigation of the politics of space, both in the broader globalised context and a more specific local one, and the relationships between material and social contexts. Zanny works in a cross disciplinary manner as an artist, writer and curator. She is currently the director of Tin Sheds Gallery and her recent curatorial projects include The Right to the City, Tin Sheds Gallery and There Goes The Neighbourhood, Performance Space.

Zanny was invited to Hong Kong for an Australia-China Council Residency (May 2007), Indonesia for an Asia-Link Residency (June 2008), Chicago for a residency with Mess Hall (2010), Indonesia for an Australia Indonesia Institute Residency (2011) and to Barcelona for an Australia Council Residency (2012).

Her recent exhibitions include Emeraldtown, Gary Indiana, Artspace, Sydney, What Keeps Mankind Alive, Istanbul Biennale, Turkey, the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, Sharjah Biennale, Plot for a Bienniel film program, United Arab Emirates, Have the cake and eat it too: Institutionskritik und instituierende Praxen, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, and Self Education – Self organization, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.

Her film projects include Treat (or Trick) (2009 7mins), The Focus Group, (2010, 7mins), Zugzwang (2011 6mins), The Bull Laid Bear (2012 24mins, with Oliver Ressler), What Would it Mean to Win? (2008 40mins, with Oliver Ressler) and Emeraldtown, Gary Indiana (2010, 20mins, with Keg de Souza).

Recent reviews:

Of Bestial Acts and Rabbits in Hats, Reuben Keehan, Broadsheet, Vol 38, No 3
Emeraldtown, Gary Indiana, review by Marian Tubbs, Eyeline, Vol 74
Politics and Art: Direct Engagement, Jacqueline Millner, RealTime issue #92 Aug-Sept 2009 pg. 52
What Would It Mean To Win?, Gerald Raunig, Artlink Magazine, Vol. 28, #4, 2008
There Goes The Neighbourhood, Reuben Keehan, Eyeline, 70, p73
Review in Critics Picks, Artforum, May, 2010
Review in Artlies, Cynthia Coffeild, May 2010
Oliver, M. You Are Here and somewhere else, Column 8, Artspace, 2011
Tucker, D. Summer Harvest, H-Art Magazine, Fall 2010

Collections:

Cruthers Collection of Women's Art
Queensland Art Gallery

Selected recent exhibitions (solo):

2010: Emeraldtown: Gary, Indiana, Artspace, Sydney (You Are Here)
ReMake Estate, project with an abandoned house, Gary, Indiana, USA (You Are Here)
2008: Treat (or trick), Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2006: Checkpoint (9/11 anniversary show) – Gallery 4a, Sydney
Glass Half Full – Mori Gallery, Sydney
2005: Uniforms – Mori Gallery, Sydney
Checkpoint – Mori Gallery, Sydney

Selected recent and upcoming exhibitions (group):

2012: The Bull Laid Bear, Diagonale Film Festival, Gratz, Austria, It's the Political Economy Stupid, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, After The Crisis, is Before the Crisis, Galleria Arte, Milan.

2011: Freeways "Out the Window" project Los Angeles
The Focus Group, Sharjah Biennale, Plot for a Bienniel film program, United Arab Emirates
Treat (or Trick), It's the Political Economy Stupid, Open Space, Vienna

2010: Cities Without Maps, Finalist Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition, Artspace Sydney (You Are Here)
What Would it Mean to Win?, A World Where Many Worlds Fit, An exhibition on the counter-globalization movement, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Canada
Pemulwuy Dream Team, RESPECT, Australia Council for the Visual Arts, Window Gallery
Treat (or Trick), Una selezione delle Bienali di Istanbul a Atene, Palazzo Valle, Catania
The Focus Group, Proposals for a Socialist Colony, Skydive, Housten, USA

2009: Treat (or Trick), What Keeps Mankind Alive, Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey, Reciprocity,Centro Cultural de Espana Beunos Aires, Argentina
Electrification of Consumer Brains, Without_us, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Pemulwuy Dream Team, There Goes The Neighbourhood, Performance Space, Sydney
What Would it Mean to Win?, Disobedience – An ongoing video archive, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania

2008: Don't Say Goodbye: An exploration of Spatial Politics, Hong Kong, film screened as part of the 6th Hong Kong Social Movement Film Festival, Hong Kong.
Jumps and Surprises (with Oliver Ressler) as part of the exhibition asking we walk, voices of resistance, curated by Kuratorisk Aktion at the Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark .
A world of Proximities, wall drawing for One World Where Many Worlds Fit, part of the Taipei Biennale, Taiwan.
Cities Without Maps - Tanpa Kota Peta (You Are Here) - Film Screening in a Vacant Lot Ratmakan Kampung, Kali Code, and at Mes 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Nicht Alles Tun, Galerie der IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria, and Berlin Germany.
What Would it Mean to Win? (with Oliver Ressler),“Magazine 08: Positive Critical Imagination”, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, “Risk”, Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, “Revolution, I Love You”, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, Taipei Biennial, Taipei , Taiwan, 13th Art Biennial Pancevo, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, Serbia, European Social Forum, screening program, Malmoe, Sweden, “Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to the Present”, Exit Art, New York USA, “Asking We Walk: Voices of Resistance”, Free Exhibition Hall/Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark, Freewaves, LA, USA, “Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to the Present”, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, DUTV – Drexel University Television, Philadelphia, A Staged Dissent, Loughborough University, Loughborough, England, TXAP Sukabumi, Indonesia, E-flux Video Rental, Maumaus / Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, Sarai Media Collective, Delhi, India, "Disclosures”, Plastic People, organized by Gasworks, London, Great Britain, Festival International d'Art Vidéo de Casablanca, Casablanca, Diagonale Film Festival, Granz, Austria, Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland,Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland, Tour de Lorraine, Kino in der Reitschule, Bern, Politics, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Electrification of Consumer Brians (with Dmitry Vilensky) and What Would it Mean to Win? (with Oliver Ressler), Have the cake and eat it too: Institutionskritik und instituierende Praxen, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

2007: Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (with Keg de Souza), Artspace, Sydney.
Free Art, (with Dmitry Vilensky) for Critically In Between at the Art Athina, Greece.
If You See Something, Say Something – exhibition, publishing and workshop project, Mori Gallery, Gallery 4a, and Chrissie Cotter Gallery.

2006: Glass half Full, New Social Commentaries ’06 – Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship – Artspace, Sydney.
When you set out to change the world, the often changes you..., “Self Education – Self organization” – National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Uniforms, 34 th Alice Prize - Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

2005: Uniforms, Third Asia Pacific Cultural Forum exhibition (Un)Masking: The art of camouflage in the Asia Pacific - Kwandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei.
Checkpoint, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship - Artspace, Sydney

2004: [Out of Gallery Project], Blacktown Arts Centre, Western Sydney

Grants/Prizes/Residencies:

2012: Australia Council for the Arts Residency Barcelona
2010: Highly Commended, Marrickville Contemporary Art prize
New Work grant Australia Council for the Arts
Finalist Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (You Are Here)
Finalist Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Brisbane
Finalist International Award for Participation in Art Prize, Legislative Assembly of the Region Emilia-Romagna, Italy
2009: Australia Council Residency Chicago (You Are Here)
Project funding Inter-Arts, Australia Council for the Arts
2008: Asialink Residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (You Are Here)
Performance Space Residency, Redfern, Sydney (You Are Here)
Frasers Studio Residency, Chippendale, Sydney
2007: Marrickville Council Art Grant
Australia China Council Residency, Hong Kong.
2006: Shortlisted for the New Social Commentaries Prize '06.

Workshops/Talks:

2010: Between Production and Facts. The Reinvention of Artistic Activism, MACBA-Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Backroom Conversations, Hong Kong Art AFir, Asian Art Asociation, Hong Kong
2009: Speaker at One Way or Another, Artspace Symposium
Participant in Socially Disorganised curatorial workshop with Vasif Kortun, Adelaide Experimental Arts Foundation
2008: Keynote speaker, Whatever happened to the alter-globalisation movement? Public Hearing Den Frie, organised by Kuratorisk Aktion.
One World Where Many Worlds Fit, Public Lecture, Taipei Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan.
Cities Without Maps - Tanpa Kota Peta artist talk IVAA and Mes56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Light, Democracy, Public - a discussion on artistic interventions into public space, presented by Artspace and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics and the
School of Art History and Art Education at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW
2007: Making Art Politically, workshop This is Not Art, Newcastle
"Practices of Self Organisation" workshop with Dmitry Vilensky and Johannes Raether at Spawasser Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Social struggle and the work of Oliver Ressler" presentation at ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
"Art and Communism" seminar with Kirsten Stakemeier and Dmitry Vilensky at the Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
Local Cultures/Media Diversity, workshop at the Our Media '07 conference, University of Technology, Sydney
2006: Guest speaker “Art, Politics and Censorship” Regional Galleries Conference, Tweed River Art Gallery
Guest speaker at the “Immaterial labour, multitudes and new social subjects” conference at Cambridge University, UK
Guest Speaker at Adelaide Banks Festival of the Arts, Artist Week, South Australia.
2005: Artist talk at the Third Asia Pacific Cultural Forum, Taipei and Yilan, Taiwan

Other media:

Keehan, R. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Eyeline, Issue 70, 2010
Pemulwuy Dream Team Featured Artists on Australia Council for the Arts Website Mulheron, A. Feature on Pemulwuy Dream Team on Living Black, SBS TV, September 14 2009
Dalal, N. Interview 2ser Radio, June 2009
Levinson, M. Interview Fbi Radio, May 2009
Millner, J. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Realtime Issue 92, August/ September 2009
Groom, A. There Goes The Neighbourhood exhibition review, Runway Magazine, Futures Issue, June 2009 Groom, A. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Two Thousand, 11 May 2009
Murray, E. Kids on The Block take on criminals, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 2009
Carr, K. An Exhibition about Redfern, Inner West Courier, 19 May 2009
Groom, A. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Sydney City News, 7 May 2009, Cover story
Wells, J. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Drum Media, 5 May 2009
Frost. A. Cities Without Maps, featured on The Art Life ABC TV, 2008