Pemulwuy Dream Team,2010.

Bio:

Zanny Begg lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She works in a cross disciplinary manner and her work revolves around an investigation of the politics of space, both in the broader globalised context and a more specific local one: she is interested in both the architecture of space and the social relationships which construct it. She is a founding member of the art collective You Are Here (www.youarehere.me) and co-initiator of There Goes The Neighbourhood (www.theregoestheneighbourhood.org). Zanny was invited to Hong Kong for an Australia-China Council Residency (May 2007), Indonesia for an Asia-Link Residency (June 2008), for a Performance Space Residency in Redfern, Australia (Oct 2008) and Australia Council Residency in Chicago and New York (2010). Her recent exhibitions include Istanbul Beinnale, Taipei Beinnal, There Goes The Neighbrouhood, Performance Space Sydney, If You See Something, Say Something, Mori Gallery, Sydney, 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.

Recent reviews:

Of Bestial Acts and Rabbits in Hats, Reuben Keehan, Broadsheet, Vol 38, No 3
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
Gary Inspires Project By Australian Artists, Jon Seidel, Post-Tribune, June 17, 2010.

Collections:

Cruthers Collection of Women's Art

Selected recent exhibitions (solo):

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):

2010: A World Where Many Worlds Fit, An exhibition on the counter-globalization movement, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Canada
RESPECT, Australia Council for the Visual Arts, Window Gallery
ReMake Estate, Artspace, Sydney
Una selezione delle Bienali di Istanbul a Atene, Palazzo Valle, Catania
Proposals for a Socialist Colony, Skydive, Housten, USA

2009: What Keeps Mankind Alive, Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Reciprocity,Centro Cultural de Espana Beunos Aires, Argentina
Without_us, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
There Goes The Neighbourhood, Performance Space, Sydney
Disobedience – An ongoing video archive, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania

2008: Super Seed, Frasers Studios, Chippendale, Sydney
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.
888, China Hieghts, Sydney, Australia.
Cities Without Maps - Tanpa Kota Peta (with Keg de Souza) - 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: Electrification of Consumer Brains (with Dmitry Vilensky) , Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
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.
The T Show - Medium Rare Gallery, Redfern, Sydney
If You See Something, Say Something – exhibition, publishing and workshop project, Mori Gallery, Gallery 4a, and Chrissie Cotter Gallery.

2006: New Social Commentaries ’06 – Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria.
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship – Artspace, Sydney.
“Self Education – Self organization” – National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Culture and Protest - a poster exhibition organised by Chto Delat? St Petersburg, Russia
34 th Alice Prize - Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

2005: Third Asia Pacific Cultural Forum exhibition (Un)Masking: The art of camouflage in the Asia Pacific - Kwandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei.
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship - Artspace, Sydney
Williamstown Contemporary Arts Prize – Sub Station, Williamstown, Melbourne
Limbus – Rocket Art, Newcastle
Family Business – The Wedding Circle, Sydney
Placard Project – Mori Gallery
Searching for WMDs – Firstdraft, Sydney

2004: Looking for Love (in all the wrong places) – The Wedding Circle
[Out of Gallery Project] - Blacktown Arts Centre, Western Sydney
Live Walls, Kings Cross Arts Festival, Kellet Way, Kings Cross, Sydney
Unholy Matrimony – Directors’ show at The Wedding Circle

Grants/Prizes/Residencies:

2009: Australia Council Residency Chicago
Project funding Inter-Arts, Australia Council for the Arts
2008: Asialink Residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Performance Space Residency, Redfern, Sydney.
Frasers Studio Residency, Chippendale, Sydney.
2007: Marrickville Council Art Grant
National Association for the Visual Arts Marketing Grant
Australia China Council Residency, Hong Kong.
2006: Shortlisted for the New Social Commentaries Prize '06.
2005: Australian Postgraduate Scholarship

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
Murray, E. Redfern’s bird sculpture hatches angry response, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 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