Masterclass Culture with Oliver Beer

"See With Your Ears / Hear With Your Eyes” - Masterclass with the artist Oliver Beer

For late registrations, please contact Lara Hajar: lara.hajar@sciencespo.fr

The Masterclass is organised by the School of Public Affairs as part of the Cultural Policy & Management Stream Masterclasses.

Presentation

Artist Oliver Beer will discuss the unique body of site specific artworks he’s realised around the world. From the Centre Pompidou to the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Sydney Opera House, Oliver Beer works with sound as his palate to create sculptures, immersive works and innovative sensory experiences.

This masterclass will also be the opportunity to discuss the way Oliver Beer has built his successful career with many institutions and to understand relationships between the different actors of the contemporary art world on an international level.

A Dialogue with Marine Van Schoonbeek, Co-Founder and President of Thanks For Nothing.

Moderators: Florence Botello (Academic advisor), Abigaïl Montalvo & Olivier Rouzeau (students)

Biography

Oliver Beer studied musical composition at the Academy of Contemporary Music before reading Fine Art at the Ruskin, University of Oxford and film theory at the Sorbonne, Paris. He makes sculptures, installations, videos, and immersive live performances that reveal the hidden properties of objects, bodies, and architectural sites. Drawing on his musical training, his social and familial relationships often become the blueprint for multi-disciplinary works that engage with intimate and universal concerns, such as the transmission of musical memories and the personal and cultural meanings invested in the things we possess. For his Resonance Project (2007–), vocal performances stimulate the natural harmonics of built structures, generating a disarmingly visceral relationship between the audience and interior space. By slicing and reassembling common objects to construct new meanings and forms, Beer’s sculptural practice dissects the material world and the traces we leave on it.

Beer’s work has been the subject of many solo and group exhibitions, notably at Met Breuer, Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA PS1, New York; Centre Pompidou, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Palais de Tokyo and Chateau of Versailles, Paris; the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; WIELS, Brussels and the Sydney and Istanbul biennales. Beer has also held residencies at the Palais de Tokyo, the Watermill Centre, Sydney Opera House and the Fondation Hermès.

Oliver Beer © Martin Behrman / Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac