Simon M. Benedict

(also on vimeo and YouTube and email: simon.m.benedict[at]gmail[dot]com)

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NO PRRESSURRRE

Minwoo Lee Maegan Mehler Simon M. Benedict Paul MacIntyre Ambera Wellmann Brandan Doty Janine Miedzik Steven Beckly John Haney Patrick Cruz

February 20 - March 28, 2015

Closing reception on March 28, 6-9pm

CAPACTIY 3 6 Dublin (1st floor), Guelph, Ontario [phone]

“In the end we are left with sentimental value, which enables us a real examination of the thing that outlives us” – Joshua Simon, Neomaterialism

NO PRRESSURRRE is a group exhibition that invites local artists to respond to Capacity 3’s prized artifact. At least a century old, the antique water motor is a permanent fixture within the confines of the gallery space. NO PRRESSURRRE adopts the aesthetic and historical language from the artifact using it as a departing point to make work. The exhibition aims to delineate the obvious and analyze the literalness of the thing while excavating its potential narratives.

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Studio visit with Simon Benedict

Q: Tell us about yourself.

A: I’m currently in my first year of the MFA program. I often use words from music, film, and my brain as raw material for videos and works on paper.

Q: What are you currently working on?

A: Right now I’m working on a sound piece. Also, I typically do performance-based videos, but I’m experimenting with some more abstract video stuff at the moment. And maybe an installation.

Q: What are you most excited about for the 2015 Open Studios/Shenkman Lecture?

A: It’s always great to have people from outside of Guelph engaging with your work. We tend to isolate ourselves in production and writing as artists and students, so it’s valuable to have access to some fresh eyes and thoughts.

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Unboxing 1

Technically not my first unboxing. Props to Joel Staples for getting me into this racket in the first place, even though he'll never read this cause he hates computers.

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simonmbenedict on Instagram

for whoever is still paying attention, this is where anything even remotely happens these days.

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home is where the home is

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Pantheon Praise {by Simon M. Benedict, 2012-2013 [after Brian Dennehy's Stourley Kracklite (after Peter Greenaway, 1987)]}

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from The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway, 1987)

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[from on-going series "Who Wore It Best?"]

Left: Simon M. Benedict, still from Shooting a Gun 1 (from the never-completed, never-seen Rituals series), 2010. Right: Michael Lehmann, Jonathan Ames, Luke Del Tredici, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Schwartzman and Ted Danson, still from We Could Sing a Duet (from the HBO series Bored To Death), 2011.

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[from on-going series "Who Wore It Best?"]

Left: Keith Arnatt, Self-Burial (Television Interference Project), 1969. Right: Simon M. Benedict, "I want you to push daisies" (Dares series), 2008 [unintentionally after Self-Burial by Keith Arnatt].

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originally intended for Rebecca Lemire's eyes only.