Denis Beaubois          

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I was born in Mauritius. and currently live in Sydney.
I studied at the College of Fine Arts UNSW where I received a BFA, MA and MFA.
My works have been exhibited internationally including the TATE
Modern (2010), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010) and the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2009). More recently my works have
shown at DOX Center of Contemporary Arts (2016) and Haifa Museum of Art
(2017) and GOMA, Brisbane (2017-18).
I have received numerous awards for my works including; the 1998 Bonn
Videonale, the Judges Special Prize for the ZKM International Medien
Kunst Preis (2001) and the Create NSW & Museuem of Contemporary Arts fellowship (2018-19)
During the 1990s I was a member of the performance ensembles Gravity
Feed and the Post Arrivalists and also worked with Japanese company
Gekidan Kaitaisha in the Drifting View X, Tokyo. My performance practice
has strongly influenced my visual arts practice.
I have taught at numerous tertiary institutions including College of Fine Arts
(UNSW Art & Design) and The University of Sydney.

 

 

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2018 The Mouth Speaks
2017 No Longer Adrift - Comosite Territory
2012 Currency - The division of labour
2012 No longer adrift
2010  A complex collapse
2009  Movement 2008
2008- 09 Video For Then (sight through time)
2007
The Fall from Raiatea (5 channel) (Installation)
2006  Video for Gallery (Performance Installation)
2009  Portrait of a Guilty Man (Performance video)

2006  The Fall from Ryogoku (Installation)
2006  The Impossibility of a Still Point in a Fluid Environment
2006  The Fall From Raiatea (4 channel) (Installation)
2004  Impact (There is no aftermath) (Performance video)
2004  Writing version 2 (Performance video)
2004  Constant
2003  The Fall From Matavai
2003  Hope
2003  As it happens (Performance video)
2003  Writing version 3 (Performance video)
2000  Writing (Performance video)
2000  Everybody happy (Installation)
2000  Here Now  Infinitely There (Installation)
1999  Group Stare (Installation)
1999  The Observation of the Communal Witness (Installation)
1998  In the event of Amnesia the city will recall…(Cleveland) (Performance video)
1998 The Accidental Contract (Installation)
1997  In the event of Amnesia the city will recall…(Sydney) (Performance video)


   
  Here is a documentary that was made about my practice in 2001