On Tour 2023

Choosing Children
Interactive theatre experience.

Exploring to what extent new reproductive technologies should impact the type of children we have in the future?

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Playing God - VR Experience

Playing God
2017-19
Interactive Virtual Reality Experience and installation for VR Headsets

Challenges its audience to explore how the audience would deal with a humanitarian crisis themselves.

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Recent Work

The Diary

Object Memory
@Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre
Leicester
20 Jan – 19 Mar 2023

An interactive artwork about Wet Bulb Temperatures and migration.

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In Development

Tyranny of Merit
Expanded theatre experience.

It challenges audiences to consider what is fairness in society.

Select Previous Work

17nightsSeventeen Nights
(From Portraits of a Utilitarian Love Series)
2014
12 mins
HD Digital Video
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rAfters
(From Portraits of a Utilitarian Love Series)
2013
8 mins
HD Digital Video
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comsmall (1)The Wait
(From Portraits of a Utilitarian Love Series)
2011
8 mins
HD Digital Video
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HappinesssmallHappiness
(From Portraits of a Utilitarian Love Series)
2010
5 mins
Digital Video
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theeyesmallThe Eye
2012
3 mins
HD Digital Video
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HegemonySmallHegemony
2007
5mins
Digital Video
5.1 Surround Sound
StaticSmallx=1, y=0, z=x or y
2005
3 Mins
Digital Video
ThreeScreenSmallDarkness
2005
continuous Loop
Digital Video
3 Screen Installation
Film Stills: The Fade Out, 2004The Fade Out
2004
60 Mins
Digital Video
Film Stills: Dreaming is Knowing Nothing but Everything is Real, 2004Dreaming is Knowing Nothing but Everything is Real
2004
3 Mins
Digital Video
Film Stills: Lemelson, 2003Lemelson
2003
continuous Loop
VHS
Film Stills: Time, 2002Time
2002
10 Mins
Digital Video
Film Still: Post Modern Painting, 2002Post Modern Painting
2002
Continuous Loop
Digital Video
   

A full list of titles and the films can be provided on request info@benfredericks.co.uk


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Ben Fredericks

Born: 1982 in Nottingham, UK
Lives and works in Leicester, UK

Select Exhibitions | Projects:

2023

Object Memory, Phoenix, Leicester, UK

2022

Rock Paper Scissors, Alex Ruhl, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy  | Producer
Archive of the Unseen, Christopher Samuel, Wellcome Collection, London UK | Producer

2020

VR Days, QUAD, Derby UK

2019

Storytelling in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Hyper Festival,
São Paulo, Brazil
Aesthetica Film Festival,
York, UK
Frequency Festival, Lincoln, UK
Leicester XR, Leicester UK
Raindance Film Festival, London UK
Cannes XR, Marché Du Film Festival de Cannes, Cannes France

2017
FORMAT Festival, QUAD, Derby UK

2016
Celebrating the Pixel, Jason Wilsher-Mills | Producer
New film work, Jack Haslam | Producer & Artist
My Life (the Shape Open 2016), Guest Projects, London UK | Production manager & Curator | Shape Arts

2015
Illham; Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Qatar | Co-curator with British Council | Shape Arts
Illham Commissions: Juan delGado, Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings, Jason Wilsher-Mills, Rachel Gadsden, Safiya Al Bahlani, Aisha Hassan Khalfani & Nouf Mohammed Al Kobaisi; Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Qatar | Production manager with British Council | Shape Arts
Strange Love (Shape Showreel); Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London UK | Curator | Shape Arts

2014
[In]visible (the Shape Open 2014), Shape Gallery, London UK | Production manager & Curator | Shape Arts

2013
Incubarte 6; Centre del Carme/La Llotgeta, Valencia Spain
Liminal; Camberwell Space, London UK
Disability Re-assessed (The Shape Open 2013), Nunnery Gallery, London UK | Production manager & Curator | Shape Arts

2012
Re-Vault; Zigfrid von Underbelly, London UK
Music vs Film; Book Club, London UK
First Four, Lauderdale House, London UK | Production manager & co-curator | Shape Arts
The Shortlist 5, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts
The Shortlist 4, Shape Gallery, London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts

2011
Uninterpreted, Shape Gallery, London  UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts

2010
Film-Video-Performance (Shape Showreel) – Wimbledon Space; London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts
Animate, Shape Gallery, London UK 2010 | Production manager & co-curator | Shape Arts

2009
Science-Art, Shape Gallery, London UK | Production manager & curator | Shape Arts

2005
All together at once at the same time; Colony, Birmingham UK

2004
Your Thoughts Are Golden; City Space, Birmingham UK
This Is It; The Works Gallery, Birmingham UK

2003
B.R.O.S.S #1; BIAD Gallery, Birmingham UK

Education

2002-05           BA (Hons) Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham

2001-02           BTEC Foundation, South Nottingham College, Nottingham