Since 1991 Vicki Bennett has been making CDs, radio, and A/V multimedia under the name People Like Us. By animating and recontextualising found footage collages Vicki gives an equally witty and dark view of popular culture with a surrealistic edge. People Like Us broadcasts an ongoing experimental arts radio and podcast show on WFMU, called “DO or DIY”, which, since it began in 2003, has had over a million “listen again” downloads.
Vicki has shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, The National Film Theatre, Purcell Room, The ICA, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Sonar in Barcelona, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Barbican, Maxxi in Rome, the BBC and Channel 4. She has also performed radio sessions for the BBC’s John Peel, Mixing It, and also CBC, KPFA and many more in the US. There have been features in The Observer, The Wire, NME, BBC website and Bizarre Magazine. People Like Us have been commissioned by The Arts Council England, The BBC, Sonic Arts Network, Forma, LUX and Lovebytes amongst others.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 “The Doors Of Perspection” at Vitrine Gallery, London
PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
2011 Modern Empire at La Scatola Gallery
2011 Genre Collage at Auditorium of Rome
2011 “Live Excerpts” at “Expanded Video” exhibition, MAXXI, Italy
2011 More Soup and Tart at The Barbican, London
2011 Genre Collage at Open Ears Festival, Kitchener Ontario
2011 GLUE GUN film screenings at Satellite VITRINE GALLERY, The Hospital Club, London
2011 The Keystone Cut Ups at Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK
2011 Genre Collage and multiple film screenings at Ambulante, Mexico
2011 Genre Collage at Art’s Birthday Party, Swedish Radio, Stockholm
2010 Prints of Darkness tours to Matthew Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
2010 Genre Collage at The British Film Festival, Ukraine
2010 Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
2010 Press Play Film Festival, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
2010 Berwick Film And Media Arts Festival – premiere of The Keystone Cut Ups with Ergo Phizmiz
2010 Skew Gardens at Lincoln Center, New York as part of UbuWeb evening
2010 Genre Collage at Vintage Goodwood
2010 Genre Collage in the Ukraine presented by Forma and the British Council http://www.britishcouncil.org/ukraine-arts-contemporary-media-artwork.htm
2010 Prints of Darkness, Edinburgh Printmakers – group exhibition – pic disc LP and print by Vicki Bennett
2010 “Genre Collage” at Bristol Arnolfini in conjunction with Encounters Film Festival
2010 In The Long Run: 30 Years of Great Running – Great North Museum: Hancock – “Parade” as part of group exhibition
2010 “Genre Collage” at De La Warr Pavilion
2010 “Genre Collage” at Liverpool Sound City, in conjunction with Sound and Music
2010 “Genre Collage” at Musraramix Festival – Jerusalem, Israel
2010 Baltimore Transmodern 2010
2010 Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
2010 AV Festival, Newcastle
2009 BFI Southbank, London
2009 Grand CafÈ Zum Rothen Krebsen (IFEK Institut f¸r erweiterte Kunst), Linz, Austria
2009 Night of the Long Worms, Cafe OTO, London
2009 NEW NEW! 2009 ñ Fleda, Brno, Czech Republic
2009 WFMU Record Fair, Manhattan
2009 Vancouver New Music Festival
2009 Cafe OTO, London (live with Ergo Phizmiz)
2009 Parade (film and two photo works), Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
2009 Sonic Recycler, London (screening Skew Gardens)
2009 Vienna Independent Shorts (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2009 sound:frame Festival (screening We Edit Life)
2009 Indielisboa, Lisbon (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2009 Glimmer Festival (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2009 Migrating Forms Festival (NYUFF), New York (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2009 Zemos98, Seville
2009 Rotterdam Film Festival (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2009 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2008 Fundacio la Caixa Gallery (screening 3 works)
2008 SPNM hosted concert at Kings Place, Kings Cross, London
2008 Invideo, Milan (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2008 Cork Film Festival (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2008 Experimental Film & Video Festival, Seoul (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2008 Sonar, Barcelona (screening Work, Rest & Play)
2008 People Like Us Retrospective – alt.gallery, Newcastle
2007 Live soundtrack to Christian Marclay’s Screen Play, as part of the Wire 25 anniversary series, London
2007 Touch live event in Balham, London
2007 Bilbao “Copy Your Idols” conference
2007 3 Screen video premiere of Work, Rest & Play at Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Media, Sheffield
2007 Session for Mixing It, BBC Radio 3
2006 Encounters 12th Annual International Short Film Festival, Bristol (screening of Story Without End)
2006 La Casa Encendida, Madrid (screening of The Remote Controller)
2006 Fundacio La Caixa. Mediateca, Barcelona (screening of Story Without End)
2006 Photographers’ Gallery, London (screening of Story Without End)
2006 Visual Arts Ipswich, Ipswich (screening of Story Without End)
2006 Club Transmediale, Berlin (screening of Story Without End)
2006 Le Cube, Paris
2006 Flatpack Festival, Birmingham
2005 Other Cinema, San Francisco
2005 UC Davis, Davis, California
2005 Leeds Film Festival
2005 Nulle Part Ailleurs Production (screening of We Edit Life)
2005 Experimentaclub in Madrid http://www.experimentaclub.com/festart05.htm#plus
2005 Etrange Festival at Forum Des Images in Paris. http://www.etrangefestival.com/
2005 Optronica at The National Film Theatre, London
2005 Mission Creek Music Festival, California
2005 Britspotting, Berlin (screening of The Remote Controller)
2005 Femme Totale, Dortmund (screening of The Remote Controller)
2005 AHRB Centre for British Film and Television, London (screening of We Edit Life and The Remote Controller)
2005 Cinilingus, Belfast (screening of We Edit Life)
2005 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart (screening of The Remote Controller)
2004 Live concert as part of Christian Marclay’s Sounds of Christmas installation at the Tate Modern, London
2004 INVIDEO, Milano (screening of The Remote Controller)
2004 Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds (screening of The Remote Controller and We Edit Life)
2004 Backup Festival, Weimar (screening of The Remote Controller)
2004 Bath Michael Tippett Centre
2004 Oslo Studio 04 Festival
2004 The Music Hall, Shrewsbury (screening of We Edit Life)
2004 BBC Radio 3 – Mixing It – Live Session/broadcast
2004 Toronto Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com
2004 Virginia Film Festival http://www.vafilm.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=251
2004 New York Underground Film Festival http://www.nyuff.com/
2004 First Anniversary of 2003 FACT, Liverpool
2004 Hanger, Barcelona (screening of The Remote Controller)
2004 Rotterdam Film Festival (screening of The Remote Controller)
2003 Work, Work, Work at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, as part of Matmos’s artist installation
2003 Sample Culture Now at The Tate Modern http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/sampleculture.htm
2003 Oslo S-, Oslo (screening of The Remote Controller)
2003 Wheels Instead of Hooves, Newcastle (screening of We Edit Life)
2003 City of Women, International Festival of Contemporary Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003 Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains, France
2003 POL Pol Festival, Frankfurt
2003 Club Transmediale, Berlin at “Maria am Ostbahnhof”
2003 Session for John Peel, for BBC Radio 1
2002 Avanto Festival at Kiasma Centre, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Sound Unseen Festival at The Walker Center, Minneapolis, USA
2002 South Bank’s Meltdown Festival, Queen Elisabeth Hall, London – visuals for Baby Zizanie
2002 South Bank’s ETHER Festival, Purcell Room, London 2002 – Oblique Lu Nights Festival, Nantes, France
2002 US tour (New York, Portland, San Francisco and LA)
2001 Dysfunktional Beats at 93ft East, London November 2001 – Laptops Live at the ICA, London
2001 Futuresonic, Manchester
2001 Sydney Opera House, Australia Sydney Opera House flyer 1 2001 Sydney Opera House flyer 2 2001 Sydney Opera House ticket 2001
2001 London Musiciansí Collectiveís Tenth Annual Festival, Purcell Room, London
2001 Sonar Festival, Barcelona ñ collaboration with Matmos (US)
2001 Catalyst/Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast
2001 EMAF ñ Osnabreuck
2001 Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield
2001 Dingwalls, London in association with Mixing It, BBC Radio 3
2001 London Lux Cinema in association with The Wire magazine
2000 Bristol Cube Cinema, in association with The Wire magazine
2000 Lisbon Numero Festival in association with Warp Records of London
2000 Burning Bush, Dundee Contemporary Arts
2000 Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media (FCMM)
2000 Brooklyn Experimental Music Festival, NYC
2000 Komedia, Brighton
2000 TransEuropa 2000, Hildesheim
2000 Exit Festival, Creteil
2000 Sonar 2000, Barcelona
2000 Brussels 2000, European City of Culture Festival
2000 Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) event
1999 Fylkingen, Stockholm
1999 Nottingham Expo Festival
1999 Ars Electronica, Linz ñ collaboration with Negativland (US)
1999 Festival of the Regions, Enns
1996 Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) at V2, Rotterdam
SELECTED RESIDENCIES & COMMISSIONS
2011 Sound and Music commission to make a/v live set “Horror Collage” for an event at the Southbank Centre, London
2010 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival commission to create a new live a/v performance with Ergo Phizmiz
2009-10 Edinburgh Printmakers commission to create audio and artwork for a picture disc LP This Is Light Music, as part of their group exhibition Prints of Darkness to be shown at Edinburgh Printmakers in Summer 2010 then touring venues.
2008-9 Grants For The Arts commission to make a new live A/V set entitled Genre Collage
2008-9 Great North Run Moving Image Commission 2009
2008 Grants For The Arts commission to release of “Rhapsody In Glue” with Ergo Phizmiz on bleep.com
2008 Forma/AV Festival commission ìNow Hear Thisî to make Bluetooth audio compositions for mobile phone.
2007 Lovebytes commission in association with Millennium Galleries, Sheffield to make three screen A/V film Work, Rest & Play
2006 Artist Residency at BBC Creative Archive with “access all areas” to work with their archive – Arts Council England (Interdisciplinary Arts) with BBC, White City.
2004 LUX commission to make digital short film sourcing the LUX archive collection “Resemblage”.
2004 Residency at FACT, Liverpool, to make radio play Molaradio in collaboration with artist Felix Kubin
2004 Sonic Arts Network commission to make short film and subsequent DVD release – “Story Without End”.
2002 Future Physical commission to make digital short film “The Remote Controller” (June 2002)
2001 Year of the Artist Residency, Lighthouse, Brighton.
2001 Year of the Artist Residency, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull.
