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​Scenography exhibition
Ka emiemi (2023)
Aotearoa NZ Nations and Regions Exhibition              
Prague Quadrennial of Space and Performance Design, Czechia, 2023
NZPQ  team: Austin-Stewart, J., Berge, F., Crawford, T., Draper, C., McCabe, M., Smith, H. van Beek, P., & Zwart, N.
Curator: Rollandi, M. Commissioner: Foster,  S.

Finalists 2024 Best Design Awards, DINZ
​Exhibition & Temporary Structures: NZPQ23 Ka emiemi

PQ23
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Art Work 
Attention (2019)
live-streamed performance, durational
​30 May 2019
Pressing your Face into Feathers, Tuakana exhibition
Te Auaha Gallery, 31st May - 13 June 

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Exhibition  
Self Surveillance (2018)
 Solo exhibition and live mediated performance 
 5th June, RMIT University, School of Art  SITE EIGHT Gallery

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​Exhibition  
​Selfie Machine v.4 (2017)
​single channel video, broadCAST, RMIT School of Art, 10–21 October. 

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Exhibition  
​Basseghi, Chi, Godden, Joannides, Manalo, van Beek, Identity Intersection, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 2 -25 June 2017,  Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, Melbourne

Presented by Triple F collective and curated by Tassia Joannides

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Exhibition  
​Selfie Machine v.3 (2017)
Live performance and video projection 

Performed and exhibited as part of Identity Intersection, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 2 -25 June 2017,  Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, Melbourne
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​Exhibition  
Selfie Machine v.2 (2017)

exhibited as part of  
UNA SELFIE VI SEPPELLIRÀ? (A selfie shall bury you?), group exhibition as part of "Fear and Loathing of the online self " conference, 23 May 2017, ESC Atelier Occupato, Via dei Volsci 159, Rome, Italy 

#selfiESC
#fearloathing 

​Artist Talk (via video) 
Poster session ART & MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS , May 23, 2017, Roma Tre University 
Via Ostiense 234, Rome, Italy

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​Exhibition  
​Basseghi, Godden, Joannides, van Beek, The Lines In Between, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 20th April – 5th May, 2017, Seventh Gallery, 155 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne 

Triple F are a new collective based in Melbourne of international and local female artists creating works about female subjectivity. This exhibition draws out the lines within and between bodies, countries, and cultures so we can have a conversation that acknowledges and attempts to understand and celebrate our different experiences and perspectives.
 
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Exhibition  
​Audio Tour, 2017
Self directed audio tour 
5 streamed MP3s
The Lines In Between, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 20th April – 5th May, 2017, Seventh Gallery, 155 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne ​

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Exhibition  
​Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes, exhibition, Alternating Current Art Space, 4 - 26 November 2016, Windsor, Melbourne

This exhibition brings together the individual artistic practices of long-time theatre collaborates Paula van Beek and Gabrielle Leah New.  Placing their work together, in the form of installation, projection and screen works, they open a dialogue between social persona and internal states of being. 


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Art work  
Selfie Machine (2016)
Installation - dress, iPhone, chair, light, video monitor, dimensions variable

Created on site in the gallery space Selfie Machine blurs the lines between the physical and virtual, and past and present, a layering that almost erases itself.
Exhibited as part of:Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes
Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, 4 - 26th November 2016
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​Recital (2015)
single-take iPhone video, 2.23”

Exhibited as part of:Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes
Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, 4 - 26th November 2016
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Art work  
​The New Diversity, 2016, single channel video (35 sec) looped, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
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The New Diversity Is Definitely For Sale, 2016, Colour photocopy series of 15, high gloss paper, 420x297mm, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
Created as part of Copy, Cut, Post, workshop and public event project, June 2016

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​Starewell, 2016, live streamed performance, Trocadero Art Space, 18 May, 2016, Footscray, Melbourne

Site-responsive live performative work, created specifically for Troadero’s Noooky space.
The two hour performance on Wednesday 18th May, was streamed live via Periscope @watchpvb.

Watch documentation of the live-streamed performance 

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​Self Evident, 2015, multi-channel video installation, as part of One Night Stand: Transient Status (group show), 524 Flinders Exhibition space, 524 Flinders St, Melbourne

​Watch documentation of the installation 

Watch Not My Best Self - video editing tests that became Self Evident (2015)



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Art work  
​Inhabiting Hannah
studio tests, May 2015 

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Art work  
​Hall of Mirrors (work in progress showing), 2015, Thinking Through Practice session, RMIT School of Art




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Art work  
​Gallery of Her (2013)
​She only sees herself in close up (2013) 

van Beek, P & Beesley, X 2013, The Shape of Things, creative development residency, Northcote Town Hall, Studio One, 25 Jan - 7 Feb 2013

Watch  The Shape of Things project Creative Development showing, 7 Feb 2013

​This project was supported by the Darebin Council.


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