Vicki Bennett
For sixteen years Vicki Bennett has been working under the name People Like Us. Presented as pre–recorded material and as live performance, Bennett's works animate and recontextualise found footage collages, communicating a witty, dark and often surreal critique of popular culture.
Her work has been shown at Tate Modern, The National Film Theatre and the ICA in London; Sydney Opera House; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sonar, Barcelona; and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She also performed radio sessions for the John Peel on the BBC and has a regular radio show on WFMU, the longest-running free-form radio station in the US.
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Since 1991 Vicki Bennett has been making CDs, radio, and audiovisual multimedia as People Like Us. She has performed live sets at the Vancouver New Music Festival, BFI Southbank, Sonar festival in Barcelona and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She is know for her highly developed technical ability, use of varying formats and "wonderful sense of the ridiculous" (Olli Siebelt, BBC).
In 2010, People Like Us curated Nothing Is New, Everything Is Permitted at AV Festival, the UK's largest international festival of electronic art. Bennett's work Genre Collage toured to contemporary arts festivals in Ukraine as well as MACBA, Liverpool Sound City, Bristol Arnolfini, Copenhagen and Jerusalem. And the experimental arts radio and podcast show on WFMU, called DO or DIY - which began in 2003 and has had over three quarters of a million Realplayer hits - continued broadcast.
Selected works
Cyclorama (in development)
Genre Collage (2009 — ongoing)
Breaking Waves as part of Now Hear This (2008)
Related links
Current work touring Ukraine: Genre Collage
People Like Us official site
UbuWeb
WFMU
AV Festival
Further information for presenters of Forma projects
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