BABETH Curriculum Vitae

Born May 1, 1948 in The Netherlands

EDUCATION:

MFA	Masters in Film and Fine Arts 1974 - 1977 San Francisco Art Institute, California
	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , Germany 1971-72 Independent Studies with Joseph Beuys, Performance/ Social Sculpture
	Hochschule für Kunst und Design, Aachen, Germany Degree in Painting and Objectdesign 1966 - 1971

TEACHING:

Royal Conservatory, The Hague,
Phaenomenology of Image and Sound: Film /Music, since 1988

Free Academy, The Hague,
Instructor of Film and Video Art, 1985 - 1992
Chair of Film Department from 1989 - 1992

San Francisco Art Institute, California
Instructor of Filmmaking 1977
Assistant Instructor to George Landow, Fall 1976
Assistant Instructor to George Kuchar, Spring 1976

Film und Fernsehakademie SFB, Berlin, Germany
Guest lectureship 1981 and 1982

Guest lectureships at several European Institutions: a.o.

Guest professor, Film Dept. Kunstakademie Münster, Germany; 1994

EXHIBITIONS (selection) BABETH

THE NETHERLANDS

Stedelijk museum Amsterdam: "As far as Amsterdam goes", 1986
Stedelijk museum Amsterdam: "The experiment in Dutch Film", 1985
Stedelijk museum Amsterdam: "Chance Versus Causality", 1980
Shaffy Theater, Amsterdam , 1981, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1987
Time Based Arts, Amsterdam 1984,1983
Museum Boymans van Beuningen: "Films on Art"c Rotterdam, 1986
W139: "Man Ray passed twice", Amsterdam, 1988
Mickery Festival: Touch Time: "Compassion", Amsterdam, 1991c
Centraal Museum Utrecht: "Vernieuwing en Traditie",Utrecht, 1987
Centraal Museum Utrecht: "Les Levine, Analyze Lovers", Utrecht, 1991
Haags Gemeentemuseum: "Film en Muziek, LPG", Den Haag, 1990
Haags Gemeentemuseum: "Taal, Beeld, Geluid, LPG" Den Haag, 1991
City Thoughts Gallery: "Etant Donnés", Amsterdam 1989
Aorta Gallery, "Beeldstroom", Amsterdam, 1980
Kunst Passage: "Neo Natuur", Den Haag, 1994

GERMANY

Documenta 8, Ottoneum Museum: "Films On Beuys",Kassel 1987
Documenta 7, Fridericianum: "Music/Performance/Film",Kassel 1982
Documenta 6, Fridericianum: "Free International University",Kassel 1977
Arsenal, Kinemathek, Berlin, 1977, 1978 ,1981, 1982
Jörg Immendorff Galerie, "Finger für Deutschland", Düsseldorf, 1980
Kunstverein Karlsruhe "NL Kunst der 80er Jahre", Karlsruhe,1987
Art Cologne: "Die Art Filme von Künstlern", Cologne, 1990
Fluxeum "Kunst-Fluxus-Buddhadarma" Wiesbaden, 1992
Museum Ludwig: "Pop Art Film Festival", Cologne, 1992
Art Fair Frankfurt: " Media Kunst", Frankfurt, 1990
Film Festival Berlin: "Forum", 1991, 1993, "Infermental",Berlin,1982, 1987
Checkpoint: "Dutch Power", East-Berlin, 1991
Galerie Pentagon: "Bilderstreit", Cologne, 1989
Dokumentarfilm Festival, München, 1993
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, 1995

USA

Donnell Library: "Dutch Media Art" New York, 1988
Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, 1977, 1979
Pasadena Film Forum , Pasadena, 1981
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, 1976, 1977
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley Art Museum, 1977, 1992
Gallery A, Art Space, New York, 1980
Anthology Film Archives Gallery: "Compassion", New York, 1991
Grand Rapids Museum Michigan, 1984
Chicago Filmmakers Association, 1984
Anthology Film Archives: "Films by BABETH", New York, 1991
New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center,1992
Human Rights Film Festival, New York, 1992
Roxy Cinema, San Fransisco, 1978, 1992
Threadwaxing Space Gallery, New York, 1995

OTHER

Havana Int. Film Festival, Cuba, 1992
Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montréal, Canada, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1993
Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg: "Film in California",1978 "Polyphonix, Paris, France, 1983
Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1981
Ernst Museum: "Innovation & Tradition", Budapest, Hungary, 1987
ARS Electronica: "Out of Control, Cinema Violence", Linz, Austria, 1991
Festival du Film Caribeen, Images Caraibes, Fort-de France, Martinique, 1992
MIP TV, Int. Festival du Film et TV, Palais du Festival, Cannes, France 1992
Kunsthaus Zürich, "Joseph Beuys: Film In", Zürich, Switzerland, 1994
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain 1994

F I L M O G R A P H Y 16 mm B A B E TH

1975 ANDY WARHOL'S UNFINISHED SYMPHONY 24 min. color, snd.
With: George Kuchar, Raymond Mondini, Virginia Giritlian a.o.
Music: Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Tibetan Lamas, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan.

1976 BALLS ON THE LINE - HOMMAGE A JOSEPH BEUYS'
37 min.color,snd.
With: George Kuchar, Pope Ondine, Menno Meyjes, Ken McMullen.
Music: The Tubes, Michael Cotten , Prairie Prince.

1977 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: BODYBUILDING SUPERSTAR Installation, col,snd.
With: Arnold Schwarzenegger

1977 NOT GUILTY; FOR KEITH RICHARDS 5 min. col,snd.
With: Susan Andrews, Abel Ferrara.
Music: The Rolling Stones.
In collaboration with Abel Ferrara.

1977 thru 1987 ( in progress ) DAS KAPITAL JOSEPH BEUYS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 24min. col, snd.
With: Joseph Beuys, Heiner Bastian, Ronald Feldmann a.o.
Music: Charles Neville

JOSEPH BEUYS AT THE MUSEUM GENT:DIE WIRTSCHAFTSWERTE
14 min. color,snd.
With: Joseph Beuys

JOSEPH BEUYS AT THE MUSEUM BOYMANS-VAN BEUNINGEN
ROTTERDAM: " DIE UNSICHTBARE SKULPTUR" 60 min,col,snd.
With: Joseph Beuys

JOSEPH BEUYS FUR DIE GRUNEN - DER DENKEXPRESS 44 min.col,snd.
With: Joseph Beuys, Johannes Stuttgen.

JOSEPH BEUYS AT EUROPOORT,ROTTERDAM: SOCIAL SCULPTURE 20 min.col,snd.
With: Joseph Beuys

1978 BERLIN WALL & THE SEX PISTOLS 24 min.col,snd.
With: The Sex Pistols
Music: Sex Pistols, Brian Eno

1978 CRIME AT THE SAN QUENTIN PRISON 12 min. col,snd.
With: Crime, San Quentin prisoners
Music: Crime

1978 CRIME IN THE STREETS 14 min. b/w,snd.
With: Crime, Darryl Sapien, BABETH
Music: Crime

1979 CHANCE VERSUS CAUSALITY 37 min,colr,snd.2 projectors
With: Daniel Spoerri, Raymond Mondini,Tinguely,Christo
Music: Cabaret Voltaire

1980 THE SLITS IN NEW YORK 12 min.col,snd.
With: The Slits
Music: The Slits

1980 JULES DEELDER: DEAD- ALIVE 9 min.col,snd.2 projectors
With: Jules Deelder
Music: Charly Parker

1982 BEYOND ORDINARY ACTION 37 min.col,snd.2 projectors
With: BABA & BOA
Music: BOA Berg

1984 VISIONS & SOUNDS 4 min.color,snd.
With: Christine Koenings
Music: BOA Berg

1985 VIDEYA 4 min.color,snd.
With: BABETH
Music: BOA Berg

1988 PROTECT THE FLAME Installation Mixed Media
With: Joseph Beuys, Peter Struycken

1989 ÉTANT DONNÉS 34 min.color.snd.
Music: Lydia Lunch, Z'EV, Nick Cave

1990 KISS NAPOLEON GOODBYE 45 min.color,snd.
With: Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Z'EV, Huub van der Lubbe, a.o.
Music: Jim Thirlwell - FOETUS
In collaboration with Lydia Lunch

1991 COMPASSION 24 min.color,snd.
With: H.H. Dilgo Kyentse, H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, Trulchik Rinpoche, a.o.
Music: Tibetan Lamas

1991 COMPASSION Installation
With: His Holyness The Dalai Lama

1991 UNDERGROUND-CIRCUIT DU THEATRE 10 min b/w,snd.
With: Grace de la Luna, Zyklus, Oxygen, Stefan Wils
Music: TOEK, DFM

1992 HAITI: KILLING THE DREAM 59 min.color,snd.
With: President J.B. Aristide, Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, a.o.
Music: Manno Charlemagne, Boukman Esperyans and R.A.M.
In collaboration with Katharine Kean and R. Stern

1994 INTONA In progress 45 min.color,snd.
With: Dick Raaijmakers
Music: Dick Raaijmakers

VIDEOGRAPHY U-MATIC/PAL BABETH

1976 SACRIFICE TO THE YEAR OF THE HARE 37 min. NTSC
With: David Flipse, BABETH
Music: Bob Dylan, David Bowie

1979 CALIFORNIA NEW WAVE 20min. NTSC
With: Screamers; Dills; Crime; Mutants

1980 JOSEPH BEUYS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 17 min.
With: Joseph Beuys
Music: BOA Berg

1981 WAR AGAINST WAR: ONE WORLD POETRY 60 min.
With: William Burroughs, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ken Kesey, Michael McClure,
John Giorno, Diane DiPrima, Bart Chabot, John Cooper Clark, Jerry Garcia
Music: Laurie Anderson, Tuxedo Moon, Diana Ozon

1982JOSEPH BEUYS AT THE MUSEUM BOYMANS-VAN BEUNINGEN, THE INVISIBLE SCULPTURE 20 min.
With: Joseph Beuys

1982 JOSEPH BEUYS TALKS ON SOCIAL SCULPTURE AT THE EUROPOORT, ROTTERDAM 20 min.
With: Joseph Beuys

1982 MUSIC - PERFORMANCES, DOCUMENTA 7 120 min.
With: Einstürzende Neubauten, BABA & BOA, Z'EV, Indianer von Morgen,
Bits, Matador, Etant Donnés, A.R. Penck.

1983 THREE NEW YORK POETS 30 min.
With: William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, John Giorno

1983 KEN KESEY: REMEMBERING JOHN LENNON" 40 min.
With: Ken Kesey

1984 VIDEYA Installation mixed media
With: BABETH

1988 PROTECT THE FLAME Installation
With: Joseph Beuys

1989 COMMUNICATION THROUGH VIDEO 120 min.
With: Jaime Davidovich, TOEK-DFM, Annemie van Kerckhoven, Tuxedo Moon,
Lydia Lunch, Survival Research Laboratories, Marcelo Exposito a.o.
In collaboration with Dick Verdult and V2

1989 OUR DAILY NEWS POEM 4 min.
In collaboration with Dick Verdult

1990 A NEW DAY FOR HAITI 24 min.
With: President J.B. Aristide a.o.

1991 THE RIVAL GANG 30 min.
With: Walter Dahn, Stefan Bohnenberger

1992 KOZE LAKAY 40 min.NTSC
With: President J.B. Aristide

1993 PRESIDENT ARISTIDE IN AMSTERDAM 60 min.col.snd.
With: President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Claudette Werleigh

1994 ECOLOGY OF IMAGE-MAKING 4 min.and installation
Music: The Neville Brothers

1995 LOST BOUNDARIES : CD - ROM for MPC /WINDOWS

Segregation and integration of art in a decentralized world

Interaction - Intercultural - Interdisciplinary -
Economy - Analogue/Digital - Entertainment/ Commitment.

In collaboration with STROOM hcbk and Creative Disk.

TELEVISION AND BROADCASTS (selection)

Director/Producer/Camera/Editor

Ikon TV , Holland: Kenmerk "President Aristide in Europe", 1993
Kanaal Zero Amsterdam: "Media Arts", 1993
Kunst-Kanaal: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag: "Touch Time", 1991
NOS TV, Holland: Beeldspraak, "Joseph Beuys: Für die Grünen",1982
VPRO TV, Holland: "NEON", monthly cultural program contributor,1979,1980
Rabotnik & PKP , Amsterdam Pirat-TV, contributor, 1980 - 1984
"Target", weekly New Wave music program: San Fransisco Cable, contributor,1978, 1979

1992/1993 airing: "Haiti Killing The Dream"
: Public Broadcasting Stations, PBS in 192 cities, USA
WDR, Germany
EO: "Antenne", The Netherlands
TV Espanola, Spain
N. H. K., Japan
CBS, "Le Point", Canada
Antenne 2: "Geopolis", France
Puerto Rico, TV

Numerous broadcasts on cultural topics a.o. :

Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy & Media Manipulation
Live broadcast from Station Soleil, Brooklyn, N.Y. to VPRO, Holland
Maya Deren and the New American Cinema
Sub-Cultures and their impact in the media
Jean-Luc Godard: Nouvelle Vague
Cinema and Resistance
Bazon Brock: Hegel's Aesthetics"
Joseph Beuys: Social Sculpture
Chris Burden: Performanceart
Andy Warhol: Real time in films
Politics of Punk and the Situationists
Reality Versus Media-Reality
Freedom of expression: A Human Right
Resistance in Haitian Music
Joseph Beuys: Ecological Art
Babeth: Social Art: from Beuys to Dalai Lama to Pres. Aristide

TV programs about the artist:

Moraga TV: "Women Filmmakers in California ", California, 1976
Viacom TV: "One Woman Show", San Francisco, 1977
Swiss TV: "Women Filmmakers in California", Switserland, 1977
TV 2000:Interactive TV and artists'contributions in electronic media,Amsterdam,1995

DISTRIBUTION / COLLECTIONS

Works by artist are in the collections of: State Collection of Visual Arts, Netherlands
Donnell Library, New York
Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, California
Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany
Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Sylvia Menzel, Berlin, Germany
Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
San Francisco Art Institute, California
Centre Georges Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris, France

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CURATING / ORGANISING (selection)

AUDIO ART FESTIVAL, Video and Installations, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1990
AMAZONE : "DUBBELBEELDEN", Amsterdam, 1991
ACADEMY OF LIGHT, with F. Evers, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1993
CONSIDERING JOSEPH BEUYS: FILMS & VIDEOS, New School New York 1994 &
Thread Waxing Space Gallery, New York 1994
BRIAN ENO LAUNCHES WAR CHILD, music program, Amsterdam 1995

Tours: Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Pauline, 1991
Chico McMurtrie: Human Interfaces, 1991
Pandemonium/ J.Stevenson: "Gangs, riots, crowd control" 1989
Derek Jarman: Interview/ Gay Filmfestival Prize-award , 1991
Maya Deren: New American Cinema 1976 - 1984
George & Mike Kuchar: Films of the underground, 1977 - 1982
Gerard Malanga: Poetics of Cinema, 1992
Numerous New Wave Bands: 1977 - 1988
California New Wave: 1978- 1981
Women Filmmakers in California, 1977 - 1980
Films by Johan van der Keuken: "New Ice Age", 1978, 1979
Werner Schroeter: New German Film Aesthetics, 1977
Rosa von Praunheim: Gay subcultures, USA, 1977
Lydia Lunch & Richard Kern: Cinema of Transgression, 1990
New York Filmmakers: "Films by Beth B.", 1991

PERFORMANCE ART SERIES, San Francisco Art Institute, curator 1977, 1978
UICA Union of Independent Colleges of Art Filmfestivals, San Francisco
coordinator 1976 + 1977
Contributed for several years to : One World Poetry Festival 1978 - 1986
Holland Experimental Film, 1978 - 1982
Rotterdam Film Festival, advisor: 1978- 1980
Forming Commitee member of "FILM FREE: Limits of Liberty", a global organisation to defend the Human Rights of Filmmakers, Filmfestival Rotterdam, 1992

STROOM,HCBK, Commitee member, art funding and exhibitions organisation,
1989- 1994 , The Hague,Netherlands