Becket MWN is a writer and artist based in Amsterdam, NL and originally from the United States. He received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2014, and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in 2016-2018. His recent projects have focused on the relation between language and the production of the self, and the relation of media to forms of contemporary life. His most recent text and performance, commissioned by the Inter Media Art Institute (Dusseldorf, DE), used the film editing technique of “twinning” as a model for the virtualization of much social interaction and new, posthuman concepts of subjectivity. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include The Tail (Brussels, BE), Kevin Space (Vienna, AT), Kunstverein Graz (Graz, AT). Recent group exhibitions include Shimmer (Rotterdam, NL), Rongwrong (Amsterdam, NL), Kunsthalle Fribourg (Fribourg, CH), Kristina Kite Gallery (Los Angeles, US), and Vleeshal (Middelburg, NL). He also publishes art criticism and essays under the name Becket Flannery.
The books listed below, as diverse as they are, all put into question the singularity of the author; whether based on material gathered from interviews or workshops, produced by classrooms or collectives, or written in response to a range of artistic interlocutors, these works all invite a a variety of voices into the process of writing.
