Lucy Beech

Buried Alive, 2013

This exhibition consists of two films, Well Being shown in the gallery space and Buried alive shown in the workshop.

Well Being (2012) takes the form of a workshop in ‘emotion entrepreneurship’, where emotions are circulated as the principle commodity. The film is developed out of a body of on-going research into pyramid schemes and home-spun therapies. The fictional group are learning to lead, in order that they might disseminate their own working method amongst a network of friends, colleagues and neighbours. The leader is creating a sales force who in turn trade on their personal charisma and contacts to move the therapeutic product.

Buried Alive (2013) operates as a sequel to Well Being, a participant from the leadership workshop has brought together her own group of women, instituting her own methodology and leading in her own domain. In a rented beach house the group strategise and enact ways to banish the “unnecessary burden of guilt”.

Born 1985 Lucy Beech lives and works in London.

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