Over the last five years Bek has worked extensively throughout the Europe, New York and Australia. She is currently collaborating with contemporary dance artist James Batchelor and Daniel Hengst amongst others. Her current curatorial practice is in collaboration with communities - Critical Futures collaborates with teenagers of Helsinki to explore to contemporary performing art festivals (Moving in November and Baltic Circle in conjunction with Annantalo) and Possible Futures Forum in collaboration with IETM campus Alumni.
Since 2017 Bek has worked extensively with James Batchelor as a Producer, Collaborator and Artists. Through this extremely fruitful relationship they have toured to 21 cities in 14 countries. Highlights include performing Deepspace at Centre Pompidou in April 2019 and being selected as Aerowaves Twenty19 artists.
Art for Landscapes is her practice in collaboration with German Media artist Daniel Hengst and driven by a curiosity of how they might consider ourselves in relation to the environment through experimental practices focusing on contemporary socially engaged practice and media arts. In 2019 they developed the project with residencies Mantova(I), Riga(LV), Anykščiai(LT) and Wolverhampton (UK) supported by I-Portunus mobility grant.
In 2018 Bek was awarded an Australia Council Grant to research alternative contemporary dance festivals and attend IETM Campus in Fuizine, Croatia. This included research with Tanztage Potsdam, Tanzfabrik Berlin, PAF - Berlin Performing Arts week and Theatertreffen. As a curator, Bek has crafted events for Tanz Im August (DE), Arts House (Australia) and Darwin Festival (Australia).
In 2016 & 2017 Bek was the Associate producer of American Realness in New York. Bek assisted Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor on all aspects of the festival with particular focus on Artist support and the delegate program. In 2015 Bek was awarded two creative producing residencies in the UK, Fierce Festival and Forest Fringe. Over four months Bek completed extensive research into alternative curatorial practices and festival formats.
In 2016 Bek was invited to attend the Next Generation Curating for Performance Symposium in Chicago where she was able to connect with similarly minded individuals practicing in the US. Later in 2016 was awarded a live programming internship at MoMA PS1 collaborating with the team to producing Sunday Sessions 2016/2017. Highlights of the program included performances from Mark Leckey, screenings from Black Radical Imaginations and Andre Lepiki’s latest book launch hosted by Ralph Lemon.
In 2014 Bek was awarded an Early Career Residency (Supported by the Australia Council) with Arts House. Throughout a 12 month period she assisted with international collaborations and successfully curated three Supper Club events. In addition to this she established La Discorso, a discussion series about cultural identity in Australia in which she worked with a group of recently arrived refugees to deliver. In collaboration with Dan Koop and Kieran Swann, Bek established Convergence, a day for independent artists to gather and talk about the importance of independence.
Bek s previous positions include Delegate Coordinator at Dance Massive (2017) Special Events Producer at Darwin Festival (2016), Associate Producer at Aphids (2011-2015), Greenie in Residence at Lucy Guerin Inc (2015), Development Manager at La Mama (2014) and Marketing Manager at Dance Massive (2015). As an independent producer Bek has worked with James Batchelor, TNA, City Of Melbourne, Sisters Grimm, The Hayloft Project, Little Ones Theatre, Chamber Made Opera, I m Trying To Kiss You, Samara Hersch and No Show.
