Working With Waste is an ongoing series of exhibitions that explore relationships between waste, creativity, and transformation. These presentations are growing out of a series of research exchanges between practitioners from different fields including environmental science, literary theory, and medical history.

Most recently alongside their own work Beech invited works by filmmakers Riar Rizaldi, James Richards, and Steve Reinke whose films like Beech’s have evolved through collaboration and invest care and attention in otherwise discarded or surplus materials. The working with waste exhibition series began life as a research group that Beech founded and in which both Rizaldi and Richards participated. In this context, group activity is growing out of a series of questions: What kinds of creativity are involved in reactivating waste materials? What are the rhythms, values, and historical legacies attached to working with waste across different disciplinary spheres? How do attitudes to waste shape infrastructures and norms?