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Run On

Posted November 8, 2009

Here is the final edit of my piece for this confounded Disassemble / Reassemble project we've had in the past few weeks in college. I decided to go for a three minute edit in the end in direct response to a call for artists I saw a few weeks ago for a local radio station (in Roscommon if I remember …

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disReassemble Continues

Posted October 25, 2009

Following the initial research talked about in the previous post, I have made these pieces. This first piece is something of an aside to the brief of the project but relevant to it none the less.

It is an homage to Baldesari's "I will not make anymore boring art" but informed by the content of my p…

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Disassemble / Reassemble Project Week 1

Posted October 19, 2009

Last week, we recieved a brief for a four week project where we need to select an object, image or process to disassemble and reassemble by formal means, focusing on the tangible rather than the personal.

During the first week, we have been asked to select our object of focus and present a short s…

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Disassemble / Reassemble Project

Posted October 19, 2009
Last week, we recieved a brief for a four week project where we need to select an object, image or process to disassemble and reassemble by formal means, focusing on the tangible rather than the personal.

During the first week, we have been asked to select our object of focus and present a short stat…

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Culture Night, Random Noise and The Howl Into The Hole

Posted October 10, 2009

On the 25th of September, Culture Night, I was lucky enough to take part in Mamuska Dublin at the Back Loft, where I read portions of The Last Days Of Icarus Crane and, later, at Reptile Cabaret at The Shed, where I performed an adaptation of The Forger Of The String by Icarus Crane. Both events see…

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Culture Night

Posted September 29, 2009

Culture Night was on Friday and bang dab in the middle of a bit of a long weekend. How and ever... I performed ten minutes of the Last Days Of Icarus Crane at the Mamuska Dublin at the Back Loft followed by a twentysomething minute version of The Forger... with a little of The Last Days included at …

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TermThree WeekOne

Posted September 18, 2009
Back in college. Walking around looking at sculptures making our blunt opinion on them, pouring plaster moulds and spot welding... These pictures are worth several thousand words







I enjoyed the 3D workshops (to be followed in the coming weeks by a set of 4D and 2D workshops) more than I thought I woul…

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Been some time...

Posted September 13, 2009
...since I last updated here. I've been in the country... no interweb down the country, so sir. Perhaps somewhere in the back of my head I was pondering on making the previous post on this blog the last one... it having been the forty second.

On the 25th, Icarus Crane put on a little exhibition in th…

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Blurb / aside

Posted August 16, 2009

Big train bearing down on me.

Is how it feels to have my first non tidy-paintings-on-walls type solo exhibition coming up in a week and a half.

It's all good though, as they say. The work nears completion and is, for me at least, going to work just fine as an installation.

 

Below is a slide show of …

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The Song of a Sick Boy

Posted August 3, 2009
The beginnings of the next A Room For Improvement sound and video set. And a video from Bray Festival a few weeks back. This show got funnier as it went on but I only got the first few minutes. Go see Coco Le Bouche should the oppurtunity arise. She's a minor celebrity you know?

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PostStockan

Posted July 28, 2009

Thanks are due to an awful lot of friendly folks who put on a great festival in the Wicklow hills this weekend. KnockanStockan is organised, built and taken care of by volunteers who love music and good times so fair play to them.

My personal experience at first was one of feeling out of place, unpre…

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Todays THIRD blog entry (I more or less took the day off today you see)

Posted July 20, 2009
Here is the line up for the three days in the Art Tent organised by programmed by Mia Mallow for KnockanStockan festival this weekend (subject to change etc etc)

Friday:
All day: Brian Lynch, Ana Carey, Stephen Lawlor
2.00: Video art and shorts
4.00: Tickle
4.30: Aileen and Aoife (10 minutes)
        Icar…

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Today's THIRD entry (I more or less took the day off you see)

Posted July 20, 2009
Here is the line up for the three days in the Art Tent organised by programmed by Mia Mallow for KnockanStockan festival this weekend (subject to change etc etc)

Friday:
All day: Brian Lynch, Ana Carey, Stephen Lawlor
2.00: Video art and shorts
4.00: Tickle
4.30: Aileen and Aoife (10 minutes)
Icar…

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Fail

Posted July 20, 2009

Sometimes it just doesn't click.

 

  And here's what it should've sounded like

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Fail

Posted July 20, 2009
Sometimes it just doesn't click.

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Just a thought

Posted July 20, 2009
Might become facinated with the composition of 140 character Twitter updates as a prose short form. It could use more rules though, like Haiku. Out of limitation is precision honed, I suppose I might say if I was in the aphorism buisness

Immediatly Upcoming

Posted July 18, 2009
I'm delighted to be going to KnockanStockan to perform some Icarus Crane spoken word on the 24th, 25th and 26th of the month. I'll be on at around 1630 each of those days in the arts tent organised by Mia Mallow of Arty Party fame.

This coming Sunday, the 19th, I'll be doing something similar in the …

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Immediatly Upcoming

Posted July 17, 2009
I'm delighted to be going to KnockanStockan to perform some Icarus Crane spoken word on the 24th, 25th and 26th of the month. I'll be on at around 1630 each of those days in the arts tent organised by Mia Mallow of Arty Party fame.

This coming Sunday, the 19th, I'll be doing something similar in the …

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Just a little procrastination is all

Posted July 16, 2009
Been procrastinating like a pro the last few days from doing as much work as I should on my drawings. Been making sounds out of words. Actually, since that work is the other part of the show that I'm doing in August, I guess I have been working after all. Nice. I've also changed the look of this blo…

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Just a little procrastination is all

Posted July 16, 2009
Been procrastinating like a pro the last few days from doing as much work as I should on my drawings. Been making sounds out of words. Actually, since that work is the other part of the show that I'm doing in August, I guess I have been working after all. Nice. I've also changed the look of this blo…

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Free Downloadable / Streamable Audio

Click here to download the full Senryu #4 live set as performed by A Room For Improvement at the Last Arty Party, June 13th, 2009. (Electro-acoustic ambient noise)

Click here to download a demo live set of Icarus Crane spoken word, created in the run up to the exhibition in the Market Studios, August 27th, 2009, Bray Summer Festival 2009 and KnockanStockan Festival 2009. (Electronically processed spoken word with sequenced beats and loops)

Click here to download The Chased Train, a relatively radio friendly remix of an A Room For Improvement live set. (Electro-acoustic ambient noise)

Recommended Websites

My class in IADT - Visual Arts Practise Class of Twenty Twelve Y'All!

The Market Studios - Independant studios and exhibition spaces

La Catedral Studios - Studios and multidicipliniary space

the Shed - Independant workspace / event space

Rose Lawless - For all your anarchic cabaret needs

Hugh Cooney - For all your even more anarchic cabaret needs

Uiscebot's Blog - Poet, Colm Keegan

Art For Me - Visual artist, Colin Wright

Adrian Duncan - Visual artist

My Left Ventricle - Loreana Rushe, Photographer

The Digital Hub - New Media arts centre

Irish Art Blog - A blog about Irish Art

Visual Artists Ireland - A hub of information and facilities for artists in Ireland

Knockanstockan Festival 2009  Independant Music Festival

sverigedemokraterna.de Opposition to the Swedish Democratic Party, an extreme right party which has seen a worrying rise in credibility in recent years.

Love Music - Hate Racism Irish site of this international anti-racist movement

Kaizer's Orchestra My very favourite Ompa band

More sites coming soon. Know of a site/have a site that you think ought to be listed here but isn't because of my sieve like brain? Let me know