On 26th of May, I participated in the Inferno event at The Shed’s new location of 43 Gardiner Lane, Dublin 1. The main event of the evening was Maria Laura Ronzoni’s Notes From The Underworld, which is a combination of texts from Dante’s Inferno and the work of Samuel Becket, each part ending in a s…
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Belated Entry #2 - Inferno, The Shed
Posted June 20, 2010
Belated Entry #1 - LiveStock at Market Studios
Posted June 20, 2010
On the 6th of May, I went along to Live Stock, Market Studio’s monthly evening of live art. It’s informal and workshoppy and really rather cosy. This was their fourth event and featured myself doing the sound piece I’ve been working on based on Genesis 11 7 and the story of the tower of Babel as we…
UNIT 30 Something followed by Misfits
Posted May 2, 2010
This Thursday, the 29th of April, our college group opened our show UNIT 30 Something at The Complex, Smithfield Plaza.
There's a nice little review some photos here - the second ever post in our brand new group blog. The blog and indeed the exhibition (in a very large part) were organized by Paul C…
Exhibition time!
Posted April 26, 2010
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| Från 30 Something Show |
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| Från 30 Something Show |
Paul Coffey's informative flyer and map say it all really but, if you need more words to read today, here are some I typed out earlier.
UNIT 30 SOMETHING is a two day exhibition of thirty something artists from IADT working in a…
SelfDirected2010 Research Ctd
Posted February 21, 2010
Getting my head back into our end of year project good and proper this week. I'm kind of in the middle of a few little experiments involving web-art as well as thinking hard about whether to focus on filming or performing the eventual script that I've been working on. I've been story boarding the sc…
A Brief History of The Past Six or Seven Weeks
Posted February 13, 2010
On January 28th, I organised a performance oriented event at The Shed, Henrietta Lane.Apart from the fact that it was shut down by the fire safety folks, which was a shame, it was a success. The artists were of great quality, people came and, as far as I'm aware, enjoyed themselves in a lovely space…
Site specific project - Sandymount Strand
Posted December 6, 2009
This week I have been mostly trying to finally wrap my head around our last college project of the calander year. All Joycian and wordificating have I been.
At the beginning of the project, I was thinking in the way of land art, in the sense of sculptural ideas, rather than going with my strengths an…
Site Specific
Posted November 27, 2009
Below is some of the sketchy work I've been doing in response to a college project to develop a proposal for a site responsive artwork located along the coast of south Dublin, as featured in James Joyce's Ulysses. I've been focusing on Sandymount.
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 …
You heard it here first
Posted October 26, 2009
The above videos are two that I have come across during my lazier moments of "research" for the project I'm working on. I have no other comment on either one. Below is the link to another sound piece... more than likely there will be more little ideas like this along shortly, which I won…
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…
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…
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…
During the first week, we have been asked to select our object of focus and present a short stat…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
On the 25th, Icarus Crane put on a little exhibition in th…
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 …
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?
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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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
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