Producing Untitled (Panties no.1)
This video records the process of making the art piece Untitled (Panties no. 1). Made in front of a live audience the piece consists of polyester Walmart panties, $3.99, worn during a performance at C4 Gallery LA 4/8/2011 for a duration of 1 min 23 sec. The artwork can be bought for $4,503.99.
Forthcoming Performance 4th of August @6pm C4 Gallery LA
‘Invite or Reject’ opens in C4 Gallery Los Angeles as part of Imagine Ireland; an initiative by Culture Ireland.
MART’s ‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new Irish Visual Arts Exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 15 selected Irish artists to create new work spread over a three-city exhibition.
This the third and final leg of a 3 part exhibition opens in C4 Gallery on August 4th at 6pm. The first show opened in Chicago in June and carried on to New York in Flux Factory in July. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of Artists in the international contemporary art scene. The work is challenging yet irresistibly welcoming for American audiences to interact and communicate with.
Artists: Adrian Duncan Benjamin Gaulon Adam Gibney Tony Kenny Katherine Nolan Ciara Scanlan Matthew Nevin.
Opening @6pm on August 4th at 5647 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90028 Map.
Exhibition runs from August 4th – August 24th
MART’s ‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new Irish Visual Arts Exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 15 selected Irish artists to create new work spread over a three-city exhibition.
This the third and final leg of a 3 part exhibition opens in C4 Gallery on August 4th at 6pm. The first show opened in Chicago in June and carried on to New York in Flux Factory in July. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of Artists in the international contemporary art scene. The work is challenging yet irresistibly welcoming for American audiences to interact and communicate with.
Artists: Adrian Duncan Benjamin Gaulon Adam Gibney Tony Kenny Katherine Nolan Ciara Scanlan Matthew Nevin.
Opening @6pm on August 4th at 5647 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90028 Map.
Exhibition runs from August 4th – August 24th
Flux Factory, New York, 14th July 2011
This new work, performed at FLUX factory, New York July 2011, extends my exploration of how the gallery space frames the erotic female body in performance, using live feed and play with the space to structure the gaze.
The work aims to explore the processes that produce the erotic female body as spectacle, flipping the focus from the performing body to include the camera, gallery space and spectator. An interchange between the ‘live’ and the represented is theatrically stage to produce slippage between bodies that may act and be acted upon , and those that exist as spectacular image that can be exchanged in the economy of the visual. Themes of voyeurism, exhibitionism and narcissistic fascination twist and cross, as viewers become embroiled in their own act of consumption.
With thanks, as ever to MART
The work aims to explore the processes that produce the erotic female body as spectacle, flipping the focus from the performing body to include the camera, gallery space and spectator. An interchange between the ‘live’ and the represented is theatrically stage to produce slippage between bodies that may act and be acted upon , and those that exist as spectacular image that can be exchanged in the economy of the visual. Themes of voyeurism, exhibitionism and narcissistic fascination twist and cross, as viewers become embroiled in their own act of consumption.
With thanks, as ever to MART
New Performance in FLUX , New York, 14th July
I will be doing a new performance this Thursday 14th July in FLUX factory New York @ 9.30.pm. This work extends my previous exploration of how the gallery space frame the female body in performance, using live feed and play with the gallery walls to structure the gaze.
The work aims to explore the processes that produce the (erotic) female body as spectacle, flipping the focus from the performing body to include the camera, gallery space and spectator. Theatrically staged interchange between live feed and live performance, producing slippage between a 'live' tangible body moving in the same space as the spectators, an acting body that may act and be acted upon, and a body that exists only as image, an image that can be edited, cut up, fetished and exchanged in the economy of the visual.
Along with a video piece from performances in Berlin in July 2010, the work is part of MART's Invite or Reject supported by Imagine Ireland, an initiative by Culture Ireland.
Performances on Flux Thursday, July 14th 8pm +
Exhibition runs July 9th – 30th, Thurs – Sun, 12 – 6pm
FLUX factory, 39-31 29th Street, New York 11101
Artists: Benjamin Gaulon, Joan Healy, ColleenKeough, Margaret O’Brien,Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan,
Ciara Scanlan, Stephen Woods
MART’s ‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new Irish Visual Arts Exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlanand Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 15 selected Irish artists to create new work spread over a three-city exhibition.
This the second leg of a 3 part exhibition opens in FLUX Fctory at 6pm on July 9th in FLUX Fctory. The first show opened in Chicago in June and will carry on to C4 Gallery Los Angeles in August. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of Artists in the international contemporary art scene. The work is challenging yet irresistibly welcoming for American audiences to interact and communicate with.
MART‘Invite or Reject’ refers to the duality of understanding and miscommunicationthat exists within Irish Emigration. It was common for the Irish to be rejected and treated as second-class citizens for the early part of 19th century. This Irish diaspora flocked to America for a better life away from famine, war and hardship, to help build a better America for today. In spite of over 37 million Irish Americans living today, the current political and social climate in America and Ireland, leaves it difficultto gain a working visa, leaving America more of a holiday destination for the Irish in stark contrast to its history.
MART is an Irish Visual Artist organisation. Our primary aim is to create a platform for New Media, Installation, Experimental Film, and Performance artists to showcase their work. MART was founded on an inclusive ethos, to inspire a curiosity for knowledge, to bring contemporary art to the forefront of culture by actively engaging people from all sectors of society in both its viewing and production.
The work aims to explore the processes that produce the (erotic) female body as spectacle, flipping the focus from the performing body to include the camera, gallery space and spectator. Theatrically staged interchange between live feed and live performance, producing slippage between a 'live' tangible body moving in the same space as the spectators, an acting body that may act and be acted upon, and a body that exists only as image, an image that can be edited, cut up, fetished and exchanged in the economy of the visual.
Along with a video piece from performances in Berlin in July 2010, the work is part of MART's Invite or Reject supported by Imagine Ireland, an initiative by Culture Ireland.
Performances on Flux Thursday, July 14th 8pm +
Exhibition runs July 9th – 30th, Thurs – Sun, 12 – 6pm
FLUX factory, 39-31 29th Street, New York 11101
Artists: Benjamin Gaulon, Joan Healy, ColleenKeough, Margaret O’Brien,Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan,
Ciara Scanlan, Stephen Woods
MART’s ‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new Irish Visual Arts Exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlanand Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 15 selected Irish artists to create new work spread over a three-city exhibition.
This the second leg of a 3 part exhibition opens in FLUX Fctory at 6pm on July 9th in FLUX Fctory. The first show opened in Chicago in June and will carry on to C4 Gallery Los Angeles in August. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of Artists in the international contemporary art scene. The work is challenging yet irresistibly welcoming for American audiences to interact and communicate with.
MART‘Invite or Reject’ refers to the duality of understanding and miscommunicationthat exists within Irish Emigration. It was common for the Irish to be rejected and treated as second-class citizens for the early part of 19th century. This Irish diaspora flocked to America for a better life away from famine, war and hardship, to help build a better America for today. In spite of over 37 million Irish Americans living today, the current political and social climate in America and Ireland, leaves it difficultto gain a working visa, leaving America more of a holiday destination for the Irish in stark contrast to its history.
MART is an Irish Visual Artist organisation. Our primary aim is to create a platform for New Media, Installation, Experimental Film, and Performance artists to showcase their work. MART was founded on an inclusive ethos, to inspire a curiosity for knowledge, to bring contemporary art to the forefront of culture by actively engaging people from all sectors of society in both its viewing and production.
Screening as part of PQ Quadrennial Prague
Documentation of one of my performances in Berlin in July 2010 screened as part of MART's ////a////form////in////space/// , featured as part of PQ - the 11th Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space.
Location: The National Theatre, Prague. Czech Republic.
Date: Friday 24th June
Time:10:00 pm
Format : Film Screening
Artists:Darragh O'Callaghan, Molly O'Dwyer, Ciaran Hussey, Colleen Keough, Nicky Larkin,Eleanor Lawler, Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan, Emanuel Rohss, Ciara Scanlan.
Through the films shown in ////a////form////in////space//// we wish to touch on the intimacy and spectacle of the use of performance, visuality and space in experimental film. Each selected Artist works extensively in recontextualising space and the environment in which we inhabit. The artists question our notions of comfort and apathy in the world and push us reevaluate our role in society and place. From the subjective and personal to the distant and objective each work challenges the viewer.
Location: The National Theatre, Prague. Czech Republic.Date: Friday 24th June
Time:10:00 pm
Format : Film Screening
Artists:Darragh O'Callaghan, Molly O'Dwyer, Ciaran Hussey, Colleen Keough, Nicky Larkin,Eleanor Lawler, Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan, Emanuel Rohss, Ciara Scanlan.
Through the films shown in ////a////form////in////space//// we wish to touch on the intimacy and spectacle of the use of performance, visuality and space in experimental film. Each selected Artist works extensively in recontextualising space and the environment in which we inhabit. The artists question our notions of comfort and apathy in the world and push us reevaluate our role in society and place. From the subjective and personal to the distant and objective each work challenges the viewer.
I’m very excited to be performing a new collaborative piece this weekend, with artist Eleanor Lawlor.The piece is a response to the theme of Memoirs of Youth – an exhibition curated by Aine Macken, to correlate with publication of Volume II of Never Never and Elsewhere,This Sat Feb 19th at 7pm at ExchangeDublin.
This new work is still very much in flux and will be a collision of the two practices, at points which they both intersect and pull apart from eachother. I am interested in the dynamics that might occur between the Eleanor's use of the camera as a first person viewpoint, and the highly eroticized female body that is performed in my work. The collaboration feels full of possibility and tensions that might occur between homeliness and erotica, game playing and gazing, hiding and being seen, the safety or restriction of containment versus the vulnerability or pleasure of exposure.
Evolved at this point only through conversation, the piece will only finally come together on the night of the performance. This deliberately precarious method of working we hope will give a sense of urgency, risk and rawness to the piece. I’ll be flying by the seat of my pants, but at least I’ll be wearing some.
The context of Never Never and Elsewhere also presents a new venture for my practice. “An Irish queer literary journal dedicated to publishing creative, autobiographical and memoir writings”, could present a shift in the understanding or assumption of a heterosexualised dynamics of the gaze of mainstream culture, to a more complex understanding of erotic performance and spectatorship.
Never Never and Elsewhere is an Irish literary journal dedicated to publishing creative autobiographical and memoir writings by lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans writers. The title of Volume II is 'Memoirs of Youth' and includes writings from Senator David Norris, Ailbhe Smyth, Ciarán Rua, Stephen Quinn and Gillian Watt, amongst others.
Working with curator and visual artist Aine Macken, 'Memoirs of Youth' has collected imagery from seven artists. Facilitated by Exchange Dublin, there will be a dedicated location to launch the limited edition publication with exciting new work both being exhibited and within the publication itself.
Artists include Peter Fingleton, Catherine Harty, Gerry Lee, Kieran McBride, Katherine Nolanand TueMeTues , along with a new body of work from Áine Macken's own practice. There will be workshops and events occurring throughout the week including a special workshop from Gerry Lee (a recent graduate with an MA in Art Therapy) on Wednesday at 7pm. The night of Saturday the 19th of February will see Katherine Nolan perfoming a brand new piece along with selected personal readings from the journal from 7pm.
All contributors are responding to the theme of the collection and viewers can expect both written and visual works operating within the complicated sphere of the memoir, the record, and the creative response to one's influence and history.
Launch on Saturday, 19 February 2011, 7pm
Exhibition 14th to 20th February.
Exchange Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar
This new work is still very much in flux and will be a collision of the two practices, at points which they both intersect and pull apart from eachother. I am interested in the dynamics that might occur between the Eleanor's use of the camera as a first person viewpoint, and the highly eroticized female body that is performed in my work. The collaboration feels full of possibility and tensions that might occur between homeliness and erotica, game playing and gazing, hiding and being seen, the safety or restriction of containment versus the vulnerability or pleasure of exposure.
Evolved at this point only through conversation, the piece will only finally come together on the night of the performance. This deliberately precarious method of working we hope will give a sense of urgency, risk and rawness to the piece. I’ll be flying by the seat of my pants, but at least I’ll be wearing some.
The context of Never Never and Elsewhere also presents a new venture for my practice. “An Irish queer literary journal dedicated to publishing creative, autobiographical and memoir writings”, could present a shift in the understanding or assumption of a heterosexualised dynamics of the gaze of mainstream culture, to a more complex understanding of erotic performance and spectatorship.
Never Never and Elsewhere is an Irish literary journal dedicated to publishing creative autobiographical and memoir writings by lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans writers. The title of Volume II is 'Memoirs of Youth' and includes writings from Senator David Norris, Ailbhe Smyth, Ciarán Rua, Stephen Quinn and Gillian Watt, amongst others.
Working with curator and visual artist Aine Macken, 'Memoirs of Youth' has collected imagery from seven artists. Facilitated by Exchange Dublin, there will be a dedicated location to launch the limited edition publication with exciting new work both being exhibited and within the publication itself.
Artists include Peter Fingleton, Catherine Harty, Gerry Lee, Kieran McBride, Katherine Nolanand TueMeTues , along with a new body of work from Áine Macken's own practice. There will be workshops and events occurring throughout the week including a special workshop from Gerry Lee (a recent graduate with an MA in Art Therapy) on Wednesday at 7pm. The night of Saturday the 19th of February will see Katherine Nolan perfoming a brand new piece along with selected personal readings from the journal from 7pm.
All contributors are responding to the theme of the collection and viewers can expect both written and visual works operating within the complicated sphere of the memoir, the record, and the creative response to one's influence and history.
Launch on Saturday, 19 February 2011, 7pm
Exhibition 14th to 20th February.
Exchange Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar
MART: Kickstarter
MART is a platform that supports emerging and established artists show their work internationally. They are an incredibly inclusive, generous and dynmaic organization who support the work of artist's like me by providing opportunities to show and develop work in creative and supportive atmosphere.
MART have helped made my work happen over the last 2 years, so please help them make their upcoming project happen by donating to their fundraising initiative on KICKSTARTER
Donating even £5 will help support this vibrant and important initiative. A message from them below.
MART is looking for your support raising funds for our planned North American Exhibition this summer.
Invite or Reject is an ambitious new exhibition to be held in New York, Chicago & Los Angeles from the Irish Arts Organisation MART , it refers to the duality of understanding and miscommunication that existed when Irish people first immigrated to America. MART is a non profit art organisation based in Ireland. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of our work in the international contemporary art scene.
We need your help to make this happen and would love for you to support our exhibition by gleefully asking you for your kind support through our KICKSTARTER fundraising page, you can back 5, 10, 25, 50 and higher to help us make this happen - Plus you get some exciting Rewards for doing so ... T-Shirts, DVD's, Art Works, Photographs, dinners out and much much more!!! Our target is $5000 and if we dont reach it we don't recieve any of the funds...so we really do need your help!! If a lot of people donate an amount we can reach it!!!
Please check out KICKSTARTER and back our project and receive some exciting rewards :
Please help us out and also spread the word on any websites, groups or your social network
We hope you all can donate a little and spread the word.
From The Lovely Curators of MART
MART have helped made my work happen over the last 2 years, so please help them make their upcoming project happen by donating to their fundraising initiative on KICKSTARTER
Donating even £5 will help support this vibrant and important initiative. A message from them below.
MART is looking for your support raising funds for our planned North American Exhibition this summer.
Invite or Reject is an ambitious new exhibition to be held in New York, Chicago & Los Angeles from the Irish Arts Organisation MART , it refers to the duality of understanding and miscommunication that existed when Irish people first immigrated to America. MART is a non profit art organisation based in Ireland. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of our work in the international contemporary art scene.
We need your help to make this happen and would love for you to support our exhibition by gleefully asking you for your kind support through our KICKSTARTER fundraising page, you can back 5, 10, 25, 50 and higher to help us make this happen - Plus you get some exciting Rewards for doing so ... T-Shirts, DVD's, Art Works, Photographs, dinners out and much much more!!! Our target is $5000 and if we dont reach it we don't recieve any of the funds...so we really do need your help!! If a lot of people donate an amount we can reach it!!!
Please check out KICKSTARTER and back our project and receive some exciting rewards :
Please help us out and also spread the word on any websites, groups or your social network
We hope you all can donate a little and spread the word.
From The Lovely Curators of MART
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