Crawford Art Gallery
STRANGE ATTRACTOR
November 20 – April 30

Live performances with invited guests:
20 November – ‘System’
4 December - David Toop & Mary Nunan
15 January - Stephen Vitiello
5 February - Rhodri Davies
5 March - Alessandro Bosetti
2 April - Steve Roden

Performance: 12 – 4pm


Crawford Art Gallery is pleased to present Strange Attractor a dynamic multi-dimensional series of collaborative ventures between five artists, Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea and David Stalling.

The project begins Saturday 20 November with monthly durational sound performances with invited guests, leading to a gallery based exhibition and publication in April 2011. Throughout this project the artists will be working both as a group and as individuals using improvisational sound performance, experimentation with technology and combined media to explore creative possibilities resulting in an experience that offers multiple points of entry for the audience.

The live performances with invited guests opens new cross-disciplinary relationships between sound, visual art, music and choreography, and feature internationally renowned artists David Toop and Mary Nunan (4 December), Stephen Vitiello (15 January), Rhodri Davies (5 February), Alessandro Bosetti (5 March), and Steve Roden (2 April). Performances take place from 12 – 4pm and entry to all events is free with the audience are invited to move around the space during the performance. The launch of Soundcast 4x4+1, a new limited edition audio CD published by Crawford Gallery & Farpoint with a specially designed foldout, containing images by Irene Murphy and texts by Francis Halsall and Peter Murray.

Strange Attractor 1: SYSTEM is the first in this series of 4-hour sound performances which begins on 20th November at 12pm in the Sculpture Gallery. This performance experiments with sound generated from movement and drawing on an amplified floor which creates a feedback loop between action and amplified reaction. Each performer will improvise with the sound source and effect each other’s creative actions.

Strange Attractor culminates with an exhibition and publication by Kelly, McCarthy, Murphy, O’Shea and Stalling in the Crawford Gallery (April 1 – 30) and will further develop the sound and visual possibilities already explored in the performances by using sound installation, still and moving image, video documentation, and further live events in the various spaces of Crawford Art Gallery.

For further information please contact: dawnwilliams@crawfordartgallery.ie

Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland www.crawfordartgallery.ie
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