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


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

Strange Attractor 2: is the second in the series of 4-hour sound performances on 4th December at 12pm in the Gibson Room. This performance features David Toop, internationally renowned sound artist, author and curator. His acclaimed books include Ocean of Sound, and Haunted Weather. His recent publication “Sinister Resonance” has been highly critically acclaimed. As a musician he has appeared alongside some of the world’s leading exponents including Brian Eno, Evan Parker, Max Eastley, Scanner to name but a few and Mary Nunan artist, choreographer and performer whose ensemble choreographic works have been presented at venues throughout Ireland and internationally, She is currently Course Director of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the University of Limerick.
Strange Attractor, which began in November 2010, continues its monthly series 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 open 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 invited to move around the space during the performance.

Strange Attractor culminates with an exhibition and publication by Kelly, McCarthy, Murphy, O’Shea and Stalling in the Crawford Gallery (1–30 April 2011) 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.

Soundcast 4x4 (+1), a new limited edition audio CD published by Crawford Gallery & Farpoint Recordings with a specially designed foldout, containing images by Irene Murphy and texts by Francis Halsall and Peter Murray, is now available from the Crawford Gallery Shop.

For further information please contact: dawnwilliams@crawfordartgallery.ie

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