Crawford Art Gallery
STRANGE ATTRACTOR


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 3: is the third in the series of 4-hour sound performances on 15th January at 12pm in the Crawford Gallery. This performance features guest artist Stephen Vitiello( http://www.stephenvitiello.com/ ), an electronic musician and sound artist who transforms incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment. He has composed music for independent films, experimental video projects and art installations, collaborating with such artists as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Pauline Oliveros and Dara Birnbaum. In 1999 he was awarded a studio for six months on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center, Tower One, where he recorded the cracking noises of the building swaying under the stress of the winds after Hurricane Floyd. As an installation artist, he is particularly interested in the physical aspect of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial environment. A new solo exhibition of his work opens at Museum 52 in NY on January 12. He also has a number of collaborative CD projects due for release during 2011, including a live recording with Steve Roden, Olivia Block and Molly Berg on 12k and a CD with Lawrence English on the Crónica label.
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, has featured internationally renowned artists David Toop and Mary Nunan in December 2010. Future guests include 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.
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Soundcast 4x4 (+1), a new limited edition audio CD published by Crawford Gallery & Farpoint Recordings with a specially designed foldout sleeve, containing images by Irene Murphy and texts by Francis Halsall and Peter Murray, is now available from the Crawford Gallery Shop and www.farpointrecordings.com.

For further information please contact: dawnwilliams@crawfordartgallery.ie

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


DANNY McCARTHY is one of Ireland’s pioneers of performance art and sound art in Ireland and he continues to be a leading exponent exhibiting and performing both in Ireland and abroad. In 2006, he founded the Quiet Club with Mick O’Shea, a floating membership sound (art and electronics) performance group. He is a founding director of Triskel Arts Centre and the National Sculpture Factory.

Selected performances/exhibitions: 2010: ‘Postcards from The Celtic Tiger’, Xuhui Arts Museum, Shanghai; The Quiet Club (tour) World Expo ; 411 Gallery and the Jing An Arts Centre, Shanghai; SPAN2, London; "Hearing Place" in Melbourne, Australia. 2009: Nova, Lyric FM, documentary on the artist. ‘Another Gong for Mr. Beckett’, Factory Gallery, Berlin 2008: ‘Art is not Mute’ Museum of Art, Uppsala, Sweden; The Quiet Club, Static Gallery, Liverpool as part of European Capital of Culture 2007: “(Re)sounding Memories /Watering The Plants”, Le Lieu Centre dArte Actuelle Quebec, Canada 2006: curated CD ‘Bend it Like Beckett’ featuring David Toop, Scanner, Stephen Vitiello, Keiji Shimoda. 2005:“TRACERetrospective2000-2005”, Franklin Furnace, New York.


IRENE MURPHY’s work questions the role of the artist, creative space, and engages with a broader concept of creativity. A common link in her art are ideas about performativeness, site specificity and communality with Murphy’s art acts being private interventions into public space. She is active in initiating and participating in many group and collaborative projects and events, such as The YOYO Club, Ideal State Agency, Electric Rain, Us Live and Club House. The creative trio The Domestic Godless use food and hosting as their chosen medium. Murphy is a founder member of the Cork Artists Collective and The Guesthouse.

Selected performances/exhibitions: 2010: Art=Adding Szczecin Poland. ‘What Happens Next is a Secret’, Domestic Godless, Irish Museum of Modern Art; 2009: Seesound, The Guesthouse, Cork Film Festival; 2008: Plus Minus, The Yellow Box Oland, Sweden. 2007: Diorama, Static, Liverpool 2006: Somethingelse, Helsinki, Joensuu, Turku and Oulu Art museum Finland 2005: INSIDEOUTSIDE, Yuwaku No Mori, Japan, exchange project for Cork Capital of Culture.


MICK O’SHEA works spring from his essential experience in drawing. His medium includes sculpture, drawing, sound and cooking. In 2003 O’Shea and fellow artist Stephen Brandes and Irene Murphy set up the collaborative practice, The Domestic Godless which, through performative cooking events, explores culinary activity as art practice and tests assumptions about the cultural traditions of food in challenging and often irreverent and absurdist ways. In 2006 he formed The Quiet Club with Danny McCarthy to promote and showcase improvised music and soundworks. O’Shea is a member and director of the Cork Artists Collective.

Selected performances/exhibitions: 2010: The Quiet Club, World Expo, Shanghai; ART=ADDING: Szczecin, Poland; ‘What Happens Next is a Secret’, Domestic Godless, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Sonic Vigil V: 7 hour sound performance, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral Cork (curator); Pimping the Maids: Gaitkrash; Cloud Bait: TRACE CD with Paul Hegarty; TESLA: Quiet Club CD with Danny McCarthy; IKIRO: sound collaboration with Takahiro Suzuki; Binary Jam: Quiet Club:, Liverpool 2009: Then + Now: Evolving Art Practice, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; The Cabinet of Curiosities: Cork Midsummer Festival; Salon Bruit: Berlin.


ANTHONY KELLY & DAVID STALLING have been collaborating on a series of sound and visual works since 2003. Their work encompasses a shared practice of recycling ‘objets trouveés’ of sound, visual and text material in their ongoing collaborative sessions. The juxtaposition of contrasting material results in a series of audio/visual ‘musique concrète’ pieces. Kelly & Stalling founded the sound art label Farpoint Recordings in 2005, publishing not only their own work but projects with artists such as Danny McCarthy, Alan Lambert, Linda O'Keeffe and Damo Suzuki

Selected performances/exhibitions: 2010: Shorelines, touring exhibition, venues include Sir Wilfred Grenfell Gallery, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland, The Rooms, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow and Siamsa, Co. Kerry. WAFER at SOMA Contemporary Art Box, Waterford. 2009: Unknown Point as part of Visualise Carlow & Eigse, Frequencies at the Basement Gallery, Dundalk. 2008: Two Places at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast & Limerick University, The Incubation Space - artist residency (Aug - Nov) at The LAB, Dublin. Auralog at This Is Not A Shop gallery Dublin as part of DEAF festival, screenings at Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2006 & 2008.
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