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
14 April – Lee Paterson (7-9pm)
29 April – ‘System Deconstructed’ (2-4pm)

Performances: 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, David Stalling and guests.
After some very well received collaborative performances with David Toop, Mary Nunan, Stephen Vitiello and Rhodri Davies the Crawford Gallery are pleased to present the fifth performance of this ongoing series –
Strange Attractor 5 with Alessandro Bosetti.
This performance features guest artist Alessando Bosetti, an Italian composer and sound artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances. In his work he moves across the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process.
During 2010, his video installation 'Two Madrigals featured in the collective exhibition Condotti Cronoarmonici at Galerie Mazzoli and he was artist in residence at the Ertza Festival, Bera. Bosetti is joined by Kenta Nagi and Tony Buck for trance band Trophies. His many CD releases include 'Royals' on Monotype, 'Expose' on Die Schachtel and 'Zona' on Grob 652.
Strange Attractor, which began in November 2010, continues its monthly series of durational sound performances with invited guests, leading to a gallery based exhibition in April 2011. Throughout these ventures the artists will be working both collaboratively and individually using improvisational sound performance, experimentation with technology, combined media and random and improvised drawing and structural forms 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 has featured internationally renowned artists David Toop and Mary Nunan in December 2010, Stephen Vitiello on the 15th January and Rhodri Davies on the 5th February. Upcoming performances include Alessandro Bosetti on the 5th March, Steve Roden on the 2nd April and Lee Paterson on the 14th April. Performances take place from 12 – 4pm unless noted otherwise. Entry to all events is free with the audience invited to move around the space during the performance.

During the month of April there will be a Strange Attractor gallery based residency by Kelly, McCarthy, Murphy, O’Shea and Stalling in the Crawford Gallery. This residency will further develop the sound and visual possibilities already explored in the performances using sound installation,video,drawing, live events, discussion, and a continuously readapted network of scafform structures that will grow in form during the residency. Following on from this there will be a short sequence of live performances (dates to be confirmed) during the summer leading to a publication in September. This publication will feature texts by David Toop, Mary Nunan, Paul Hegarty amongst others and a DVD containing recordings from the live performances.
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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 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; 2009: Nova, Lyric FM, documentary on the artist.”LISTEN Hear” Book +CD Farpoint Recordings, ‘Another Gong for Mr. Beckett’, Factory Gallery, Berlin 2008: “Listening With The Sound Turned Off” exhibition/installation ,Triskel, Cork. 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. 2005:“TRACERetrospective2000-2005”, Franklin Furnace, New York.”Sound Out” co curated (with David Toop) international outdoor sound art exhibition. “Playing John Cage” Arnolfini, Bristol.


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 projects by artists such as Danny McCarthy, Alan Lambert, Linda O'Keeffe and Damo Suzuki amongst others alongside their own work.

Selected performances/exhibitions: 2010/11: Shorelines, touring exhibition, venues include Sir Wilfred Grenfell Gallery, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland, The Rooms, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow and Siamsa, Co. Kerry, Ten Days On The Island, Tasmania. WAFER at SOMA Contemporary Art Box, Waterford, Sonic Vigil V, St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork . 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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