Just when people




thought it was safe to go back




in the Crawford Gallery



Crawford Art Gallery & The Avant

Strange Attractor with special guest Mel Mercier
Crawford Gallery, Cork
The Long Room
Saturday 4th July, 2 - 4pm

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Following on from their very successful gallery residency project in the Crawford, Cork, during April 2011, Strange Attractor (Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy,
Mick O'Shea, David Stalling) return with a new series of durational live performances.

Strange Attractor, began in November 2010, with a series of monthly four hour durational sound performances, within the gallery spaces inviting, international guests including David Toop & Mary Nunan, Stephen Vitiello, Alessandro Bosetti, Rhodri Davies and Steve Roden amongst others. These performances attracted large audiences who have experienced, with the artists developing relationships between sound, visual art, music and choreography.

Joining Strange Attractor on this occasion is special guest Mel Mercier. Academic, performer and composer, Mel has performed, recorded and collaborated extensively with pianist and composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, and with John Cage and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Roaratorio, Inlets, Duets). His research interests include the revival period in Irish traditional music, American minstrelsy, and two-handed American bones playing.

This performance will take place in the Long Room of The Crawford Gallery and features as part of The Avant festival, 2011.

Further performance dates in Dublin and London are planned for later in 2011 to coincide with the launch of the new Strange Attractor book and DVD. The publication will feature contributions from David Toop, Stephen Vitiello, Steve Roden, Jed Speare and Bernard Clarke amongst others.

An audio CD 'Soundcast 4x4 (+1) is currently available from the shop in the Crawford Gallery and www.farpointrecordings.com. The CD features audio extracts from the first Strange Attractor performance which featured as part of The Avant Festival, July 2009.

The Avant Festival, 2011 runs from the 4th - 17th July
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For further information please contact: dawnwilliams@crawfordartgallery.ie

Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland www.crawfordartgallery.ie
t: +353 21 4907853