CITATIONS
Crawford Gallery, Cork, 10 March 2012
SOFTDAY 21 proposals for the Turbine Hall (2012)
Softday have composed and, together with Peter Morgan, performed a live sound work layered with extracts from 21 proposals for the Turbine Hall. Recorded by 21 different voices, the performance marked the book's launch at the Crawford Gallery, Cork on 10 March 2012. An earlier launch + performance also took place at Ormston House in Limerick on 29 February 2012.
Background of the book: The Tate invites. You do not send in proposals. To write a proposal for the Turbine Hall is to dream seriously. Contributors work with abstractions like truth and fear as well as with the physicality and absurdity of the world we live in. The Turbine Hall is occupied by cars or carcasses, sharks or poltergeists, by energies of the mind. Contributors were invited, or selected from responses to an online art site, and then worked in collaboration with the editors. Some proposals could be realised, others deliberately go beyond physical or practical realisation. The proposals have a rhythm: assertive, tentative, confessional, triumphal, poetic, manic. Photo: Softday listen to sound work
Background of the book: The Tate invites. You do not send in proposals. To write a proposal for the Turbine Hall is to dream seriously. Contributors work with abstractions like truth and fear as well as with the physicality and absurdity of the world we live in. The Turbine Hall is occupied by cars or carcasses, sharks or poltergeists, by energies of the mind. Contributors were invited, or selected from responses to an online art site, and then worked in collaboration with the editors. Some proposals could be realised, others deliberately go beyond physical or practical realisation. The proposals have a rhythm: assertive, tentative, confessional, triumphal, poetic, manic. Photo: Softday listen to sound work
Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montreal: Embracing the Archive/Sortons les archives, 4 November - 17 December 2011
Adriana DISMAN Correspondence Dossier JOHN GAYER 1985-89 (2011)
An experimental investigation and performance responding to archival material that was developed in residency at SKOL artist-run centre, Montreal, QC, and performed on 5 November 2011 as part of the exhibition Embracing the Archive/Sortons les archives curated by Anne Bertrand. Photo: Andréa de Keijzer - more info here and here
Pilar MACIAS Croisements (2011)
Exposition de Colette Laliberté (Programme 1985-1986), exposition de John Gayer (Programme 1986-1987) et exposition de Judith Berry (Programme 1985-1986), photograph. Photos-sources : Guy L'Heureux more info
Anne-Marie PROULX Collection of names (detail)
This work forms one part of Individual Collection (2009), a two part work that traces the names and images of all individuals documented in Centre des art actuels Skol's archive, that was also included in the exhibition Embracing the Archive/Sortons les archives. Photo : Guy L'Heureux more info