Paulo Post-Future: Curated by Dennis McNulty
Sunday 9 June 2024
- 90mins
| Sunday 9 June
2pm |
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The second edition of Mermaid Arts Centre’s new sound art gathering invites artist Dennis McNulty to reflect on work created for the 2004 São Paulo Bienal. This event takes its title from curator Valerie Connor's concept for Ireland's presentation at the Bienal that year. With guest Tom O'Dea.
Entitled http://alpha60.info, it comprised five improvised sound-performances, a website and a CD. This Listening Group session is centred on a recording of the performance that took place at the Baby Barioni swimming pool in São Paulo, Brazil, on September 19th 2004.
As we approach its twentieth anniversary, McNulty will discuss some of the material that informed the work with artist Tom O'Dea, touching on classics like Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room and John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No. 4., and topics such as psychoacoustics, the concept of post-occupancy evaluation and sound-designer Walter Murch’s practice of worldizing sound recordings.
The conversation will also reference a selection of McNulty’s sound-related works, including his anti-tours project (2006-2007), the sound-performance La Ladera (2007) and the installation I reached inside myself through time (2015).
A recording of the Baby Barioni performance was released on the cassette SP, 2004 by Diet of Worms in 2023.
Dennis McNulty
Curator
Artist, musician, engineer and writer Dennis McNulty has exhibited widely in contexts such as the São Paulo Bienal, Liverpool Biennial, Grazer Kunstverein, IMMA, VISUAL Carlow and Performa.
He works across a variety of media on both sides of the computer screen to produce large-scale physical objects, media assemblages and live work that grind different kinds of knowing together in an attempt to render the process of acquiring knowledge palpable. The work is research-based, formally radical, materially hybrid and often produced in relation to a specific site.
As half of Decal for a decade or so, he co-produced an extensive catalogue of albums and 12” records on labels such as Planet Mu, D1 and Warp. He has scored the feature-length documentaries Seaview (2007), Pyjama Girls (2010) and Build Something Modern (2011) and the movie Helen (2008).
In his role as Artist in Residence at the CONNECT research centre (2013 to 2021), he co-founded The Orthogonal Methods Group, an interdisciplinary team that brought a critical perspective to the centre's research programme. As an educator he is committed to the entangling of theory and practice, and has taught visual artists, designers, musicians and computer scientists at institutions in Ireland, Norway, Germany and the UK. He is currently undertaking a PhD at Trinity College Dublin, entitled “Diagramming the Quantum Internet”.
Tom O'Dea
Guest
Tom O’Dea is an artist who works with mixed-media sculpture and social practice to explore how different forms of knowledge impact upon our ways of acting and being in the world. His work interrogates the political implications of knowledge production, practices of computation and organisation in contemporary society.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has curated work that examines technological materialities and the relationship between technology and society.
Tom completed a visual art practice-based PhD in TCD in 2019 for the exhibition Unrepresentable: A Séance for Pierre Méchain. He holds Master’s in Digital Media in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UCD.
Tom is a lecturer in Sculpture and Expanded Practice at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He co-chairs the Network Ecologies research theme at CONNECT - Ireland's SFI Centre for future networks at Trinity College. He is also a member of the Orthogonal Methods Group (OMG), an artist-research group and is one of the organisers of Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA).
Listening LINKS
https://dennismcnulty.com/archive/alpha60.php
https://dennismcnulty.com/archive/ll.php
https://dennismcnulty.com/archive/at1.php
https://dennismcnulty.com/archive/at2.php
https://dennismcnulty.com/archive/at3.php
https://dennismcnulty.com/archive/at4.php
https://dennismcnulty.com/archive/at5.php
https://imma.ie/collection/i-reached-inside-myself-through-time/
Cassette Release
https://dietofwormslabel.bandcamp.com/album/sp-2004
