Accumulator
A Live performance exhibition
VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
Curated by Coogan and including the Artists:
Amanda Coogan, Neva Elliott,
Declan Rooney, Yingmei Duan,
Brian Connolly, Alastair Mac Lennan
click on the artists to view an image from their
Accumulator performance
Click here to read the Accumulator essay
The gallery doors are open,
the audience is free to come and go as they please, each work is not constructed to been seen in full duration, though these performances were worth the evolutionary witness.
For Accumulator I wanted to be very clear about the practionners I chose. All of their practices engage with site, duration and audience in fundamental ways. I asked all of the artists to agree to the following rules of engagement:1. The duration of the performance will be 6 hours. The artist must be present in the space for the duration of that time. 2. The ‘trail’ of the performance activity will be left behind. 3. Each artist will perform amid the detritus of the previous performances. 4. Documentary footage of each performance will be taken and shown post performance. The exhibition space started empty with a simple long white table and six white chairs. Three projections played, showing previous performance work from each of the artists and the documentary footage of the live performances. These projectors were turned off during the live performances.
A Live performance exhibition
VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
Curated by Coogan and including the Artists:
Amanda Coogan, Neva Elliott,
Declan Rooney, Yingmei Duan,
Brian Connolly, Alastair Mac Lennan
Click here to read the Accumulator essay
The gallery doors are open,
the audience is free to come and go as they please, each work is not constructed to been seen in full duration, though these performances were worth the evolutionary witness.
For Accumulator I wanted to be very clear about the practionners I chose. All of their practices engage with site, duration and audience in fundamental ways. I asked all of the artists to agree to the following rules of engagement:
