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Artists: Jane Cassidy, Melissa Conlon, Ed Devane & Brian-Michael Thornton,Chris Flynn, Shane McKenna and Killian Redmond (Redmonk)
Curated by Aoife Giles & Ciara Scanlan.
Dates: Thursday 4th August: 3 – 8 pm . OFFICIAL LAUNCH: Friday 5th August: 3-8.30 pm. Saturday 6th August: 12- 6/7 pm
The Big Picture space in Tallaght was an Interactive Information centre intended to showcase the future of South Dublin’s ambitious architectural vision. This development floundered and the utopian vision perpetuated in the space is in stark contrast to the reality.
But the space is still there, with latent potential for new and creative outcomes. Now is the time to reactivate the space and for 3 days and nights, 6 artists are taking over with a series of performances and interactive installations.
Over the 3 days the public were invited for free to take part in this extravaganza of performance, sound, music, interactive instruments, touch screen technologies altered with animations and projections as the Big Picture comes to life by an innovative group of Artist’s who have worked over a period of months the unused and untapped resources of the Big Picture. Photographs: Aoife Giles and Melissa Conlon
Ground Floor:
Stage 0: Chris Flynn and Melissa Conlon
Stage 1: Shane McKenna and Killian Redmond
First Floor:
Stage 2: Ed Devane and Brian-Michael Thornton
Top Floor:
Stage 3: Jane Cassidy
Artists:
OMNIUM
This piece is a collaboration between Chris Flynn & Melissa Conlon. Loosely borrowing structural cues from The Third Policeman this piece comprises refracted layers of reality manifested using projections onto a painted surface and poster graphics. Audiovisual mapping combines with absurdist propaganda to create an illusory space that comments on the deranged cultural hegemony that can be arrived at when a society is determined to delude itself.”
“Chris & Melissa are graphic designers currently interested in modernism, propaganda art, audiovisual synchronicity, typography and Flann O’Brien. In their first collaboration, they are seeking to interrogate how propaganda in the form of poster art and moving image can communicate irrational ideas in a way that is forceful enough to make them seem not only plausible but trustworthy and authoritative. “
Stage 1:
Shane McKenna and Killian Redmond
Igor the Great and CooCooClock are two pieces using animated graphic notation to invite participants to take part in musical performance. Animated graphic notation consists of moving shapes and symbols which are designed to be interpreted as musical sounds. Both pieces aim to address issues of group participation faced in music education in particular. They also represent an example of the online resources designed to accompany a creative music workbook aimed at primary schools children which is the current collaborative project between Shane Mc Kenna and Killian ‘Redmonk’ Redmond. Each piece can be performed by any number of participants with any level of musical experience and can be adapted for use with a range of instrumentation.
Igor the great is a percussion piece where participants are invite to join an octopus percussionist, illustrated by Redmonk, by hitting buttons which trigger audio samples. Igor will indicate exactly when to hit each colored button by dropping similarly colored pebbles into sea tubes below each of four tentacles. Igor will play complimentary rhythms with his other four tentacles.
The CooCooClock will be another piece aimed at creating chance musical performance from invited musicians and any other willing participants. The clock will divide into colored segments relating to color coded cards with performance instructions. The cards will suggest a particular sound to be made or musical idea to be performed and the hand of the clock will indicate the duration of each sound. Participants will be invited to take a card at random and prepare for their short performance.
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Stage 2:
Ed Devane and Brian-Michael Thornton
“Over the course of the MART/ Glitch weekend, multimedia artist Ed Devane will be inviting audience members to build a collection of video and audio footage.
Participants will listen to a sound on a pair of headphones, and asked to make a similar sound using their voice, or one of Devane’s noise-making instruments. Each participant will make one sound which will be recorded and added to a database of videos.
In the second half of Devane’s contribution to the show, he will perform a semi-composed improvisation based on the user-generated content. Using a custom software system developed in the HTML5 programming language by programmer Brian Michael Thornton, Devan
He will utilise the touch screen and projector technologies found in the Big Picture space. The work will explore the possibilities presented by this new technology, and the manipulation of media and context to create a bigger picture that will not be visible to the individual participants.”
Stage 3:
Jane Cassidy
Animation, electronic score, stereo speakers, projection and dry ice.
The visuals mimic the music and panning by moving on the screen in accordance to the movement of the sound. The use of the dry ice makes the visuals more tactile so that when the audience member stands in the visuals the images are highlighted throughout the projection trajectory.
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