Danny McCarthy
dal 23/6/2012 al 28/6/2012
Segnalato da
23/6/2012
Danny McCarthy
The Guesthouse, Cork
The Memory Room consists of an ongoing series of installations in conjunction with a new book and CD.
curated by Anthony Kelly
The Memory Room is a project by the Cork-based multimedia artist Danny McCarthy, whose pioneering art practice explores a combination of visual and auditory experiences. This new work consists of an ongoing series of installations in conjunction with a new book and CD published by the Irish sound-art label Farpoint Recordings.
Through the use of personal materials gathered from his past and by using other related ephemera, the artist seeks to reach back in time on a 'psycho-sonic' journey, re-establishing old connections and reviving random fragments of lost memories and locating them in the now. This is achieved through the use of sounds, text and found objects that are installed in specially chosen locations throughout the space.
While these explorations may often connect specifically with aspects of McCarthy’s youth and early adulthood in his home-town of Mallow, Co. Cork (his father’s life as a blacksmith/farrier, nights spent playing rock-and-roll in the local dance-hall, early forays into improvisation), there are also meditations of a less specific and more abstracted nature. These are fleeting and often loosely threaded together, but always accessible, thus encouraging people to explore their own inner soundscape.
From 25 to 29 June the exhibition room in Shandon's The Guesthouse will play host to a further exploration of the themes from this project. Residing ‘memories of place’ and past histories caged within the old structures of The Guesthouse building will mesh and play alongside the gentle reverberations of this latest instalment of The Memory Room. The installation, curated by Anthony Kelly, will be subject to daily change.
The Memory Room project (which had its first airing at Hilltown New Music Festival in 2010) is scheduled to travel to Sound Fjord (London) and The Room (Turin, Italy) during 2013.
www.dannymccarthy.ie
Please note:
Since audience capacity at the venue is very limited, please book by emailing:
guesthouse.project@gmail.com
After lunch:
Artist-in-Residence poet Paul Kane (US) with sound artist Katie O'Looney will present:
7 Catastrophes in 4 Movements
A sound and spoken word performance
Installation, Publication launch and Sunday lunch at The Guesthouse: 3pm, Sunday, 24 June 2012
The Guesthouse
10 Chapel Street, Shandon, Cork
12 noon – 3pm, or by appointment