Sarah Pierce
dal 7/6/2006 al 30/7/2006
Segnalato da
7/6/2006
Sarah Pierce
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
The Meaning of Greatness
The Meaning of Greatness
The Meaning of Greatness, a show by Sarah Pierce opens in Project Arts Centre on 8th
June, 2006. Pierce who is known for her discursive practice (The Metropolitan
Complex) will draw on her research to make an archive that will result in a re
configuration of the gallery.
Over the past three-and-a half years in Dublin, Sarah Pierce has developed The
Metropolitan Complex - a project that taps into locality, using a variety of
platforms, including talks, papers, exhibitions, and archives - that often open up
these structures to the personal and the incidental. In the gallery at Project she
draws on her interests in the relationship between 1970s radical practices and
contemporary art-making by connecting historical documents from protests and
performances with test pieces by art students. The Meaning of Greatness proposes the
gallery as a site of formative moments that exist between art and documentation. A
pamphlet The Meaning of Greatness will be published on the occasion of the
exhibition, containing texts selected by Sarah Pierce and Project's curator Grant
Watson.
Sarah Pierce works and lives in Dublin. She is one of seven artists who represented
Ireland in 2005's Venice Biennial, commissioned by Sarah Glennie. Recent projects
include Monk's Garden, Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice, 2006; Archivo Paralelo, Sala
Rekalde, Bilbao 2005; You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, PS1/MoMA, New York 2004; and
Paraeducation Department with Annie Fletcher at Witte de Witte/TENT, Rotterdam,
2004. She regularly publishes The Metropolitan Complex papers, a series of
transcribed discussions, and is currently Research Associate in Forms of Curating
and Documentation at Interface, University of Ulster, Belfast.
For Further Information Please Contact Aisling McGrane T: 353 01 881 9608 | E:
aisling@project.ie
Opening June 8 @6PM, 2006
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street (Temple Bar) Dublin
11AM- 6PM