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Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo

In the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Opening 29th July. Continues until 28th August.

A group exhibition exploring animal imagery in contemporary art, curated by Davey Moor.
(link to the show on the Kevin Kavanagh website)



Pabst
Oil on Canvas
30cm x 30cm
2010

24hour Internet Marathon

This is a project I've been meaning to do for a while but it has been difficult to find the time.
Basically the concept is to go online and browse continuously for a full 24 hours.

A webcam is set up to record my status for the duration.
Each page is recorded by a screenshot.
Each page must lead to the next be it by content or as a link.
No breaks except absolutely necessary (ie toilet). Food and drink to be consumed at computer.
No email or facebook unless you are led there by the previous page.

I did this from 9pm Monday 5th until 9pm Tuesday 6th.

Here is picture number 1.



I had to pre-prepare food and drinks and have them nearby. Dinner had to be prepared/served by someone else.
The hardest times were from 6am-10am. Fighting sleep.
I learned a lot of useful things and found some interesting pages. I also had to go through a lot of celebrity gossip pages and badly written blogs.

DORM in The Model, Sligo

Pallas Contemporary Projects were asked to take part in the re-opening exhibition of the new Model in Sligo. The overall exhibition was called Dorm and involved 22 international artists collectives. Pallas presented 'We are never at home', an exhibition curated by Gavin Murphy about Pallas itself, incorporating work from artists who have shown with Pallas to date as well as publications and archive material.






We had a lot of fun installing the show and the opening night (1st May) was amazing.
There was even somewhere for you to sleep.... if you were brave enough.



I made a series of picture postcards from images of derelict houses that I photographed in Dublin. These ones are all from Dublin 7 and they're in an edition of 50 each. Visitors can take them for free.




Brian Duggan's video work is just behind my plinth. More info on who was involved in the show is here.

The sound of pixels

I found an online program that allows you to make music in a 16x16 grid (much like a tenori-on).

By reducing the 'fat kid' image from my cross stitch series to its basic pixels and making it b+w I've been able to enter it into the grid.

This is what the fat kid image sounds like:

19008,5632,43808,5632,48784,12040,49088,40640,16200,48976,1048,32480,17664,1280,1024,8704

Copy and paste the above combination onto the grid here

Review

And there was another mention of the RHA show in Shower of Kunst.
Link here
Thanks to Helen MaCormack and to 126 for forwarding the info.

Yay! Lucy finished the cross stitch

Thanks Lucy.