HaVE a Look! have a look!
7 May - 11 July 2010
Oliver McLarnon, Dennis McNulty, David Sherry, Jon Thrupp and Mary McLarnon, curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak and Kate McLarnon (30 min)
Contributors:
1. Oliver McLarnon performs Florence M. Wilson’s 'The Man From God Knows Where,' an Irish ballad which is rumoured to be about Thomas Russell (1767 – 1803), leader of the United Irishmen (5 min)
2. Dennis McNulty provides an aural portrait of the drive into Breezewood, Pennsylvania, USA, leading to the town that has its origins and existence owing only to the convergence of two highways, the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 70. (8 min)
3. David Sherry recalls the carpark in front of his childhood home (5 min 5 sec)
3. Jon Thrupp describes his first memories of his family home near Brighton. (7 min)
4. A recording of a walk with Mary McLarnon as she talks about her experience surviving a cancer which took over her kidney and travelled up to her heart. The walk taken during the recording is the walk she has often made during her ongoing recovery. (4 min 50 sec)
Information on the wider project:
A weekly pod-cast will be sent to you every Thursday evening for ten weeks with a curated selection of contributions from guests working on the threshold of art, music and writing.
Our space will be open at usual hours (Friday-Sunday 12 to 6) offering a physical counterpart to the online streaming and hosting a rich program of events and performances.
With contributions by:
Irene Aristizabal with Pia Borg, Tyler Coburn & Jeffrey K. Miller, Dan Scott, Juan Sebastian Suenca, Mark Aerial Waller / Adam Avikainen / Phil Baber / Fiona Banner / Rossella Biscotti / Book Works with the Semina series / Roberto Cuoghi / Guillaume Désanges / Eva Fabbris / Luigi Fassi with Michael Hoepfner, Katarina Zdjelar / Chris Fite-Wassilak and Kate McLarnon with Oliver McLarnon, Dennis McNulty, David Sherry, Jon Thrupp and Mary McLarnon / Alicia Frankovich / Dora Garcia / Clare Gasson / Bianca Hester / Will Holder and Adam Pendleton / Julia Klaering and Andrea Salzmann / Hilary Koob-Sassen / Institution of Rot / Franciska Lambrechts / Marco Lampis / Franziska Lantz / Andrea Lissoni / Antonia Majaca / Alex Martinis Roe / Darius Miksys / Mother Festival / Pedro Neves Marques / Paul Pieroni / Matteo Rubbi / Davide Savorani / Jennifer Teets / Nick Thurston / Lauren von Gogh / Oriol Vilanova / X marks the Bökship / Jonas Žakaitis
‘Have a Look! Have a Look!’ screams the woman that sells fruits and vegetables in a stall right in front of FormContent’s window on Ridley Road market. Her voice attracts the passer-by becoming a physical presence that distinguishes one stall from the others.
In a similar way HaVE A LoOk! HAve a LOok! intends to be a physical and mental gathering of sounds, words and objects tackling the dematerialization of art pieces into aural manifestations.
Ranging from live events, pre-recorded contributions and curated sessions, the project explores the existing relationship between the physicality of an object and the possibility of its oral transmission.
Through a weekly update of online audio streaming, FormContent will map and experiment with the parameters of an exhibition as a recorded medium. At the same time the space will be open to be used by the participants as a listening room, a compendium for the online contributions or as an impromptu collection of objects investigating further the relationship between the presence of a work and its narration.
Guests working on the threshold of art, music and writing have been developing content that will feed the online streaming and could also create a visual layer to the exhibition space available at FormContent through events, performances or temporary sets.
The project will manifest itself weekly from May 7th to July 11th 2010 through various interventions confusingly constructing an exhibition existing, through several constituents, in different formats and in different place. Over 35 international contributors will enrich to the project with very diversified ideas that will be declined in a Babel of noise, voices, sounds and stories at FormContent.
Launch of FormContent new website!
In occasion of HaVE A LoOk! HAve a LOok! a new website designed for FormContent by Wolfram Wiedner will be presented.
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