Kelly O'Connor
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Freefun Dublin home
page, March 2010 www.freefun.ie was set up in July 2009 to
highlight the incredible amount of free things to do and see in Dublin. Each
month, a visual artist is invited to design the home page. This March Kelly
OÕConnor has created a landscape based photographic collage for the page. Past home page artists
have included: Sheena Dempsey, Hannah Doyle, Anne Ryder, Julia MacConville,
Terence Erraught and Vera Klute. |
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ÔShunt PT2Õ, June 2009 MART returns to Shunt for
a larger show this year, featuring video, installation and performances from
some of our finest Irish artists. Artists include: Adam
Gibney, Natalie Zervou, John Healy, Kelly OÕConnor, Matthew Nevin, Ciara
Scanlan, Ivan Twohig, Katherine Nolan and Lisa Marie Johnson. |
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ÔLearned Pigs and
Fireproof WomenÕ, June 2009 Kelly OÕConnor shows
video piece Ôno alarms and no surprisesÕ in a group show, The Bear Bar,
Camberwell, London. Learned Pigs and
Fireproof Women is an eclectic but brief group show upstairs at The Bear and
comprising a selection of seventeen artists who currently practice in London.
Including other artists: Mark Bell, Sarah
Bowker-Jones, Colin Clark, George Cutts, Luke Drozd, Peter Forde, Jonathan
Gildersleeves, Si‰n Hislop, Michael Lawton, Claire McArdle, Paul McCann,
Michael Murphy, Elaine Parry, Mike Ryder, Marianne Shorten and David A Smith |
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IGVFest - 19-20
February 2009 The International Guerrilla
Video Festival Dublin will be held 19-20 February 2009 in 3 unique areas of
the city: Parnell Street, Rathmines and Talbot Street. Navigating the areas
over the course of two days, the IGVFest will project works relating to the
social conditions of the site on building facades, monuments and temporary
structures. Artists who are active in the areas and artists elsewhere
addressing similar situations are invited to apply with single channel
videos. Artists can work directly on site where the festival will be shown or
in areas of other cities with similar conditions. Themes to be addressed on
the sites include: Parnell Street (immigration, demographic shifts, cultural
hybrids); Rathmines (urban planning, gentrification, periphery); Talbot
Street (maintaining of traditional culture, potemkin village). The International
Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival integrating video art
with the urban and social environment. Removing the technologically complex
medium of video out of the institutional situation, it is re-positioned as an
approachable medium in the public domain. The works included engage and
reflect the unique architectural, historical, and interpersonal context of
each site in the festival. The ubiquitous billboards
and advertising with the same campaigns attempt to transform the urban
setting into a homogeneous landscape in every city around the globe. The
festival aims to re-occupy that space infusing it with a reflexive locality
showing work created in concert with the community and focusing on issues
related to the site. A self-contained, transportable GPU (Guerrilla Projector
Unit) facilitates the incursions into the public realm, projecting the videos
onto the facades of buildings, monuments, and temporary structures. Transforming
public space into a fertile ground for experimentation toward new
possibilities in the relationship between art and society. |
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ÔHeavier-than-air
flying machines are impossibleÕ, 2008 This show returns from
Thailand for its first screening on home ground at The Red Stables, St.
AnneÕs Park, D. 3 In association with Pallas
Contemporary Projects and Project 304.
Kindly funded by Dublin City Council. |
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Galway Arts Festival,
23-28 July 2008 MART Video, Installation and
Performance Exhibition The Thatch Cottage, Henry
St. & Silkes, Munster Ave. Featuring new work by artists
from the MART website, including Kelly OÕConnor and Vera Klute. |
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ÔHeavier-than-air
flying machines are impossibleÕ New
video works by Irish artists selected by Pallas
Contemporary Projects for Project 304, Bangkok: Aideen
Barry, Anne Maree Barry, Daren Bolger, Cliona Harmey, Gavin Murphy, Kelly
O'Connor, Fiona Whitty. Taking as its
premise a sideways gaze at the truths of the world, Pallas Contemporary
Projects presents an exhibition of probing video by contemporary artists
working in Ireland. In partnership with Project 304, 'Heavier-than-air flying
machines are impossible' will present these artworks for the first time to a
new audience in Bangkok. The exhibition will connect a circle that started
with 'Head or Tail' contemporary video work from Thailand, curated by
Gridthiya Gaweewong and Michael Shoawanasai, that recently was exhibited in
Pallas Contemporary Projects' gallery in Dublin (19 October - 4 November
2007). Questioning accepted patterns in society and physical day-to-day experience, these artists unpack and rework reality. Always in transit, moving and questioning our assumptions, the artists ask how tenable the rules are and what indeed these rules are? Do we make proposals that cannot be proved? Where are the facts? And is it possible to look again clearly at our reality? 'Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible' measures and checks this different shifting world, and brings together indefinite results. |