Explorations with the Black Line

A couple of months ago I decided to divide up my room with a black line. I was looking at dividing off areas making countries out of where I chose to put my things in my room and so giving myself and my room rules and boundaries.

So I'm a little bit busy lately getting ready for assesments but I do have pictures to put up of the black squares I'm putting around Limerick and some of my piece in the exhibition. I don't have time at the moment but after friday you will se a flurry of activity!

I did the black squares finally!!

Thanks to everyone who came to our exhibition! It was really a great night. I didn't take many pictures but ill put up any I get my hands on.

Hey,

Just putting up a couple of the pictures of my casts.

P.S Finally going to put down the black squares in town today,

i'll put up pictures of it ASAP.

Our poster!

Exhibition Artist statement.

This sound work explores the theme of boundaries. I recorded the sound of the crowd of two bordering county teams during a hurling match. I found the primal guttural noise intriguing.

Just thought I'd put up the names of some of the artists I've been looking at lately...Amar Kanwar, Wang quinsong, Qin Ga, Ruben Ochoa, Nina Katchadourian, Simon Patterson, Grayson Perry (really cool)..

So finally I recorded the hurling match after a lot of procrastinating, the match was between Kilkenny and Tipperary- two bordering counties. I had a great time and the sound from it turned out great! The sound of the crowd had a tendency to rise and fall when excited by something happening, this sounded really gutteral and primal almost as if they were all so engrossed by what was going on they couldn't control the noise that came from them. I decided to focus in on this and use it to give people the experience of being there of the sound of the excitement causing this deep feeling of excitement, of slight anxiety maybe? I was using the sound for a multimedia project and cut and pasted all the rising and falling sounds of the crowd together then did a little bit more editing. Now i'm using it for my class exhibiton which is on tomorrow in this cool place called Stix in Limerick! I'm really excited about the sound and the exhibition, I'm just crossing my fingers it all goes well because we're all getting a little bit more than stressed at this point trying to get everything done! P.S.: Sorry about the lack of pictures lately I'll be putting some up of the opening night soon!