Millar, Jeremy and Farmer, Geoffrey, 2011, Show, Exhibition or Event, Mondegreen
Abstract or Description: | ‘Mondegreen’ was a collaboration between Millar and the Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer, which took place at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 7 July–20 August 2011. It took the form of a 'sculpture-play', which ran for approximately nine-and-a-half hours every day, over the entire exhibition run of seven weeks: an attempt to create a new form of performance and exhibition-making. The title ‘Mondegreen’ refers to a mishearing, usually in song lyrics, and the exhibition explored both artists’ fascination with the slippages that occur in the retelling of a story. The story was simple – the replaying of a day the artists spent together supposedly to discuss what they would exhibit – yet drawn into the narrative were a diverse range of characters and cultural acts, from the pedagogical methods of Pythagoras to the chance operations of John Cage; Joyce’s recreation, in Ulysses, of a single day was another obvious influence. Millar gathered research material from diverse sources and selected on the basis of affinities found between them. As Isobel Harbison wrote in Frieze (2011), ‘Despite the potential pitfalls of an arranged artist pairing and an exhibition that struck so ambitiously across disciplines, “Mondegreen” succeeded in a variety of ways…Avoiding a wearying exercise in reading on our feet, or another fatiguing object–association sculpture whose common elements remain innocuous and undisclosed, this work was as lucid and generous in fragments as it was in its entirety.’ |
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Events: | Title Location Dates Type Mondegreen Project Arts Centre, Dublin 7 Jul – 20 Aug 2011 One person show |
Official URL: | http://www.projectartscentre.ie/programme/whats-on... |
Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W130 Sculpture Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W190 Fine Art not elsewhere classified Creative Arts and Design > W300 Music Creative Arts and Design > W400 Drama Creative Arts and Design > W400 Drama > W490 Drama not elsewhere classified Creative Arts and Design > W800 Imaginative Writing > W810 Scriptwriting |
School or Centre: | School of Arts & Humanities |
Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2011 17:16 |
Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2020 22:01 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/694 |
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