Black Brain Radio

dublin | arts and media | event notice Friday January 06, 2006 14:24 by pat c

An open forum discussion on alternative ways of considering radio and art will happen on Friday 17 February 2006 at 11.30am, Lecture Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). The key speakers will be Anna Colin from Resonance 104.4fm, London's first radio art station, Heidi Grundman from Kunstradio, Austria, Lorelei Harris, Features, Arts & Drama Editor with RTÉ Radio 1 and artist Garrett Phelan.

Contacts:

Monica Cullinane - IMMA
Patrice Molloy - IMMA
t. + 353 1 671 0073
email: press@imma.ie

Claire Power - Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
email: claire@templebargallery.com
t. + 353 1 612 9900

Black Brain Radio is an unconventional and innovative radio artwork created by Irish artist Garrett Phelan with Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and in partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). The transmission will be broadcast around the clock over a thirty-day period from 19 January 2006 to listeners within the greater County Dublin area on a frequency of 89.9fm. In addition, Black Brain Radio will have the capacity to reach a wide international audience through its dedicated on-line presence, located at http://www.garrettphelan.com/now.htm from January 19th 2006.

The project will be further extended by two gallery installations at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). Phelan’s Black Brain Radio is a continuation of his most recent large scale drawing projects, which explore the processes through which ideas or values enter into society. In a similar manner to the drawing projects, the listener is presented with an onslaught of regurgitated information, in this instance, reprocessed through the artist’s voice presented as a series of confusing, disjointed, sound works. Black Brain Radio provides the listener with the opportunity to access through their own radio the core of Phelan’s current practice, which is an exploration into the ‘formation of opinion’.

In both Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Phelan will broaden the scope of understanding for his ideas through on-site installations. Black Brain Radio is public art in the true sense of the phrase, yet the experience is accessible to people on an intimate and private scale. The radio represents a metaphysical gallery within peoples’ own homes, their cars and their offices. Wherever there is access to a radio or the internet, it will be possible to tune in and engage with Phelan’s artistic practice on a personal level.

Black Brain Radio represents a partnership between Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and is co-curated by Noel Kelly (TBG&S) and Seán Kissane (IMMA). Black Brain Radio can also be accessed on-line at

www.templebargallery.com
and
www.imma.ie.

Gallery Opening Hours:

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios:

Tuesday - Saturday
11.00am - 6.00pm

Except Thursday
11.00am - 7.00pm

Irish Museum of Modern Art:

Tuesday - Saturday
10.00am - 5.30pm

Sundays/ Bank Hols
12.00pm-5.30pm