>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:32:59 EST >Subject: Paul Rooney - New Work >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Paul Rooney - New Work > >VRC Centrespace, Dundee Contemporary Arts >26th March 6th April 2002 >Tue-Fri, 10.30-5.30pm, Sat-Sun, 12.30-5.30 >Opening 6-8pm, Monday 25th March. Performances at 7pm. > >Paul Rooney is the Research and Development Fellow at the Duncan of >Jordanstone Visual Research Centre at Dundee Contemporary Arts, and this >exhibition will showcase some of the recent collaborative projects Paul has >been working on. He has worked with the Stars In Their Eyes audience warm >up man, a hotel concirge, a barmaid, a choir, and an office worker; on works >that vary from an audio guide for a chairlift, to music video and video >recreations of found photographs, old master paintings and record covers. >One piece in the show involved setting an internet chatroom text to music for >six vocalists, and Dundee University choir members will perform it at the >opening: there will also be a performance by Paul Rooney and Max Factory. The >chatroom piece stresses the importance of dialogue in the forming of our >values, and the video depends on the particular nuances of an observed real >time relationship between performers, as opposed to the pseudonymous >relationships of the initial dialogue itself. > >About the artist: > Music can elicit deeply subjective and fluctuating relationships with the >world, and Pauls work often uses popular music to engage with everyday life, >focussing on the everyday as a site for potential engagement with, and >resistance to, wider social structures. Paul is also interested in the social >aspects of popular music, notably vocal and choral music, which has >traditionally been a way of literally uniting communities in a shared >culture. This is often contrasted in the work by a focus on an individual, >socially isolated subject. > Paul was born in Liverpool in 1967, and trained at Edinburgh College of >Art. He has had residencies at The British School at Rome, Durham University, >and is a founder member of Common Culture, who have recently shown at EAST >International, and had a solo show at Gasworks, London, in 2000. >Pauls individual practice focussed from 1998 to 2000 on the music of the >Rooney CDs and performances. Rooney released three albums, which were >broadcast extensively, including by Radios 1 and 3. The song Went to Town >got into John Peels Festive Fifty in 1998, and a Peel session was broadcast >in October 1999. Recent work includes a CO6 commission, hosted by FACT, that >incorporates the song of a telesales worker written with the operator >herself, and has been shown in Edinburgh, Split and Toronto. Paul will take >up residencies at Further Up In The Air in Liverpool in April 2002, and >Grizedale Arts in May. > >VRC Centrespace DCA 152 Nethergate, Dundee. DD1 4DY. >Contact Jane at VRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 01382 348 060 >Or Miriam, DCA press officer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 01382 909 229 >
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