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'The Weaklings' Opening curated by Dennis Cooper

Five Years

Zines

O.B.De Alessi performance

Photos courtesy of Dennis Cooper and Michael Salerno

more pics here

and here

courtesy of Thomas Moore

Makeshift Studio part 2

'can ya see what it is yet?' as the great man would say.

so far ive listed to Marina Rosenfeld's Plastic Materials

& Death In June's The World That Summer

one more album and i should be done : )

i should say that i hate easels

but its all ive got right now.

There are things (_________) say (Flag) gif

Photobucket was corrupting the file had to use an online maker : (

There are things (_________) say (Flag)

There are things (_________) say,

material flag, 152cm x 91cm, 2011

may be hung with either side showing depending on how you feel

or be left blowing in the winds of chance

New Work

Not Yet Titled, brown packing tape and ply wood on canvas

40x60cm, 2011

Not Yet Titled, smiley face stickers on canvas

25x30cm, 2011

LLLAYERSSS

untitled 1-5 (from the series lllayersss) found images, digital print, RGB

dimensions variable, 2011

Fancy Bag

yet to be titled, ink on paper, 2011

'Painting?'

'Untitled' (F.O.A.D.), children's motivational stickers on canvas, 40x50cm, 2011

1st from a new series of 'Paintings' im working on using anything but paint.

Country Retreat

Some pics from round christmastime of the

ground floor area of the Tony O'Malley residency in Callan, Kilkenny

for pics of the rest before we moved in

click here

more pics some time soon

(yes its very christmasy & doesnt look this way all year,

if yr so inclined you can even see what i got for xmas behind me on the chair

the pudding still hasnt been eaten : ( )

'Money' & 'Yuan'

Two new Dollar Bill pieces

(sorry crappy phone shots for now)

'Money', ink on a dollar bill, 2011

'Yuan', ink on a dollar bill, 2011

Makeshift Studio

makeshift studio set up in my folks

for the days i have to spend there when im working in dublin

heres some half done pieces and some product placement.

dear Krink or Golden please send me free stuff

i just need black and white : )

Wish List for Dublin Contemporary 2011

With not much known yet about the line up and with the sudden departure of the artistic director, Dublin Contemporary is somewhat of a mystery with only months to go.

heres a short list of artists id like to see in the exhibition if i had my choice,

that also fit the brief of John Cage's 4.33/silence.

yes there are few obvious people missing

Christian Marclay 'record without a cover' would be perfect

along with his and John Zorn's music as the antithesis of silence

but also the use of chance that Cage used in creating his scores.

highlighting everything about 4.33's 'lack of sound',

is the same reason that Ryan Trecartin and Assume Vivd Astro Focus's are included.

if you have questions about my choices, feel free to ask me.

Urs Fischer

Banks Violette

Ryan Trecartin

P.opular S.ky (section ish) from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.

James Turrell

Ryan McGinley

Assume Vivid Astro Focus

Spartacus Chetwynd

Books ive read/reading since xmas 10 (updated as i read'em : ) )

Reading

Read

really great collection of interconnected poems

get it here

Nate Lowman the Natroit Act

from the Astrup Fearnley Museum

'Saunter is a companion to Questions of Travel,

a small book that was published by the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 2009.

It engages with similar ideas, albeit from a different perspective,

and interweaves them with images of work that has been shown in the Gallery's recent exhibitions.'

all 3 books are worth checking out, not to mention that they make some beautiful publications for their exhibitions.

this is one of those books that i will reread again & again

a mediation on the colour blue and life in general

more philosophy than poetry but not at the same time

like a one-sided conversation your happy just to listen to

get it here & read it in one go

another wonderful book by Tao Lin, a loosely hidden autobiographical book

about the love affair between 'haley joel osment' & 'dakota fanning'.

Lin writes about the now in the now using the now

minimal use of language but everything gets said that needs to.

'everything is fucked' but thats is okay.

cheese beast.

another book for writers or people that read a lot, also this is experimental fiction at its best.

a book that is about itself and more.

you can get it from Sator Press for a limited offer of name your price $1 or more

so do get it.

this is the 1st DFW i have read, it was pretty great collection of short stories, bar one story that i didnt

really like. the novella at the end (over 100 pages is a lil long for a short story) was the one i enjoyed the most.

he feels like a writer for people who write or read a lot, i will be reading more for sure.

really great primer on classical music from 1890 on

the later half of the book was my favourite part

id love if this area was expanded into a new book

as he's a great writer.

reasons why im glad i didnt grow up in the US, this book.

the destruction of a generation of children is documented

really well in this crime story.

boy this is great!

its like an updated and more 'mature' version of crackpot.

it also makes me wanna buy Comme des Garçons clothes and see his art collection

Clarice Lispector is one i have to read more of.

life is dark and she not afraid to show it.

Dorothea Lasky is one of my new favourite poets

her poem in a recent Paris Review made me get this and her new

collection Black Life, both are from Wave Books.

Columbine by Dave Cullen great at debunking all the myths surrounding this

shooting, also interesting to see that it was the first major school shooting that was covered live by the media and how the story changed because of them.

Great irish literary magazine id never read before but glad i did

go check it out! i found out about it here.

BEE back again and is it just me or is he getting better and better?

lots of people didnt like this that much or Lunar Park but i think they're were both great.

AR-G's autobiography?

he states that he 'tells no lies but also thinks there no truth.'

pretty great read even if you havent read any of his books

and an amazing insight if you have.