works for exhibitions / sound installations

Breathing Space: in Response to 1 Chiltern Street takes as its’ starting point a building, the Old Fire Station at 1 Chiltern Street. Built with a series of specific purpose in mind; housing fire fighters, their families, their equipment and facilitating the considerable periods of waiting for action; it was decommissioned in 2005 and is now empty and rendered functionless. Through a series of disciplines; sound installation, performance, installation, dance, photography, film and architectural practice, the artists invited to exhibit in Breathing Space will spend five weeks before the exhibition working in 1 Chiltern Street, inhabiting it as a place and a context for making; obliquely referring to its past, its architecture, its location, using its acoustics and space. Nothing unites the works here other than their setting; the works merely offer themselves as enigmatic fragments, realities and fictions to be occupied and interpreted within the architectural place.

“64c”
Commissioned by Lisa Alexander (as part of a research and development project funded Arts Council England and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) to create an 8-channel Sound composition for an installation in an unoccupied flat, “64c”, East London Mon 28 – Fri 1 June 2007

Clints&Grikes
Commissioned by the Limestone Barrens Exhibition. The show features photography, sound, music, poetry, installation and video works by leading artists from three regions: Greg Staats, Har-Prakash Khalsa, Kris Rosar and Liz Zetlin from Ontario; Marlene Creates, David Morrish and John Steffler from Newfoundland and Labrador; Orla Kenny, Liam O’Callaghan and Rob Canning from Ireland. The exhibition began its tour at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery in Corner Brook in July 2004 and will tour to Niland Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland; Limerick City Museum, Ireland in 2005 and to the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s upon its return to Canada. Research and documentation of the project will appear in a major publication featuring texts by the three curators: Charlotte Jones, Corner Brook; Sean McCrum, Dublin; and Stuart Reid, Owen Sound. The book will be available for sale through ABC Art Books Canada at http://www.abcartbookscanada.com later this year.

Soundshapes, Improvisations I-V
Commissioned by the Soundshapes exhibition with funds provided by the Galway Arts Festival and the Arts Council of Ireland. Soundshapes is the third in a series of creative exhibitions co-curated by Sean McCrum and Hilary Morley (following Chairs in 1999 and Containers in 2000) and involves participants from Ireland (North and South), the U.K. Slovakia and the U.S. It combines music composers and object makers who have worked together to create unique sculpture and craft – a collection of 15 beautiful objects which the public are invited to interact with. Performers: Rob Canning (Director) -live electronics, Paul Roe – clarinets – glass instruments, Joe O’Farrell – flutes – glass instruments. Glass instruments by Salah Kawala

Myriorama (7 Eccles Street)
Generative sound installation. (using PD on a GNU/linux OS)
Commissioned by Orna Hanley Architects in association with the National Library of Ireland. Premiere information: June 2004 Running from June 2004 to spring 2006 Location: National Library of Ireland, Dublin. Ireland.