William McKeown: Five Working Days
19th November 2010- 15th January 2011
In Conversation
Thursday 25th November
7pm/ Free
William McKeown talks to critic, curator, writer and lecturer Declan Long about the current exhibition at OBG.
A certain Distance, endless light
A Talk about Painting by Gavin Delahunty
Thursday 9th December
7pm/ Free
A talk by Gavin Delahunty which will place McKeown’s work in a broader context of contemporary painting, exploring key themes, trends and some of the most significant painters working today.
Delahunty has recently been appointed as Head of Exhibitions and Collections at Tate Liverpool, having previously been Senior Curator at mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art). At mima, he curated a number of important shows including British Surrealism & Other Realities, A Certain Distance Endless Light: A project by Felix Gonzalez-Torres & William McKeown, The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing. He is currently working towards the opening of Gerhard Richter: Lines which do not exist, will open at The Drawing Center, New York in September 2010.
Sleeping & Waking Minds: The Biomuse Trio
Saturday 15th January
2pm/ Free
This workshop expands on the capacity for art, and specifically McKeown’s work to investigate and evoke states of mind. This workshop will explore techniques and concepts behind a piece of music that is currently being made by a group of artists known as the Biomuse Trio.
The composition is ‘Music for Sleeping & Waking Minds,’ a work that proposes a novel idea: that art can emerge as a process of evolving, collective consciousness. In the piece, performers are connected to electroencephalogram (EEG) monitors. During the course of this composition the performers rest, sleep and gradually awaken. As they move between different states of consciousness (and cycle between the different stages of sleep) their brainwaves drive the generation of music, which changes according to shifts in brainwave activity.
Experiment with Painting
Wednesday 15th December
6pm/ £5
Escape the Christmas frenzy with this informal painting class taught by a professional artist. This class will explore some of the themes behind McKeown’s work. This class is suitable for people of all abilities.
