Céline Condorelli,
featuring The Company
Additionals
7 November 2013–18 January 2014
Opening: Wednesday 6 November, 6–8pm
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland
Hours: Monday–Saturday 11am–8pm
Free admission
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In this unique artistic conversation between artist Céline Condorelli and theatre artists The Company, Project Arts Centre brings together the two prominent strands of our artistic programming.
The gallery becomes home to five sculptures—Structure for Communicating with Wind, Structure for Listening, Structure for Preparing the Piano, Structure for Reading and Structure for Public Speaking—provocative hybrids of form and function, useful things and purposeless things. These are Additionals, the cast that resulted from Céline Condorelli’s journey as Tiger with Cornelius Cardew’s score The Tiger’s Mind, developed during the project initiated by filmmaker Beatrice Gibson and typographer Will Holder. Additionals now feature in The Company’s work-in-development at Project Arts Centre.
Combining existing items—a towering bank of sound-system speakers, ‘space blanket’ modified into a curtain, or an Ercol chair perched atop a step ladder, Condorelli’s Additionals bear a resemblance in attitude, and continue the lineage of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s The Minus Objects. They further provoke questions around the artness of art objects, appearing as props or backdrops in other filmed contexts. Trained as an architect, and the author of the acclaimed Support Structures, Céline Condorelli has made it her artistic project to interrogate the unwritten assumptions of display structures, the authorative autonomy of the art object, and the singular identity of the artist. Additionals are the cast which are asked to play various roles, to stand in for different purposes, to provide a function.
The gallery, and Céline Condorelli’s exhibition, will become the site of The Company’s creative process, as they work with these five structures for the duration of the exhibition. The Company has repeatedly mined its own theatrical form in an attempt to disrupt conventional theatre, but also embraced those conventions as the scaffolding of meaning. Evolving from Condorelli’s interest in support structures, objects and identity in art and architecture, The Company will work with Additionals to look at similar constructions of meaning and occupation in theatre: “We want to strip away the impulse to narrativise Additionals as props, or manufacture any sort of representation. We want to know these five structures as objects.”
And thus we present, with as yet unknown outcomes: Additionals – Céline Condorelli, featuring The Company.
Curated by Tessa Giblin and Cian O’Brien, Project Arts Centre.
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Floor talk: Wednesday 6 November, 5pm, with Céline Condorelli, The Company and Tessa Giblin
Conversation: Tuesday 5 November, 3pm, between Maeve Connolly (MAVIS, IADT) and Céline Condorelli
Extra information
The visual arts programme of Project Arts Centre commissions new exhibitions with leading artists from around the world. Currently on tour around Ireland is the Australian artist Mikala Dwyer‘sPanto Collapsar, which continues to visit venues across Ireland in 2013 and early 2014, including West Cork Arts Centre, Wexford Arts Centre, Ballina Arts Centre, Mermaid Arts Centre, Riverbank Arts Centre and Droichead Arts Centre. Next in the gallery will be a new exhibition by Czech artists Eva Kotátková and Dominik Lang.
