VISUAL CULTURE
Paul O'Neill: Projects
Hang the Commission! The Debate was part of Local Operations, a series of self-organised events at the Serpentine Gallery, 31 May 2007, 11am – 6pm
Locating the Producers launches with a public debate at the invitation of the Serpentine Gallery, London. Two opposing teams of art specialists have been assembled to debate whether commissioning perverts the artistic process. Involving impassioned arguments, anecdotal evidence, and critical statements, the two teams will battle it out over the course of a day in front of the gallery audience. An independent moderator will direct the day’s proceedings and bring the debate to its climactic conclusion by inviting the public to vote for the winning argument.
For: Alessio Antoniolli, David A. Bailey, Aileen Corkery, Susan Kelly, Jeni Walwin
Against: Dave Beech, Neil Cummings, Andrew Hunt, Sally O’Reilly, Becky Shaw
Debating Moderator: Dr. Mick Wilson
Curating Subjects, Paul O’Neill (ed.) (London & Amsterdam: Open Editions & De Appel, 2007, 215mm × 155mm, 232pp, ISBN 978-0-949004 -16-1), launch & public discussion, Serpentine Gallery, 27 February 2007, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Book contributors: Søren Andreasen & Lars Bang Larsen/ Julie Ault/ Carlos Basualdo/ Dave Beech & Mark Hutchinson/ Irene Calderoni/ Anshuman Das Gupta & Grant Watson/ Clémentine Deliss/ Eva Diaz/ Claire Doherty/ Okwui Enwezor/ Annie Fletcher/ Liam Gillick/ Jens Hoffmann/ Robert Nickas/ Hans Ulrich Obrist/ Sarah Pierce/ Simon Sheikh/ Mary Anne Staniszewski/ Andrew Wilson/ Mick Wilson
Discussion: ‘DO we need another curating book?’ with: Dave Beech, Ann Demeester, Claire Doherty, Grant Watson, Mick Wilson (chair)
General Idea/ Selected Retrospective Curated with Grant Watson in collaboration with AA Bronson, Project Gallery, Dublin, 28 January – 11 March 2006
“Project is proud to present the first Irish exhibition of the seminal artist’s group General Idea (1969 – 1994) in January 2006. Established by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, for almost thirty years this group worked with wit, theoretical sophistication and formal precision to critique and challenge the norms of both high and low culture.”
Mingle-Mangled: A Critical Curating Party, Club One, Cork, 10 July, 2005
“A curated discursive event in a nightclub environment, featuring a number of international artists, curators and DJs including Craig Richards (Fabric and Tyrant, UK), artist David Blamey (UK and FR), artist, curator and lecturer Mick Wilson (IRL), electronic musician Juergen Simpson (IRL) curators Paul O’Neill (UK), Annie Fletcher (NL), Charles Esche (NL), and Art/not art (IRL). All invited participants will both DJ and lecture in the nightclub on the same night in the same space.”
Coalesce, ®edux, London, 13 May – 6 June, 2005.
“For four weeks, a complex installation will convert ®edux space into a series of 4 exhibitions/ projects overlaid onto one another ranging from interventions, to meeting spaces, to publications, to ‘retro-happening nightclub’ events with video screenings and DJ sets on the opening launch night of the exhibition.”
La La Land, Project Gallery, Dublin, 20 May – 2 July, 2005
“La La Land proposes an experimental approach to exhibition making based on the curator’s extensive research in this area. It is an exhibition without a theme as a much as a series of contradictions. It is a show about being out of it, beyond a theme, beyond the exhibition as a unifying structure. La La Land advocates a lack of cohesion. The works have their own internal logic and have been selected not for their similarities but for their differences so that each takes on a particular role within the spectrum of the whole. And while they are situated in the gallery and carefully designed for the different planes of the space, they exit the gallery by consciously referring to an elsewhere…”
Coalesce: With All Due Intent, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, 15 December 2004 – 09 January 2005
“The exhibition – Kathrin Böhm, Tod Hanson, Jaime Gili, Alexander Mir, Clare Goodwin, Isabel Nolan, Willie Mc Keown, Lawrence Weiner, Jack B. Yeats, as well as artists’ videos selected with Sarah Carrington and Sophie Hope – will involve the artists working to create a unified exhibition within the Model galleries, mixing together on-going projects so that the exhibition takes the form of one and many works at the same time. Coalesce/With All Due Intent will literally be an overlapping of individual works, at once, a colorful, intermingled, and cross-cultured environment as well as a space to contemplate, reflect and spend time reading and viewing the works in the show.”
Bibliomania, August, 2000
“bibliomania: a collection of international artists’, art historians’, curators’, filmmakers’, psychoanalysts’ and writers’ book selections that reflect their individual interests and practice. The exhibitions, the website and the publications present the participants’ practice through the multiple sources that inform or contextualise it rather than the more traditional route of presenting their physical work.”
Non Place Urban Realm, South London Gallery, 9 – 21 August, 1999
“An exhibition and open forum debating urban change and renewal in the Western city featuring Marcelo Exposito, Marc Pataut and Paul O’Neill… The Gallery will become a laboratory, a place in which to exchange ideas, debating questions such as: Who are cities for? In whose images are cities made? How do new developments impact on local communities and the identity of the individual? Gustav Metzger, Anna Best, Mongrel, MSDM and MUF Architects are amongst those who will be introducing these themes as a basis for general, informal discussions.”
Selected Publications
Curating Subjects, Paul O’Neill (ed.) (London & Amsterdam: Open Editions & De Appel, 2007, 215mm × 155mm, 232pp, ISBN 978-0-949004 -16-1)
Profile: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Contemporary magazine, issue 77, 2005
The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art: An Observer’s Response, Situations Papers 1, 2005.
Artists’ favourites: Act I & Act II, The Future magazine, 2004
Venice Triumph (with David Blamey), CIRCA issue 97, Autumn 2001, pp.46-49.
