Problem Phase no Problem McConigly’s proposition for the series of works in the exhibition “Problem Phase no Problem” lies in the use of flat, entangled imagery – the heaviness of interfering patterns and hard edges. The flat patterns as a starting point creates a restrictive one dimensional surface which is then confronted and enabled through …
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LEAN
Minda Andrén & Phelim McConigly Reasons for leaning: comfort, aggression, political, olfactory, weight distribution, other. If it was in my nature to lean so far to one side, I would have done so already.The fact is, that leaning in a timely manner just a little, like this…. will only get you so far. What if …
Pimlico Palatschinken
26th & 27th of April 2019De Pimlico Projects, London, UKAndrew Mezvinsky will be presenting my work in a turn of the century Georgian House along with Palatschinken and the work of Brishty Alam, Minda Andrén, Olivia Coeln, Marina Faust, Clegg and Guttmann, Barbara Hainz, Sebastian Hoch, Nicolas Jasmin, Birigit Knoechl, Benedikt Ledebur, Phelim Mcconigly, Rita Nitsch, Flavio Palasciano, Doris Panholzer, Sophie Poelzl, Herwig Scherabon, Nora Severios, Eva Schlegel, Axel Stockburger, Marina Sula, Draschan Thomas, Ines Turian, Alexander Jackson Wyatt, et …
< t < a < n > g e > n < t > > c y
<t<a<n>ge>n<t>>cy It’s as if something… that could orbit, something referring one object to another. Think of two dancers, dance, with a movement seen from above that forms a tangent, it lets loose, one object of another, flung through a space. Neither knows exactly the… No, it’s not that either. It’s the lack of any precise …
Art & Agency in the Medical Environment @ MedUni Pleven
From the Periphery to the Core, the Appendix to the Heart Art and Agency in the Medical Environment A conversation on the possibilities of trans-disciplinary ideas in artistic practice, specifically between contemporary art, its institutions, and the spaces in which those institutions exist. As example the medical environment, a discussion on the differences and similarities …
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Resilience is performed in our very own imagination
Publication: Journal of Irish Studies: McConigly, Phelim. “Resilience is performed in our very own imagination, An Artistic Intervention.” In Daredevils of History? Resilience in Armenia and Ireland, edited by Suzan Meryem Rosita and Dieter Reinisch, 207-210. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018.
Image as Fortress, Art On Route Festival, Heraklion
Having started work on the Heraklion versions of “Fortress Image” as mimetic sculpture, I would like to continue this project with a work in the city which reflects the eclectic mix of style of architecture in the cities history. In his book Mimesis & Alterity by Michael Taussig he talks of the fortress-images of the …
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Lombardia, Longbeard, (Long… Beard…)
Performative Installation @ Schneiderei / Studio Ruyter, Wien The illusion of safety in an object – is also a reworking of a previous piece which I made regarding this Bulgarian Architect Atanas Petrov, who I’ve been in contact with because of his medical museum from 1965 in Bulgaria. I’ve been working with that space both …
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien
Diploma, June 2017 “Foundation” is a 1:5 scale model of the plan (foundation) of the medical museum on the grounds of the University Hospital Georgi Stranski, Pleven, Bulgaria. I have been working with this museum in various projects since 2014 as artist/curator. It is a modest modernist structure built in 1965, and in use as …
Parallax
Parallax @ Medical Museum, Uni.Hospital Georgi Stranski, Pleven, Bulgaria w/ Atanas Petrov Foundation documentation The “Parallax” project aims to create a permanent installation of works in the medical museum, which is representative of the political and social upheaval from its founding in 1965, the 50+ years of the structures existence, including its closure around 1989 and …