Phelim McConigly

It Takes A Village

Baba Vasa’s Cellar, Shabla, Bulgaria, July 2024

invited by Karin Fauchard & Lazar Lyutakov, curated by Brishty Alam
with Brishty Alam, Minda Andrén, Marc-Alexandre Dumoulin, Oleg Frolov, Barbara Hainz, Alexander Jackson Wyatt, Phelim McConigly, Andrew Mezvinsky, Flavio Palasciano, Sophie Pölzl, Nora Severios, Axel Stockburger, Johanna Charlotte Trede, Alexandra Wanderer

Unabridged

Künstlerhaus 1010 Vienna, 02.2024, curated by Phelim McConigly

Compiling a sound installation by Patricia J. Reis and Dora Deliyska, together with the video “Pulsation” – video by Axel Stockburger, sound by Kai Maier-Rothe, as well as sculptural positions by Anna Hofbauer, Phelim McConigly, Flavio Palasciano and Johanna Charlotte Trede, Unabridged considers various positions between in/-determinism.

It is the functional site (Meyer 1995) where the contours of indeterminacy emerge momentarily – the transience of sculptural form against mechanical rhythms, crossing over and over again.

This functional site, a situation-specific expansion which disables and enables sound against form, creates a cadence of intersection. From the comparison to the contradictory, the cathartic to the detached, the temporal swing will see its way to the end and back. Thrown, volleyed, pivoted, consumed, superimposed, flown, and returned, over and over again.

List of works

1 & 2 Dora Deliyska / Patricia J. Reis

„Über Wolken und Uhren”, Sound Performance & Installation based on

Poème Symphonique für 100 Metronome and piano pieces by György Ligeti

100 Metronome, Sand, Textile, fishing line, Frame & Wood, Piano 2024

3 & 4 Anna Hofbauer

„Wurfarm”, statuario marble, wood, fabric, dispersion 2007

„Director’s cut”, alabaster, Untersberg marble yellow, wood 2023

5 Flavio Palasciano

Auspicious Module (acute)

Print on mesh, construction fence, concrete, rubble bags 2022

6 Phelim McConigly

„What Vertigo!” 5 x Plaster/Wood 2024

7 Axel Stockburger / Kai Maier-Rothe / Dora Deliyska: Piano

„Pulsations“ Video: 08:40, 2022

György Ligeti – Études 4: Fanfares (1985)

8 Johanna Charlotte Trede

„Ellipse“, Wood object 2018

photos by Flavio Palasciano

Tinderstick

AFAIR they were the one wearing the tindersticks shirt, but I don’t think either of us owned one.

…Always liked the idea of a body double, like there’s endless possibilities for different paths in life. These William Blake paintings coming back to life, ambivalent manifestations of iconic image, fascination with body doubles, taking historical existing figuration and transposing them into this coexistence, like parallel universes, you see them all at once on one level, historical narrative and banal reenactment trapped in a contemporary context.

Am not I – A fly like thee? – Or art not thou – A man like me?

Sound piece in collaboration with Alex Jackson Wyatt, James Swift & William Blake

Turnsaal New Jörg

New Jörg, Jägerstraße 56, 1200 Vienna, 11.2022 – 01.2023, Invited by Alexander Jackson Wyatt

https://kubaparis.com/submission/273929

Bregenz Biennale 2020

For the Bregenz Biennale 2020, five artists were invited to declare singular moments with guests, friends, and places as works of art. These postcards are documents of their encounters.

Problem Phase no Problem

solo @ ZK Art Space, Beijing, Sep 9th

LEAN

Minda Andren & Phelim McConigly @ Memphis, Linz, May 14th

Parallel

2019, Vienna – intervention, Sep 24-29 Lassallestrasse

Pimlico Palatschinken

26th & 27th of April 2019, De Pimlico Projects, London, UK

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<dienstag abend> no.92, Austrian Embassy, Beijing

2018

Seminar “Art & Agency in the Medical Environment” @ MedUniPleven, Bulgaria, October

Image as Fortress, Art On Route Festival, Heraklion, July

“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.

<dienstag abend> no.91 Kupala an der Donau / Hoast Gallery

2017

Performative Installation “Lombardia, Longbeard, (Long… Beard…) @ Schneiderei / Studio Ruyter – October