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23/07/2020 - 31/12/2020

Gail Mahon has invited sound artist and music producer Aengus Friel to extend research into haptic and spatial architectures, where physiological effects of sound echolocate and navigate immediate responses through an audio-soundscapes derived of materiality of body, durational performance processes.

Collaboratively Mahon’s material-based installation and performances works meet Friel’s work in his darkened dreamscapes and evocation of the uncanny. Dark Ecology by Timothy Morton and has a proposed meeting of perspectives in the dialogue the forming the conditions through which we can speculate and investigate stress in shaping our bone physiology as natural ecological changes towards a new hybrid anatomy. The collaborative process will push our practices passed the edges of the visual and sonic mediums into extended sensory priorities with temperature, pain, balance and proprioception, testing our feedback to navigate or open possibilities in ourselves to becoming reflexively aware of both cellular and earth scale simultaneously.

This exchange will be grounds for research in case studies in hybrid anatomies of becoming/being posthuman; as representations of the darkened ‘silences’, ‘redaction’ and ‘erasure’ experienced as both perpetrator and victim feed-back loops of living in the Anthropocene and ecological separation and adaptations. Experiments of echolocation will aim to form questions as a social response towards an immersive a dark meditation through the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) Fight and flight conditions as a suspended moment of compression and tension lived within our changing (bio)architectures.

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Gail Mahon, Untethered, Thameside Studio Gallery, London, 2019 Collaboration work with Kim Norton, within group show- In Search of The Vernacular- curated by HAPTIC /TACIT London Thameside Studios Gallery. Constructed ceramic pole structures, latex wall cast, raw clay and ceramic objects, photography on bamboo paper, (Gail) Canvas canopy, raw clays (from Carmarthen, Oxford, Northern Ireland), oxide, muslin, rope, wooden sticks, found stone, brick (Kim).
Gail Mahon, Untethered, Thameside Studio Gallery, London, 2019 Collaboration work with Kim Norton, within group show- In Search of The Vernacular- curated by HAPTIC /TACIT London Thameside Studios Gallery. Constructed ceramic pole structures, latex wall cast, raw clay and ceramic objects, photography on bamboo paper, (Gail) Canvas canopy, raw clays (from Carmarthen, Oxford, Northern Ireland), oxide, muslin, rope, wooden sticks, found stone, brick (Kim).
Gail Mahon, Untitled (Unthered), Giclee print on bamboo paper - a collaborative response in development of work with Kim Norton (In Search of the Vernacular). 2018. Image credit Gail Mahon
Gail Mahon, Untitled (Unthered), Giclee print on bamboo paper - a collaborative response in development of work with Kim Norton (In Search of the Vernacular). 2018. Image credit Gail Mahon
Gail Mahon, Controchasm: Grounding the Vernacular, Golden Thread Gallery, 2019 New Narratives: Dissolving Histories - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Curated by Paul Seawright and Peter Richards. Image credit: Simon Mills courtesy of Golden Thread Gallery. Latex, oxide, ceramics, graphite, horsehair, digital film.
Gail Mahon, Controchasm: Grounding the Vernacular, Golden Thread Gallery, 2019

New Narratives: Dissolving Histories - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Curated by Paul Seawright and Peter Richards. Image credit: Simon Mills courtesy of Golden Thread Gallery. Latex, oxide, ceramics, graphite, horsehair, digital film.
Aengus Friel and Tim Holehouse, Performance live event in Templebawn Cave, 2017.
Aengus Friel and Tim Holehouse, Performance live event in Templebawn Cave, 2017.

Gail Mahon is an artist, research practitioner and educator; who works from a studio in Causeway Coast of Northern Ireland. Mahon holds a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, London and visiting lecturer at Ulster University. Her practice extends the notion of materiality through the body via installation, performance, photography collaborations and time-based processes often wider practice conversations through interdisciplinary collaborations. Shortlisted for the V&A ceramics residency 2016. Recipient of Arts Council Northern Ireland SIAP Award 2015, 2012 and 2009. Founder of CAAKE (Collaborative Art and Kinetic Environments), that develops public interventions, exhibitions and active research activities in expanded Art, Material and Performance practice and residencies in Northern Ireland. Her works have been exhibited in Ireland, Italy, U.K, and China. Recent shows include Litumustone InVit(r)o at Verbal Arts Centre, Derry-Londonderry, In Search of the Vernacular, Thameside Studios Gallery, London, and Dissolving Histories: New Narratives, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast and performances during ECHO ECHO Dance Theatre Festival, 2019.

Aengus Friel is an electronic/ambient artist/music producer under the alias 'Shammen Delly', hailing from deep within the hills of Co.Donegal. Friel also performs and produces live events throughout Ireland. Recent events have included the addition of film and reworked found imagery along with experimental live performances, at ‘220 Volts’ event curated by Northern Lights Project, Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Derry City 2019. Friel also works site specifically and collaboratively to create unique immersive experiences. 2017 Friel collaborated in an experimental live event in Templebawn Cave. Aengus Friel worked with Tim Holehouse who performed - dressed as a druid - throat singing to accompany the natural acoustics of the cave. Friel used a series of ambient loops and rhythms emitting sound from a battery powered amp to produce densely hypnotic, ambient soundscapes for an invited amount of people to witness this event in Fermanagh.

Past Residencies

2023

Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research Residencies

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