Tintype is delighted to present Open Close Thing by CIAN McCONN in collaboration with EVE VAUGHAN, VIVIENNE GRIFFIN and KASPERS GROSHEVS.
Open Close Thing takes the form of two book-end performance events: Open on 9 January; Close on 2 February.
Between the performances the gallery will be ‘set dressed’ – a ghost imprint of what has happened and what could happen in the space: a tableau in which the opposites optimism and nihilism, life and death, joy and sorrow are teased out.
Working with print, collage, video and performance, McConn explores and exposes the meeting point of the self and the world. Like a series of jump cuts – satirical, irreverent, absurd – his work places and displaces the logic of individuality and perception.
OPEN with Eve Vaughan / 9 January ongoing performance from 6pm to 8.30pm P E R F O R M P O S I T I V E V I B R A T I O N S Happiness Hello
CLOSE with Vivienne Griffin and Kaspers Groshevs / 2 February one performance at 7pm (booking essential) P E R F O R M N O T H I N G E M P T Y N O T H I N G N E S S Sadness Goodbye
CIAN McCONN completed his MA at the Royal College of Art, London in 2012. He uses performance, video and photography to engage and collaborate with other practitioners. Before moving to London he lived in New York for five years, working as a production co-ordinator for PERFORMA 05, 07 and 09 with artists such as Christian Toomaszewski, Joanna Malinoska, Kelly Nipper, Yvonne Raine and Francis Alys. In Autumn 2012 he participated in Tino Sehgal’s These associations at Tate Modern.
EVE VAUGHAN is a contemporary theatre and live art practitioner based in Ireland who specialises in making performances and installations in public spaces. She has performed as part of festivals and with the support of art galleries in Galway, Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Amsterdam, New York and London.
VIVIENNE GRIFFIN graduated from Hunter College MFA, NYC in 2010 with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. She currently lives and works in London. Upcoming shows include The Show House, December 2012 in two adjoining London apartments and a solo show in February 2013 at Bureau Inc, New York.
KASPERS GROSHEVS is an artist from Riga, Latvia who mostly works with sound, drawings and video. He has been experimenting with electronic music since the late 90s. Gro š evs is a contributing editor at Studija magazine, hosts a show on radio NABA, and occasionally performs in concerts around the Baltics. In 2011 he had a solo exhibition at KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga. http://kasprsg.com
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