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5th May - 16 June 2007
The Important Thing Is That Tomorrow Is Not The Same As Yesterday
David Beattie, Gillian Kane and Paul McAree

The Important Thing Is That Tomorrow Is Not The Same As Yesterday
presents works as an antidote to living within the state of being
contemporary. The title draws on the ideas of Lewis Mumford
(1895 - 1990), who wrote extensively on man's interaction with
technology. He proposed that the clock: "a piece of machinery
whose 'product' is seconds and minutes" introduced a new concept
- that of being 'out of date'. This, he posited, paved the way
for the modern trend of technology, which emphasizes constant,
unrestricted expansion, production, and replacement, forces
"obsolescence through frequent arbitrary changes of fashion",
and can be seen today as perpetuating a world where the act of
being contemporary is the process of a continual becoming
out-of-date. The psychology of which results in the unending
need to 'refresh' the world/the products around us a one might
refresh a webpage.

Chosen through specific resonances and distinctions in terms of
their working methodology and use of materials, the exhibiting
artists have each produced a new work in response to this reading
of the contemporary. Each has a different and special method of
employing technology and reacting to their environment that meets,
however, in a place which sustains the transient, discarded
ephemera of modern living, halting the march of time through
modest personal investigations within an increasingly homogenized
mass-history. This is the antidote to a contemporary that is a
ceaseless becoming, and which is increasingly becoming the vital
realm of contemporary art practice.

David Beattie's work takes the form of installation, video, sound,
photography and sculpture with which he investigates the
physicality of space, substance and time. David recently
completed an MA in Visual Arts Practices at IADT and recent
exhibitions include Broadstone XL, Dublin (2007), Seconds:
the Imperfect Artwork, Wexford Arts Centre (2006), and Utopias,
Éigse06, Carlow (2006). Forthcoming projects include Sculpture
at Kells (Kilkenny) and as part of House Projects: Lighthouse
(London) and Homemade (Dublin).

Gillian Kane's temporary mural-like wall drawings, drawn from
daily walks along Dublin's Dodder river, are an attempt to capture
shared experiences which occur as a result of social, physical
and ecological upheaval and discomfort in an age of rapidly
developing change and technological advancements. Since graduating
from NCAD, Gillian has been commissioned by the OPW, completed a
residency in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and has exhibited in the
RHA, Pallas Heights, Dublin Fringe Festival and at Project as part
of the art collective Mongrel Foundation.

Paul McAree works with a variety of media - painting,
photography, music and performance - to suggest new contexts,
meanings and possibilities, in which 'a complex and obtuse web
of relations, points on the one hand to specific meaning, while
other images reinforce the notion that meaning is subjective and
coincidental'. Co-founder and curator of Colony gallery in
Birmingham, he has exhibited widely in the UK and Ireland,
recently for the Tulca Festival, Galway. He is currently based
in Dublin as Art Projects Manager for Breaking Ground, Ballymun.

 

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