Sleepwalkers–Production as Process
Spread from Sleepwalkers, Ridinghouse, 2014
Émile – After all, maybe we’re not as alone as we think.
Patricia – After all, yes. We’re on TV, right?
Radio sounds … narration: ‘8,247 frames, 22,243, 72,000, 125,000 … about 7,500 feet. 127,000 feet.’ Patrice comes in (the background is a black void), dressed in red and blue, carrying a clear umbrella with yellow stripes. It is her ‘anti-nuclear umbrella,’ she explains. She trips over Émile. He tells us about her, she about him.
She announces: ‘I want to learn, to teach myself, to teach everyone that we must turn back against the enemy that weapon with which he attacks us: Language.’ ‘We are on TV,’ he says. ‘Then let’s go into people’s homes and ask them what we want to know,’ she replies. Frame: SAVOIR (to know). Pan to black. A montage of street scenes and pictures ending with the cartoon (p. 000) which ‘identifies’ the film mathematically with zero. Muddled radio voices.
‘Let’s start from zero,’ he says. ‘No,’ she replies, ‘it is necessary to return to zero first.’
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Posted by HughLane on February 18, 2013
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
19 June 2012–12 May 2013
Sleepwalkers was the title for an investigational programming format based on 'exhibition making' where one's non-specific expectations of museums can be stretched out. It is an unusual experiment in exhibition production in a museum setting. Over a six month period Gallery 8 was open to the public as it operated as a meeting hub for six invited artists to develop and synthesise their overlapping fields of knowledge into a programme of future site specific installations to be exhibited in 2012 and 2013 at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.
The six artists are: Clodagh Emoe, Lee Welch, Sean Lynch, Linda Quinlan, Jim Ricks and Gavin Murphy.
A blog documenting the process can be found at: http://hughlane.wordpress.com