NOVEMBER 2007
NOW available from Ninepoint
records
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artist: Garrett Phelan
title: Black Brain Radio
label: Ninepoint records (9-pt), Dublin
catalogue no.: 9.10
release date: 21 October 2007
The Black Brain Radio CD features two 30 minute extracts from a radio artwork created by unconventional and innovative artist Garrett Phelan.?It is released in a multiple of 200 copies with accompanying 24-page booklet and custom-made sleeve.
Black Brain Radio is a continuation of Garrett Phelan?s most recent large scale body of work ?Formation of Opinion?, which explores the processes through which ideas or values enter into society. In Black Brain Radio?the listener is presented with an onslaught of information reprocessed through the artist?s voice, and presented as a series of confusing, disjointed fragments. Black Brain Radio requires the listener to follow unpredictable, even obsessive thought-patterns, as subject-matter jumps without warning.
Phelan spent approximately two months collating and editing the information for Black Brain Radio, time he describes as ?days of nothingness?. An hour of this material is presented on this CD.?
The Black Brain Radio transmission was originally broadcast around the clock over a 30-day period (from 19 January ? 17 February 2006) to listeners within the greater Dublin area on a frequency of 89.9FM, reaching a wider global audience through its on-line presence. The project was further extended by two gallery installations marketing the frequency at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
Garrett Phelan, a Dublin-based artist, has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and has been involved in a number of groundbreaking projects that explore the relationship between radio and art. Projects from Phelan?s on-going body of work ?Formation of Opinion? include artworks such as TRUSTED SERVANT, commissioned for the international group show '.all hawaii eNtr?es / luNar reGGae' at IMMA; BLACK BRAIN RADIO; GOD ONLY KNOWS commissioned by Pallas Heights in partnership with Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; LUNGLOVE as part of Manifesta 5, European Biennial and NOW:HERE presented in association with Pallas Heights.
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