Dialogue Series
Dialogue Series at Four are a series of conversations that take place the first week of each exhibition and are free. Focused on the current exhibition in Four, the one-hour conversations are lead by artists, curators, art historians, and writers, and take place in Four. Reservations are suggested. Please call Four at 086 365 1256.Paul O'Neill & David Blamey
Dates to be announced.
The Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Paul O’Neill is a curator, artist, and writer, based in London and Bristol. He is currently Great Western Research Alliance (GWR) Research Fellow in Commissioning Contemporary Art with Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he is leading ‘Locating the Producers’ - a three year international research project that investigates curatorial methodologies and the commissioning of contemporary art through internationally-focused public events. From 2003-07, he dedicated his time to researching the development of contemporary curatorial discourses since the late 1980s as part of a PhD scholarship at Middlesex University. Between 2001-03, he was gallery curator at London Print Studio Gallery, where he curated group shows such as Private Views; Frictions; A Timely Place...Or Getting Back to Somewhere; All That is Solid and solo projects: Being Childish Billy Childish; Phil Collins Reproduction Timewasted; Harrowed: Faisal Abdu’ Allah and Locating: Corban Walker. He was co- director of MultiplesX from 1997-06; an organisation that commissions and supports curated exhibitions of artist’s editions, which he established in 1997 and has presented exhibitions at spaces such as the ICA, London; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Ormeau Baths, Belfast; Glassbox, Paris and The Lowry, Manchester. He has curated or co-curated over 50 exhibition projects including: Tape Runs Out, Text and Work Gallery, Bournemouth (2007); Intermittent, Gallery for One, Dublin (2007); Making Do, The Lab, Dublin (2007); Our Day Will Come, Zoo Art Fair, London (2006); General Idea: Selected Retrospective, Project, Dublin (2006); Mingle-Mangled, part of Cork Caucus, Cork (2005); La La Land, Project, Dublin (2005); Coalesce: The Remix, Redux, London (2005); Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London, (2004); Coalesce: With All Due Intent at Model and Niland Art Gallery, Sligo (2004); Are We There Yet? Glassbox, Paris (2000) and Passports, Zaçheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw (1998). As an artist, he has exhibited widely including at: Zaçheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; temporarycontemporary, London; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Villa Arson, Nice; South London Gallery; Cell Project Space, London; the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin and many others. He has lectured on Curatorial Training Programmes including those at Goldsmiths College London; de Appel, Amsterdam and the Whitney ISP, New York. His writing has been published in many books, catalogues, journals and magazines including Art Monthly, Space & Culture, Everything, Contemporary, The Internationaler and CIRCA. His edited anthology Curating Subjects, ed. Paul O’Neill ( Amsterdam & London, de Appel and Open Editions, 2007) has just been published.
David Blamey was born in London in 1961. He studied at the Royal College of Art where he graduated in 1985. During the early 1990s he showed at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London and established the independent publishing imprint Open Editions as a vehicle for collaborations between artists, writers and academics from a variety of parallel and interconnecting fields. During this period he curated the international touring exhibitions ‘Work & Turn’ and ‘Looking At Words: Reading Pictures’, surveys of artists’ publishing that traced the development of the form from the 1970s to the present day. Since the late 90s he has shown at a number of galleries run by artists' collectives - Arthur R. Rose in London, Glass Box in Paris and Four in Dublin - as well as exhibiting at established venues such as Zachéta National Gallery, Warsaw and Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia. For over twenty years he has regularly travelled and carried out research in India - “the most real place on earth” - and in 2006 he was awarded the Arts Council of England’s Prayog International Artist Fellowship and was a guest contributor to the Experimenta 2007 festival in Bangalore and Mumbai. His two edited cultural studies books are, ‘Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues On Location and Mobility’ (2002) and ‘Living Pictures: Perspectives On The Film Poster In India’ (2005), both published by Open Editions. He is the founder and director of the critical forum programme in the School of Communications at the RCA and has written in other critical contexts, most recently for ‘Design and Art’ (2007), an anthology of writing about the historical interconnections between art and design, edited by Alex Coles and published by the Whitechapel and MIT Press.