Alastair MacLennan
Ink Ash
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installation performance: duration 5 hours; documentation extracts above – 42 mins
Artist statement from the original Festival website:
This will be a dynamically contained performance, The action will be rhythmic and ritualistic, building intensity over a 5-hour period. It will be unexpectedly sited, acting as a contextual referent or foil.
Directly and indirectly the work alludes to: poising understanding complying raiding disarming looking saying serving installing bedding preserving climbing raising complaining declining removing replying blurring marking signing visiting asking giving revealing clarifying saying abusing starting telling raping issuing spending increasing claiming referring arresting defrauding holding beginning posting bringing buying becoming fuelling holding explaining telling driving rioting emulating hoping counting stealing reversing pondering emerging flying backing liking suggesting reversing talking believing counting wearing appointing crushing failing accusing giving putting preparing undergoing continuing revealing attacking forming coming gathering discovering throwing designing setting purchasing spitting closing prohibiting wanting approving announcing getting ignoring making taking condemning accepting beaming buying flouncing taking blaming doing offering buying holding boycotting seeing locking meaning beginning posting putting announcing holding telling securing expecting wielding calling merging challenging using hauling gripping planting exposing dropping amending doing wishing looking expecting treating ordering claiming taking making fleeing going arresting running conducting appearing happening realising believing basing reporting starting having adding visiting finishing believing giving building fitting depending promising seeming showing advising announcing attending becoming bringing flocking wearing backing cheating becoming tearing feeling abstaining telling detaining shouting dispersing including making using reshaping calling supporting finding preventing distancing noting conflicting decamping shooting trying giving banning giving…
MacLennan has worked since 1975 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he is a key figure in fine art. His achievements as an artist have had a significant influence on performance art, nationally and internationally. Performing in diverse contexts and locations, his works reflect political, social and cultural ‘conditions’ and seek to fuse interrelations. His works have been presented globally both those created as an independent artist and those made as part of Black Market International . He represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and has work in private and public collections. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Ulster, N. Ireland.
Ink Ash
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Artist statement from the original Festival website:
This will be a dynamically contained performance, The action will be rhythmic and ritualistic, building intensity over a 5-hour period. It will be unexpectedly sited, acting as a contextual referent or foil.
Directly and indirectly the work alludes to: poising understanding complying raiding disarming looking saying serving installing bedding preserving climbing raising complaining declining removing replying blurring marking signing visiting asking giving revealing clarifying saying abusing starting telling raping issuing spending increasing claiming referring arresting defrauding holding beginning posting bringing buying becoming fuelling holding explaining telling driving rioting emulating hoping counting stealing reversing pondering emerging flying backing liking suggesting reversing talking believing counting wearing appointing crushing failing accusing giving putting preparing undergoing continuing revealing attacking forming coming gathering discovering throwing designing setting purchasing spitting closing prohibiting wanting approving announcing getting ignoring making taking condemning accepting beaming buying flouncing taking blaming doing offering buying holding boycotting seeing locking meaning beginning posting putting announcing holding telling securing expecting wielding calling merging challenging using hauling gripping planting exposing dropping amending doing wishing looking expecting treating ordering claiming taking making fleeing going arresting running conducting appearing happening realising believing basing reporting starting having adding visiting finishing believing giving building fitting depending promising seeming showing advising announcing attending becoming bringing flocking wearing backing cheating becoming tearing feeling abstaining telling detaining shouting dispersing including making using reshaping calling supporting finding preventing distancing noting conflicting decamping shooting trying giving banning giving…
MacLennan has worked since 1975 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he is a key figure in fine art. His achievements as an artist have had a significant influence on performance art, nationally and internationally. Performing in diverse contexts and locations, his works reflect political, social and cultural ‘conditions’ and seek to fuse interrelations. His works have been presented globally both those created as an independent artist and those made as part of Black Market International . He represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and has work in private and public collections. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Ulster, N. Ireland.