GARRETT PHELAN current projects on view

'At what point will common sense prevail' - as part of

Emotional Community
24th June - 25th July
curated by Teresa Macrì featuring Francesco Arena, Jeremy Deller, Gabriele De Santis, Gülsün Karamustafa, Mike Kelley, Garrett Phelan, Alejandro Vidal, Akram Zaatari and The Joy Division

Installation detail Monitor, Rome, Italy.

MONITOR
Palazzo Sforza Cesarini
via Sforza Cesarini 43a-44 00186 Roma
00390639378024
monitor@monitoronline.org
www.monitoronline.org

The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, from 1 to 7pm

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'At what point will common sense prevail'
PARADISE ROW

26 June - 25th July 2009
Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 10-6
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-6

Installation detail Paradise Row, London, UK.

Address:
Paradise Row
St Matthew's Hall
Entrance: 17 Hereford Street, London, E2 6EX
UK
T: 44(0) 20 7613 3311
General Enquiries:
info@paradiserow.com

Press Enquiries:
Rhiannon Pickles
Tel: 44 20 7096 8809 / Cel: 31 6158 21202
rhiannonpickles@mac.com

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'At what point will common sense prevail' - as part of

Getting Even - Kunstverein Hannover,
curated by Matt Packer and René Zechlin,
Oppositions + Dialogues in Contemporary Art,

May 30–August 9, 2009

Installation detail Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, photo: Raimund Zakowski.

Francis Alÿs, Mark Clare, Nathan Coley, Öyvind Fahlström, Claire Fontaine, Liam Gillick, Nina Beier & Marie Lund
Garrett Phelan, Alex Morrison, Jens Ullrich, Stephen Willats, Carey Young, Artur Zmijewski

Address: Kunstverein Hannover e.V., Sophienstraße 2, 30159 Hannover, Germany

Opening hours: Tue–Sat 12–19 h, Sunday and Holiday 11–19 h

Admission: 5 € / reduced 3 € / members free, free admission sundays from 11 am

Phone: +49 (0)511 1699278-0, Fax: +49 (0)511 1699278-278
email: mail@kunstverein-hannover.de

The end of the Line: attitudes in drawing (Group show)

the Bluecoat

School Lane
Liverpool
United Kingdom
L1 3BX
UK

++44 151 702 5324

info@thebluecoat.org.uk

Garrett Phelan, 'Battle for the Birds.' , Installation detail. 2008, the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK.

The artists: Jan Albers (Namibia/ Germany), Michaël Borremans (Belgium), Marc Brandenburg (Germany), Fernando Bryce (Peru/Germany), Kate Davis (New Zealand/UK), Kim Hiorthøy (Norway), Monika Grzymala (Poland), David Haines (UK/Netherlands), Garrett Phelan (Ireland), Naoyuki Tsuji (Japan), Sandra Vasquez de la Horra(Chile)

This exhibition is part of the Hayward Gallery Touring Group Exhibition and will tour to the following venues;

The Bluecoat, Liverpool - 22 May - 19 July 2009
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh - 14 November 2009 - 10 January 2010

For further information click on the links below.
Hayward
MIMA
Bluecoat

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'At what point will common sense prevail'

At what point will common sense prevail was curated by René Zechlin and commissioned by the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, as part of its Projects programme. It s an online audio project, consisting of 26 sound works which will be presented for a 5 year period on this dedicated website.

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Detail from YouTube 'Trusted Servant'. Click here to see project.

'TRUSTED SERVANT'
Garrett Phelan
Trusted Servant
.all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae
Irish Museum of Modern Art
http://www.youtube.com/trustedservant

.all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae was a group exhibition curated by French artist Philippe Parreno and Rachael Thomas (Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 29 November to 18 February, 2007. More than twenty artists, writers and thinkers were invited to participate in this project that focused on the notion of ‘process’. Parreno’s approach was to go beyond the real/physical space of the museum and as a part of this process Garrett Phelan has been invited and entrusted by the curators to close this exhibition with his project Trusted Servant.

On the 19th February, 2007 (the gallery closing date of .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae), Phelan uploaded the video performance work entitled Trusted Servant, 2007 onto YouTube, a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips - a sub-cultural web endemic that has quickly become an unregulated virtual institution.

Primarily known for radio, video, drawing and alternative projects, in this instance Phelan becomes the gatekeeper of .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae. Trusted Servant documents an automated and manic performance of Phelan repeating pre-recorded broadcasts from his MP3 player, which have been compiled and edited from media sources – shortwave and longwave radio, cable link, newspaper articles and webcasts.

His working standpoint, calls into question the mainstream methods of endless ingestion of information and communication that influence the formations of our opinions in this ‘don’t stop age’. The removal of Trusted Servant from YouTube at Phelan’s conceptual discretion will mark the official end of .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae.

To view Trusted Servant please go to http://www.youtube.com/trustedservant

Trusted Servant also functions as part of Phelan’s current exploration into the Formation of Opinion (2003_ ongoing). This work is the final part of a first phase entitled Reception of information, which includes the three drawing projects NOW: HERE, 2003, LUNG LOVE, 2004, GOD ONLY KNOWS, 2005 and a month long artwork entitled Black Brain Radio, 2006, an independent FM/online radio station. Philippe Parreno’s .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae catalogue text After Affects proposes a similar style of communication as technology, as an amalgamation of hidden, coded, obscure, specialized languages, that inscribe all forms of transmission.

.all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae includes: Bas Jan Ader, Doug Aitken, Carles Congost, Keren Cytter, Thomas Demand, Cory Doctorow, Peter Fischli/ David Weiss, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Jim Lambie, Sarah Lucas, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Sarah Morris, Grant Morrison, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, Paola Pivi, Eva Rothschild, Anri Sala, Rirkrit Tirvanija, Kurt Vonnegut, Cerith Wyn Evans, with lectures by Shumon Basar and David Deutsch.

For further information please contact:

Rachael Thomas,
Senior Curator:
The Irish Museum of Modern Art ,
rachael.thomas@imma.ie
or
T : +353 1 612 9900

A limited edition from .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae entitled Nails Sewer Legs, 2006, by Philippe Parreno and Liam Gillick is available at IMMA price €750. Please contact Christine.blessing@imma.ie for further information. Please go to http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_170546.htm for images.