Fergus Kelly

Bio:

.. Fergus Kelly (cabinet of curiosities), Mark Wastell (tam tam), Max Eastely (stones, arc).
Filmed at St.Mark's Church, Islington, London 27.3.09, by Helen Petts... Fergus Kelly is a mixed media artist based in Dublin. His work mainly involves sound, but also includes photomontage, and more recently, painting. He has been in numerous shows around Ireland, and has shown in Canada, America, Germany, Finland, Holland and England. He has done soundtracks for film and theatre and received many Arts Council awards. He is a founder member of The Whispering Gallery collective for the promotion of improvised and electronic music in an Irish context... .. 5 minute edit of Fergus Kelly & David Lacey gig for Darklight Festival 23 June 2007.. Sound has been a constant element in his work, and has been used in a variety of contexts: tape/slide, performance, installation, soundworks for tape, CD, radio, and public spaces. His work was performed by The Manhattan Marimba Quartet in The Kitchen, New York, in 1991. Radio broadcasts include A.A.R.T., Dublin, 1994 and 1998, HEARING IS BELIEVING, Liverpool, 1995, HORIZONTAL RADIO, Alberta 1995, RADIO GAGARIN, Hamburg, 1996, RESONANCE, London 1998, and DRIFT:RESONANT CITIES, Edinburgh, 2004... .. Photos by Costanzo Idini.. Other highlights include showing in the EUROPEAN WORKSHOP RUHRGEBEIT in Recklinghausen, Germany in 1990 and 1991, and the AUDIO VISUAL EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL, in Arnhem, Holland in 1993 and 1995, participating in THE TUNING OF THE WORLD conference in Banff, Canada in 1993, and performing in SIX WEEKS OF SOUND and IN THE EYE OF THE EAR II, both in Chicago in 1996. In 1997 and 1999 he performed in Dublin and Cork with UK sound sculptor Max Eastley... .. Photos by Lennart Breternitz.. He performed in SONIC EYE in Helsinki in 2000, and in WINTER, in Dublin in 2001, and in IRISH ART NOW in Chicago, also in 2001. He showed in City Art Centre's HAUNTED in Dublin, 2003, and in Temple Bar Gallery's FULL CIRCLE show in Dublin, in 2004. He curated VOLUME 2 (a week of sound) for Temple Bar Gallery in 2005, performing with Max Eastley, and regular collaborators David Lacey and Paul Vogel. He performed in the I&E festivals in Dublin in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He also showed in The Digital Hub’s CAPTURED in Dublin in 2006. He performed in a duo with David Lacey in the TULCA performance festival in Galway in 2006... REPETITIVE STRAIN INDUSTRIES performed in PERSPECTIVE 2000 in Belfast, and in the INFUSION and FIX festivals in Limerick and Belfast in 2000. They also performed at SCOIP 2001 in Tralee, and in SUMMER, in Dublin, in 2001... .. Photos by Kevin McFeeley & Phil Smith.. Soundworks on CD include: GBH (1993), which appears on RANDOM ACCESS SOUNDWORKS, PRESSURE (1994), appears on AUDIO ARTISTS RADIO TRANSMISSIONS. He appears in collaboration with Gary Phelan and Carol McKeon on SOUNDWORKS III (1998). A solo CD, INVISIBLE CITY (1999) was published by Project Press, as part of Project's Off Site series. Recording under the name REPETITIVE STRAIN INDUSTRIES, his work has been featured on compilations released through Charnel Music in San Francisco, Meeuw Muzak in Maastricht, and Staalplaat in Amsterdam. The album NETS IN THE TRAWL was released by ND in Texas... In 2005/6 he established a CDR label and website, roomtemperature.org, as an outlet for his solo and collaborative work, producing the CDs UNMOOR (2005), MATERIAL EVIDENCE (2006) and BEVEL (2006) (with David Lacey)... HAUNTED.. Haunted was a 3 part project created in summer 2006, involving a public soundwork, a CD, and a web piece. It gathers recordings and photographs from ex-Guinness sites on Crane Street and Watling Street in Dublin... These sites, once hives of activity, now lie dormant. An inescapable feeling of stopped time hangs in the air. Suspended animation. A present haunted by the past. Though not for long, as they merely occupy a limbo between one functioning state and another... In the interstices, the reconfigured material manifests itself….. Auditory apparitions traverse the cobbles of Rainsford Street, invoking a presence from forensically foraged found fragments. Combing the interiors, the camera captures thick layers of accumulated time to haunt virtual space. Cobwebs for the worldwide web... A CD creates ear theatre for a textural and tactile narrative to unfold... Photos and web piece viewable here.. Other photos on Flickr.. Stray thoughts on Blogger ..

Member Since:

October 02, 2006

Influences:

Wire, Dome/Gilbert&Lewis, Gang Of Four, Magazine, Joy Division, Pere Ubu, The Minutemen, Shellac, A Certain Ratio, Can, Popol Vuh, The Beatles, Talking Heads, DNA, Liquid Liquid, Pigbag, The Flying Lizards, Eyeless In Gaza, Dif Juz, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Ludus, This Heat, Camberwell Now, Lemon Kittens, The Fall, Television, Rip, Rig and Panic, The Pop Group, Mark Stewart & The Maffia, The Ex, Fela Kuti, Laika, Melt Banana, The Red Krayola, Coil, Max Eastley, David Toop, Björk, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Quiet Sun, 801, John Duncan, Rafael Toral... Oren Ambarchi, Keith Rowe, Hugh Davies, Paul Shütze, Murcof, Bernhard Gunter, Steve Roden, Mark Wastell, Rhodri Davies, Angharad Davies, Kaffe Mathews, David Lacey, Dennis McNulty, Paul Vogel, Jürgen Simpson, Ellen Fullman, Alan Lamb, Daniel Menche, Fransisco Lopez, Joe Colley, Lee Patterson, Andrea Neumann, Chris Watson, Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Skidoo, :zoviet*france: Hafler Trio, Strafe Fur Rebellion, Main, Pansonic, AMM, Morphogenesis, Volcano The Bear, Jim O'Rourke... Michael Prime, Phil Minton, Roger Turner, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, Nurse With Wound, Organum, Z'ev, Harry Partch, Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept., Bow Gamelan, Robert Rutman, Illusion Of Safety, Thomas Köner, Morton Feldman, Toru Takemitsu, Olivier Messiaen, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Gavin Bryars, Arvo Part, Bernard Hermann, Wendy Carlos, Simon Fisher Turner... John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joseph Beuys, Ed Keinholz, Christian Boltanski, Stuart Brisley, Alistair McLennan, Andre Stitt, Anselm Keifer, Bill Viola, David Attenborough, Samuel Beckett, Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit, WG Sebald, Paul Auster, Will Self, JG Ballard, Derek Jarman, Jan Svankmayer, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky...to name but a few...

Sounds Like:

.. Fergus Kelly/David Lacey/Dennis McNulty/Paul Vogel.. Room Temperature CDR (2005).... .. Fergus Kelly UNMOOR.. Room Temperature 3"CDR (2005).... .. Fergus Kelly MATERIAL EVIDENCE.. Room Temperature 3"CDR (2006).... .. Fergus Kelly & David Lacey BEVEL.. Room Temperature CDR (2006).... .. Fergus Kelly A HOST OF PARTICULARS.. Room Temperature CDR (2007).... .. Fergus Kelly STRANGE WEATHER.. Room Temperature 3"CDR (2007).... .. Fergus Kelly: Leaching The Pith.. Room Temperature CDR (2008).... .. .. Kelly/Lacey/McNulty/Vogel: ....Trinity College Chapel 8 October 2005.. Room Temperature CDR (2008)...... .. Fergus Kelly Swarf.. Room Temperature 3"CDR (2009)...... .. Fergus Kelly Fugitive Pitch.. Room Temperature CDR (2009).. .. Fergus Kelly Long Range.. Room Temperature CDR (2010)....

Record Label:

ROOM TEMPERATURE