Solo Show by Michelle Browne, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1.

• Opening Thursday 3rd March, 6 – 8 pm
• Exhibition runs 3rd March – 9th April 2011

Michelle Browne’s first solo show presents a series of public performance works made over the last four years. Browne has become synonymous with public event based work, and here she looks at how to translate these works to the gallery setting.

Presenting past performance work is an oft-sited challenge and Browne grapples with the inherent difficulty in documenting temporary and performative artwork. For this show she creates a series of works revisiting a variety of public performance projects to see how the memory of these events lives on to the present.

Created through a series of interviews with witnesses to these events, Browne tries to determine the experiential legacy of this work. In conjunction with this, Browne has curated a group exhibition of work dealing with the challenges of documentation featuring Amanda Coogan/Simon Keogh, Trace Collective, Susanne Bosch and Ella Burke.