The LAB,
brought to you by Dublin City Council is pleased to present
Random Dream System Jay Roche &
LAUNCH 08, Peter Cábocky, Sabina MacMahon & Ian Slattery, Curated by Jasper Sharp brought to you by The LAB & Four Gallery
Exhibitions opens 18 December 2008 to 31 January 2009 , Launch continues to 28th February 2009
Opening hours 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday
The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1
RANDOM DREAM SYSTEM is a method for creating a dream matrix using group consciousness. It is a project that was set up to create a group of paintings, in all, 36 small canvas works, created by 26 separate people. These paintings form the elements of an overall work of which Jay Roche is the author. Rather than being a curatorial project, RandomDreamSystem is an artwork created using the consciousness of individuals as a conduit to form a unique but unplanned result.
In taking this approach, Roche wanted to explore ways of creating a piece of work that avoided the subjective intervention of the artist but that still, in essence, was a product of that artist's intentions. He was influenced by ways in which the artist and musician Brian Eno had set out to make some of his musical compositions; Eno describes this procedure as creating situations and systems that once set in operation engender their own creative outcomes.
Further to the main group of paintings, Roche has also created diagrams that correspond to the process of instigating the DreamSystem. These drawings are an exploration of some of the concepts arising out of the project.
Jay Roche will discuss RandomDreamSystem in conversation with Fergus Feehily on the 29th January 2009 at 6pm
followed by RandomDreamSystem - a short sound improvisation performed by Anthony Kelly and David Stalling in response to the exhibition.
LAUNCH, an exhibition supporting recent graduates. LAUNCH is committed to providing exposure to innovative and exciting artists, and to offer an important platform from which these artists can develop their creative and professional practice. It is intended to promote opportunities and public discussion of new developments in emerging contemporary Irish art.
LAUNCH 08 is curated by Jasper Sharp, a writer and curator based in Vienna. He worked from 1999-2005 as Exhibitions Organiser and Collections Coordinator at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, where he was responsible for all temporary exhibitions, collection installations and contemporary projects including the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2006-7 he worked as Curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, and has since been engaged in a series of independent curatorial, lecture and writing projects. He is currently editing a monograph for JRP Ringier of artist Arcangelo Sassolino, and preparing an exhibition of Abstract Expressionism to be presented at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in Spring 2009.