An exhibition-in-progress and an invitation
to copy, sample, manipulate and re-interpret
IMAGE
DETAILS: Gone 410, Enda O'Donoghue; oil on canvas, 2005; Self potrait
as Amanda Coogan as David with Cattle , Martin Shannon, photograph 2006;
Mechanism War No. 1 , Saoirse Higgins & Simon Schiessl; interactive
installation, 2003
Saoirse
Higgins & Simon Schiessl, Enda O’Donoghue, Martin Shannon,
Jürgen Simpson and You!
Re-interpretations by Michele
Horrigan, Séan Lynch, Cóilín Rush, Tara Birmingham,
Simon Withers, justinsomnia.org, Paul Rooney, Ian Wieczorek, Charlie
Powell, Franziska-Maria Apprich, Tom Flannagan
Curated by Regina Gleeson
1st
June – 24th July 2006
Four Gallery, Burgh Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland
Better Than the Real Thing?, an exhibition-in-progress
that enables endless reinterpretation of ideas by sidestepping
the creative limitations of copyright. Exhibited in Four Gallery
as well
as online, each of four original artworks by Saoirse Higgins,
Enda O’Donoghue, Martin Shannon and Jürgen Simpson explores
a different aspect of reproduction and re-telling of a story and
each discloses different
information about the mark of authenticity in art of the present
day.
We
invite you to come and look at the artwork in the gallery or online
and submit your own considered re-interpretation of these un-copyrighted
works as well as other subsequent re-interpretations from other
artists.
These second, third and fourth generation works will be exhibited
in digital format online and in the gallery.
Call
for Open Submissions to Better Than the Real Thing?
Better Than the Real Thing? is an exhibition-in-progress that welcomes reinterpretation of the original artworks in the exhibition. It does not challenge copyright but simply offers another option to facilitate sharing of ideas. Artists, writers, musicians, technicians, designers, coders, craft-makers, photographers, film-makers and anyone else interested in sampling or regenerating someone else's ideas are invited to participate. You are invited to print, copy, photograph or record the original artworks and manipulate them to make a new work of art. Consider their circumstance and shift it a little; observe their processes and extend them; read their narratives and alter them.
Submissions must be in digital format using either jpeg, mp3 or digital video formats and must be accompanied by your name, title of your artwork as well as a very short written statement about your re-interpretation. Jpegs should be 300dpi and no more than 2mb in size, while MP3s and digital videos/movies should be less than 7mb to facilitate ease of access to all viewers. All work can be accessed in the gallery as well as online. Please acompany video and movie submissions with a single jpeg image from the work. This jpeg image must be less that 2mb in size.
Submissions are collected every Thursday before noon for inclusion in the gallery exhibition.
Please forward submissions and queries to the curator at info@betterthantherealthing.info
The
Gallery
Four is
the most exciting initiative on the Dublin art scene in recent times
and is run by artists Lee Welch and Linda Quinlan. Over-looking the river
Liffey in Dublin city centre, Four is
a modest gallery space that is exclusively dedicated to artistic
energy and ideas as opposed to being art-market driven.
Its programme for 2005/06 has already seen some superb exhibitions
and gallery talks by, amongst others, Irish representative at the
2005 Venice Biennale, Isabel Nolan, PS1 resident Declan
Clarke and San Francisco based artist Xylor
Jane.
*Check back for updates on additional artists' participation and future opportunities to join the project*
For
further information, please contact Lee Welch, Four, 11 Burgh
Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland.
W: http://fourdublin.com | T:
+353.86.3651256 | E: fourgallery@gmail.com
Gallery hours: Saturday 1 - 6pm and by appointment
Better Than the Real Thing? is supported by
