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Paul McCarthy

Exhibition

Gestures & Procedures

Esquivias, Daniel Von Sturmer, Delphine Reist, Francis Alÿs, Paul McCarthy, Richard Wentworth, Robert Rooney, Joan Jonas, John Baldessari, Tony Schwensen, Ulay, Vito AcconciCurator: Juliana EngbergIn the Press...
Exhibition

Return to Sender: An Exhibition of Contemporary Irish Art via Air Mail

Jones, Alice Maher, Caroline McCarthy, Padraig Murphy, Maurice O’Connell, Paul O’Neill, Nigel Rolfe, David Sherriff and Anthony McAteer, Theo SimsPublicationReturn to Sender: An Exhibition of Contemporary Irish Art via Air Mail ...
Press Release

Gestures & Procedures

McCarthy’s Rocky 1976, where the artist, dressed as a boxer, smears himself in ketchup and punches himself, senseless, around the head.And a video of internationally revered Australian performance artist and printmaker Mike Parr’s important work 100 Breathless (2008) where the artist sucks one...
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Data in contemporary art exhibitions by Miriam Kelly

Lavigne argue, ‘data is an abstraction’.[35] Lauren Lee McCarthy stresses that data is ‘always incomplete’. That data is situated. [36] Machine Listening remind us, ‘data isn’t mined, it’s made...
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An eye on the future: ACCA and Next Wave

David Godbold, Finola Jones, Alice Maher, Caroline McCarthy, Padraig Murphy, Maurice O’Connell, Paul O’Neill, Nigel Rolfe, David Sherriff and Anthony McAteer, Theo Sims...
ACCA acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people as sovereign custodians of the land on which we work and welcome visitors, along with the neighbouring Boonwurrung, Bunurong, and wider Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their longstanding and continuing care for Country and we recognise First Peoples art and cultural practice has been thriving here for millennia. We extend our respect to ancestors and Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people.
Glimpse into the archive—

The artist stood before two piles of white paper arranged side by side on a table. As Robert Douglas’s radiophonic tape composition Alpha Solstice began to be heard, Lewis began to scribble on the top sheet of the left-hand pile…

Ruark Lewis: Transcription Drawings 1988-1992 (1992)

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