Mick O Shea
Contact
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Biography
Mick O’Shea lives and works in Cork city and is a member and director of the Cork Artists Collective and The Guesthouse and has been instrumental in establishing a vibrant and growing sound art scene in Cork city.
He has exhibited in UK, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Tasmania, USA, China and Japan. He studied instrument physics in C.I.T. and works as an instrument technician in UCC.
All of his works spring from his essential experience in drawing. His medium includes sculpture, drawing, sound and cooking.
In 2003 O’Shea and fellow artist Stephen Brandes and Irene Murphy set up the collaborative practice, The Domestic Godless which, through performative cooking events, explores culinary activity as art practice and tests assumptions about the cultural traditions of food in challenging and often irreverent and absurdist ways.
He also works with various sound artists and composers both national and international. In 2006 he formed The Quiet Club with sound artist Danny McCarthy to promote and showcase improvised music and soundworks. These include improvised collaborations with other sound artists as well as improvised and structured contemporary music events working with performers and composers such as Rhodri Davies, Stephen Vitiello, Steve Roden, David Toop, Rajesh Meta, Jennifer Walshe and Damo Suzuki.
Strange Attractor: Experiments in a quinary landscape and other fields, a dynamic, multi-dimensional series of collaborative ventures between five artists from Ireland using improvisational sound and experiments with technology and combined media. Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy, David Stalling
He formed Gaitkrash (an experimental performance group) with Bernadette Cronin and Regina Crowley in 2007
Recent performances / exhibitions
Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art: 3 four hour performances in Szczecin and Gorzow, Poland. With Irene Murphy
Between Here and There: performance and installation, Oland, Sweden. With Paul Hegarty
Sonic Vigil 7: durational sound performance in St Anne’s church, Shandon, Cork (curator)
Strange Attractor: 3 month residency in Crawford Gallery, concerts in London, Boston and New York
Sonic Vigil 6: 7 hour sound performance in Triskel Christchurch, Cork (curator)
Forest Orchestra: Sound installation, Tokyo, Japan
Linnaeus in Higashiyamoto City, Sound installation, Bludenz, Austria
Strange Attractor: Live performances with invited guests, Crawford Gallery
Beckett, Play: Gaitkrash + TRACE, National Sculpture Factory, Cork
2010 World Expo, Shanghai, five concerts The Quiet Club
ART=ADDING: Sound performance and drawing exhibition, Szczecin, Poland
Sonic Vigil V: 7 hour sound performance, St Fin Barres Cathedral Cork (curator)
Pimping the Maids: Gaitkrash
Cloud Bait: TRACE CD with Paul Hegarty
TESLA: Quiet Club CD with Danny Mc Carthy
IKIRO: sound collaboration with Takihiro Suzuki
[email protected]
Biography
Mick O’Shea lives and works in Cork city and is a member and director of the Cork Artists Collective and The Guesthouse and has been instrumental in establishing a vibrant and growing sound art scene in Cork city.
He has exhibited in UK, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Tasmania, USA, China and Japan. He studied instrument physics in C.I.T. and works as an instrument technician in UCC.
All of his works spring from his essential experience in drawing. His medium includes sculpture, drawing, sound and cooking.
In 2003 O’Shea and fellow artist Stephen Brandes and Irene Murphy set up the collaborative practice, The Domestic Godless which, through performative cooking events, explores culinary activity as art practice and tests assumptions about the cultural traditions of food in challenging and often irreverent and absurdist ways.
He also works with various sound artists and composers both national and international. In 2006 he formed The Quiet Club with sound artist Danny McCarthy to promote and showcase improvised music and soundworks. These include improvised collaborations with other sound artists as well as improvised and structured contemporary music events working with performers and composers such as Rhodri Davies, Stephen Vitiello, Steve Roden, David Toop, Rajesh Meta, Jennifer Walshe and Damo Suzuki.
Strange Attractor: Experiments in a quinary landscape and other fields, a dynamic, multi-dimensional series of collaborative ventures between five artists from Ireland using improvisational sound and experiments with technology and combined media. Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy, David Stalling
He formed Gaitkrash (an experimental performance group) with Bernadette Cronin and Regina Crowley in 2007
Recent performances / exhibitions
Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art: 3 four hour performances in Szczecin and Gorzow, Poland. With Irene Murphy
Between Here and There: performance and installation, Oland, Sweden. With Paul Hegarty
Sonic Vigil 7: durational sound performance in St Anne’s church, Shandon, Cork (curator)
Strange Attractor: 3 month residency in Crawford Gallery, concerts in London, Boston and New York
Sonic Vigil 6: 7 hour sound performance in Triskel Christchurch, Cork (curator)
Forest Orchestra: Sound installation, Tokyo, Japan
Linnaeus in Higashiyamoto City, Sound installation, Bludenz, Austria
Strange Attractor: Live performances with invited guests, Crawford Gallery
Beckett, Play: Gaitkrash + TRACE, National Sculpture Factory, Cork
2010 World Expo, Shanghai, five concerts The Quiet Club
ART=ADDING: Sound performance and drawing exhibition, Szczecin, Poland
Sonic Vigil V: 7 hour sound performance, St Fin Barres Cathedral Cork (curator)
Pimping the Maids: Gaitkrash
Cloud Bait: TRACE CD with Paul Hegarty
TESLA: Quiet Club CD with Danny Mc Carthy
IKIRO: sound collaboration with Takihiro Suzuki
