Between two ITs

Garrett Phelan

20 Mar 2010
2 أيار / مايو 2010

SMART Project Space presents Between two ITs , the first solo exhibition in The Netherlands by Garrett Phelan (1965). Phelan uses found objects, wall drawings, sculptural installations and broadcast radio to create expansive works that he titles in series according to both subject and mode of enquiry. The main concern running through the majority of his works is the organization of information and communication, and how these organizational dynamics influence our formation of opinion.

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Other work by Garrett Phelan - source

Phelan often acts as an antagonist or anti-editor, combining disparate information together while refusing to draw distinctions or provide perspective. His preferred artistic method of communication and information dissemination (echoed in his creation of the thinking, talking Mynah bird) is famously the radio broadcast.

Between two ITs contains a newly commissioned work called Interruption. Or between two ITs – Part 3. The work explores “the space between believing in and not believing” and was partly informed by the history and original use of the SMART Project Space building – a former pathological anatomical laboratory. The notion of being between believing and not believing, or perhaps losing faith and the manifestation of new faith, is key to understanding the particular constellation of works in this exhibition.

The exhibition also includes black and white photographs; the radio floor sculpture The Revelation of Ministration; the video installation Racer; and several works from the series Radio Tombs, concrete, tombstone-like sculptures with radios buried inside, broadcasting a barely audible random radio signal.

Opening

Opening reception: Saturday 20 March 2010, 21.00 hrs