This visual essay presents scenes from an arc of exhibitions by the curator Paul O’Neill including the exhibition series “Coalesce” (2003-onwards), an evolving curatorial project where the re-configuration of curatorial praxis can be made apparent within the final exhibition-form beyond the curatorial as some kind of master-planning scenario. The contribution functions as a visual proposition about the dynamics of multi-layered, polyvocal, performative and accumulative exhibition-making. Although framed as one curator’s sustained practice of exhibition-making, the material presented here seeks to disclose something of the generative and co-productive energies at work in exhibition-formation as collective processes of becomings.”
References
- “La La Land a show of shows” curated by Paul O’Neill, Project, Dublin, Ireland. 2005. With Liam Gillick (floor), Lothar Götz (walls), David Blamey (wall), Kathrin Böhm (ceiling), Ronan McCrea (sculpture), posters curated by Jaime Gili, Anthony Gross (film), Amy Plant and Jeanne van Heeswijk (archive) and B+B (workshop). Photo Credits: Ronan McCrea, Paul O’Neill, and the artists.
- “Coalesce: Mingle-Mangle” curated by Paul O’Neill, London Print Studio, UK. 2003 With Kathrin Böhm, Jaime Gili, and Eduardo Padilha. Photo Credits: Paul O’Neill, Kathrin Böhm Jaime Gili, and Eduardo Padilha
- “COALESCE: The Remix” curated by Paul O’Neill, ®edux, London, UK. 2005. With Kathrin Bôhm, Jaime Gili, Clare Goodwin, Lothar Gôtz, Tod Hanson, Marta Marcé, Eduardo Padilha. Screenings by Stefan Nikolaev, Harold Offeh, Mark Orange, Marko Raat, Oriana Fox, Anthony Gross. Curated weeks by Sarah Pierce, Dave Beech & Mark Hutchinson, and temporarycontemporary. Photo Credits: The artists.
- “Coalesce” curated by Paul O’Neill, Palma Dotze-Galeria d’Art, Vilafranca, Barcelona, Spain. 2004. With Kathrin Böhm, Clare Goodwin, Jaime Gili, Paul O’Neill, Eduardo Padilha, and Manual Saiz. Photo Credits: The artists.
- “Coalesce: With All Due Intent” curated by Paul O’Neill with Coalesce Cinema selected by B+B, Model and Niland Gallery, Sligo. 2005. With Ursula Biemann, Kathrin Böhm, Esra Ersen, Jakup Ferri, Jaime Gili, Clare Goodwin, Tod Hanson, Adla Isanovic, Sejla Kameric, Helmut and Johanna Kandl, Willie Mc Keown, Aleksandra Mir, Isabel Nolan, Eduardo Padilha, Tadej Pogacar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E Museum of Contemporary Art, Marko Raat, Lawrence Weiner, and Jack B. Yeats. Photos: Paul O’Neill, and the artists.
- “Coalesce: Happenstance” curated by Paul O’Neill at Smart Projects Space, Amsterdam. 2009. Dave Beech & Mark Hutchinson, David Blandy, Het Blauwe Huis with M2M radio, Kathrin Böhm, Nina Canell, Oriana Fox, Freee, General Idea, Jaime Gili, Clare Goodwin, Lothar Götz, Tod Hanson, Toby Huddlestone, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Cyril Lepetit, Ronan McCrea, Jonathan Mosley & Sophie Warren, Jem Noble, Isabel Nolan, Harold Offeh, Mark Orange, Eduardo Padilha, Garrett Phelan, Sarah Pierce Manuel Saiz, Savage, temporarycontemporary,Richard Venlet, Robin Watkins, Lawrence Weiner, Matt White, Mick Wilson.Coalesce film programme: Ursula Biemann & Angela Sanders, Jakup Ferri, Esra Ersen, Adla Isanovic, Helmut & Johanna Kandl, Tadej Pogacar and the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E Museum of Contemporary Art, Marko Raat , elected by B + B. Musical performance TradFutures@W2.0 consist of Nollaig Ó Fiongháile, Brian Ó hUiginn, Patrick Daly and Bill Wright, invited by Mick Wilson. Photo Credits: SMART, Paul O’Neill, and the artists.
- The poster project “tipos moviles” (2005-ongoing) running through the Coalesce exhibition series, curated by Jaime Gili with Luis Romero with artists: Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, Antonieta Sosa, Bob and Roberta Smith, Carlos Zerpa, Clare Goodwin, Dulce Gomez, Hector Fuenmayor, Inventory, Jaime Gili, John Strutton, Kathrin Böhm, Kieren Reed and Abigail Hunt, Luis Romero, Martk Titchner, Markus Vater, Marta Marcé, Matias Pinto, Mustafa Hulusi, Neil Chapman, Neil McIvor, Rbertyo Obregon, Sandra Vivas, Sigfredo Chacon, Simon Faithfull, Tomok Takahashi
- “We are the Center for Curatorial Studies” curated by Paul O’Neill at the Hessel Museum of Art / Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA. 2016. With Can Altay, Martin Beck, David Blamey, Gerard Byrne, Nina Canell, Jasmina Cibic, Céline Condorelli, Sara Cwynar, Marjolijn Dijkman, Mary Heilmann, James Hoff, Vlatka Horvat, Matt Keegan, Chris Kraus, Gareth Long, Ronan McCrea, William McKeown, Ulrike Müller, Museum of American Art Berlin, Brian O’Doherty, Harold Offeh, Eduardo Padilha, Sarah Pierce, Falke Pisano, Elizabeth Price, Richard Venlet, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Grace Weir, Arseny Zhilyaev, and others.Photo Credits; Chris Kendall, Paul O’Neill and the artists.
- “WE ARE THE (EPI)CENTER…” curated by Paul O’Neill at P!, 344 Broome Street, NY, USA. 2016. Can Altay, David Blamey, Jasmina Cibic, Céline Condorelli, Marjolijn Dijkman, Chris Kraus, Gareth Long, Sarah Pierce, Ronan McCrea, William McKeown, Harold Offeh, Eduardo Padilha, Grace Weir, Richard Venlet and others. Photo Credits; Sebastian Bach, Paul O’Neill and the artists.