An exhibition of scores by pioneering American composer, improvisor and musician Pauline Oliveros
The scores are notable for their combination of textual and graphical elements and have been specially selected to relate to the theme of commonality and shared experience.
Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) was an American composer and accordionist who devised the term Deep Listening® to describe principles of improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation, of which she wrote: "I use the word meditation, rather than concentration, in a secular sense to mean steady attention and steady awareness [...] for continuous or cyclic periods of time" (‘On Sonic Meditation’ 1976).
Pauline Oliveros: "Software for People" is part of
"Common Denominator: Art and the Contemporary World" at the Goethe-Institut, a two-year programme in the Return Gallery. Through exhibitions, seminars, discussions and more, it interrogates what it means now to speak of political solidarity, civic standards or even aesthetic values.
Opening
10 May 2019, 6-9 pm
featuring Listen/ed/ing
a sound based performance by Karl Burke
with Art in the Contemporary World
Karl Burke is an Irish artist and musician based in Dublin. He has exhibited widely in Europe and North America with a recent solo exhibition in the Sirius Art Centre in Cobh as part of the year long Brian O’Doherty project. A site specific sculptural practice, of primary concern in the work is the symbiotic relationship between the art object, the space it inhabits and the experiential concerns related to viewership.
"Common Denominator" is curated by Art in the Contemporary World, a theory-practice postgraduate MA/MFA programme at the School of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Exhibition of scores with permission from The Pauline Oliveros Trust
Special thanks to Mills College Library Pauline Oliveros Collection, Archives and Manuscripts Division, CA.
ACW would like to thank IONE for helping to make this exhibition possible.
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Irland
Opening Hours of The Return Gallery
May-July
Monday-Thursday 10:00 am - 09:00 pm
Friday 10:00 am - 05:30 pm
Saturday 10:00 am - 1:30 pm (except bank holiday weekends)
August
Monday-Friday 10:00 am - 05:00 pm
Please note that due to the protected structure of the Georgian building, the gallery is not wheelchair accessible.
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