Next weekend a very strange event is taking place in Dublin. The world’s third Black Metal Theory Symposium will happen in the Pint Bar on Eden Quay, during the afternoon of Sunday 20th of November. There is going to be a series of talks with titles like On the Mystical Love of Black Metal, Folding a Cadaverous Scream: The Disharmonious Flesh of Recombinant Horror, and “The Hopeless Soul Keeps Mating”: Notes on Black Metal and Contemporary Fiction. Scanning through the abstracts you will find references to thinkers like Deleuze, Kant and Bataille, and to concepts like speculative realism, queer theology, and medieval mystical discourse. After this series of talks, which include breaks for “refreshments”, there will be performances from Eternal Helcaraxe and Wound Upon Wound. Seriously, I can’t think of a better way of spending a Sunday afternoon and evening. (more…)
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Eye And Mind
Posted in Photography Theory, Whelans, tagged Andreas Feininger, Eye And Mind, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Merleau-Ponty, ncad, Petah Coyne, phenomenology, Rodin, whelans on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The other day I was reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s 1961 essay on phenomenology, Eye And Mind (I’ve recently started doing an MA in Art In The Contemporary World at NCAD so you can probably expect more of this kind of thing in the future – those of you who just want to know who the band is are free to skip right to the end). There’s a section in it where he talks about the representation of time and movement within both painting and photography. He argues that artists such as Cezanne and Matisse provide more faithful renditions of our actual perceptual experience of being in the world than those provided by objective scientific accounts and the Cartesian perspective-based art inspired by them. At one point, he discusses photography, and argues that it also falls short of capturing our real experience of the world because it cannot capture movement in the way that a painter can, shackled as it is to capturing frozen, instantaneous snapshots. Painting, on the other hand …. (more…)
It’s Got 14 Legs!
Posted in Venues, Whelans, tagged Absolut Fringe, Alliance benefit gig, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Tieranniesaur, whelans on September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the brilliant Tieranniesaur playing at the Alliance benefit gig last night. I had a busy night. First off I was up in Collins Barracks photographing the big Macnas show for Absolut Fringe (more on this soon). Then I pegged it over to Whelans to catch the second half of the all-day gig that Leagues O’Toole organised to raise money for Concern. (more…)
European Sensoria Band
Posted in Whelans, tagged e+S=B, European Sensoria Band, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, The Joinery, The Residents, Thread Pulls, whelans, Wormhole on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the European Sensoria Band (sometimes known as e+S=B, formerly known as Electronic Sensoria Band) playing in Whelans a while ago. These days every band has a website, a facebook page, a twitter account, a bandcamp page, an electronic press kit, and Christ knows what else, constantly spewing out information about their every coming and going. Not e+S=B. Google any of the variations of their name and you’ll probably stumble across a sporadically updated blog, references to limited edition CD-R releases (but no apparent means of buying them), and occasional videos of them playing in various art galleries and performance spaces around Dublin. I don’t know if the concept of underground music has much meaning anymore but if it does, then e+S=B surely fit that bill. (more…)
31 Minutes and 4 seconds of Cian Nugent
Posted in Whelans, tagged Cian Nugent, Doubles, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Sixes and Sevens, whelans on August 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This is a long exposure photograph of Cian Nugent and his band playing in Whelans last Saturday night. Cian is a guitar player and composer from Dublin who has recently released his debut album, Doubles. His playing playing falls very much into the John Fahey tradition and he combines this with elaborate instrumentation and arrangements to produce long instrumental pieces that have a lot in common with some of Jim O’Rourke’s work. It’s great stuff and recently scored a rave review on the massively influential US website Pitchfork. Such things don’t necessarily translate into audience numbers though as Whelans was pretty quiet last Saturday – then again, it’s pretty hard to compete when Prince is playing across town. (more…)
PhotoIreland 2011
Posted in Venues, Whelans, tagged Cfit, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, PhotoIreland 2011, whelans on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The PhotoIreland 2011 festival kicks off tomorrow and there’s a whole host of photographic events and exhibitions happening around Dublin over the coming weeks. I missed all of last year’s inaugural festival, due to being away on holidays, but thankfully they have extended this year’s one to the entire month of July so I’ll be able to catch most of it this time. I have been browsing through the programme and found many things that look like they are worth catching. (more…)
The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock
Posted in Whelans, tagged Hefty Horse, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock, whelans on May 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock playing in Whelans at the weekend. Last Saturday was the first time I have been out photographing since my exhibition opened and it felt good to be out doing it once more. Several people have asked me recently what I am going to do next, and while I have a few other projects bubbling under, I don’t really regard this long exposure gig photography one to be finished just because it has now been exhibited. I’ve got a fair bit to go with it yet – there are several venues that I only have one or two decent shots from, and several more that I haven’t really broached yet at all. (more…)
Serendipity
Posted in Venues, Whelans, tagged Bob Gruen, David Monahan, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Mail Order Messiahs, Roky Erickson, Song Exposure, traces of the real exhibition, Visions Of Phoenix Park, whelans on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a photo I took ages ago that kind of slipped through the net a bit. It’s a band called Mail Order Messiahs playing in Whelans last year, supporting Sleep Thieves. I don’t know why I disregarded it back then as when I look at it now I realise it’s one of the more interesting ones I’ve done in Whelans. As usual it’s an exposure of over 4 minutes but in spite of this the singer on the right is not all blur. He’s been caught multiple times by someone’s flash in the front row and hence several faint but sharp impressions of his head and body ended up on my film. There were a lot of photographers at this gig so this was happening quite a lot. (more…)
Song Exposure
Posted in Venues, Whelans, tagged large format photography, long exposure, Miracle Bell, Ones To Watch 2011, Song Exposure, whelans on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
song exposure [sawng ek-spoh-zher]: a photograph created by opening the shutter at the start of a song and closing it at the end
A friend of mine recently suggested that I use the term song exposure to refer to these photographs. At first I wasn’t sure about this, but the more I thought about it, the more I began to like it. It encapsulates pretty neatly what the basic concept is – in that these are in a sense photographs of songs, given that the shutter is opened at the start of the song and closed at the end. It also makes reference to the idea of the long exposure, which all these photographs also are. (more…)
Exhibition News!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2011, Fumbally Exchange, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Photography Exhibition, the button factory, The Village, tripod, vicar street, whelans on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am very excited to be able to announce that an exhibition of photographs featured on this blog will be taking place in Dublin in April 2011. It’s happening in the Fumbally Exchange, which is off Clanbrassil Street in Dublin 8, and runs for one week from Thursday 14th to Thursday the 21st. The excellent poster on the right was designed by Anthony Mackey. Exhibition details as follows:
Opening Reception
Thursday 14th April: 6-8 pm
Opening Hours
Friday 15th April: 11AM – 5PM
Monday 18th April: 11AM – 5PM
Tuesday 19th April: 11AM – 5PM
Wednesday 20th April: 11AM – 5PM
Thursday 21st April: 11AM – 5PM
Official press release is here
Directions to the Fumbally Exchange are below.
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