In Exchange Gallery
10th – 30th May 2010
Taking Place is an exhibition by resident artist James Ó hAodha.
Since Monday 10th of May, artist James Ó hAodha has been occupying Exchange Gallery, which is being used both as a working space and a base for a series of interventions being conducted in the streets around Exchange. Appropriating commercial waste materials left in the street for collection, Ó hAodha has erected barricades in the exhibition space which will be disassembled and reassembled over the period of the occupation, playing with visibility and accessibility of the space from without.
These waste objects populate the street-scape in mass on a daily basis, taking an ambiguous position in public space. In this they provide a unique material in-point to the particular economy and circulation of which they are part. Working tactically within the timescales and practicalities of placing and collection, the artist hopes to reinvest these objects with a more tangible communal value and to activate the political potential of their ‘taking place’. The interventions are centred around the tools of resistance, meeting and organisation, teaching and dissemination of information, in an attempt to suggest or prompt a return of these tools to common use.
Exchange Gallery will be reopened to the public on Friday May 21st from 7pm-10pm, and Taking Place will run until Sunday May 30th.
