Sean Dower: Artworks and information

 
   
 
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November 2011...

New photographs added to the series 'Bathrooms of the World'

His

His. Porto 2011

Click images for more from the series: Bathrooms of the World

 





DeafSchool

Catholic School for the Deaf. Porto 2011

 

04.11.11 - Bag of Blood... LIVE at Tate Britain

Richard Strange's Cabaret Apocalyptica Late at Tate Britain Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

BagofBlood
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10.09.11 - 30.12.11: Change the World or go Home

Exhibition at the Downstairs Gallery at Great Brampton House, Herefordshire

Exhibiting a series of watercolours based on Metropolitan Police witness appeal signs...

  Change the world
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September 2011... London Audio Culture Survey 1997

Ten photographs and digital audio recordings made at specific sites across London in 1997.
The recordings reflect localised sound culture and how this interacts with architecture,
technology and the natural world.

LondonAudioCultureSurvey LondonAudioSurvey
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sɜrbərəs by SONOFAPUP (2011) Electronic music 2001-2003

Sonofapup has been producing electronic music since 1995.
The music explores idiosyncratic and paranoid systems of logic.

Tracks available at: http://sonofapup.bandcamp.com
Also listen at:
www.sonofapup.com

  sonofapup


 

14.04.11 - 21.05.11

Solo exhibition at SOUTHARD REID - 2nd Floor, 67 Dean Street. Soho, London W1D 4QH
Wednesday to Saturday, 12 - 6pm
Also by appointment: +44 (0) 7806 436 3721

bookpyre
Book Pyre 2011 - click image for more


see also:
www.southardreid.com
Time Out review

 

 

September 2010

POWER AND LIGHT (снага и светлост) - 1990

Black and white Super 8 film, transferred to video 2010 - 4 mins

Power and Light is a top to bottom, interior study of a derelict power station in Belgrade.
It was filmed whilst preparing for a live performance and some of the set is visible.
Exhibited in: TAPS - Improvisations with Paul Burwell - presented by Matt's Gallery.




 

 

 

02.06.10 - 20.11.10: KEEP ME POSTED
Group exhibition at POSTED - 67 Wilton Way, London E8 1BG
Thursday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Also by appointment: +44 (0)20 7923 2258
www.postedprojects.co.uk


     

12th June 2010 - Performance - A Blizzard of Noise (Donder op Dender)
Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art. Aalst, Belgium.
Sean Dower, Steve Noble and Richard Wilson

 
 

 

 
 
A Blizzard of Noise - 9 min. (excerpts)

 
 

LIVE-12.06.10

 
Donder
 
A Blizzard of Noise - Sean Dower on pyrophone, Richard Wilson on hand cranked siren.


 
Steve Noble on Caskaphones
 

24.04.10 - 12.06.10: Musik für Barbaren und Klassiker
Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art. Houtkaai, B-9300 Aalst, Belgium. T: +32 53 709 773



Video of all works in Musik für Barbaren und Klassiker - 5 mins

 



brownsound
Brown Noise 12" Vinyl disk

See photos of works in Musik für Barbaren und Klassiker
Online review at: we make money not art

 

19.03.10 - 18.04.10: RIFF-RAFF
Group Exhibition curated by David Southard. 5-8 Lower John Street. London. W1F 9AU. UK
Also by appointment: +44 (0)20 7734 5488

     

19.02.10 - 19.03.10: FILM / VIDEO / PERFORMANCE
Wimbledon Space
Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, London. SW19 3QA. UK

     

12.02.10 - 18.04.10: PARTY!
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Gallery Square, Walsall WS2 8LG. UK

     
PARTY!  

Works on display in the exhibition 'PARTY!'

'Hot Music'

'Drummer shoots bandmates'

'Death Star'

 
Three works on display at The New Art Gallery, Walsall. UK - 12.02.10 - 18.04.10


     
Work in progress October 2009

Series of direct etchings from key scratches on cars:

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Key Scratch (Ford) 2009 Key Scratch etching (Ford) 2009 - Etching ink on Arches paper

Series of text paintings from Metropolitan Police witness appeal signs:

Murder    Shooting_photo
Murder 2009 - Water Colour and ink on paper 37x32cm See more watercolour versions


October 2009...


Selected performance videos now viewable at www.performanceonfilm.com
Other Music films at: www.youtube.com/user/sonofapup


8.06.09 - 16.08.09... Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition - 2 films being exhibited.
Films :
Bluebell wood (1988) and Automaton (2006)


12.06.09...
at the Royal Academy of Arts... Richard Wilson in conversation with Sean Dower and filmaker William Raban


13.03.09: Röck - The Horns of Dilemma (Sean Dower + Bernard Elsemere) presented by at Hello my name is Bill Galerie Erich Mircher, Paris
 

theHorns

The Horns of Dilemma

 

24.10.08 - 04.01.09: NOTHING MOMENTS
Art and Culture Centre of Hollywood
1650 Harrison Street, Hollywood, FL 33020

     
Nothing1   Illustrations for a short story by Tony White for the book project 'Nothing Moments' 2008

The books were launched at MOCA, Los Angeles in 2008, with exhibitions of the drawings in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Dallas.

 
Drawing 2 for 'Gobbledegook' (a short story by Tony White) 2008
Ink, spraypaint and inkjet on watercolour paper (28x20cm)

     
Nothing2  

 

 
 
Drawing 1 for 'Gobbledegook' (a story by Tony White) 2008
Ink, spraypaint and inkjet on watercolour paper (28x20cm)


     
18.10.08 - Ghost Drummer - Live at Brown Noise



Ghost Drummer performed for several hours at Brown Noise
Excerpt - 2 min. (Warning: contains strobe lighting)


 

Ghost drummer

Ghost drummer live at Maurice Einhardt Neu galleries 2008




 
02.10.08 - 02.11.08: BROWN NOISE
 

BROWN NOISE

SEAN DOWER, LOHAN EMMANUEL
& NICK WAPLINGTON

2ND OCTOBER - 2ND NOVEMBER 2008
WED - SUN 12 - 7PM

LIVE EVENT AND LATE NIGHT OPENING
SATURDAY 18TH OCTOBER 7 - 11pm

THE MAURICE EINHARDT NEU GALLERY LONDON
30A REDCHURCH STREET E2 7DP

PRESS ENQUIRIES info@neugalleries.com

+44 (0)20 7729 7948

www.neugalleries.com

 


PRESS RELEASE for BROWN NOISE.


From simulacra to synaesthesia, from mirrorballs to memorials, from the golden age of sound proofing to the dark age of knitting patterns, from a range of toys for infantile adults to the kind of photographs you wouldn’t take to Boots to develop, from Cartman’s poop-inducing musical antics in South Park to the military use of acoustics for similar ends, from three artists mixing up their primary colours to the collective experience that is…Brown Noise.

Brown Noise is everywhere. It is the lowest random denominator. It is the background hum of ‘shit happening’. It is the iPod playlist you take to the bathroom. It is the tepid waft of the artists’ manifesto. It is a snapshot of our interests, profane and impure, pitched at the lower frequencies to disrupt the bowels of art & culture.

If Van Gogh hadn’t cut off his own ear, he might have heard the faint murmur of Brown Noise, telling him his gesture was in vain. If ‘Stendhal’s syndrome’ is the dizziness, panic, paranoia or madness caused by an overdose of ‘beautiful’ art, then its counterpart might well be the ‘out-there’ experience of Brown Noise, an inverted and shallow aesthetic of bowel emptying humour.

Emanating from the front space of an east-end recording studio, Brown Noise provides fast-acting, effective relief from the muted anality of Cultural institutions and the constipating effects of over-consumption. As the inaugural exhibition at the Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, Brown Noise adds a rumbling back-beat to the sounds otherwise associated with these premises.

© The artists.

 

BronNoise

 
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