Documents — writing, catalogs, and proposals by Brian O’Connell alongside outside resources. Each is searchable by its full text from the archive.
The Library is under construction…
Big Art Dish: A Report and Proposal. Los Angeles, April 2015.
A proposal for the Big Art Dish — a large dish instrument sited in the desert near Los Angeles to gather astronomical radio-frequency signals and stream them online as open data for artists of all kinds.
The “University of Trash” seminar at SculptureCenter (Newtown Creek) — trash, sculpture, boats, concrete as a teaching program.
A dossier for the Bodrum Tirhandil Project — correspondence and research toward casting a concrete vessel on the exterior of a disused traditional tirhandil so the new hull bears the old one’s impression. Extends the 2009 Los Angeles hull (after Bas Jan Ader, 1975).
The 2009 build: a test boat in the East River, chicken-wire reinforcing mats made at Malibu Canyon, the process after the 1971 Whole Earth Catalog.
The original 2005 proposal to the Director of the Central Library, KU Leuven — opening on Bergson’s Matter and Memory and Freud’s Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through (1914). Realized as FLASHBULBS.
Flashbulbs: The Central Library Project. The University Library of the KUL, Leuven, Belgium, 2005.
The full catalog for FLASHBULBS at the University Library, Leuven — reading-room texts, contributors, the Ladeuzezaal. The realized publication of the Central Library Project.
“Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Medium Look Like?” Art and Research, Glasgow School of Art, 2008.
“What Would an Invoking Medium Look Like?” — on Verwoert, appropriation, and living among ghosts.
“About Thick Air…, About Riddles,” in Simon Dybbroe Møller: Kompendium. Kunstverein Hannover, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and JRP Press, 2009.
On a set of printing plates (clichés) found in a 1951 house near Cologne — riddles, and the frustration of distance in time and space.
“DEMONOLOGY,” in Hey, Hey Glossolalia. Creative Time, New York, 2008.
Contribution to Hey, Hey, Glossolalia, 2008 Performa, New York, 2008
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