Systematics of the Staged (IRL Exhibition)
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| Date | 11.16.19 |
| Time | 12pm–6pm |
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| Admission | Free |
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| Associated Program | Welcome to my Homepage · IRL |
IRL and Welcome to my Homepage present the IRL exhibition Systematics of the Staged by Ciara O'Kelly.
Project Description
Systematics of the Staged presents a production cycle manifesting within a curated landscape. It examines the corporation’s effect on evolutionary advances and declines, whilst identifying frameworks used to construct a seamless façade consistently exhibited to the individual.
The predetermined environment is populated with opaque backdrops, flawless textures, satisfying colour palettes and mathematically perfected lighting in an effort to illustrate a convincing arrangement. Destructive production lines adhering to the projected demands of mass-consumption are masked through the use of carefully calculated simulation, staged moving image and edited sound. The individual is considered a performer within the system; directed, engineered and remodelled to exist in its most universal, efficient and simplified form.
Artist Bio
Ciara O’Kelly is an Irish artist currently living in New York. O’Kelly stages videos using a 3D modelling program which are predominately realised as large scale installations. Through the use of simulations, she strives to curate objects and environmental systems in an effort to achieve a desired state of perfection, manipulating physics and textures which often reveal miscommunications and bugs within these technologies. She draws from frameworks, systems and consumerist structures, critiquing our relationship to corporate bodies within a largely capitalist and digitized world.
O’Kelly graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2017 with a Joint BA in Fine Art Sculpture and Visual Culture. Following this, she was the recipient of the Digital Media Graduate Award at Fire Station Artists’ Studios and received the Young Artists’ Development Award from South Dublin County Council in 2018 & 2019. In Spring 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado.
