Stephen Rennicks is taking part in this years Architecture show at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. The brief was to re-imagine a bridge and four artists and four architects were invited to take part. To view his concept, entitled 'The Natural Bridge', and the rest, you are invited to the opening at 5.30pm on Friday 23rd May. Stephen will also be leading a public tour of the whole exhibition on 31st May at 12 noon.
http://www.thedock.ie/He is also one of the artists featured in the Dennis McNulty curated 'Underground'. This exhibition will be held underneath Road Records on Fade St., Dublin, in what was previously a record shop. The theme for the show is 'the dematerialisation of the musical artefact' and 'the virtualisation of the musical experience'. Amongst other things he will have a film on show and an essay, ’The Return of Mystery’, in the accompanying publication. Stephen was invited to take part because of doing ‘Drexciya Research Lab‘. In operation since 2005, this is an online resource which takes the legendary and anonymous Detroit electronic music group Drexciya (1992 - 2002) and their many and mysterious on-going spin-off projects as its subject. This opening will be held on the 27th of June. For more precise details check Dennis McNulty‘s website closer to the date.
http://www.dennismcnulty.com/http://www.drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/You will also find some button badge size art work of his at the ‘Badge Art Show’ to be held at the Mantua Project House, Co. Roscommon. The opening of this group exhibition will be held on Saturday 19th July from 8pm. It’s not too late to submit your own work to this joint Stitchy Press/Mantua promoted show. More details at following link.
http://www.myspace.com/badgeartshowThe 3 year in the making, ‘666, 777, 888’ project, which covers past, present and future comes to its conclusion on the 8th of August 2008. This is a land art piece which in very broad strokes so far involved; altering the horizon by building a mound of rocks to represent ‘present’ on 6th June 2006 at Kilronan, Co. Roscommon and one year later illuminating the normally white cross at Sheemore in Co. Leitrim red for one night only to create a memory for those who saw it, as the ‘past’ on 7th July 2007.
The ‘future’ aspect will be completed by aligning the 3 sites in a perfect row with a viewing point marker. It is hoped this viewing point will be built over time by people themselves but it will be given a good kick start by the artist first. Other ‘future’ aspects will come into play as well, as they did for the previous parts.
What all this means will be fully explained and documented online from 8/8/08. The artist will be leading a walking tour of the sites on the following day, Saturday 9th August from 2pm. Those interested should contact him by email privately to make arrangements and get directions. Come prepared for some light hill walking and with a packed lunch. If the day is good we can hopefully have a picnic enroute.
http://www.freewebs.com/666777888Finally, the first(?) purely virtual band, ‘Digitalis Ae’, now exists. This ongoing MySpace based project came out of an initial run at the above mentioned ‘Underground’ show but evolved into something else. It so far tackles at least two of Stephens favourite themes, imagination and context. Objectivity will hopefully get worked in there too over time!
http://www.myspace.com/digitalisae---------------------------------------------
http://www.freewebs.com/stephenrennicks
