PRECAST
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| Artist Name(s) | Dennis McNulty |
| Artwork title | PRECAST |
| Context/Background | PRECAST was an exhibition structured as an hour-long performative event set in the environs of Robin Hood Gardens and Preston's Road roundabout, in Blackwall, East London in September and October 2012. |
| Description | PRECAST was an exhibition structured as an hour-long performative event set in the environs of Robin Hood Gardens and Preston's Road roundabout, in Blackwall, East London in September and October 2012. The event drew on cinema, sculpture, music and performance, knotting material and immaterial circuits, replaying past and present 'signals' to create points of constructive and destructive interference. The site-specific performance in East London was scripted for five performers incorporating a clip-board, a PA system, hi-vis vests, a megaphone with built-in mp3 player, USB stick, sound recordings, walkie-talkies, lanyards, portable CD player, CD, image placed as advertising in the Tower Hamlets Council newsletter, portable busker amplifier, iPod, a re-edited version of 'Love is a Stranger' by Eurythmics, plywood elements, a rented white van, bunting, blackout material, duct tape, timber and fixings.
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| Biographies | |
| Commission Type | Other |
| Commissioner Name | Culture Ireland |
| Project commission dates | September 11, 2012 - October 6, 2012 |
| Public Presentation dates | September 11, 2012 - October 6, 2012 |
| Partners | Bow Arts Trust, The Space Panda. |
| Project commission start date | 11/09/2012 |
| Project commission end date | 06/10/2012 |
| Location | PRECAST made use of a number of locations in the vicinity of Blackwall DLR station in Poplar, East London. Poplar Business Park. Robin Hood Gardens Estate. The underpass and walkway in Prestons Road roundabout. |
| County | International |
| Town | London |
| Website | www.dennismcnulty.com/archive/precast-project.net/index.html |
| Content contributor(s) | Dennis McNulty |
| Relationship to project | Artist |
| Associated professionals / Specialists involved | CURATOR: Chris Fite-Wassilak. GUIDES: Michael Luke, Walsh Simon Balcon. DRIVER: Laetisha Lovelace-Hanson. MINDERS: Tony Hindhaugh, Philippa Edwards, Geraldine Brennan, Nelsey Casallas, Eoghan Gallagher. VOICES: Michael Luke Walsh, Silvana Maimone. PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Esther Collins, Philippa Edwards, Oly Durcan, Alice Woodhouse. THANKS TO Matt Calderwood, Sile O’Shea, Elliot Dodd, Dominic Kelly, Esmeralda Conde Ruiz, Elaine Bailey, Hilary Best, Maria Stenfors, Michelle Deignan, Jody Leach, Rosamond Murdoch & The Nunnery, Duncan Brown, Tim Ross, Ed McNulty, Maeve Connolly, Anita Delaney, Nicky Teegan, Peter Maybury, Owen Doherty, Robin Hood Gardens Residents Association & Mohammed Yousef. |
