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'TRUSTED SERVANT' .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae was a
group exhibition curated by French artist Philippe Parreno and Rachael Thomas
(Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
from 29 November to 18 February, 2007. More than twenty artists, writers and
thinkers were invited to participate in this
project that focused on the notion of ‘process’. Parreno’s approach was to go
beyond the real/physical space of the museum and as a part of this process
Garrett Phelan has been invited and entrusted by the curators to close this
exhibition with his project Trusted Servant. On the 19th February, 2007
(the gallery closing date of .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae), Phelan uploaded the video performance work entitled Trusted Servant, 2007 onto YouTube, a popular free
video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips -
a sub-cultural web endemic that has quickly become an unregulated virtual
institution. Primarily known for radio,
video, drawing and alternative projects, in this instance Phelan becomes the
gatekeeper of .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae. Trusted Servant
documents an automated and manic performance of Phelan repeating pre-recorded
broadcasts from his MP3 player, which have been
compiled and edited from media sources – shortwave and longwave radio, cable
link, newspaper articles and webcasts. His working standpoint, calls
into question the mainstream methods of endless ingestion of information and
communication that influence the formations of our opinions in this ‘don’t
stop age’. The removal of Trusted Servant from
YouTube at Phelan’s conceptual discretion will mark the official end of .all
Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae. To view Trusted Servant please go to http://www.youtube.com/trustedservant Trusted Servant also
functions as part of Phelan’s current exploration into the Formation of Opinion (2003_ ongoing). This work is the final part of a first phase
entitled Reception
of information, which includes the three
drawing projects NOW: HERE, 2003, LUNG LOVE, 2004, GOD ONLY KNOWS, 2005 and a month long artwork entitled Black Brain Radio, 2006, an
independent FM/online radio station. Philippe Parreno’s .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar reGGae catalogue
text After Affects proposes a similar style of communication as technology,
as an amalgamation of hidden, coded, obscure, specialized languages, that
inscribe all forms of transmission. .all Hawaii eNtrees/luNar
reGGae includes: Bas Jan Ader, Doug Aitken, Carles Congost, Keren Cytter,
Thomas Demand, Cory Doctorow, Peter Fischli/ David Weiss, Liam Gillick,
Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Jim Lambie,
Sarah Lucas, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Sarah Morris, Grant Morrison, Jorge
Pardo, Philippe Parreno, Paola Pivi, Eva Rothschild, Anri Sala, Rirkrit
Tirvanija, Kurt Vonnegut, Cerith Wyn Evans, with lectures by Shumon Basar and
David Deutsch. For more information on
'Formation of Opinion' go to www.garrettphelan.com/foo.htm © Garrett Phelan. For further information please
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