https://soundsweep.info Sharon Phelan Mon, 17 May 2021 20:58:03 +0000 https://soundsweep.info en https://soundsweep.info/Front-page Mon, 17 May 2021 20:58:03 +0000 Sharon Phelan https://soundsweep.info/Front-page SHARON PHELAN is an artist whose work spans performance, installation, writing, and composition, with specific attention to sound, voice, resonance, and poetics of place. Born in Bahrain, Sharon grew up between the Persian Gulf, the Philippines, and Ireland. She lives and works in Dublin’s inner city and was recently awarded a 2026-27 studio residency with Fire Station Artists’ Studios. Sharon holds a PhD from the School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, and an Associate Lecturer at The School of Art and Design, Technological University Dublin. Her practise is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Working with improvisation, field recording, voice, and synthesis, Sharon has collaborated and performed with Eivind Aarset, Jeff Ballard, Natalia Beylis, Bog Bodies, Karl Burke, Seán Carpio, Lisa Dowdall, David Lacey, Phil Maguire, Joanna Mattrey, Seán Mac Erlaine, Aonghus McEvoy, Neil O Connor, Matthew Nolan, and David Stalling among others.  Festival performances include Osaka World Expo, Fête de la Musique, Reception, Alternating Current, Body & Soul, Audiograft, Metronome, Beyond the Pale, and Earth Rising. She was selected by Emily Jacir, Pádraic E. Moore, and Matt Packer for the Platform Commissions programme of the 40th EVA International, and was one of five artists invited to take part in Brown Mountain Diamond’s residency and public art commission, RURAL LIFE 1.0.  Sharon has given talks at events and venues such as the Darmstadt Summer Course; the Burren College of Art; Sonic Urbanism: Reverberations in a New Field (IKLECTIK); Sonic Displacements (Project Arts Centre); Loud Objects Moving Air (CRiSAP); Sounding Out the Space (GradCAM); The Sound of Memory Symposium (Goldsmith’s University London); Crafting a Sonic Urbanism (Theatrum Mundi);  and The Golden Age (CTM Festival). Her graphic scores have been published in Scoring the City (curated by Gascia Ouzounian and John Bingham-Hall), and Over Borders (curated by Jez riley French and Pheobe riley Law).   She was a curator with Monster Truck Gallery & Studios from 2008-2013 and has worked as a postdoctoral artistic researcher (Trinity College Dublin), and an arts journalist for print (Totally Dublin) and radio (Culture File). Forthcoming (2026) is a solo exhibition at The Cash Shop, Galway;  a Sonic Arts residency at University of Limerick Electronic Music Studio (in collaboration with the Contemporary Music Centre);  an artist talk at the Irish Museum of Modern Art; and a tape release with Diet of Worms. * * *PhDVocal Artefacts: a sonic imagination of the human microphone (TCD)MPhil Sound conversing with space (TCD)BFA Rhizomusicosmology: simplicity, complexity and emergence in music, science and art (NCAD)* * *  Contact:sharonjphelan@gmail.com 2026  NOVEMBER Symposium (TBA), Belgium SEPTEMBER 5 - OCTOBER 11 Group Exhibition, IN A COLLAPSE OF THE EARTH, Accent Sisters, New York SEPTEMBER 5 Nick Klein / Sharon Phelan & Aonghus McEvoy, Kirkos, Dublin JULY 19 Thélèma broadcast on Katie Gerardine O'Neill’s ddr show, La Métamorphose  JULY 02 Listening to Intervals—A Correspondence (artist talk at the Irish Museum of Modern Art) JUNE 24 Announcement of FSAS Studio Awards JUNE 20Field Recording with SOWL for Amach Anseo Radio (Broadcast TBA) JUNE Geopoetics with Accent Sisters (participant) MAY  Field Recording with Mount Etna and Nomadica Lab (participant) MAY Sonic Arts Residency at University of Limerick Electronic Music StudioAPRIL 18 ‘Chthonic’ (for cymbals and voice) - Sharon Phelan and Seán Carpio, The Cash Shop, Galway APRIL 13 Guest on The Nightfly, Dublin Digital Radio APRIL 10David Kitt’s album release - The Big Romance (Kittser's Version) MARCH 14  Sharon Phelan - Phil Maguire - Aonghus McEvoy, 1 Little Green Street FEBRUARY 20 School of Wild Listening FEBRUARY 7 - MAY 2 Solo Exhibition, KEEPERS AND TRANSMITTERS, The Cash Shop, Galway JANUARY The Listening Academy – On Poetic Knowledge  (participant) 2025   NOVEMBER 24 Fußball wie noch nie, National Concert Hall, Dublin [SOLD OUT] NOVEMBER 8 Metronome, The Studio, National Concert Hall, DublinNOVEMBER 7 Eva-Maria Houben performed by David Lacey, Sharon Phelan & Aonghus McEvoy, Kirkos, Dublin OCTOBER Field Recording with Jana Winderen and The River Garbet (participant) OCTOBER 12Exhibition opens at Brown Mountain Diamond, Kilkenny and runs till October 31st    OCTOBER 8 Ireland Pavilion, Osaka World Expo  SEPTEMBER 11 DJ set for the opening of Kathryn Maguire’s exhibition, Material Acts, Pallas Projects AUGUST 15 Artist Talk, The Orchard House, KilkennyJULY 17 Support for ‘A Storm and its Aftermath’ Album Launch — David Donohoe & Kate Carr, 1 Little Green Street, Dublin JUNE 9 Guest on The Nightfly, Dublin Digital Radio MAY 22 The Space Between at International Literary Festival Dublin MAY 1 - MAY 31 Residency with Brown Mountain Diamond APRIL 18 The Fumbally, DublinAPRIL 1 Launch of issue two of .pdf magazine MARCH 27 Performing Traffic Piece by Sebastian Adams MARCH 22 Spatial Music Concert 006 MARCH 18 The School of Wild Listening FEBRUARY 23 Gem Beag Anseo JANUARY 24 The Space Between [postponed till February 21st due to Storm Éowyn] 2024 NOVEMBER 21 - DECEMBER 1 Dublin Art Book Fair  NOVEMBER 16 & 17 Live score to I Am Not Legend, Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy) SEPTEMBER 20Culture Night, Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin) SEPTEMBER 12 Performance at the Irish Museum of Modern Art AUGUST 4 Lughnasadh, Brennanstown Dolmen and Daylight Glasnevin JUNE 23 Performance and panel discussion at Beyond The Pale Festival  (Wicklow) JUNE 22 Happenings at Richmond Barracks (Dublin) JUNE 21 Fête de la Musique, Museum of Literature (Paris/Live Stream)  JUNE 14 Magnets, Muons, Metal, UNIT 44 (Dublin) JUNE 10 Dublin Digital Radio, Guest on The Nightfly MAY 3 Sound!, The Passion of Joan of Arc  (Derry) APRIL 28 DCC Sensoria, The Fairy Tale Films of Lotte Reiniger (Dublin) APRIL 12  University of Limerick Electronic Music Studio (Limerick) APRIL 6 Metronome +, The National Concert Hall MAR 20-23 MotherKraft at The Project Arts Centre   MAR 9EVA Platform Comissions at The Dock  MAR 9To Hold or to be Held (Book launch with Mark Garry) at Solstice Arts Centre FEB 2Reception, Unit 44 (Dublin) JAN 19Solo performance (of Keepers and Transmitters), presented by Foggy Notions,  The Fumbally Stables (Dublin) 2023 NOV 27Guest on The Nightfly (with Ian Lamont), Dublin Digital RadioNOV 7Live soundtrack to The Birds, National Concert Hall (Dublin) SEPT 28-30Residency and  performance with Rita Evans at audiograft (Oxford)SEPT 21-23Solo performance (of Keepers and Transmitters), Earth Rising, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin)SEPT 16Improvisation, Happenings Ireland (Dublin)SEPT 15Live soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ranelagh Arts (Dublin)SEPT 1Live performance at 40th EVA International (Limerick)AUG 22 Live soundtrack to Metropolis, Stella Cinema (Dublin) JULY 14 The Dock JUNE 28Live soundtrack to Metropolis, Stella Cinema (Dublin) JUNE 16 Body & Soul APRIL 1 Reception, The Complex MARCH 16 METRONOME, National Concert Hall FEBRUARY 22 Artist Talk at Burren College of Art JANUARY 29 Guest on The Nightfly, Dublin Digital Radio 2022 DECEMBER 19 Acoustic Atlas DECEMBER 2 audiograft, Modern Art Oxford NOVEMBER 19 Seas Between, Museum of Literature, Ireland OCTOBER 29 Nosferatu100, Pepper Canister Church SEPTEMBER 9 Launch of a row of trees, Volume 1, Issue Two  JUNE 19 Performing with The Kino Quartet, Happenings Ireland JUNE 7 Sonic Displacements at Project Arts Centre MAY 1 Reception Concert MARCH 20 Seas Between, Newman House JANUARY 28 Launch of Abolition A-Z WORKS *website in progress click HERE for previous site From the centre of the valley of the ox [field compass] Thélèma Brütt, or The Sighing Gardens ōs How to set the ossicles in motion Echoes of Sappho limen Katábasis Keepers and Transmitters Pli Selon Pli Citizens United: A Speech Act  Radio Ocean Soil Matrix APRIORI Echoes on Echoes Lines of Enclosure || Lines of Flight Fossil At the Threshold“Mic Check! Mic Check!” Surface Tension Electroluminescence * * * Commissions: Brown Mountain Diamond EVA International Reception Alternating Current  Acoustic Atlas Galway Jazz Festival * * * Recent Press / Interviews / Responses:World Expo 2025, Osaka Kilkenny Arts OfficeThe Contemporary Music Centre RTÉ Arena Raidió Teilifís Éireann Irish Times EVA International Visual Artists Newsheet Oxford Contemporary Music The WireThe Journal of Music Georgia Tech Laptop Orchestra Sonic Displacements * * * Artist-in-Residence: Brown Mountain Diamond audiograft Interface Connemara * * *