Phelan often acts as an antagonist or anti-editor, combining disparate information together while refusing to draw distinctions or provide perspective. His preferred artistic method of communication and information dissemination (echoed in his creation of the thinking, talking Mynah bird) is famously the radio broadcast.
Between two ITs contains a newly commissioned work called Interruption. Or between two ITs – Part 3. The work explores “the space between believing in and not believing” and was partly informed by the history and original use of the SMART Project Space building – a former pathological anatomical laboratory. The notion of being between believing and not believing, or perhaps losing faith and the manifestation of new faith, is key to understanding the particular constellation of works in this exhibition.
The exhibition also includes black and white photographs; the radio floor sculpture The Revelation of Ministration; the video installation Racer; and several works from the series Radio Tombs, concrete, tombstone-like sculptures with radios buried inside, broadcasting a barely audible random radio signal.
Opening
Opening reception: Saturday 20 March 2010, 21.00 hrs