Exhibition
peck o' trouble
02 Nov 2018 – 25 Nov 2018
The Regency Town House
Hove, United Kingdom
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peck o' trouble
Talk
peck o' trouble | Suzanne O’Haire’s guest speaker event with Sally O’Reilly
10 Nov 2018
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Tickets £4.50 via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peck-o-trouble-suzanne-ohaires-guest-speaker-event-with-sally-oreilly-tickets-48733144146
Address
- 13 Brunswick Square
- Hove
- BN3 1EH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- We are well served by the local bus network. Tell your bus driver you need to get to the top of Brunswick Square in Western Road, Hove, or the east end of Hove Lawns on the seafront road (Kingsway, A259). For full timetable and route information see: Brighton & Hove Buses.
- By car: driving to Brighton & Hove is relatively straightforward but it should be noted that traffic can get very congested at weekends and holiday periods. Once here drivers often find parking to be problematic. There are a few limited parking options in Brunswick Square and on the seafront.
- If you are visiting by train you can use Hove or Brighton stations, each being approximately 1.3 miles from The Regency Town House. For full timetable and route information see: National Rail UK
Event map
Suzanne O’Haire has invited guest speakers to stir magical thought during this solo exhibition where she presents 34 sculptural assemblages performing as supposed sigils or spells. Hosted by John Marchant, Sally is the first speaker in this series of three talks.
About
Sally O'Reilly | Tense Intents Nonsense Ken
Spelling. To cast a spell is to exploit, or possibly to create, a wormhole in common-sensical causality. When a spell takes effect, the recognised means through which that effect ordinarily comes into being are overridden. To write is also to override immediate reality, to cause something else to come to pass or to be – the difference between writing and sorcery being that, other than the printed page, that which is written into existence is not physical. But it is tangible. To write is to cast a spell on the reader, to insert a new idea or image into their … what? Their imagination, their understanding, which are … where exactly? The Stoics believed knowledge to be stored throughout the body, and that false or ambiguous information would infect the body of knowledge, the self and, through subsequent ill-informed behaviour, the entire civic body. Where a sorcerer studs a lemon with nails and hides it in the walls of those to be stricken with a mysterious ague or financial or romantic ruin, a writer combines words and secretes them deep within the reader, who then moves through the world in possession of some new, potentially influenzal thought.
O’Reilly writes for performance, page and video. Publications include the novella The Ambivalents (Cabinet, NY, 2017), the novel Crude (Eros Press, 2016), a monograph on Mark Wallinger (Tate Publishing, 2014), The Body in Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, 2009) and the interdisciplinary broadsheet Implicasphere (co-editor, 2003-8). She has also written libretti for the operas The Virtues of Things (Royal Opera, Aldeburgh Music, Opera North, 2015) and And London Burned (Temple Music Foundation, 2016). Her short fiction has been published by Cabinet magazine, Various Small Fires, Artenol, Contemporary Art Society, Picpus and London Underground.
peck o' trouble | 2 - 25 November 2018
Exhibition admission free
Mon - Tues: by appointment only
Wed - Fri: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Sat - Sun: 12noon - 4:00pm
Image: title text - VujaDe by Virus Fonts
