LEE WELCH (IRL/USA) completed an MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and gained his BFA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He has received support from the Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Dublin City Council. He is currently in the International Residential Studio at the Red Stables, Dublin.
He has recently received the Banff Residency at The Banff Centre, Canada (2010) and his work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, most recently Screening Room: Dublin - Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Amikejo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; (WHOOPEE) we're all going to die, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland; The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, Telephone Booth, Rotterdam; WordPerfect, NoPlace, Oslo, Norway; Love Letter To a Surrogate Stage II, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium (2011); Clifford Irving Show, Objectif Exhibitions curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, Antwerp, Belgium; A Whole New Ball Game, Banff Centre (2010); Non-knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2008); Claremorris curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas (2008).
Welch lives and works in Dublin, Ireland & Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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John Alton: Have you ever learned anything about your work
from a critic?Raymond Carver: No. No review I've ever read concerning
my work has changed the way I've written or even changed
the way I've thought about myself or my stories.John Alton: It doesn't tell you anything new?
Raymond Carver: No it doesn't. And if you start to believe the
laudatory reviews, then you have to believe the other ones
as well, perhaps.John Alton: So the primary concern you have is telling the truth
the way you see it?Raymond Carver: Yes.
Max Roach's last performance at the 50th anniversary celebration of the original Massey Hall concert, in Toronto, where he performed solo on the hi-hat. May 15, 1953
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2010
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Image credit:Example E.28. The Emotional Solidarity of Ape and Man
(Catching up-the emotions of his human friend)
Nadezhda N. Ladygina Coates
Moscow, 1935
2010
Situation: Sitting with a group of people (a meeting, a cocktail party, a casual conversation, whatever) and one of the people in the group feels really strongly about the topic, seems to know more than the others, or has significant power over the fortunes of the others. You have something important to contribute that might contradict the prevailing wind of discussion, might add a relevant overlooked fact, or might just force the group to consider the merits of an alternative course of action. What determines whether or not you speak your mind?A sense of uncertainty develops; multiple references unfold gradually over time ensuring that meaning is perpetually evolving and mutating. Welch uses this area of confusion to investigate the complex, shifting and often contradictory relationships between people and their environments and the links between nature, culture and the commodified world.
2010
To read
An Anonymous Report on
A Casual Conversation with Lee Welch
October 13, 2010
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(A scripted conversation with an audience)
Performed during A Casual Conversation
October 13, 2010
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The Game
A Whole New Ball Game played host to the launch of ANAL, a modest black and white periodical along with props, performances and lectures in midst of a basketball game.
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The Players
Neil Bickerton, Mike Crane, Hiro Fumisuda, Leigh-Ann Pahapill, Kevin Rodgers, Mike Schuh, Aislinn Thomas, Jan Verwoert & Lee Welch.
