Joseph Noonan-Ganley
Joseph Noonan-Ganley tends to make art over long periods of time, focusing and following people who tend to have died.
Just one of Josephs projects was fem-fabrications where he followed Joseph Cornell who is an artist who passed away in 1972. Noonan-Ganley's research lasted for a long period of time consisting of him reading books by and about Cornell, visiting archives that held information about him and watching videos and interviews featuring Cornell. In his research Joseph mainly focused on Cornell's sexuality and sex life, how he experienced difficulties with women and the way he spoke and wrote about women.
Furthering from his research Joseph began visiting Cornell's home and places that he would go often like the neighbourhood he lived in and worked in. In this process Noonan-Ganley videoed himself walking the streets toward Cornell's home whilst reading out parts of Cornell's writings about his relationships with women and sexual life, focusing a lot on the quote "death is preferable to loss of innocence". In the lecture Joseph explained that he made these recordings as he was interested in the voice coming from a body and space, he had to go to Cornell's home to feel the environment of Cornell, be in the space that he spent most of his time in, however he didn't have access to go inside the home which Joseph became interested in, the thought of being a pedestrian passing the life of Cornell became a fascination of his.
Concluding his research Joseph created an exhibition mainly focusing on Cornell's sexuality and his difficulties with women. The exhibition featured many rooms and each room had its own audio piece and in the centre of the room there would be a box with textural art inside it, such as a box containing white roses.
I dint really like Josephs work, it doesn't really interest me and I don't like the processes he goes through for his practice such as following a dead person around which I frankly find quite creepy.
Just one of Josephs projects was fem-fabrications where he followed Joseph Cornell who is an artist who passed away in 1972. Noonan-Ganley's research lasted for a long period of time consisting of him reading books by and about Cornell, visiting archives that held information about him and watching videos and interviews featuring Cornell. In his research Joseph mainly focused on Cornell's sexuality and sex life, how he experienced difficulties with women and the way he spoke and wrote about women.
Furthering from his research Joseph began visiting Cornell's home and places that he would go often like the neighbourhood he lived in and worked in. In this process Noonan-Ganley videoed himself walking the streets toward Cornell's home whilst reading out parts of Cornell's writings about his relationships with women and sexual life, focusing a lot on the quote "death is preferable to loss of innocence". In the lecture Joseph explained that he made these recordings as he was interested in the voice coming from a body and space, he had to go to Cornell's home to feel the environment of Cornell, be in the space that he spent most of his time in, however he didn't have access to go inside the home which Joseph became interested in, the thought of being a pedestrian passing the life of Cornell became a fascination of his.
Concluding his research Joseph created an exhibition mainly focusing on Cornell's sexuality and his difficulties with women. The exhibition featured many rooms and each room had its own audio piece and in the centre of the room there would be a box with textural art inside it, such as a box containing white roses.
I dint really like Josephs work, it doesn't really interest me and I don't like the processes he goes through for his practice such as following a dead person around which I frankly find quite creepy.
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