Lisa O'Brien
Disturbance
Sound installation - 8 minutes
In Disturbance we can hear someone pacing around a house, opening and closing windows and doors to a deafening roar. We are drawn in to the protaganists house, listen to their footsteps and are reflected ourselves in the black cube which represents the darkness of being inside a house in the depths of winter with no electricity, no heat. Every so often snippets of information are gleaned from the intermittent radio reception. 'Power cables down across the whole of the Highlands... ferries no longer running from...rail services suspended...and now back to Muriel'.
Exhibitions
05 May 2006 JIPB Cube Gallery France, Japan, Scotland and Denmark
Lisa O'Brien is the first artist to represent Scotland on the JIPB cube project, with a sound installation. Her piece creates an incredible amount of anxiety as the sound fades in an out, and builds to a vibrating thunder.
The JIPB Cube Gallery is an international collaboration between four countries - France, Japan, Scotland and Denmark. Jarnac in France, Ichinomiya in Japan, Portree in Scotland and Bøvlingbjerg in Denmark. In May 2003 the ib Cube gallery was a result of an exchange between artists in Ichinomiya and Bøvlingbjerg and has since expanded over the last two years to successfully develop two new venues one in Jarnac (France) and one in Portree (Scotland), the only UK venue.
The catalyst for this project is to provide an opportunity to show new exciting developments in the contemporary practise of artists from different countries, and to raise and develop the awareness of contemporary art in rural locations. The curatorial brief insists the work produced remains new and experimental. Each venue sites an identical glass cube, 80cm cubed, whereby the artists create a specific work for the gallery space. This work is exhibited at all four galleries and becomes part of a network, to develop a forum for dialogue, discussion and exchanges among artists.
In just two years the Cube Gallery has created an exciting reputation that shows new innovative challenging work. The forum has been able to express a raised interest among several artist groups in different countries, and it is foreseeable to imagine the Cube Gallery expanding in the future using this concept.
May 2006 will therefore see a selection of three French, three Japanese, three Scottish and three Danish artists exhibiting at each respective gallery for a period of one month.
Jarnac, France
Ichinomiya, Japan
Portree, Scotland
Bøvlingbjerg, Denmark