Oisín Byrne with Adam Gibbons

Oisín Byrne and Adam Gibbons presented Speaker I & Speaker II (The New Domestic Landscape) (2021), an installation that brought together a series of songs and short videos produced over the previous two years. Through a process they describe as ‘alongsides, handovers, and mutualities’, they work through a series of shared concerns including their interest in language with its slippages and inadequacies.

Oisín Byrne also presented BOUNCER (2021) commissioned by Isolation TV. A video lecture on themes of intimacy and disgust, it featured two characters BODY and ADDENDUM – both performed by the artist. Through heckling, mimicry and song, the concerns of the lecture are played out.

Oisín Byrne and Adam Gibbons’ participation formed part of Little did they know, the Guest Programme of the 39th EVA International, curated by Merve Elveren.

Oisín Byrne is an Irish artist, writer, and film-maker based in London. He received his BA from NCAD Dublin, and his MFA from Goldsmiths University London. Byrne’s work has been exhibited internationally in institutions including Salzburger Kunstverein, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Princeton University. Byrne’s work is substantially represented in the Irish State Collection. His writing has been published in Eros Press and Pilot Press, with upcoming essay works in MA Bibliotheque’s anthology work ON CARE and in The Happy Hypocrite’s final edition Without Reduction. Byrne also works as a creative consultant to film-maker Sophie Fiennes, with Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami premiering at Toronto Film Festival (2017). Byrne is an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and London College of Communications.

Adam Gibbons is an artist, lecturer, writer, and editor based in London, UK. Together with Eva Wilson, he is commissioning editor of the publication “ ”, an ongoing series of books around art, publishing, and dissemination. He was a founding member of the artist group Am Nuden Da. Recent projects and collaborations include The Stories We Tell Ourselves at Kunstverein München with Eva Wilson and Maurin Dietrich; the slow book launch of “ ” #3 Becky Beasley / Claire Scanlon with Flat Time House, London, NERO, Rome, and Printed
Matter, New York; “ ” #6 Tyler Coburn / Adam Gibbons at KunstWerke, Berlin; Let’s not dispute the useless. … with Gerry Bibby, Juliette Blightman, Kerstin Brätsch, Oliver Laric, and Ghislaine Leung; Keeping Time: Sol LeWitt & David Tremlett, Capella del Barolo,
Piedmont; The Season of Cartesian Weeping, curated by Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, DRAF, London; “ ” #5 Badlands Unlimited Act I by Badlands Unlimited at MOMA PS1, New York.