Caged Archive, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick 2005

How to dramatize the consciousness of viewing (notes on the Caged Archive)

Design and fabricate a cage suitable for two people to stand in and move around comfortably.

Place the cage in an exhibition space, preferably.

Select items from the artistÕs archive of source material (notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, sketches, letters, Xeroxes).

Place these inside the cage.

List and annotate items using comments and notes.

Equip the cage with suitable furnishings, locks and fittings.

Instructions for the artist

Periodically enter the cage to show people items in the archive.

Instructions for the viewer

Take in the small connections and associations that reveal hidden truths.

Items in Caged Archive from Mark O'Kelly's studio

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Small mirror approx 25 x 29 mm from Mark O'Kelly's studio

FILE 1 0001-0080

var. A4 notes and newspaper clippings re: installation exhibition Old Holland New Amsterdam c. 10/05

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Living Review:Homes Var. windmills (studies for painting Old Holland)

0078

Unidentified newspaper (poss. The Guardian): 12/02/04 photograph of cages, prison Camp Delta Guantanamo Bay; reverse Arts Section The Camera DoesnÕt Lie 2 archival crowd shots of the 2nd anniversary of the Russian Revolution, 1919, one with Lenin and Trotsky, one with Trotsky airbrushed out

0079-0080

A4 sheet of paper with handwritten note: Handwriting Analysis in pencil

0081 - 0097

The Ideal City: var. A4 notes, colour Xeroxes and clippings re: city architecture c. 10/03

0098

Studies of the PopeÕs head

0099

Var. magazine clippings of couples kissing (Brad and Jennifer, Jen and Ben, Britney and Madonna)

0100

Var. a4 notes for text pieces (really really pretty painting Handwriting Analysis Lots of artistÕs signatures

0101 - 0102

Source clippings for painting New Amsterdam (crowd shots) and original tracings.

0103 - 0126

Var. notes and Xerox copies on A4 paper for making painting New Amsterdam c. 10/04

0127 - 0155

Var. runway shots, single figures. Source clipping for Jenoptik-LCGA

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A4 sketches and notes: safari, click, jungles, Kalamana; newspaper clipping 17/3/02 Models at the Dries Van Noten show where the audience was alarmed by bombing in Afghanistan

0157

Newspaper clipping of designer office table and chairs (source/date unidentified)

0158

Var. A4 notes for Parade and New Amsterdam

0159

colour Xeroxes of jungle and Ananda Hotel, Northern India (In Style Magazine Dec 2003)

0160

Var. clippings; press conference with Alan Greenspan

0160

Unfilled clippings c. 15/07/02

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c. April 2003 var. A4 notes But a book about paintings by Giotto-OH/NA start

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Notes c. 28/12/02 clipping Herb Ritts: The Photographer Who Turned The Glamorous Celebrity Lifestyle Into Art The Guardian 21/28/02; Herb Ritts 1952 - 2002 Photographer To The Famous, Regarded As WorldÕs Top Fashion And Advertising Image-Maker Dies In L.A. Hospital-

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Notes c. 21/10/03

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Newspaper clipping the Age of Selfishness: Rampant individualism is corroding our personal lives, politics and popular culture source unidentified. Var. notes c. 18/12/02-

0165 - 0166

Large collection of notes and clippings c. 17/01/03; byline: Some states might be excused for not wishing to take part in globalisation if they have the welfare of the urban poor at heart.

0167

Colour Xeroxes clippings urban decay, garbage, debris; Jean Paul Gautier; various magazine clippings of people on the telephone, var. notes c. 27/3/04-Yr 2003/4

0168

Var. magazine clippings of runway and fashion shows

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10/4/04 sketches for layout of exhibition at Limerick City Gallery; Obituaries Brilliant Philosopher Engaged swith the Interaction of Art and Psychoanalysis. Richard Wollheim The Guardian November 5 2003; clipping Penelope Cruz at a press conference; source clipping Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath

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Notes c. 13/3/04 handwritten note: the problem of specific things

0171

Small folio of photographs of paintings OH/NA series

0172

Newspaper clipping; The Devil that was his own Darkside, Marianne Faithful on the life and work of William Burroughs. Reverse side: Cannes: The Tarantino Effect, this year's festival opens tonight with one man's fingerprints all over it The Guardian 12/05/05

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File 1H

18/3/04 White Spirit paint thinner label

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13/12/04 handwritten text in purple felt tip pen: elements of graceful surprise handwritten text in black marker: GUILT the subject 9 PTGNS

0175

Clipping (source unidentified) I can hear a rainbow This is what Laura Barton sees when these words are spoken. Here she explains what itÕs like to suffer from synaethesia 23/9/03

0176

12/4/4 colour Xerox of bookshop window display of the works of Evelyn Waugh

0177

3 small folios - titanium white paint label w/handwritten text: New Amsterdam

0178

File 1

Clippings of stacks of books arranged in various colour palettes-Proto

0179

clipping 26/7/02 (source unidentified) Tim is evicted from the Big Brother house last week as the final four contestants look on; 27/2/03 clipping (source unidentified) image of a woman on an airstrip with the caption The Middle East: not an easy place for businesswomen (above)

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Var. clippings c. 5/1/03

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handwritten list: A TREE, A PERSON, A BOOK (PAGE), A TELEVISION, (A BEACH), A DIAMOND, A RADIO, STEPS, A PLANE, BAGS OF WASTE, A SUBURBAN HOUSE (DUTCH STYLE), A GARBAGE TRUCK, MORE CAR [sic.], A SIGN (OBLIQUELY)

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Var. clippings of designed interiors

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11/01/03 computer written note: Make a drawing by looking at an object or image for a time, put the object or image out of sight, then draw as much as you can and then look again continuing the process until the representation is complete.

0184

Source clipping for Capetown

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Var. colour Xeroxes of designed interiors

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c. 17/1/03 catalogue clipping of stack of jumpers forming a rainbow colour palette.

0187 - 0189

File 1J

Var. colour Xeroxes ref. Beach, dancer, Aus road, Waterfall c. 27/04/01-Beach Dancer

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File 1K

Newspaper clipping and colour Xeroxes of Cyprus

0191

Mounted magazine clipping of large mansion (Observer Magazine 20 October 2002) reverse of card: handwritten note in pencil: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

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Source unidentified: Architect who made his home an illustration of what modern design could offer: Patrick Gwynne

0193

Diana Brooks pictured at SothebyÕs (source unidentified)

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File 1L

13/3/04 suggested narrative for the paintings in In Fashion made from a sequence of A4 b&w xeroxes.

0195

Var. magazine clippings. Source clipping for Dubai painting (caption: Tiger Woods drives off the top of the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai

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Var. colour and b&w Xeroxes c. 15/1/04

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File 1M

Var. clippings of modernist architecture in the jungle-8/2/3

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Box 2 - 8

Folios 9 - 14 - not yet itemized as of 15/01/05

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