Category: News
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‘Mike TV’, Public performance art for the punk within (2009)
In 2007, while still in art college, in the first year of his major in Sculpture & Combined Media, O’Brien brought the old family home television to the Georges Quay campus of the Limerick School of Art & Design. He then gutted it hollow and politely asked the course technician Pat Beasley to help him…
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Drawing dance & dialogue with Limerick communities for Dance Limerick’s Spark Creative Climate Action Project (2024)
O’Brien is currently taking part in Creating a Climate for Change in Limerick Creating a Climate for Change in Limerick is a new project from Dance Limerick’s DL.Bridge programme running until the end of 2024. DL.Bridge artist Katy Hewison and a team consisting of researchers Ciara Moynihan and Gülfem Cevheribucak, dance artist Roberta Ceginskaite, choreographer…
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Look Closer, A ‘Living Installation’ of 175 works in progress, at The Peoples Museum of Limerick (2024)
O’Brien revealed a new ‘living installation’ in January 2024, NFS until completion. Watch the artist explain the meaning and relevance of this work to his ongoing art practice, in the museum’s unique Coach House space at the pinned post on his Instagram profile: instagram.com/@artofmikeobrien