Visual Arts Programme
The Concourse Installation 2005
Theresa Nanigian
20 October – 4 November 2005
Time Value Analysis – A Tool For Our Times
Time Value Analysis – A Tool For Our Times is a commentary on the increasing sense of time famine in contemporary life. In the work, a video created using PowerPoint, the standard tool for slick business presentations and awash with sophisticated charts and catchy buzzwords, is positioned as a serious lecture on how one can improve their time allocation and hence, their life. The video is installed in a make shift conference centre set amidst the continuous community and office employee traffic of the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Hall. At once sincere and absurd, the work attempts to reflect our hunger for canned solutions that ultimately defeat their purpose, and by their very nature, suffocate some of the simpler joys of life.
Theresa Nanigian was born in Maryland, United States. Studied in New York at the School of Visual Arts and the Arts Students League. Received a BA in Fine Art (DIT, Dublin) and a Masters of Fine Art (NCAD, Dublin). Recent exhibitions include Claremorris Open Exhibition 2005 (Claremorris), The Happiest Country in the World (Oireachtas na Gaeilge, Dublin & Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Brittany), live (Interim Projekte, Frankfurt), Full Circle (TBG&S, Dublin),
Women, Words & Images (STAC, New York), Crawford Open5 (Cork), 60seconds (291 Gallery and Space-twotentwo, London), ev+a (Bourn Vincent Gallery, Limerick). Lives and works in Dublin.
This exhibition is kindly sponsored by Bang and Olufsen www.bang-olufsen.com
