/tonglen *towards morning (for n.s.)*
domenico de clario

east point gun turret, darwin, australia
from 6.43 (sunset) august 9 2006 until 6.52 (sunrise)
august 10 (full-moon 3.37 am august 10)

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A unique full moon endurance performance from sunset to sunrise at the East Point Gun Turret Reserve. Performance artist Domenico de Clario will perform on the turret all night incorporating video projections, keyboards, lighting and spoken word. *towards morning (for Noel)* harnesses the moon at its peak and is concerned with the impermanent and cyclical nature of life. This event is a part of 2006 Darwin Festival.

Artists statement:
The sitter touches the keys from sunset/moonrise until sunrise/moonset,
both accompanying and being accompanied by the movement of the spinning globe we inhabit.
On the occasion of the full moon we may be more willing to reflect upon
the basic structures that define our permanence on this earth.
The sitter's body/antenna may transmute some of the inaudible/invisible
into manifested phenomena.
'/not a sound only the old breath and the leaves turning and then
suddenly this dust this whole place suddenly full of dust when you
opened your eyes from floor to ceiling nothing only dust and not a
sound only what was it it said come and gone was that it something
like that come and gone come and gone no one come and gone in no
time gone in no time'/

samuel beckett (from 'that time', collected shorter plays, 1963)

this action is dedicated to the memory of noel sheridan (dublin 1936-perth 2006)

About Domenic de Clario
Domenico de Clario is one of Australia’s most influential installation, site-specific and performance-based artists and his work has been deeply influenced by his family, his Italian upbringing and the migrant experience. He has exhibited widely and made performances in Australia and overseas; his Shaker Road performance was shown in Maine, U.S.A. in 1996 and at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, U.S.A., in 1998; tongleN (13 conversazioni with les estrellas) at the Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary Art, 1999; and he was included in the exhibition La Quietudine de Terra at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador, Brazil, 2000. In Australia his work is held in a number of major national collections and he has exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Monash University Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of N.S.W., and others.

About Noel Sheridan
Born in Dublin in 1936, Noel studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and
Columbia University in New York. He was a painter, and a conceptual
artist, often working in video and performance. He was deeply
committed to the development and promotion of contemporary arts.
In 1974 Noel was invited to Adelaide to be the Experimental Art
Foundation's first Director. He was already a leading exponent of the
conceptual and post-object art beginning to flourish, in Sydney
particularly, in the late nineteen sixties. In this area he will be
remembered, particularly in Adelaide, for the work 'Everyone Should
Get Stones', a work of great intellectual energy and humour, touring
and testing many styles of philosophical approach to 'reality' with a
relativist's panache indebted to the avant-garde Irish literary
tradition of Becket, Joyce & Flann O'Brien.