Daniel Tuomey

sculpture - gender

My work deals with the construction of masculine subjectivities through space and storytelling. I use a wide range of materials - often returning to drawing, furniture, and improvised forms of puppetry - to investigate the physical and narrative orthopedics that constitute the desiring, powerful, ridiculous, rational, and violent embodied male subject of patriarchy. The audience sees these male figures through the prisms of architecture, national identity, love songs, museums, speeches and other constructions.

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    • Stuck, an inheritance

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 16-03-2024 t/m 21-04-2024
    • In collaboration with: Video
    • Location: Video, Rotterdam
    • Solo exhibition in Video, Rotterdam, March-April 2024.

    Non-Player Character Creation Workshop

    Workshop

    • 09-04-2023 t/m 09-04-2023
    • In collaboration with: Pallas Projects/Studios
    • Location: Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin
    • A workshop for teenagers as part of the exhibition Control Center Charlois. Using methods I developed when making my game "Is Registration Possible?" we explored the neighborhood around the gallery and used collage and drawing to construct characters who spoke for its streets and atmosphere.
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq5IbbKKYb8/

    Control Center Charles

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 23-03-2023 t/m 09-04-2023
    • In collaboration with: Pallas Projects/Studios
    • Location: Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin
    • An expanded version of the exhibition Coordination Centrum Charlois first shown at another world project space in December 2021. This exhibition was developed as part of the Pallas Project Studios Artist Initiated Project scheme.
    • http://pallasprojects.org/project/daniel-tuomeycontrol-centre-charlois

    Curb stone 52

    Performance

    • 18-12-2022 t/m 18-12-2022
    • In collaboration with: Tracy Hanna (in collaboration as the Postpeople)
    • Location: an other world project space, Rotterdam
    • A performance by the Postpeople, my collaborative project with Tracy Hanna. Through the framework of an Irish state examination question about a stone age monument, the performance explored the ways cultural memory is variously held and transmitted through rigid institutions, instinctive bodies, and fragile imaginations. It obliquely addressed the void left by a colonial project that erases language and oral tradition, and the compromised creative acts through which we re-narrate it.
    • https://youtu.be/r9llq8Ref9A

    Coordination Center Charlois

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-12-2022 t/m 18-12-2022
    • In collaboration with: CBK Rotterdam
    • Location: an other world, Rotterdam
    • A solo exhibition of drawings, video and installation work centered around my roleplaying videogame Is Registration Possible? This work was kindly supported by an O&O (research & development subsidy) from CBK Rotterdam.
    • https://daniel-tuomey.itch.io/is-registration-possible

    YOUNG FOSSIL

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2022 t/m 31-10-2022
    • In collaboration with: Frontrunner Collective, IMMA
    • Location: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
    • A text and image work that appropriates the form of a board game to serve as the score for many possible performances about the collective construction of narrative. The work was printed on a sculptural furniture platform made by the collective Forerunner, and exhibited as part of the exhibition 'YOUNGFOSSIL' in the meadow of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, July - October 2021, and again in July - October 2022.

    NEF Animation Residency

    Residencies / exchange

    FRANKENSTEIN

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-04-2021 t/m 28-05-2021
    • In collaboration with: Available and the Rat, WET Film, CBK O&O
    • Location: Available and the Rat, Rotterdam
    • A frame-by-frame animation made at home during the 2020 coronavirus lockdowns, departing from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. The work was shown in a two part IRL/online exhibition in April-May 2021, first screened for a month in Available & The Rat, Rotterdam, then hosted online for a further month at wetfilm.org. Frankenstein was kindly supported by an O&O (research & development subsidy) from CBK Rotterdam.
    • https://danieltuomey.info/frankenstein/

    a dialogue with my point four child

    Performance

    • 17-12-2019 t/m 17-12-2019
    • Location: The Bachelor Pad Museum, Rotterdam
    • A father / son recitation in the Bachelor Pad Museum, Rotterdam for xmas 2019
    • https://youtu.be/tKGBmIQucyk

    The Bachelor Pad Museum

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 15-06-2019 t/m 17-12-2019
    • Location: The Bachelor Pad Museum, Rotterdam
    • A critical and experimental house museum in my flat. The work explored how modernist dreams of new forms of domesticity relied on the continuing exploitation of women, children, and servants, and how the institutionalized aftermath of those dreams survives through the medium of the house museum. The figure of the Bachelor was employed as a site of potential for compulsory heterosexual regimes, whose parameters could be shifted and potential wasted by reconfiguration of the space he occupied.
    • https://danieltuomey.info/the-bachelor-pad-museum/

    The Beatles Monster / The Bealtes Machine (exhibition: Sesame Street)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-11-2018 t/m 16-11-2018
    • In collaboration with: Ghost (curator)
    • Location: The Pumping Station Op Zuid, Rotterdam
    • As part of the exhibition Sesame Street I presented The Beatles Monster / The Beatles Machine, a work comprised of a static puppet show and a series of mixed media drawings positioning the Beatles as a single melted together male subject. The work explored the way the 1960s legacy of community and love has survived and refracted through mediation, memory, mimicry and myth.
    • https://danieltuomey.info/#/the-beatles-monster-the-beatles-machine/

    The Bachelor Party (performance event: BAFGFF)

    Performance

    • 28-03-2018 t/m 28-03-2018
    • Location: De Player, Rotterdam
    • I presented a puppet show / polyphonic monologue, in which I played the role of a bartender speaking for all the men lined up at his bar. The drinkers were represented by assemblages of domestic and studio material, each speaking in a different tone and register. Together they formed an uneasy collective awaiting the arrival of a heroic Bachelor who never showed up. To pass the time they awkwardly discussed the Bachelor's upcoming marriage and delivered strange performative set-pieces.
    • https://www.deplayer.nl/events/bafgff-karl-holmqvist-hantrax-daniel-tuomey

    Architectures for One (exhibition: Change Nothing)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-07-2018 t/m 27-07-2018
    • In collaboration with: Panos Giannikopoulos (curator)
    • Location: Snehta, Athens
    • This work was produced as the culmination of the Snehta residency program in Athens. A psychogeographic mapping of the neighborhood of Fokionos Negri, crystallizing characters from its dense streets, faltering kiosks, and stacked "polykatoikia" apartment buildings. A ghostly recorded voice - at once naive tourist and experienced hustler - hung among the installation, sycophantically attempting to sell the items on display to the audience.
    • https://www.snehtaresidency.org/change-nothing