14 November 2011
DJCAD student selected for international exhibition
A student from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design will be taking his experimental audio work to Eastern Europe next month after being chosen for an international exhibition in Slovenia.
Dave Fyans (31), originally from Perth, is a 4th year Time Based art and Digital Film student at DJCAD, part of the University of Dundee. He primarily works with sound art, and his epic, two hour-plus process piece ‘The Persistence of Decay’ has been selected for inclusion in the RadioCona Radio Art Space exhibition.
The show explores the use of radio as an art space, and the piece will be presented as a physical exhibition at several gallery spaces in Slovenia, as an FM broadcast in that country, and streamed over the internet from 7-15th December. It will also be played in a listening room at Pixxelpoint 2011, a festival of new media arts which will be taking place in Slovenia at the same time as the exhibition.
Dave recently exhibited at a group show in Cork, Ireland, and regularly collaborates with musicians and artists on a wide variety of works. Working with electronics and as a sometime trumpet player, he also plays live as a musician, and co-runs Broken20, a record label which has just issued its fifth release.
'I'm really happy to have been selected for this exhibition, because I think it’s vital to get your work as widely known as possible, he said. 'When I saw that there was an open call for submissions to this exhibition I thought it was something my art fitted with and so applied.
'I'm in the middle of writing my dissertation so, for time and money reasons, I won’t be able to make it over to Slovenia for the exhibition, which is a shame. I had a piece picked up for exhibition in Cork in September, so I’m having some success in responding to open calls at the moment.
'I think it’s a case of keeping your eyes peeled for the opportunities that exist out there. Anything that’s relevant to your work, you should apply for. You might get rejected by some, but you have to keep trying because you never know when one might get picked up and what that might lead to.
'I see myself as a conceptual artist, working primarily in ideas which manifest themselves as combinations of text, visual art and primarily sound, which I create from scratch. Some pieces present better in this way, whilst others are more suitable for albums which I have released on various labels, most recently Broken20, whose manifesto is more about an aesthetic rather than a particular type of music or sound.
'My work is all about space, both internal and external and often touches on elements of decay, about things that are fuzzy around the edges. It's experimental sound art rather than straight music, but I do perform live as well. Even though my work lends itself to scoring films etc I’m far more interested in sound existing as a valid artistic platform rather than just as an accompaniment to visuals.'
More information about Dave’s work is available at http://erstlaub.co.uk/dfyans.
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