Introduction
Hours of Idle Conversation
hoursofidleconversation.wordpress.com
– Hours of Idle Conversation (HOIC) is a research project by
Darren Murphy, which aims to facilitate conversation
and explore it as a material. This, the first edition of HOIC,
shall culminate in a publication to be made available online.
Click here to access the First Publication.
Summaries of all scheduled events are available via Facebook.
An interest in dialogue is the main drive behind my work. I previously felt it necessary to create objects to facilitate conversation and exchange. However, I realise the conversation itself is the integral part of my work.
Acting, in the words of Peter Dunn, as “context provider” rather than “content provider”. I create the environment for discussion rather than the object that provokes it. As a result, the social effects of the institution and location are an important consideration in my practice.
Recordings and documentation are produced to provoke further meditation on the dialogues enabled by my process-based practice, allowing me to widen the transmission of these conversations beyond the bounds of their initial participants.
With Hours of Idle Conversation (HOIC) I hope to begin collecting material to explore the conversation. Both subjectively, exploring ideas and theories within the texts, and objectively, considering the qualities and the form of the conversation. The use of ‘idle’ in the title relates to an objective view of conversation whereby its contents are always insignificant.
The essays contained within this site are to be the basis of discussions that form only part of HOIC. I wish to stress that they only form the basis, giving a departure point for discussions, and are not intended to become a dictare within them. Each discussion, taking place at 1300 each day from the 15th – 19th June, will begin by summarising the texts they initiate from.
Each morning at 1100 ‘conversational experiments’ shall take place. These are outlined in this book, but please be aware the order they are presented in this book is not indicative of a schedule.
For the duration of HOIC Darren Murphy shall be in the gallery space as much as possible.
Conversations, scheduled or unscheduled, are to be recorded and transcribed. Scheduled conversations will then be made publicly available on hoursofidleconversation.wordpress.com
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