POSTAL OUTBOUNDS: DALLAS(2013)

(Mail Art) Gary Farrelly,  2013006(2013), RE Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

(Mail Art) Gary Farrelly, 2013012(2013), RE Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

(Mail Art) Gary Farrelly, 2013026(2013), RE Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

GALERIE MODONOV(2011) Photographed by Perry Ogden

(Above) Galerie Modonov(2011), photograph by Perry Ogden.

CONVERSATIONS IN THE VOID - Gary Farrelly / Hank Van Hawkins

(Above) Video courtesy of S.C.A.B Socialized Contemporary Artists Bureau, Dallas.

NOTEBOOK/ OPERATIONS MANUALS(2012)

(Above) Gary Farrelly,  Artist notebooks 1-6(2012), image courtesy of the artist.

RADICAL CLEANING

The fourth video vignette of the RADICAL SCIENCE series, directed by Oisin Byrne, starring Gary Farrelly in Pickering Forest, Ireland.

PORTABLE KUNSTBUREAU

(Above images) Gary Farrelly Portable Kunstbureau(2009), Galerie W, Paris.

FIRST QUARTER ARTIST NOTEBOOKS (2012)

(Above) Gary Farrelly, ARTIST'S NOTEBOOKS 1-3(2012). Image courtesy of the artist.

THE RECEIVING HAND, PARIS

(Above)Antoine Gache [Detail] THE ATTIRE OF GARY FARRELLY (2012), Paris. Image courtesy of http://receivinghand.tumblr.com/

The picture was taken by Antoine Gache for his blog entitled Receiving Hand  which follows and contextualises the mail art kunst postal monologue of artist Gary Farrelly. He took the photograph during a recent research excursion by both men to Charles De Gaulle International Airport in Paris. 

SOPHIE IREMONGER INTERVIEW

(Above) Image courtesy of Sophie Iremonger(2012).

Gary Farrelly interviews Berlin based visual artist Sophie Iremonger. Iremonger is visiting the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern for the inauguration of a public square baring her name. She is being so commemorated by the Neusterner authorities for her beautiful,radical and profoundly unique cultural practice. Old friends Farrelly and Iremonger meet for drinks and quick fire questioning at a specially arranged cocktail affair in Neustern Public Zoo [The interviewee requested the location]. The two are lubricating their truth glads this evening with Enola Gaye cocktails: Gin mixed with a little water and a fizzing vitimin c tablet that must be bright orange in colour.

(Above) SOPHIE IREMONGER(2012), photographer : Scott Elliott

GARY FARRELLY: What do you do?

SOPHIE IREMONGER: At the moment,I make paintings of erotic landscapes.

GF: Why should New Obsessive's readers care?

SI: Three reasons. 1:In a world where it seems most art is there to belittle you and make you feel stupid, I am open to sharing a pictorial,sensual and understandable story with the viewer using COLOUR,SEX and MEANING. 2: I am engaged with the process of making and selling art in a way that removes my arrogance and egotism from the process. I do this by making my work affordable. I do this by approaching my art making as if it is any other job. 3: I have disengaged myself from the heavy brown junk of old-man oil painting- it has no meaning to me, my neon outsider veiwpoint has not been seen before and presents a truly original voice.

GF: You socialize and collaborate with other artists and performers in Berlin, your tribe! Among tribesmen are musicians Mary Ocher and Alexander as well as visual artists Stevie Handley and Christina Sunbeam Lobotomy. Other than personality and friendship – what unifies this group?

SI: There is no unity to the group. There is no group. there is love and mutual support, and alot of cookery.

GF: You have featured in several Mary Ocher videos. Is there a growing performative aspect of your practice?

SI: There is a shrinking performative aspect. I have no interest in it except when it helps my friends.

GF: Your paintings are characterized by images of the animal kindom, sexuality and the erotic. The latter two can be observed at close quarters in Berlin. Where do you go to source images of wild beasts?

SI: The internet, books,wild life videos, from wastelands, from collecting plants, the images of beasts seem burned on my brain from birth.

GF: I see your paintings as advocating an alternative moral framework that lies somewhere between degeneracy and pack animal dynamics. Do you agree? How does this manifest in your daily operations?

SI: I think everything is basically Amoral and that we just pretend to be moral for various reasons. Moral is just what works within the framework of a particular situation at a particular time. The mountain does not care. The fang does not care.This not caring excites me.

(Above) Image courtesy of Sophie Iremonger(2012).

Professionally: When will you know you are successful? Is the destination as important as the journey?

SI: Success and failiure are 2 faces on the same coin. I will not have other peoples views on whether I am a success or failiure inflicted on me.The journey has prescedence. I just want to keep making and keep getting paid. I just want to keep growing like a rapacious weed. I am developing. I will always be a work in progress.

GF: Dublin did not have much to offer you. Berlin seems to work. Are you encamped there forever?

SI: there is no forever.

GF: A certain type of person is drawn to my work: allot of architects, engineers, libertarians and old school eccentrics. Who gravitates to the work of Sophie Iremonger?

SI: Enviromental engineers and perverts. No not really, those who GET it!

GF: Describe Sophie Iremonger aged 80?

SI: Rotting away wearing a helmet with a paintbrush attached to it, shouting at interns. Being wheeled to lectures I do not understand by well meaning homosexuals. Just like now really.

GF: Do you believe in god?

SI: Yes.

GF: Are you political?

SI: One cant help but have a point of view.

GF: Do you have faith in mankind?

SI: In a few specimens.

GF: Fashion is important to Sophie Iremonger. Your style is somewhere between power dressing, tranny sensibility and classic elegance. What do you wear when you scrub the floor? How will you be dressed when layed our in your coffin on end day?

SI: I spend most of the day wearing hideous snakeskin trousers and a painty jumper, I assume I will be buried in hideous snakeskin trousers and a painty jumper.

GF: You adore animals but have no pets. Why? And what would make an ideal domestic animal for Sophie Iremonger?

SI: I do not adore animals. I do not adore people. I am simply engaged with their BEINGNESS. I would like to be the pet of a very rich old lady.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

RADICAL SCIENCE - EMOTIONS

RTSN1 (Radio Tele-Service Neustern) is proud to introduce the second video vignette directed by Oisin Byrne and starring Gary Farrelly. Entitled Radical Science - Emotions, the material was written by Farrelly and Byrne. The piece was commissioned by RTSN on behalf of the government of Neustern as part of national mental health week.

Renate Muller, Riga.

FACEBOOK BANS NEWS FROM FICTIONAL COUNTRY

(Above)Gary Farrelly, IMPORTANT STATEMENT REDACTED, (2008, private collection, Morocco.)

An 84 hour ban on news from the [fictional] autonomous coastal city state of Neustern has been lifted by the social networking website facebook. An additional separate ban on all New Obsessive postings via the site has also been withdrawn. The bizarre occurrence started on December 31st with the publication of a short piece entitled Neustern extends sympathy to North Korea in New Obsessive. The article described the dispatch of a diplomatic delegation from Neustern to Pyongyang to attend the funeral of the deceased dictator Kim Jung Il. After linking the post to facebook it was immediately reported to the censors as offensive! by an unknown party. Post haste the freedom to link via facebook was curtailed without explanation. Strange to ban a news report from Neustern which is a completely fictional country . The adventures of the autonomous coastal city state were invented by artist Gary Farrelly to occompany his maps of the imaginary micro state. The banning party mistook for fact the article's detailing that Neustern's diplomatic closeness to DPRK had been initiated when Kim Jung Il personally directed a tourism video for Neustern's state run television channel RTSN1*.

The bans appear to have been lifted early this morning after the artist lodged a complaint with with the social networking site. "I told them that the piece was about diplomatic gestures to North Korea by a country I made up. I argued that the fictional status of Neustern makes it impossible to censor under the constitutional right to freedom of expression [guaranteed in most countries]. I told them that if they didn't lift the ban I would kick up one hell of a fuss. The freedom of expression gives us the right to say controversial things, that's the reason it's there. This whole episode strongly evidences that the right to freedom of the press, expression and speech are shrill shrieking fraud".

Meanwhile, New Obsessive has reported an 8 fold increase in it's readership in 2011. The combined increase in the last two quarters of the year was 85% making the publication the fastest growing on the planet.

Vladimir Laggode, Tashkent.

FARRELLY AND BYRNE COLLABORATE ON NEW TELEVISION SHOW FOR BROADCAST IN NEUSTERN

(Above) Dinner Party Etiquette - A Radical Science(2011)

Artists Gary Farrelly and Oisin Byrne have been commissioned by Neustern's state broadcaster RTSN to create a time television series to be televised early in 2012. RTSN (Radio Television Service Neustern) has committed itself to an initial seven episode dispensation of the show entitled Radical Science which will fuse social etiquette, new sciences, cultural suggestion and decontaminated news information(s). The show will star Farrelly with Byrne working in an art direction and production capacity. The shows content is being written collaboratively. A pilot episode called APOCALYPSE Make-up tutorial aired on RTSN1 on November first this year and received extremely positive reviews in the domestic press. A second test episode entitled Dinner Party Etiquette - A radical Science is currently being shown on RTSN.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

CHRISTMAS

(Above) Gary Farrelly, NEW OBSESSIVE CHRISTMAS TREE(2009), private collection, Dublin.

New Obsessive would like to wish all our readers a happy and unhinged Christmas. We would also like to take the opportunity to extend our best wishes for 2012 - May it be a be characterized by happiness, health, prosperity, progress and victory.
The New Obsessive Christmas tree is traditionally decorated: camera stamp, railway, luggage, light bulbs, off ramps, redacted information and airliner motif.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

NEUSTERN BUILDING PROGRAM AND OVERSEAS EXPANSION

Authorities in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern have announced a massive public/private building programme (PPBP). Over the next 13 months the number of built structures in Neustern will triple. A significant emphasis will be placed on the erection of high rise and super high rise buildings designed to perform various commercial, cultural and administrative functions. Headline projects in the building program include: a general hospital, opera house, cathedral and full facilities for an aggressive Olympic games bid. Architect Gary Farrelly has been named as the project manager.
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Meanwhile: Artist Gary Farrelly has announced his intention to continue developing the body of artworks inspired by the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern. An expanded and elaborated version of the exhibition All roads lead to Neustern is already progressing and will be shown off shore in 2012/2013.
Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

NEW OBSESSIVE WALKING TOUR A SUCCESS!

(Above) GERMAN U-BOAT DOCKED PROCEEDS TO DOCK AT THE QUAYS IN DUBLIN (1939)

The first ever New Obsessive city tour took place in Dublin this Saturday. The tour was operated in conjunction with Gary Farrelly's exhibition All roads lead to Neustern which is currently on public show at Galerie Modonov. Taking the gallery as a starting point, Farrelly guided an enthusiastic group of more than 40 spectators around previously unknown points of historical interest in the Irish capital.The New Obsessive tour was the result of many months of applied research, was free of charge and was approximately 90 minutes in duration. Though all who were on the tour thoroughly enjoyed it and found it profoundly educational, there were some who questioned the factual integrity of some aspects of the tour. Principal sites visited included:

The city brothel
Kim Jong Il's Dublin holiday home
The 1939 Nazi U-Boat landing site
Intervision suicide hotel
The Vlad the Impaler monument
Hydrogen bomb proof buildings

Farrelly maintains that these as well as all the other locations on his tour were completely credible and 'without excessive exaggeration' or fictionalization. One member of the tour group commented "I don't care if all the facts are true or not. I loved seeing Dublin through the artist's eyes for an afternoon. I loved the stories of cold war espionage, city center FEMA camps and cannibalism, It was a refreshing break from the usual grey mince".
Renata Muller, Dublin.

NEW CHURCH OPENS IN NEUSTERN

(Above) Gary Farrelly, FREE CHURCH OF NEUSTERN(2011), Galerie Modonov.

Free Church of Neustern,

102-105 Gold Standard Paradeway,

Neustern South Central.

A dedicated United Christian Worship Facility UCWF has been inaugurated in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern. The church building, which is the first of it's kind is to be named: The Free Church of Neustern*.The building has taken four months to construct and has been in planning for over a decade. The church will be open to all- 24 hours day/ 365 days a year.

*Dedicated to Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Neustern.

The Free Church of Neustern will occupy the new building after a ribbon cutting ceremony tomorrow afternoon. The church has issued a list aims and objectives list for public consumption:

• To promote unity and cooperation between the various christian denominations.
• To promote understanding and respect between Christians, other faiths and non believers.
• To remove all exclusionary human political additives from religious discourse.
• To promote apocalypse awareness and readiness among the congregation.
• To consult with the state authorities in robustly preparing Neustern for the apocalypse.
• To provide for the welfare and health care needs of Neusterners.

The popularity of Catholicism and protestantism in Neustern has been in decline since the foundation of the state in 1983. The new church rejects any political subdivision among the followers of Jesus Christ. Some radically liberal elements in the foreign press have criticized government funding of 25% of total construction. The government of Neustern commits itself to part funding to the sum of 25% any facility used to house any organization (with a membership numbering no less that 20,000 souls) - seeking to promote community, religious or political discourse. The very same government monies were made available for the following projects: The Islamic Cultural Center of Neustern(2007), The Jewish Worship Center(1988), The Homosexualist Alliance headquarters(2009) and the Center for Obsessive Compulsive Socializing(1985). Indeed the recently formed Libertarian Party of Neustern opened it's own university using state subsidy only two months ago. The foreign criticism is perchance unsurprising at a time when international opinion has turned against the 2000 year old teachings of Christ in favor of secularism, radical earth worship and self worship. Believeing in god is not chic? Sucking dick through holes in bathroom doors is chic? A hate for god and his creations is chic? Not so in Neustern, which is a civilized country taking the freedom of speech and the right to worship very seriously. These rights are inherant and apply to all individuals and their faiths and social persuasions excluding none. In Neustern freedom is chic! no matter how controversial the dispensation of that freedom is.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

NEUSTERN MOVES TOWARDS A TAX FREE FUTURE

The flat income tax rate in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern has been cut from 7% to 5%. The sovereign municipality has the lowest income tax rate in the world. The newly electedLibertarian government has pledged a further 5% cut by years end, effectively ending the forced redistribution of wealth in Neustern. The new government aspires to reduce the involvement of civic authorities in the non essential personal welfare NEPW of citizens. A gradual transition of NEPW services from the state to the community, voluntary and charity sectors is central to the new Libertarian ethic.The average indirect and consumption tax level has also fallen to 5%. Taxation on typewriters, alcohol, tobacco, airline tickets and imported goods has been reduced. Simultaneously new levies on the price of foreign published publications, portable telecommunications and non gray car paint have been introduced to offset the loss of revenue to the exchequer.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

(Above image) Gary Farrelly, NEUSTERN TAXATION STATISTICS(2011), Galerie Modonov.

APOCALYPSE MAKE-UP TUTORIAL

This video is a constructive beauty tool for the end of days period. It was made in a spirit of utmost seriousness. The video was inspired by the wonderful work done by The Divine David (David Hoyle). The was shot and composed at Pickering Forest by Oisin Byrne and the star is Gary Farrelly.

INTERVIEW WITH NINA HYNES

(Above) Photography of Nina Hynes by David Cleary(2011).

Songwriter/ musician Nina Hynes travels to the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern at the invitation of New Obsessive. Gary Farrelly first met Hynes this summer during recording of her upcoming album Goldmine. Instantly compelled and interested by the Berlin based artist, Farrelly was eager to question her. Said questioning took place Madame Mao's bar on Krasnodar Wharf in Central Neustern. As the interview starts Farrelly and Hynes are drinking their second bottle of Neustern Carbonate (A domestically produced Champagne substitute with subtle undertones of eau de cologne).

Gary Farrelly: How do you like Neustern do far?

Nina Hynes: I feel at home.

GF: How would you concisely describe the music you create?

NH: Therapy.

GF: I love your voice. It is very sweet and your face is lovely and sweet. Are you a very sweet girl?

NH: Thank you. I mirror you or dance with you but if you're really nasty, I build a wall and walk away.

GF My favourite song of yours from the last album is 'Fitness'. In it you sing about face lifts, euthanasia and liposuction. What's that about?

Unhinged?

NH: Isn't it amazing that we can take the fat out of our thighs to make our lips plump? Innovative humans. Pity about the pain but worth singing about and dreaming of lean thighs and plump lips.

GF: I don’t see you as a typical singer song writer of Irish origin. You don’t conform to that stereotype. Do you agree?

NH: Agreed but most of the population do not fit the conventional singer songwriter stereotype

GF: Are you an outsider? (if so, how do you feel about that?)

NH: I'm an insider, I feel a warm glow but I may as well apply for German citizenship if Sean Gallagher becomes president.

GF: Your partner Fabien Leseure and yourself are working very closely on your next album 'Goldmine'. Is it a democratic collaboration or does Nina wear the trousers in the project?and how does this effect you relationship?

NH: I wear a dress to keep the peace, he's French, you know. There is no democracy here but I try to mask the dictatorship in charm and sweetness. It might be the death of one of us but we make a good Government.

GF: How does Goldmine differ from previous output?

NH: Goldmine rests further in the future than my previous output. It's musically a new road for me and represents my freedom from my old sabotaging subconscious beliefs.

GF: There is a lot of excitement surrounding this project. How do you plan to make Goldmine a global Success?(Ie.Bring it to the Greater Public).

NH: I plan to surround it in love and to get it in to the hands of powerful people.

GF: Do you believe in God?

NH: Yes.

GF: Are you political?

NH: It depends on the subject matter.

GF: You have a three year old daughter Caia-a very beautiful and charismatic little girl. How do you find motherhood?Is it hard to find time to work?

NH: Caia was a gift for all the good I've ever wished for or done. She keeps me present and reminds me to focus better to create the future. She is some kind of angel and work gets done precisely because time is tighter.

GF: Best case Scenario:Where is Nina Hynes in 5 years?

NH: Living with family in our magical community creating and feeling healthy and prosperous, maybe in a certain park in Neustern growing vegetables, drinking Neustern carbonated and pressing vinyl.

GF: Worst case Scenario is a FEMA camp, right?

NH: A FEMA camp with no limbs and my tongue cut out , oh and not knowing the whereabouts of loved ones.

GF: There are streets, parks and squares named after you here in Neustern-how did that come about?

NH: A mutual love and appreciation. An understanding of the significance of meeting fellow Humans to whom we can relate.

GF: 3x Things you find wonderful?

NH: Understanding, appreciation, friends.

GF: 3x things you find profoundly negative?

NH: Greed. Cruelty. Shame.

GF: 3x Things that make you feel bliss?

NH: Communion with others, inner sanctity, music.

GF: You made your album at Pickering Forest:How was that?

NH: Recording at Pickering came as an unprecedented honour and surprise. The atmosphere surrounding the work was eccentric, free, creative with feeling emotion and generosity. I am extremely grateful for the experience to record in such an environment where I felt equally at home and in awe. I am sure such depth of human experience and history has crept in to the record somehow.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDING UNVEILED

(Above) NEW PARLIAMENT OF NEUSTERN, Gary Farrelly (2011)

The new parliament buildings of Neustern were officially opened in an elaborate ribbon cutting ceremony today. 250,000 Neusterners came out to celebrate the inauguration of the impressive new erection which will house the parliament aswell as government ministries and political offices. The assembly itself is housed in a cast concrete hall with fine herring bone detail on the exterior. All other functions are accommodated in the adjacent 23 story tower which is pigmented with glasnost green cladding and nostalgia tinted windows. Architects across the world are unanimous  in praising the building as the greatest of the 21st century. Notables in attendance included the Supreme Controller as well 'opposition' leaders and Politburo members.  The crowds were treated to complimentary alcohol and rousing music from the National Radio Orchestra. Deputies will occupy their seats for the first session of parliament following the general election poll on Monday morning. A large number of candidates from the newly formed Libertarian Party are expected to be elected to office. Read the election special tomorrow: Libertarian Party vs. The National Comrades, A new order in Neustern?

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.