William Furlong


geb. 1944,
ist Künstler, Verleger und Dozent an der Wimbledon School of Art in London. Er arbeitete in großem Umfang mit führenden internationalen Theoretikern und Künstlern wie z.B. John Cage, Dan Graham,und Laurie Anderson im Bereich Audio-Arts und Audio-Arts-Technik und hat eine Vielzahl von Multimedia-Arbeiten herausgebracht. Zur Zeit hat William Furlong an der "Wimbledon School of Art" eine Professur inne.



Selected Works

Sendungen im ORF-Kunstradio

10. 12. 1987: Das Radio-Interview mit Marcel Duchamp aus dem Jahre 1959
17. 4. 1997: "Identity & Location: Walls of Sound"
19. 2. 1998: "Touching Base - The Here and Now"

Teilnahme an ORF-Kunstradio Veranstaltungen

13. 10. 1988: "With the eyes shut"
4.- 7. 12. 1997: "Recycling the Future"
Juli - August 1998: "Kunst in der Stadt"
Installationen im Palais Thurn und Taxis und im öffentlichen Raum
17.1.1999:"Wiencouver - ARTS BIRTHDAY PARTY"

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

1967
New Contemporaries at the Tate Gallery

1969
Northern Ireland Open 100 John Moore´s Liverpool Exhibition

1973
Founded Audio Arts Magazine, on cassette

1976
"Academic Board" with Bruce McLean

1978
Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery
Artist consultant to DHSS on APG Project

1980
Franklin Furnace, `British Soundworks´ New York Riverside Studios, London

1982
The Tate Gallery, London - ´Live to Art´
"British Soundworks" Franklin Furnace, New York
The Sculpture Show "Objects & Spaces", Hayward Gallery

1984
The Orchard Gallery, Lononderry, (N.Ireland(L.P.Record)

1985
British Art Ahow, Australia
The Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
"Sound/Vision" Plymouth Arts Centre & Spacex Centre, Exeter

1986
"0782 272121 six works on the telephone", National Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent (Cassette Publication) "Arris" ICA public works, St. James´s Chruch, Piccadilly, London (Boxed cassette publication)

1988
Interim Art, London (installation & 45 rpm record)
"Accent for a Start" Newcstle upon Tyne; Bradford;
Manchester, (Projects) UK (Performance & LP Record)
"State of the Nation" Herbert Gallery, Coventry
"Media Exhibition" Stockholm, Sweden
"Accent for a Start" Riverside Studios
Soundworks Exhibition, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

1990
Tyne International, Installation; Radio Garden as part of the National Garden Festival.

1991
The New Irish Museaum of Modern Art, Dublin : Permanent installation of "Radio Garden". Àudio Arts/London´, Wiens Laden & Verlag, Berlin.

1991
"Zone D", Leipzig. "Process & Identity" - a major new installation commissioned by the new Galerie of Contemporary Art, Leipzig.

1992
"Radio Beyond" - a 12 minute sound work commisioned by BBC Radio 3 for live European broadcast in May.

1992
Documenta 9 - Audio Arts, Reclam Verlag book lauch and performance.

1993
Roma Europa Festival, Rome, Electronic Arts Section - six sound works.

1993
"Time Garden", a new work for "HA HA" contemporary British Sculpture in an 18th Century Park (Killerton Park, Devon)

1994
Audio Arts: "Discourse & Practice in Contemporary Art; Published by Academy Editions, London.
Performance and book lauch at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

A.A.R.T (Audio Artists Radio Transmisions) "Beyond the Pale" Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Audio Arts as Artists Book: Minories, Colchester.
Lesezimmer II (Audio Arts in the 1970´s and 1980´s) Nov.-Dec. - Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Munich, Vienna.

1995
"The Oily Men of Mill Dam Bank" an installation and soundwork, Customs House, South Shields.
"Uhmms and Ahs" CD new work for CD published Lara Vincy, Gallery Paris (Dec. 1995)
"Hearing is Believing": six soundworks commissioned for Broadcast as part of a Video Positive Festival, Liverpool.
The Korean Bienalle, six photoworks from the Leipzig series.
"Image, Sequence of Time", a commissioned multi-media work for the BFF congress, Schatten, Forbe, Licht, Stuttgart.

1996
"Hearing is Believing" CD. A meal-time sound work.
"An imagery of Absence", artist´s book, published by Galerie Stefan Rasch &Remmert Verlag
"Absences/Presences", an installation concerning resonance, time and trace. Solo installation Ateliergemeinschaft, Münster.

1997
"Life/Live", New manifestations in British Art, Musée de Art Modern de la Ville de Paris.
"Stratigic Interventions", Joseph Beuys Lecture, Royal Society, London and Seoul, Korea.
Shortlisted for the Nissan public sculpture project, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Audio Arts Publications Venice Biennale, Documenta 10, Münster Sculpture Project
Audio Arts 1973 -´97, 634 Space Amsterdam
Identity & Location Walls of Sound, one hour broadcast for ORF, Austria
Presentation/Performance at Academie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna

1998
"Sound Garden", commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery, London.
"Sound Corridor", a new commission; Sculpture at Goodwood.
"An Imagery or Absence", Imperial War Museum, London