Sean Connaughty

Heliotrope 5 and the Release of the Garden Project CD

Hello Friends Jason and I are playing a show at the Ritz Theater in NE Minneapolis on May 15th at 7pm as part of the Heliotrope festival an amazing music show highlighting underexposed Minneapolis mus...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Mon, 12 May 2008 06:31:00 PST

brother down

Dear Friends,Matt Zaun died in his sleep on November 4th 2007 at the age of 31.Matt was my best friend and collaborator. brillianthumblekindinventiveunsunggone too soonso much left undonebut so much a...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:43:00 PST

Garden Project 2007

At my residence in Minneapolis, The Environmental Protection Agency,tested our soil and discovered arsenic at unacceptable levels, an EPA super fund site. The soil was removed to a depth of 18 inches,...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:37:00 PST

Bigloo 2005 (in detail)

Art Shanty Projects 2005We started by building a prototype in the backyard. winter 2005.Several Versions ensued:due to low snow amounts we scoured the area for snow and harvested snow from a large are...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:31:00 PST

on the frozen surface

In the Winter of 2005/2006 Matt Zaun and Sean Connaughty built three igloos and an ice amphitheatre as part of the Art Shanty Projects on Medicine Lake in Minnesota. Loosely based on traditi...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:38:00 PST

A History of the Earth in Los Angeles

Here are some images of the work installed:A HISTORY OF THE EARTHAn edition of thirteen handmade boxes (exterior 7x7x7", interior 5x5x5")Containing original photogravure prints, C-print photographs, a...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:53:00 PST

"1992" Project

SATURDAY APRIL 19 2007 5-9PM Gallery Co400 First ave northMinneapolis, MN612.332.5252 WWW.GALLERYCO.NET>in 1992 an experimental space craft was launched by a private corporation called (censored) Due ...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:56:00 PST

transmission partial inventory 7/2006

INCIDENT SEGMENTS:source imagery8H8G8F8E8D8C8B8A7H7G7F7E7D7C7B7A6H6G6F6E6D6C6A5HHERE is a portion of the coded transmission in its raw form:/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEASABIAAD/7QAsUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4Qkl NA+0A...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:49:00 PST

"A History of the Earth"

This month a committee at the Weisman Museum in Minneapolis elected to include "A History of the Earth" (AHOTE) ..7 of 13 into their permanent collection. This is an exciting development for me. It wa...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:22:00 PST

sequence of items in Sean Connaughty's

A HISTORY OF THE EARTH as interpreted by one of its inhabitants. AHOTE like Marcel Duchamps Boites en Valise is a retrospective contained in a box. On the surface it is a retrospective of works creat...
Posted by Sean Connaughty on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:57:00 PST