Mel O'Callaghan
All is Life, 2022
18mm film, colour with sound, 32:9
18 min 30 sec
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
First Sound, Last Sound, 2022
Performance with steel tuning forks, wooden resonance chamber
20 min
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view Carriageworks, Sydney
Communion, 2022
Acrylic paint on wall
11.2m x 5.5m and 12.5m x 3.6m
Credit Photo: Zan Wimberley
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view Carriageworks, Sydney
Ensemble, 2013
2 channel colour HD video without sound
7 minutes, 15 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Ensemble, 2013
2 channel colour HD video without sound
7 minutes, 15 seconds
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Ensemble, 2013
2 channel colour HD video without sound
7 minutes, 15 seconds
Photo : Aurélien Mole
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Intallation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2016
Ensemble, 2017
Live show with the firemen of Porto
10 min
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
Dangerous on-the-way, 2017
2 channel high definition colour video 32:9, sound
31 mins 56 secs
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Respire, Respire, 2019
Breathwork performance with dielectric glass
Credit photo: Simon Woods
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia, 2020
Centre of the Centre,, 2019
20mm film, colour with sound, 48:9
20 min
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view Artspace, Sydney
Parade, 2014
Performance with steel ladders, rope and pulleys
12 hours
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view Gillman Barracks, 2017
Breath Repertoire, 2021
Breathwork performance with floor design
20 min 30m diameter
Credit Photo: Aurelie Cenno
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view Greater Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
To Hear With My Eyes, 2017
Performance with cedar tree with charcoal, steel bowl and water, leather drum, steel gong, brass, pigment and cedar sistrum
20 min
Credit Photo: Aurelie Cenno
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
L'Acte Gratuit, 2014
HD video colour with sound
9:16, 30 mins
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Endgame, 2012
HD video flash programmed, colour, sound, 16:9
Indefinite length
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Move, 2010
16mm film, colour with sound, 16:9
7 minutes, 13 seconds
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Primary/ Secondary Score, 2018
Performance with floor design and string instrument
20 min
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
exhibition view Greater Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
Chop, 2010
16mm film, colour with sound, 16:9
9 minutes, 13 seconds
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Ever Tried, Ever Failed, 2009
High definition colour video, sound, 16:9
11 minutes 30 seconds
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Capturing Trees, 2008
HD video colour with sound, 16:9
7 minutes, 25 seconds
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
To The End, 2007
HD video, random flash programme, color with sound, 16:9
Indefinite time
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
To The End, 2007
HD video, random flash programm, color with sound, 16:9
Indefinite time
Installation Museo Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal, 2013
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Somewhere, 2005
HD video, colour with sound, 16.9
3'18"
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
The Fall, 2004
HD video colour with sound, 4:3
4 minutes, 15 seconds
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Parade, 2016
Performance/Installation
Ladders, pulleys, ropes, objects
8 x 30 x 12 m, length variable
Photo : Ricardo Lamin
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Palais de Tokyo, 2016
Woe Implores Go
Performance/Installation
Ladders, pulleys, ropes, objects
8 x 30 x 12 m, length variable
Photo : Ricardo Lamin
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Performance, Palais de Tokyo, 2016
Going over, Going under
Performance/Installation
Pulleys, ropes
Variable dimensions, variable length
Performance Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2016 / Photo : Maureen Muse
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Going over, Going under, 2016
Pulleys, ropes
Variable dimensions, variable length
Photo : Maureen Muse
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Performance, Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2016
Parade, 2014
Steel, wood, rope, performers
20m x 5m x 5m
Photo: Stephen Ward
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Commissioned for the 19th Biennale of Sydney
Time to Act, 2014
Performance, 45 performers
Variable time
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Endgame, 2012
Performance with diatomite stone
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Performance at ACCA The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
MOONS (03), 2010
Pigment print on superior matte paper 250g
Image: 100 x 100 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Balance of the Day, 2011
Lamda photographic print
Image: 180 x 100 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Dangerous looking-back, 2015
White clay, mirror, wood, steel
120 x 80 x 74.5 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Dangerous looking-back (#4, 6, 9), 2015
White clay
45 x 30 x 6 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Framework, 2014
Clear pine, steel
727 cm x 173 cm x 195 cm / dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
Over Lines, 2007
Tents, lines, weights
450 x 400 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
All In One Day, 2007
Ice, water, acrylic plastic, steel, compressor motor
Variable dimension
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris
