Adaptive reuse and exfiltration (2010)
Negative plan with drawing detailing route from Whitechapel Gallery's entrance to Zilkha auditorium.
Untitled (2011)
23" x 16", Charcoal on paper.
So and so to so and so (2010)
Reading from auto-cue, Volt / USF Gallery, Bergen.
Is it better to ask questions or to answer them?
(2008 - ongoing)
Question posed at selected artists talks.
Where petty theft sleeps (2006)
Reading from auto-cue, Arnolfini, Bristol. 2010
Lambeth lecture (2006)
Reading from auto-cue, Dan Graham's Waterloo Sunset at the Hayward Gallery.
The cappuccino hegemony (2005)
Reading / performance, Real Estate, London in six easy steps, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
On a road journey between Gent and Bremen every word read was spoken into a dictaphone. The words were transcribed and performed from an auto-cue.
Notes taken from psychological studies concerning the different roles of the right and left hemisphere's of the brain in relation to perception cut with an instruction manual aimed to help people develop right brain excercises in order to be more creative. Dave Carbone accompanied the reading using only his right hand and foot to play the drums.
Performance:
The Chronic Epoch - 10 years of Beaconsfield Gallery. (2005)
A confrontational collaborationn with the artist and drummer Dave Carbone. Facing Carbone as he plays drums Coy repeatedly shouts a series of statements that appear as surtitles. Each has been extracted from one of a number of sources including contemporary art conferences and the spiel of a museum tour guide, making for compulsive, surreal and humorous incantations. Carbone’s semi-destructive rhythms are played till the point of exhaustion giving the work its duration whilst forcing Coy’s pattern of speech.
Where petty theft sleeps [2006] employs the Oulipo stratergy of "univacula language" to translate Sol LeWitt's 'Sentences on Conceptual Art'. Retaining the same number of words and grammar as the original the work is comprised from a vocabulary of words that contain no other vowel than 'e'.
The Lambeth Lecture cuts together three original sources from The Lambeth Archives: an index of street names beginning with B; headlines and bylines associated to Lambeth council in the 1980's and the personal papers of Herba Loebenstein 1937 - 1940.
Notes taken during a lecture series at the exhibition Real Estate: London in Six Easy Steps, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London were read back and performed as a lecture for the exhibition Real Estate: London in Six Easy Steps, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
Taken from the book 'The complete writings of William Blake' each of Blakes first lines was scored to a different rythmn by Dave Carbone and read according to alphabetical ordering. Index of first lines was performed live at the Museum of Garden History. The church is just round the corner from Blakes former residence in Hercules Buildings.
Performed as part of the event Cloud and Vision with performances by Brian Catling, Polly Gould and Manuela Ribadeneira.
Notes taken from a 10 minute spree of dial surfing through local London FM radio waves then read back on live radio with drums played by Dave Carbone.
Performance:
Bob and Roberta Smith's 'Make your own damn music' Resonance 104.4 FM.
Notes taken during Team build, an event concerned with interpretations of "socially engaged practice", were read back verbatum as a performance for camera infront of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art construction site.
The subsequent video was played back to the delegates, including those who had originally spoken the words.
Notes taken during presentations by town planners and architect Will Alsop for a public consultation in West Bromich organised to garner local opinion with regard to the building of a new arts centre currently called 'The Public'. These notes were then read to camera from the top of West Bromich's tallest building.
The subsequent video was presented to the delegates, including those who had originally spoken the words.
Wikipedia article on 'the public'
