Peter O’Brien is an artist, a visionary, and a life-long Joycean, with the energy to not only dream up one major Finnegans Wake-centric artistic offshoot, but is busy scheming about how to top it. We first became aware of Peter as a brilliant artist, using “letterism” to artistically annotate the pages of Finnegans Wake. Exhibited around the world and widely published, most would be satisfied with that: but not Peter, who is now pouring his unmatched attention into a new opera despite (by his own admission) knowing little about music. Join us on this fascinatingly palimpsestuous discussion that touches on the nature of genius, memorisation, Glenn Gould, Virgil, nudity, and Wagner, and shows us that you may think you can be finished with the Wake, but it’s never really finished with you.

This week's chatters: Peter O’Brien, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Contextual Notes

Peter’s Wake-inspired art: https://www.peterobrienart.com/about.html

Limited edition Wake prints: https://www.peterobrienart.com/store/c2/LOFWFW_-_LIMITED_EDITION.html 

Peter’s Globe and Mail article on his art: https://tpob.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/obrien-on-lofwfw-in-globe-and-mail-5.pdf 

O'Brien, P. (2018). Drawing Upon Finnegans Wake. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 3(2), 196–215. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29381 

Pitch deck for Plurabelle: https://tpob.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/p-l-u-r-a-b-e-l-l-e-pitch-27-oct-2023.pdf 

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