Public Talk and Professional Development Session

Date: Saturday, June 25th

Times: 11am-12pm Artist’s Talk, 12pm – 1pm Professional Development Session

Venue: Bullock Lane Arts Space, Bullock Lane, Cavan Town.

All welcome. Events are free. Space is limited. Booking is advised.

Contact: Yvonne Cullivan

T: 086 8848540
E: ycullivan@gmail.com
W: www.yvonnecullivan.com/openart.htm

Born in Dublin, Oliver Comerford graduated from NCAD in 1990, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, 1991 and Chelsea College of Art, London, 1997. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and internationally including the Barbican Centre, London, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Crawford Gallery, Cork, and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Comerford’s practice is engaged with place and the changing nature of place. It comments on our contemporary relationship with our environment and challenges perceived ideas of Romanticism. He presents a distinctive psychological space and has focused on the representation through painting of outposts, remote or distant locations, conifer woodlands and views from the edge of town. Comerford is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and his works can be viewed on the Gallery website:
http://www.kevinkavanaghgallery.ie

Open Art is a program of free events presenting contemporary Visual Arts practices, taking place at Bullock Lane Arts Space in Cavan town from January to June 2011. The events will be held on the last Saturday morning of each month, with an artists’ talk from 11am-12pm and a follow-on professional development session for artists from 12pm-1pm. The program aims to showcase an extensive range of contemporary visual art practices to the public by inviting arts professionals to share insight into their work through public talks and to impart expertise in their specific areas of work through additional professional development sessions.

A full list of contributing artists, dates and times can be found on the website:
www.yvonnecullivan.com/openart.htm

Open Art is designed and delivered by Yvonne Cullivan in association with Cavan County Council Arts Office and supported through the Arts Council, Cavan County Museum and Cavan Town Council.

Public Talk and Professional Development Session

Date: Saturday, May 28th

Times: 11am-12pm Artist’s Talk, 12pm – 1pm Professional Development Session

Venue: Bullock Lane Arts Space, Bullock Lane, Cavan Town.

All welcome. Events are free. Space is limited. Booking is advised.

Contact: Yvonne Cullivan

T: 086 8848540
E: ycullivan@gmail.com
W: www.yvonnecullivan.com/openart.htm

Jennie Moran in her Studio - Image Courtesy of the Artist

Jennie Moran is a Dublin-based cultural producer who uses her practice to create opportunities for hospitality by fashioning devices for making places familiar, poetic, positive. She has gathered knowledge through a degree in sculpture and international residencies in Iceland, Italy and Argentina. Her projects have been facilitated by Dublin City Council Art Bursary 2006, an Arts Council Project Award 2007 and an Arts Council Artist in the Community Award 2009. She has recently been awarded a Visual Art Bursary from the Arts Council along with the Firestation Sculpture Workshop Residency and Galway Arts Centre are hosting a solo exhibition of her work in Spring 2011. She is also part of two collaborative projects: Hope Inherent and Poetic Geographies.
http://www.jenniemoran.com

Open Art is a program of free events presenting contemporary Visual Arts practices, taking place at Bullock Lane Arts Space in Cavan town from January to June 2011. The events will be held on the last Saturday morning of each month, with an artists’ talk from 11am-12pm and a follow-on professional development session for artists from 12pm-1pm. The program aims to showcase an extensive range of contemporary visual art practices to the public by inviting arts professionals to share insight into their work through public talks and to impart expertise in their specific areas of work through additional professional development sessions.

A full list of contributing artists, dates and times can be found on the website.

Open Art is designed and delivered by Yvonne Cullivan in association with Cavan County Council Arts Office and supported through the Arts Council, Cavan County Museum and Cavan Town Council.

Liminality

NCAD Gallery

100 Thomas Street, Dublin 2

Opening reception : 6-8pm Thursday 3rd^th February 2011

Exhibition continues: 4^th -12^th February 2011

Liminality uses the metaphor of heart/lung transplantation to juxtapose a waiting experience with a series of discursive events exploring subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Deploying the experience of waiting and transplanting it to the gallery environment, the project looks for a creative tension between a waiting subject – dependent on others to release them from a form of confinement – and that of the seeking subject – actively looking for answers through theory. Liminality invites gallery goers to inhabit the role of a (hospital) visitor and/or to conditionally donate their physical presence, their self, to the project. Liminality will be accompanied by a commissioned essay by Tina Kinsella, edited by Emma Dwyer, Available on the opening night.

Viewers are invited to participate in the project by taking partin the discursive seminars or by stepping into the artist shoes as part of the installation, thus creating a flawed simulacra of a donation process. No appointments are necessary to take part and further schedule information for seminars during Liminality can be found at http://gallery.ncad.ie/  or at  www.livinggift.ie/leaky-self/blog .

Schedule for seminars during Liminality Project, NCAD

• Saturday 5^th : 2pm- 3pm: Infinite distraction: the erosion of attention in everyday life. Dr.Aislinn O’Donnell : will open a dialogue about the role of attention. Is attention to something or to someone becoming increasingly difficult to sustain? Rather than offer a neuroscientific account, I look to the work of Bernard Stiegler and Simone Weil to examine the relation between attention and education. I then ask what, if any, is the relation between phenomenological experiences of paying attention and of waiting.

• Monday 7^th:  6pm – 7.30pm: The Body as a Liminal Site, A Film Screening of ITU (2007) and Panel Discussion between artists John Wynne and Tim Wainwright and Francis Halsall in the Harry Clarke lecture theatre, NCAD. Photographer Tim Wainwright and sound artist John Wynne spent a year as artists-in-residence at the Royal Brompton & Harefield. ITU (2007) shot in the intensive treatment unit of the hospitals heart/lung transplant unit resulted from that residency and collaboration. Seating for this event is limited so it is advisable to come early. There is to be no prior booking. Places allocated on first come first served basis.

• Tuesday 8^th, 10.30 – 12.30: ‘…the truth of the subject is its estrangement and its excessiveness’. Infinite distraction: the erosion of attention in everyday life. Tina Kinsell in this seminar will review the ethico-aesthetic writings of Nancy and the art practice and theoretical writings of Ettinger in order to explore the notion that the “body” and the “artwork” are potentially ethico-aesthetic sites at which the conundrum of personal identity can be investigated.

• Wednesday 9^th Time to be confirmed. Screenings : Transplant (2008) John Wynne and Tim Wainwright and  I used to say it was gold, but really it’s a platinum one, Platinum (2011) Ciara McMahon and Living Gift Transplant Support Group.

• Friday 11^th :  11am- 1pm Joint seminar by GradCam seminar groups: Dead Public and Dead Public andUndead: alternatives and alterity. Resourced by  Dr.Mick Wilson, Dr. Syliva Loeffler and Edia Connole

• Saturday 12^th : 2pm – 3.30pm. Artist in conversation with Fiona Loughnane / Tina Kinsella /Dr. Silivia Loeffler.

Liminality is funded by the Arts Council through the artist in the community scheme, managed by Create, the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts.

Ciara Mc Mahon trained and practices both fine art and medicine. She recently graduated from NCAD with a masters from the Art in the Contemporary World (combined pathway) program. McMahon received a first in Fine Art Practice and Art History from NCAD in 2009. Her art work is frequently collaborative and performative, realized through digital media and site specific installation. In 2010 McMahon was awarded funding from the Arts Council via the artist in the community scheme, managed by Create the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts;  a bursary to attend the Theory and Philosophy Summer School, Cork and a capital grant from Dun Laoghaire County Council. Her work is in the collection of the OPW. McMahon is due to sit on the editorial panel of the forthcoming Arts and Health website funded by the ArtsCouncil. Selected exhibitions include: Chimeric Agonism, Broadstone Studios;   Preface, Pallace Heights;  The Leaky-Self Café Event, Dublin, TULCA, Galway;  Détruis Space, The Joinery; Moving Media Exhibition, RUA Red; My Space, Breaking Ground, Limerick City Museum. Future Exhibitionsinclude Mutual : Esteem, Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery, Live8, Galway.

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Exhibition launch: Friday 10th December 2010,6-8pm
Exhibition Continues: 11th December – 5th February 2011

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
5-9 Temple Bar
Dublin 2

Möbler till festvåningen, 2010.

Annika Ström’s first solo exhibition in Ireland is curated by Aoife Tunney.

At Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Dublin, Annika Ström presents a stage for an event: a performance or a talk. It is built out of basic wood and is adorned with textile works from Sweden. The piece is functional as a stage, as we know is used to announce, act out or to express emotions to the public.  But this platform is also reminiscent of a piece of furniture, kept in a private space.  The meaning is taking place, a performance perhaps: The audience is looking back at themselves and they are participants in this meaning.

The sculpture looks on to the stage, and is commenting on the stillness of the room, commenting on the art world. What is the artwork? Who is the artist? What is this event about and when is it going to start?

A film of some of Ström’s past performances plays in the gallery. They are the sort of performances you could see being delivered on the stage. The sort of emotions the artist could have displayed. The film and the stage are interrupted. This could be the error of presenting artworks.

“The interruption of the action, which inspired [Bertolt] Brecht to call his theatre ‘epic’, constantly goes against the public’s theatrical illusion. Indeed, such illusion is useless for a theatre, which is trying to treat elements of reality as a series of experiments. But the situations the epic theatre presents are to be found at the end, not at the beginning of these experiments. Situations which, in whatever form, are always ours. They are not brought closer to the spectator, but distanced from him. He perceives them as real situations, not, as with the naturalist theatre, with self-satisfaction, but with astonishment.” Walter Benjamin, Author as Producer, 1937.

The artist and the artwork are within a performance- between the private and the public. The audience witnesses the use of text and speech and are part of the telling of an emotional story.

A distinguishing characteristic of Annika Ström’s work is the portrayal of everyday environments where both humour and melancholy prevail. This applies to all her forms of expression: video, text paintings, photography and music. Her videos and songs are documentary studies of social interactions in her immediate surroundings in which friends, family and the artist herself take part. The large scale text paintings consist of short messages resembling advertising slogans, such as ”This work was made with passion” and ”Please remove me from your mailing list”. In a recent show she revisited her interest in furniture and in particular the dual functionality of the hall stand. Annika is currently writing her first feature film supported by the Swedish film board. Her work for the show at Temple Bar Gallery will draw from her various interests within her practice, with a main focus on performance

ANNIKA STRÖM was born in Helsingborg Sweden in 1964. She lived in Berlin until 2005, and now lives and works in Hove, UK. Most Recent participations 2010 were the performance work Ten embarrassed men at Frieze art fair curated by Sarah McCrory, Playing the city II, curated by Matthias Ulrich, Shirn Kunsthalle, FrankfurtVidéothèque éphémère-Faux Amis, curated by Marta Ponsa, Jeu de Paume, Paris and the Solo exhibitions Möbler för festvåningen, Galleri Charlotte Lund,  Stockholm,  The title of the show  is too sad,  Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin,  Made in France by Annika Ström Onestar Press, Paris
www.annikastrom.net/

AOIFE TUNNEY is an independent curator working and living in Dublin. She is currently the curator-in-residence at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios. Her practice investigates the architectural and sociological elements of spaces and of the everyday life in the city. Exhibitions she has curated include Capital Forwarding Solutions, showing Italian artist Paolo Tamburella ‘s work from Venice Biennale at the Paper Store warehouse in June 2010;   Work.in.space, a group show of international and Irish artists based in an unfinished office block in Dublin 2009; a solo show with Glaswegian artist Sara Barker at Four Gallery Dublin 2009, and Landed group show 2008. She is currently working on a solo show with Swedish artist ANNIKA STRÖM at Temple Bar Gallery for December 2010. Her projects for 2011 are Conquested group show at The Paper Store and Organising Letters touring show in December 2011 in New York.

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts Council of Ireland.

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OIL PAINTING EXHIBITION

by Shane Sutton
12pm-5pm daily

MOXIE STUDIO & GALLERY
Ladd Lane (off Lower Baggot Street)
Dublin 2

email: painting@shanesutton.com

Momentum is an exciting showcase of oil paintings by Irish artist & film maker, Shane Sutton which spans a nine-year period.Urban scenes dominate this collection, in which fleeting moments of intense beauty are captured. City dwellers move unaware of their surrounds, through spaces filled with steel and glass constructs, where city lights reflect off hard surfaces. For more infromation www.shanesutton.com

MOMENTUM

Documentation of the recent “Commonage” project viewable here:
http://www.commonagecallan.com

Lesley Flanigan

Title:

Amplifications: for speaker feedback instruments and voice

Statement:

Introducing her first solo album for speaker electronics and voice, Lesley Flanigan performs Amplifications, exploring both the physical and sculptural nature of electronic sound. Moving among a cluster of wires and microphones, she builds compositional frameworks that grow and break apart. Her speaker instruments, employing a built-in microphone, create pulsing tones through their own feedback, which Flanigan samples and weaves into her own vocal patterns. The result is music that hovers somewhere between noise experiments and lyrical song, resonating with organic transparency.

Biog:

Lesley Flanigan is a New York-based sound sculptor, composer, vocalist, and performer. She studied sculpture at the Ringling College of Art and Design, and received a masters in media technology from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. In addition to her solo work, Lesley Flanigan also performs as a member of Bioluminescence, a collaboration with video artist and composer R. Luke DuBois. She has wielded a soldering iron as a guest performer in the circuit constructing noise group, the Loud Objects and continues to sing in the contemporary music scene, recently as a soprano in Tristan Perich’s “Lit”.

www.lesleyflanigan.com

Julian Hackett

Title:

Question Concerning Heidegger

Statement:

Question Concerning Heidegger is an interactive piece that draws from German Philosopher, Martin Heidegger’s essay ‘The Question Concerning Technology’. Developed in response to this text, the piece aims to represent the relationship between human subject and natural object (e.g. water) through the medium of sound.  By shifting the power of sound, which controls and manipulates the structural form of water over to the viewer, through the positioning of their body, a mode of revealing is allowed to occur. The mode of Enframing, as Heidegger called it, reveals an essence of technology that views the world as resource. A view essentially that drives humanity to obtain a quantifiable and controllable knowledge of the world that can either prove problematic or potentially rewarding.

Biog:

Jules Hackett is a multimedia artist based in Dublin. He works with installations, digital media and live visuals. Having graduated from GMIT with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture in 2008, he’s currently undertaking an MA in digital art in the National College of Art & Design.

Sharon Phelan

Title:

Music for Drums and Bass

Statement:

Music for Drums and Bass is a site-specific sound installation exploring audio feedback. The sound generated is based on the relationship and close proximity of a contact microphone and a subwoofer mediated by a drum membrane. The physical characteristics of the drum along with the room become partners in the composition where acoustical events gradually unfold, as various parameters – from dynamic, environmental to pre-determined – are changed.

Biog:

Sharon Phelan is a Dublin-based artist and curator. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with a degree in Fine Art & History of Art in 2008 and is currently completing an MPhil. in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College, Dublin. Sharon is on the editorial panel of the open-access journal Interference, a biannual online publication concerned with the role of sound in cultural practice. The journal is in association with GradCAM and will be launched later this.

www.sharonphelan.com

Press Release: For Immediate Release

Can’t Operate Properly ‘Til Eyes Refocus

an exhibition by Alan Butler

Location: CAKE CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Preview: 23^rd April 2010 6.30-8.30pm
Exhibition Continues: 24^th April to 19^th May
Open Hours: Monday: 1 – 8pm; Tuesday – Wednesday 1 – 5pm; Thurs – Saturdays by appointment. (Please ring ahead: 086 390 5216)
Press Contact: Cake Contemporary Arts
PLEASE DO NOT AT ANYTIME CONTACT THE ARMY BASE. CAKE IS AN INDEPENDENT ORGANISATION WITHIN THE CURRAGH CAMP.

Web: http://www.cakecontemporaryarts.com
T: 086 390 5216 E-mail: hello@cakecontemporaryarts.com

Cake Contemporary Arts is pleased to present Can’t Operate Properly ‘Til Eyes Refocus (COPTER), a solo exhibition by Alan Butler. Butler’s work challenges the ways in which we experience global culture. Butler makes use of appropriation, remixing cultural artefacts and icons by taking these items that possess specific lineages and combining them with disparate elements to create new ideas and truths. Much of his work is heavily laden with iconoclasms and ubiquitous imagery and artefacts. Cross-referencing, repetition and re-interpretation within the work produce dynamic and evolving meanings.

This solo exhibition of Butler will fill both the main upper gallery space and unrenovated lower gallery at Cake with a large body of interdisciplinary artworks that were created between 2008 and 2010, none of which have been shown in Ireland before. The lower galleries will contain works which contrast greatly with the space, with vibrant handmade graphical landscapes featured throughout the exhibition.

Large-scale ink and adhesive vinyl drawings will feature prominently in the exhibition. For these works, the logos of cultural forces (ranging from ‘Metallica 2’ (2008) to Deepak Chopra’ (2009)) are digitally augmented and transfigured into alternative or farcical versions of the originals. The vinyl logos are fabricated in adhesive and placed in the centre of 200cm x 150cm pieces of paper. Butler then manually highlights the logos, tracing their outlines with brightly coloured inks, leaving the paper entirely covered with reinterpretation after reinterpretation of the original augmented logo’s form. While ultimately the nauseating colours and the laborious handmade process are an attempt to distract from their origins, the bold vinyl logos highlight the impenetrability of these signs.

The dizzying, optical illusionary aesthetic of the drawings is mirrored visually and conceptually through the video works ‘Aggrandize to Downfall’ (2009) and ‘9119’ (2009). The first features appropriated motion picture footage of a space shuttle ‘disaster’, and 3D animated Motion Picture Association of America logos. The logos take the form of debris falling from the wreckage of the space ship, which is suspended in a perpetual looping plummet with no resolve. The video ‘9119’ (2009) is digitally augmented Youtube footage of the second plane hitting the Twin Towers. In ‘9119’, the original document has been carefully, but dramatically manipulated to depict a situation, not as a uniquely closed part of history, but as a looping, recurring and transient event.

In addition to a selection other video and sculptural works, COPTER will also feature three new works created in 2010. An ink/vinyl drawing ‘Spongebob’ is part of the ink/vinyl series, and a new drawing work ‘If you are going to say nothing, say it in rainbows’, is a rendering of a computer-generated colour wheel composed of ‘Lorem Ipsum’ placeholder text (a faux-Latin script used in graphic design to fill areas reserved for text in a preliminary layout). Finally, the absurd video sketch ‘Proposal for a three-minute primetime commercial break’ (lasting 2 min 15 secs).

The exhibition itself takes its name (COPTER) from a suffix to the internet acronym ROFL, ‘ROFLCOPTER’ an absurd, but widely used phrase to express laughter online, which stemmed out of a single event on an online multiplayer game. Although COPTER initially referred to a helicopter, through mimetic evolution, the words ‘Can’t Operate Properly Til Eyes Refocus’ were eventually imposed so that it became an acronym. The title, like the rest of the works in this exhibition interleaves networks and relationships between the mimetic transfer of ideas, art history, socio-political and economic ideologies to create a body of work where specific meanings are redundant. While often humorous, COPTER ultimately aims to suggest that meaning in history and language cannot exist as definite and discreet entities, but are constantly evolving artefacts open to further interpretation, remixing, manipulation and distribution.

More information about Alan Butler can be found at http://www.alanbutler.info/

An exhibition trailer can be found here: http://alanbutler.blip.tv/file/3445038/

LOCATION

· In Curragh Camp coming from Newbridge, take left turn by post office.

· Cake is first yellow building after small grey church on your right.

· Parking available in front of building.

Find CAKE CONTEMPORARY ARTS on Google Maps: http://is.gd/bj6D3

TRANSPORT

· By car take exit 12 off M7 motorway. At round about take 2nd exit to Curragh Camp. Continue past church on your left. Take a left at post office. We are on the right.

· 126 Bus Eireann from the Ha’penny Bridge to Kildare, drops off at Curragh Post office.

· Kildare train station, short taxi ride from there to Cake.

· Taxi rank outside Cake.

Graduation Exhibition Extravaganza

Exhibition Opens: 17th April 2010 at 5 pm
Until 27th April 2010

Bored stiff with the usual art scene? Looking for an escape from the stranglehold of city life? The Young Burren Artists present Landgrabber, the grand finale of their Master of Fine Art Degree at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, County Clare. This action packed, adrenalin-fueled thrill ride opens 17th April 2010 at 5pm in the BCA Gallery.
Jessica Artman, Aja Daly , Stefanie Ford, Hali Maltsberger and Sean Naftel are exhibiting the fruit of two years labour, exploring themes ranging from the absurd and the comic to social engagement and horror. Materials used range from oil paints, embroidery and assemblages to edible art burgers and popcorn. The artists, from Canada, the USA and Ireland, have lived and worked in North West Clare for two years. Inspired by the gripping thrills of action-packed vistas and suspenseful rolling escarpments of the Burren, they have concocted Landgrabber, a riveting, spellbinding emotional roller coaster ride into the contemporary cultural arena.

More information at:
www.landgrabber.info

Email: bcagradcommitee@gmail.com

Main Gallery
Newtown Castle
Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
Ireland

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Monster Truck Gallery is looking for submissions for a project of minute proportions. Following the curious appearance of a miniature gallery within the gallery, Monster Truck are currently constructing at a scale of 1:20.

Submissions to exhibit in the miniature gallery should include text – artist statement, cv/bio, and statement of intent (no more than 200 words inclusive) and images of previous and/or proposed work (max 10).

Submissions can be emailed to Julia MacConville at: monstertruck.minitrunk@gmail.com