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Michael Dempsey : Sven Augustijnen

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The Metronome Bursts of Automatic Fire Seep Through the Dawn Mist Like Muffled Drums and We Know It for What It Is

During the Cold War the FAL rifle was the most distributed weapon in non communist countries, and therefore named the “right arm of the free world”. However the rifle appeared on both sides of the ideological spectrum and was depicted in the various conflicts around the world as reported by the famous Paris Match and LIFE magazines.

The Metronome Bursts of Automatic Fire… is a new storyboard installation by Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen for The Hugh Lane’s Artist as Witness 2016 exhibition programme. It is an allusion to the light automatic rifle – the F.A.L manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, in Belgium. The installation consists of a display of TIME and LIFE magazines and RTÉ archival material that evokes how both weapons and journalism have been entangled in the fabric of our histories.

In Sven Augustijnen’s work the traditional codes of documentary practice seem to be both expanded and undermined. Debate and dialogue, as vehicles for embodied social memory and symbolic experience, play a key role in his practice. Fictions, rumours, personal comments and vague remarks are all inseparable from the forms of living memory.

08 September 2016 – 22 January 2017, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.

Maeve Mulrennan : Claiming Space

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A Galway Arts Centre National Tour, supported by The Arts Council.

Claiming Space is a touring exhibition by Red Bird Youth Collective, a youth arts group based in Galway. Since its inception, Red Bird has been supporting creativity and claiming artistic space for young people in Galway, and now, nationally.

Claiming Space showcases Red Bird’s collaborative methodology, both with each other and with professional artists and architects. Over the years Red Bird has worked with artists such as Louise Manifold, Ruby Wallis and Dominic Thorpe, and has worked with architects Bláithín Quinn and Dominic Stevens. Although created by different members and different professionals, all the artworks in this exhibition are rooted in exploring and challenging the world from a young persons point of view whilst claiming artistic and public space for young people. The curated selection also represents different media and different ways to communicate ideas.

This multi-venue national tour features work from the Red Bird Collective since 2009. The multi-media visual art exhibition focusses on engaging with youth audiences in three towns across Ireland with relatively large youth populations. Work made by successive Red Bird members is being shown together for the first time; all work has been previously show on a project-by-project basis in Galway.

However Claiming Space is not just for young people; to date audiences for Red Bird Youth Collective have been a mix of art & non-art publics of all ages. Red Bird aims to present youth arts alongside professional Irish arts practice, not to ghettoise it.

A special publication with images of all Red Bird projects to date and commissioned essays will be launched at the exhibition opening, which takes place in Gallery on Saturday 3rd September.

Monday 29th August 2016 – Saturday 1st October 2016
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co.Kildare

14 October – 4 November 2016
Roscommon Arts Centre, Roscommon

25 November 2016 – 14 January 2017
The Dock Arts Centre, Leitrim

A Galway Arts Centre National Tour, supported by Arts Council Ireland.

Eric Hennelly Flanagan : The Beautiful Beasts

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The Ark presents The Beautiful Beasts

Visit a weird and wonderful collection of animal sculptures curated by The Ark especially for children. Amongst these quirky, loveable animals, you will find a flying horse, a tortoise with a secret story and a toucan in disguise! Created by leading Irish and international artists from materials ranging from bronze, woods, ceramics and steel, you can learn about the techniques used to create the artworks and feel samples of the materials used.

The Beautiful Beasts exhibition is made up of some of The Ark’s favourite pieces from its collection which spans its 21 years of commissioning professional artists to create work for children.

Recommended for Ages 4+

Featured Artists: Owen Crawford, Conor Fallon, Luxon Gutsa, Orla Kaminska, Olivia Musgrave, Anthony Scott, Imogen Stuart.

An exhibition from The Ark on a Short Works Network Tour

Saturday 27th August, 2016 – Saturday 8th October, 2016, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge,
Co.Kildare

Sarah Searson : Now Came Still Evening On

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EXHIBITION: Works by John and Gary Coyle
Sat 10 September – Sat 12 November, 2:00pm

John Coyle will be showing a series of small scale oil painting’s, most of which have been made in the recent past, painting his every day life and environment, the view from his window, the park outside his house, or figures in his studio, continuing what he has been doing for the past sixty or so years. He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1979 and a full Member in 1982. His art education was gained at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and the Glasgow School of Art. He also studied in Paris, Florence and Madrid.

Gary Coyle is picking up where he left off with his previous 2015 show Into The Woods, at The RHA Dublin, again he will be exhibiting a series of large scale charcoal drawings, many of which incorporate elaborate hand drawn frames. Against the background of a large scale, gallery sized colour drawing of a forest made with a digital tablet. The charcoal drawings will explore a variety of subject matter & themes, including the gothic- though given a contemporary reworking- appropriated imagery from the internet, the function of the frame, nature versus culture,

“Coyle traverses the boundary between digital & analogue visual culture, reframing perceptions of mass produced images & reproductions”

(Ann Mullee, VAN Critique supplement 2015)

*Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 598.

John Byrne : Would You Die For Ireland?

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Would You Die for Ireland? presents a series of photographic works and installations by John Byrne exploring the artist’s childhood memories of growing up during the Troubles, exhibited alongside his iconic film, Would You Die for Ireland? The film, which was initially presented as a projection on a cell wall in Kilmainham Gaol to mark the bicentenary of the death of Robert Emmet in 2003, features the artist posing this emotive question to people on the streets of Belfast, Cork and Dublin. Those confronted included members of the public, the Gardai, Defence Forces, The Orange Order and the-then Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.

Exhibition on from Fri 16 Sep – Sat 29 Oct, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford

Gavin Murphy & Mark Cullen: Pallas Projects/Studios

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Pallas Projects/Studios provides a dynamic and nurturing working environment, based in a converted school building located at the bottom of Francis Street, Dublin 8, just minutes walk from the National College of Art & Design, Christchurch and the city centre. We offer excellent, affordable spaces to both established and emerging Dublin-based artists working in the contemporary visual arts, for periods from 6 months to 3 years.

The studios feature: 24 hour access, off-street location with large communal outdoor area, secure and alarmed, large sash windows with excellent natural light in all studios, high-speed broadband, kitchen facilities, new wiring, and eco-friendly heating and lighting system. Studio members are featured on the PP/S website, which also features current and archived projects from our internationally recognised programme. Studio members can also avail of subsidised access to our project space.

Featured exhibition: Marian Balfe, Appropriate Colours, August 2016

Website: pallasprojects.org

Lynn Scarff : Science Gallery + Design and Violence

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What happens when design and violence collide? How can an act of creative destruction surprise us with consequences both intended and unintended? One hundred years after the Easter Rising, it’s time to reflect but also look to the future and ask what happens when creativity, art and engineering mix with power, pain and politics. DESIGN AND VIOLENCE is an exhibition developed in co- production by MoMA and Science Gallery Dublin, continuing an online curatorial experiment originally hosted by MoMA. It explores the manifestations of violence in contemporary society and will feature works from the original curatorial selection alongside new works and artefacts.

From 14 October 2016 to 22 January 2017

Herman Seidl and Gabriele Wagner : The Body Politic

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The Body Politic highlights the strength and diversity of contemporary photography in Austria. The work reflects the concerns of five established and emerging photographic talents:

Karin Fisslthaler uses ‘found’ images to explore rituals and social conventions manifested in film and photography. In her various works series the hands, skin, and faces of movie stars are distorted and concealed to reveal the structural complexities of media representations.

Ulrike Lienbacher interrogates the notion of the body as subject or object. In her series Pin Up Exercises figures dressed in ordinary outdoor clothes subvert stereotypical postures or poses.

The resurgent genre of street photography is reflected in Christopher Mavric’s live and unstaged colour portraits of ordinary Austrians living in Vienna and Graz.

In her series Young Gods Stefanie Moshammer worked closely with disaffected young men to capture their experience of transitioning from adolescence into adulthood.

Erwin Polanc “8820 +/” captures the artist’s experience of growing up in a small village in Austria. Composed of architectural studies and portraits Polanc’s perspective presents a wonderful balance between empathy, bleakness and the comedy of daily life.

The Body Politic exhibition also includes a special focus on the state of the art of photobook publishing, with a curated selection of recent and classic photo books from Austria’s leading publishers.

Exhibition on until Wednesday 28 September 2016, Gallery of Photography, Dublin

Maggie Gallagher : An exhibition by emerging artists 2016

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51 Emerging artists from a broad range of arts disciplines will exhibit this Sept at the Courthouse Arts Centre. Works will include 2D: Contemporary fine art, print, photography and 3D ceramics, glass, textiles, sculpture, production design and model making.

The exhibition will be opened by Dr Éimear O Connor art historian who specializes in Irish art and its complex contexts in the twentieth century, O’Connor’s topic is the life and work of Irish artist Seán Keating PPRHA, HRA, HRSA (1889-1977). She is also a curator, lecturer, art advisor and archivist. O’Connor began her professional career as a visual artist and has exhibited in Ireland, Denmark and North America. She specialised in site-specific work, and has also designed album covers, book covers and stage settings. O’Connor is a Research Associate with TRIARC-Irish Art Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin.

Exhibiting artists are:

DIT Dublin: Fine Art -Alison Tubritt, Jacqueline Keane, Caitlín Thomson, Karen Walsh. Photography – Mark Neiland, Raimonda Milašienė, Joanna Heaney, Justyna Kielbowska, Beata Cierzniewska, Martyna Sroda, Natalia Marzec, Pauline Golebiewska, Edit Elias, Daniel Casey, Therese Rafter, Sarah Flynn, Ciara Gibbons, Make Bors, Patrycja Terczynska, Rachel Marrinan.

IADT Dun Laoghaire: Design for Stage & screen – Sophie Shannon, Lauren Murphy, Caoimhe Valerio. Model Making – Nicola Zeidler, Mateusz Wojtas, Aine Byrne, Amy Doran.

NCAD Dublin: Ceramic and Glass – Chloe Lennon, Daumante Stirbyte, Louise Murphy, Grainne Banville, Sophie Longwill, Michelle Ryan. Sculpture and expanded practice – Amy Malone. Education – Barry Kenney. Textiles Art and Artefact – Grainne O Carroll. Fine Art – Sean O Rourke, Jonathan Donnelly, Caoimhe O Dwyer, Arlene Gildea, Barbara Healy, Sabina Egan, Ernada Husic, Ria Czerniak.

LSAD Limerick: Fine Art – Niall Lynan.

CIT Cork: Fine Art – Aaron Bevan, Mary Burleigh

Burren College of Art: Fine Art – Suzanne Tenue,

Grennan Mill Thomastown: Ceramics – Babs Belshaw, Andrew Ilsley.

Gorey School of Art: Fine Art – Claudia Roche, Kate Barry.

Exhibition runs until Thurs 29th September.

Kathryn Milligan : Creating History: Stories of Ireland in Art

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8 October 2016 – 15 January 2017

This exhibition will represent the Gallery’s principal contribution to the Decade of Centenaries. It will comprise some 50 paintings spanning the 17th century to the 1930s, depicting or inspired by episodes in Irish history from the early 5th-century arrival of St. Patrick to the establishment of the Free State. On display will be paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection, complemented by loans from public and private collections in Ireland and overseas. Works on display will include Jan Wyck (c.1640-1700), The Battle of the Boyne; Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 4th November 1779; and Joseph Patrick Haverty (1794-1864), The Monster Meeting at Clifden in 1843. Other artists represented in the exhibition include James Barry, Charles Russell, John Lavery, Richard Thomas Moynan, Sean Keating and Jack B. Yeats.

An illustrated publication to accompany the exhibition (edited by Brendan Rooney) will include essays from Tom Dunne, Ruth Kenny, Mary Jane Boland, Emily Mark Fitzgerald, Róisín Kennedy, and Roy F. Foster.

Curator: Dr Brendan Rooney, Curator of Irish Art, National Gallery of Ireland

8 October 2016 – 15 January 2017

Louise Foott and Maeve Dineen : Perceptions 2016 : The Art of Citizenship

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Cork City Council Arts office, Crawford Art Gallery and CIT Crawford College of Art and Design are building on the success of their 2013 Art of Inclusion exhibition. The artwork in Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship has been selected from worldwide submissions from artists working in supported studios – spaces offering opportunities to artists who may previously have been unable to develop their arts practice whether from a physical lack of access to materials, lack of opportunity or because of limited expectations of them.

This exhibition will also showcase outcomes of the Expanding Realities project, a European Erasmus + funded partnership. Over the past 2 years, three supported studio groups – GASP Cork, Art in Motion (AIM) Bristol and Debajo del Sombrero Madrid – have developed and exchanged approaches to engaging the creativity, and supporting the professional development of artists who have much to contribute, but face barriers in society and in the world of art.

City Hall Atrium – 9 September to 28 October 2016
CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery – 9 September – 29 October 2016
Crawford Art Gallery – 9 September – 29 October
Cork Airport – 9 – 28 September
CIT-CCAD – 9 September to 28 October
The Gallery Room at the Natural Food Bakery – 9 September to 28 October
Union Grind Espresso Bar – 9 September – TBC
Sternview Gallery at Nash 19 – 16 September – 29 October
Quay Coop – 9 September to 28 October

Lucina Russell and Leish Burke : Culture Night 2016

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From nation’s capital to county town, everyone’s getting involved! Arts and cultural organisations open their doors until late with hundreds of free events, tours, talks & performances for you, your family and friends to enjoy.
Photos : Pat Tinsley
Culture Night 2016 will take place on Friday September 16th.

Fergal McCarthy : Take Me To The River

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Fergal McCarthy lives beside the filled-in harbour at the Guinness Factory in Dublin, the final destination until 1961 for thousands of barley-loaded barges that travelled from Carlow to Dublin along the Barrow and the Grand Canal. Using shipping palettes and hundreds of plastic bottles extracted from the canal near his home, a raft has been assembled to retrace this route in reverse. Salvaged ephemera gathered during the journey to Carlow will be assembled into artworks at VISUAL, the gallery becoming a production space for river-borne material at the opposite end of this once vital transport system.

09 July – 16 October 2016

Temple Bar Gallery : Mary Cremin

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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a contemporary art gallery and artists’ studios complex located in Dublin city centre and the Temple Bar cultural quarter.
Performance video by Orla Barrys.

International tour of Breaking Rainbows – a live performance/installation by artist Orla Barry
September 2016 – November 2017
World premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival 2016

Dublin Art Book Fair 2016
10 November – 13 November 2016

Barbara Knezevic Exhibition
25 November – 28 January 2017

Shakespeare, His Wife And The Dog

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April 1616 – Shakespeare has returned to Stratford a rich and famous man but all’s not well.
Why is he so unhappy?
Why can’t he sleep?
Why is his wife furious with him?
Who is Will waiting for and why can’t Anne find the dog?
A sleepless night in Stratford.
The secrets, lies, resentments and passions of a marriage laid bare.
The one hour traffic of our play.

9th -12th November 2016, Summerhall

Project Arts Centre : Brute Clues

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The artists Tom Watt, Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch have created an artwork drawing on their mutual interest in architecture – built interruptions in the landscape and industry.
Their structure – which they describe as ‘not a stage, not a dam, not a platform, and not an excavation’ – can be walked on, rested on, climbed, or viewed from afar.
With roles designated for the various materials that make up Brute Clues, the limitations and rules surrounding both the materials and the institution are embedded in its structure.
Each with a distinct artistic practice, Tom Watt, Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch researched sites throughout the American West Coast and Mojave Desert, including Joshua Tree National Park, Taliesin West, Arcosanti, the Hoover Dam and the Utah Salt Flats.
The resulting artwork is collaborative to its core, with the raw materials becoming codes for both function and form.

02 September- 29 October 2016, Project Arts Centre

Michael Hill : Alec Soth and Eoin McHugh, Douglas Hyde Gallery

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Soth has spent a significant part of two decades travelling around America, photographing quiet, strange, and offbeat corners of that vast country. Based in his home state of Minnesota, he studied at Sarah Lawrence College (under Joel Sternfeld for a time) and has since come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures in the world of contemporary photography. The works in Hypnagogia are drawn from several of the artist’s best-known series, including Songbook, Broken Manual, and Sleeping by the Mississippi; rather than being a simple collection of individual works, they are conceived as a form of narrative, with special emphasis on the relationship between the photographs. Geographically and chronologically disparate, the images that form Hypnagogia coalesce as a series of visions or dreams; the people in them have eyes closed or obscured, heads that are tilted back or turned away; one person stumbles, and another is suspended in mid-air. Anxiety and threat are suggested by dramatic waves, a tunnel, and a cave, but there are also awakenings, with glowing light and the promise of blue sky.

A key painting in Eoin Mc Hugh’s exhibition is titled ‘o-o-o-o da!’ and serves as a starting point for the artist’s ongoing exploration of the psychology of imagery. By reverting to elemental aspects of object recognition, such as light, shade, colour and form, he unsettles our modes of understanding and responding to what we see. Previous shows by the artist have included a variety of paintings, sculptures, and found objects, focused on the decay and chaos of the natural world. Here, in the four paintings that make up this exhibition, he has brought his attention to bear closely on the division and elision between abstraction and realism, idea and form.

Exhibitions from August 5 to September 21, 2016 at Douglas Hyde Gallery

Rosa Abbott : Willie Doherty, Loose Ends Exhibition

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Kerlin Gallery announces Loose Ends, a historic new body of work by the world-renowned Irish artist Willie Doherty (b. 1959, Derry), comprised of a two-screen video installation and accompanying photographic diptychs.
Loose Ends turns our attention to the passage of time and its powerful, corrosive effect on our hopes, beliefs and sense of identity. Across two screens, Doherty uses the camera and spoken word to focus on the details and textures of two very different locations. Both associated with the 1916 Easter Rising – a key event in the history of Irish independence, the sites are examined in detail through the use of a slow, almost trance-like, zoom. Doherty’s lens absorbs the material evidence of each location today, 100 years after the events of 1916, asking whether a residual response to these events continues to be played out, or how the voices and actions of one generation and the ‘vapours of the past’ resonate in the unconscious of another.

Exhibition on from 3rd September to 19th October 2016

Aislinn O’hEocha – Baboró International Arts Festival for Children

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Baboró International Arts Festival for Children brings the most diverse selection of the finest in performing arts from Ireland and around the world to its annual festival especially for children in Galway. The exciting festival programme of theatre, dance, puppetry, music, art and literature varies from year to year to bring a wide diversity of exposure to the creative arts especially created for young audiences, their schools and families. In 2016, we celebrate 20 years of presenting a multidisciplinary arts festival to thousands of children in Ireland from our base in Galway City.

From 17 October – 23 October 2016, Galway

Stephen Butler, Lyndsey Dower, Lorcan Reidy and Kamila Bystrzonowska : Between the Bars

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Stephen Butler, Lyndsey Dower, Lorcan Reidy and Kamila Bystrzonowska introduce Between The Bars. BTB are a series of monthly events taking place in St Patrick’s Gateway between October and January that will see the best national and local indie, folk and trad acts perform to bring the people of Waterford something that little bit memorable, with a different mood set for each night, both visually and aurally, with the aim that friends, family and performers are entertained and everyone leaves smiling.

Momo restaurant will present special pre-concert deals that includes an Early Bird meal with a glass of house wine or beer to all ticket holders to add extra appeal and offer Waterford something different.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios : Paul Coleman

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Paul Coleman has been a practicing artist for the past twenty years and works in many media including paint and sculpture. Whatever medium or material he uses however he is continually drawn to exploring the spiritual aspect of human experience and its infinite possibilities for expression. His most recent works are informed by a close study of colour and geometric form and are contemplative of the inner tensions and relationships between pictorial components. Paul has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad including Tokyo and the USA. His work is in many private and public collections including the Office of public works, the Bar Council and Nissan Ireland. Paul Coleman is a Full Member of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Barbara Dawson : Francis Bacon Exhibition

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Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Although he lived most of his life in London, Francis Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909 and lived in Co. Kildare with his family.

When he was 16 he decided to see the world. He travelled to Berlin and Paris and he was fascinated by these large and bustling cities. He was especially impressed with the museums and galleries he visited and was amazed at some of the artists he saw. When he was in Paris he saw an exhibition of drawings by Picasso and these inspired him so much that he decided to pick up some brushes and try to become an artist himself!

Francis Bacon was fascinated by many things. He had travelled to Africa and collected photographs of wild animals. He also liked photographs of boxing as well as reading, drama and poetry.

Evelyn McFadden, Roddy Geoghegan and Lisa Fennin : Trad Session at The Harp, Ballitore, County Kildare

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Trad Sessions take place at The Harp on the first Friday of every month, have been for many years. Numbers vary between 4 and 10. Lisa Fennin is the owner of the bar. Lisa is the third generation of female owners. Those who take part are from within a 20 mile radius of the village. they play a range of instruments, tin whistles, accordions, guitar, banjo, flute, and not confined to traditional Irish instruments.

The bar itself featured in the Irish made documentary – “the Irish Pub”, which was a huge hit across the country and was even aired on TV. People come from far off places to visit the bar and The Harp is sometimes visited by actor, Gabriel Byrne who spent his summers nearby as a child.

Tina Darb and Kathryn Moffat : Innovate

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iNNOVATE is a showcase exhibition reflecting the resourcefulness, adaptability and avant garde practice key to contemporary makers in Ireland today, curated by CIT CCAD graduate Tina Darb.

Innovation is an intrinsic part of craft practice whether it be in the use of materials, design, function or concept – all aspects of making really. At the iNNOVATE exhibition the viewer is asked to reflect on this – as every piece of craft has such a story to tell, which isn’t always obvious at first glance.
Exhibitors:
COLIN JOHNSON / CHRISTINE BYRNE / LILY CORCORAN /
MONICA FERGUS / MARY PALMER / CARMEL CREANER / CHARLIE MAHON / TONY FARRELL / JOHN McCARTHY / KATHRYN MOFFAT / HILARY NUNAN / TOM LITTLE /
MARTIN HORGAN / CARMEL SMYTH / LESLEY STOT /
CHRISTINA JASMIN ROSER / SILVERSTONE DIMENSIONS

Running at the Macroom Town Hall, Co Cork until AUGUST 28, this exhibition of Cork Crafts is open to the public WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY from 11am -6pm.

Anna O’Sullivan : Michael Snow, The Viewing of Six New Works

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6 looped video projections, silent

Greg Hermanovic (Derivative) – TouchDesigner recording technology

©Michael Snow. Courtesy of artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and the Butler Gallery

Photography by Roland Paschhoff, paschhoff.com

Snow’s extensive and multidisciplinary career includes painting, sculpture, video, film, sound, photography, holography, drawing, writing, and music. His highly influential body of work, which spans more than five decades, explores the nature of perception, consciousness, language, and temporality.

Snow is one of the world’s leading experimental filmmakers, having inspired the Structural Film movement with his groundbreaking film Wavelength (1967).

The Viewing of Six New Works (2012) draws on Snow’s past work of examining the nature of perception and the physical relationship of the artwork to the viewer. Six projectors cast richly coloured monochrome geometries onto white walls. The rectangular shape elongates, rotates, and contorts into shapes that include trapezoid and rhombus. These transmuting light projections simulate the varying ways a person might look at a rectangular wall-mounted artwork by digitally mimicking and mirroring the movement of the eyes. There is a notable sense of play and experimentation in the way Snow relates what he is thinking in this conceptually pristine yet beautiful installation. “The work is an attempt to present only the movements of perception, not perception itself. The art of looking.” – Michael Snow

Exhibition on from August 6 – October 9, Butler Gallery

Kamila Klamut-Pawlik and Ewa Pasikowska : Camille

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Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall
Age Suitability: 16+
Times: 21.10 (50 mins)
Dates: 3rd – 28th August

Camille Claudel was a sculptor and artist. She was also the sister of Paul Claudel and the lover, creative collaborator and muse of sculptor Auguste Rodin. After the end of her relationship with Rodin she suffered a nervous breakdown and was confined to an asylum by her brother. She spent the last 30 years of her life there. Kamila Klamut’s performance, based on fragments of Camille Claudel’s letters, explores her life and work using text, sculptural costume and live music by Ewa Pasikowska. Kamila Klamut is a co-founder of award-winning Theatr ZAR and a regular collaborator with Song of the Goat Theatre and the Grotowski Institute.

Supported by The Grotowski Institute, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Poland.

Malcolm Proud : The Piper and the Faerie Queen

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The Piper and the Faerie Queen

Music inspired by fantastical literary works from the
17th century alongside traditional Irish music.
Camerata Kilkenny with David Power – uilleann pipes,
Maya Homburger – violin, Claire Duff – violin,
Marja Gaynor – viola, Sarah McMahon – cello,
Barry Guy – bass, Malcolm Proud – harpsichord/organ.

Look out for upcoming tour dates on ArtinIreland.TV and Culturefox.ie Facebook Pages

Charlotte Bouckaert and Steve Salembier : Bildraum

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Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall
Age Suitability: U
Times: 20.55 (40 mins)
Dates: 16th – 28th August

Architect Steve Salembier and photographer Charlotte Bouckaert use architectural models, live photography, sounds and music to take the audience on a trip between 2D and 3D. Beginning in the reality of the theatre space the journey moves through remembered and reconstructed spaces as visual storylines slowly unfold – like browsing a photo-album created on the spot. The two performers act as technicians of the imagination to compose an audiovisual story live on stage. A brilliantly original, award-winning show where the past and present seem to coincide and the audience themselves gradually develop the connections in between.