James Merrigan, GOTH-HEAD (Part 1), (video still), HDVideo, audio and text (collegiate font), 2011.

GOTH-HEAD refers to obsessions and addictions with the so-called ‘dark’ aspects of culture. It also refers to my art practice over the last 3 years, which has obsessed over such cliches, reinventing cultural beliefs with humour and potential fear from a filmic perspective.

2 previous works were chosen by the curator and 1 work was made by the artist with the theme of “multplicity” in mind. (Multiplicity is the title of the 5th chapter of Italio Calvino’s book, Six Memos, which has been the fundamental influence behind Mary Conlon’s curated project “Six Memos”).

The 3 works, which include video, audio, text , fabricated and found objects, focus on ‘multiple’ reference points from the southern gothic in William Faulkner’s prose to fabricated identity in the tones of cheer-leader chants. The titles of the works are: My Mother is a Fish (2010), Before the Cut(2008) and GOTH-HEAD (2011).

http://jamesmerrigan.blogspot.com/

TULCA – an annual Galway season of contemporary visual art.  Featuring local and international exhibitions, unexpected live-art performances and discussions & talks with artists with admission free to all events.

Established in 2002, TULCA’s vision is to be accessible to a wide-ranging audience. The Festival engages and challenges audiences with new and fresh ideas, and art that audiences want to see. Attention is given to the finer details, such as programming work in interesting venues and ensuring the invigilators are well informed and enthusiastic.

Each year TULCA aims to do things differently, without trying to fit into a prescribed version of a visual art festival.

TULCA 2010 will take place in venues throughout Galway City including:
Galway Arts Centre | Galway Museum |The Fairgreen Building | 126 | Niland Gallery | The Spanish Arch | Nuns Island Theatre | Bar 8 | Aran Ferries | The Dock Shed | Bike Shelters in Eyre Square and Spanish Arch

Curated by Michelle Browne

Runs from Sat Nov 6 – Sun Nov 21 2010

For more info visit www.tulca.ie

image: Farmer’s Daughter, Mary Noonan 2010 (showing in Galway Arts Centre)

Talk 2 – Performance and Propaganda
Ray Langenbach in conversation with Michael Seaver
Thurs July 29, 1-4pm, NCAD Lecture Theatre, Thomas Street, Dublin 8

Ray Langenbach’s performance art and visual art works have been presented in America and Asia Pacific. His writings on Southeast Asian performance, propaganda and visual culture have appeared in Performance Research, Afterimage, Oxford Dictionary of Performance, and Eye of the Beholder: Reception, Audience and Practice of Modern Asian Art and other compilations.  He co-convened Performance Studies international #10 Conference (Singapore 2004),  Satu Kali International Performance Art Symposium (Kuala Lumpur 2006), and curated the Performance Art works at the 2000 Werkleitz Biennial. Ray holds the post of Associate Professor, Department of Performance + Media, Sunway University, Malaysia and is an Affiliate Researcher at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.

In 2009, Dublin City Council Arts office launched a new pilot initiative in the Red Stables Artists Studios (with the kind assistance of The Arts Council), to commission an emerging curator to plan and devise an outdoor exhibition of temporary artworks for Saint Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5.

For this year’s project invited curator, Sally Timmons has selected two artists to consider the notion of a folly (defined as an ornamental structure or building, whose creation reflects a whimsical inclination on the part of the builder). With this in mind, the artists Mark Clare and Fionnuala Hanahoe have developed artworks that will provide a physical and visual interference within the environs of the park, holding intrigue as visually stimulating yet seemingly futile functional structures.

Hopeful Structures takes place in Saint Anne’s Park from 6th of June until the 6^th July 2010.

Opening Hours for the exhibition space in The Red Stables Artists Studios are Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm until 5pm (or by appointment 086 3963845).

According to the exhibition space opening hours, Fionnuala Hanahoe will place the artwork titled Park Reflecting in various locations in and around the lawns near The Red Stables Artists Studios.

Mark Clare’s’ artwork titled Shangri La is positioned in the Millennium Arboretum (beside the main avenue to the park)

Further Information:

Dublin City Council Arts Office, The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1

T. 01 222 7841

www.hopefulstructures.org

www.redstablesartists.com/hopeful

www.dublincity.ie

The Fractured Self

Cecilia Bullo

Preview 6pm-8pm 27.05.10

Exhibition continues 28.05.10  to 13.06.10

Open 2-6pm   Thursday-Sunday

Unit H, is pleased to present ‘The Fractured Self’, an exhibition of Italian / Irish artist Cecilia Bullo’s investigation into the potential of a journey or voyage taken in the hope of healing ones inner self. Through aspects from the life of theorist, philosopher and playwright, Antonin Artaud, the artist considers the coping mechanisms that come into play when the body and mind are at pains to mend a trauma. Bullo’s work departs from Artaud’s journey to Ireland in 1937, a journey made in the hope of returning what he believed to be St. Patrick’s crosier to its homeland.

The importance of the crosier to Artaud becomes for Bullo both a physical and metaphorical guide with which she delicately probes the nature of self healing and the journeys that are taken as part of this process. Through the Jungian suggestion that the experience of psychosis is a journey for the individual to rediscover something that has been lost to them, the concept of METANOIA comes to represent an existential journey towards recovery.
In Greek metanoia means a change of mind, for Karl Jung it stood for a process that the psyche goes through in a spontaneous act towards self reparation after a breakdown. For Bullo the creation of personal mythologies by the individual who is in a state of metanoia, offers the artist a situation from which to explore the nature of the schizophrenic body, self-reparation and the potential of amulets such as Artaud’s crosier, which embody for the holder magical and healing properties.

This body of work was inspired by an artist’s residency at the foot of Saint Patrick’s resting place, Croagh Patrick. It is a sensitive evocation of what it is to journey through trauma and the aids that are physically and psychologically developed in order to survive the affects of contemporary living.

A text by Monica Flynn based on email conversation and some unresolved thoughts on Bullo’s work will accompany the exhibition.

Unit H is The Market Studios curated exhibition series which is programmed by Claire Behan and Deirdre Morrissey. As a new exhibition & project space it is dedicated to introducing work by international artists as well as providing a platform for a variety of events from a dynamic network of Irish, visual art practitioners.  The Market Studios is an independent not-for-profit workspace, established in December 2007 by curator/ artists, Claire Behan, Deirdre Morrissey and artist Monica Flynn.  The Market Studios is a creative space which has taken a proactive approach in establishing a locus were visual artists, writers and curators can meet, work and enjoy the benefits of peer and cross disciplinary exchange.  Located in the heart of the markets area, just off Capel St, the studios provide workspace for 20 artists.

http://themarketstudios.wordpress.com/