TACTIC 2018 Visual Arts ProgrammeTACTIC Cork and Sample-Studios are proud to present APEIRON, a new body of work from their 2017/2018 Artist in residence Chloë Tétrault-Kearney. Chloë Tétrault-Kearney is an artist currently residing in Cork City. She is an alumni of Crawford College of Art and Design, graduating in 2017 with a BA in Fine Art. Tétrault received the 2017/2018 Artist in residence award from Sample-Studios. This exhibition is supported by Cork City Arts Office and the Arts Council. |
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APEIRON continues Tétrault’s exploration of our connection to the material world as conscious temporal beings. The exhibition takes it name from 6th Century Greek philosopher Anaximander’s theory of how creative processes create reality. The work’s force is to shift and re engage with understandings of our embodied experience combining research on elemental philosophy, alchemy, the natural sciences, and mythologies of origin. Looking to primordial and elemental ways of speaking about the body, her works look to understand the apparent and concealed aspects that make up our encounter with the material world and how this shapes experience. Through the installation’s site responsive strategy, Tétrault proposes a space holding primary transmutations and opposing forces. These are latent and active, both guiding principles in the material world. The work traces formational points of raw materiality, latent potentials, and emptiness through the language of the natural elements. APEIRON suggests that these intensities of conversion may serve as an analogy for our own amorphic sentience experienced internally.
GOAL What on Earth?
TACTIC Visual Arts Programme are delighted to host GOAL's What on Earth touring exhibition in St Luke's Crypt, Cork City
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rolling hills is a piece to visit with a stream and some rolling hills. The piece is available to see 2 hours 24 minutes a day, starting at dawn, 05:14am, on the first day of the festival and moving incrementally later until its ending at dawn, 05:15am, on the last day of the festival. This time together makes up a day in rollinghills, a plush gush woven into the festival as a whole. The piece will have a party on the summer solstice starting at 19:33 and ending at sundown at 21:57.
Is Isolde
Conceived in Limerick City by Rory and Carol, born in Dublin City, raised in Clonmel and born again in Limerick City with the help of Limerick School of Art and Design, after which co-founded spacecraft artist studios and currently on residency in the National Sculpture Factory in Cork. Participating artists: Aoife Delany Reade // Aoife Lee // Conor Coady // Caspar McCabe // Day Magee // Isolde Donohoe // Niamh Dorgan Rolling hills is created by Isolde Donohoe, curated by Katie O’Grady and brought alive with a group of participating artists. The piece is made possible through Sample-Studios, TACTIC, National Sculpture Factory, The Guesthouse Cork and Midsummer Festival. |
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Evgeniya Martirosyan | Between Something and Nothing
TACTIC at The Crypt (Mahony's Avenue Entrance), St. Luke’s Former Church, St. Luke's Cross, Cork City Preview: Thurs February 8th, 18:30 - 20:00 Opening Speaker: Dobz O'Brien, Programme Director, National Sculpture Factory Dates: 9th February - 24th February 2018 Opening Times: Thursday - Saturday, 12:00 - 17:30 |
Evgeniya Martirosyan’s new body of work Between Something and Nothing stems from her interest in philosophy and science. It represents an intuitive response to concepts of time, matter, chaos and transformation. The latest developments in science raise many questions about the nature of reality, as it seems uncertainty and relativity are part of the very fabric of our world. Working with elemental materials and using a broad range of techniques, Martirosyan explores the poetic possibilities of the constantly shifting and elusive state of things.
Martirosyan’s work for this exhibition incorporates various materials and effects that have a problematic or hesitant quality: ice (frost), water, air, light and foam. Transient organic matter is framed and contrasted by structures made out of rigid materials like metal and plastic. She uses repurposed industrial mechanisms, such as refrigeration and compression units, to activate the work initiating processes of growth and change. As the matter continues to evolve in unpredictable ways, the aim is to find fragile beauty in ambiguity and perpetual transformation, creating opportunities for reflection.
For further information and images please contact: tactic@sample-studios.com
This exhibition is supported by Cork City Council Arts Office, the Arts Council, and Cork Film Centre. The artist has been supported with graduate residencies from Sample-Studios and the National Sculpture Factory.
Martirosyan’s work for this exhibition incorporates various materials and effects that have a problematic or hesitant quality: ice (frost), water, air, light and foam. Transient organic matter is framed and contrasted by structures made out of rigid materials like metal and plastic. She uses repurposed industrial mechanisms, such as refrigeration and compression units, to activate the work initiating processes of growth and change. As the matter continues to evolve in unpredictable ways, the aim is to find fragile beauty in ambiguity and perpetual transformation, creating opportunities for reflection.
For further information and images please contact: tactic@sample-studios.com
This exhibition is supported by Cork City Council Arts Office, the Arts Council, and Cork Film Centre. The artist has been supported with graduate residencies from Sample-Studios and the National Sculpture Factory.
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Sun 1 -Opening reception:
January 26th 5 - 7 pm with opening speaker Mary McCarthy Elizabeth Fort, Barrack Street, Cork Opening times: Tues - Sat 11 - 5 (last admittance 4.30 pm) 5 (last admittance 4.30 pm) The Paradise of The Heart is a collaborative exhibition by Cork-based artists searchagonygrows and Peter Nash. The project is hosted by TACTIC Gallery and supported by the National Sculpture Factory, Cork City Council and Sample-Studios. |
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Inspired by an allegorical literary work Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart by the 17th-century scholar John Amos Comenius, this collaborative exhibition examines the concept of home as a safe place for personal development and self-expression. In the exhibition, the artists respond visually to this allegorical work and bring its subject matter into the contemporary context of Cork city.
The aim, however, is not to recreate the text literally but instead to employ it as a conceptual starting point. In the disused residential accommodation inside the grounds of Elizabeth Fort, the artists create an immersive installation in which the environment of the uninhabited domestic setting becomes an integral element of the work.
The exhibition consists of brand new artworks created specifically for this context, alongside re-iterations of existing pieces which have been further developed to work in correspondence with this unique location.
The aim, however, is not to recreate the text literally but instead to employ it as a conceptual starting point. In the disused residential accommodation inside the grounds of Elizabeth Fort, the artists create an immersive installation in which the environment of the uninhabited domestic setting becomes an integral element of the work.
The exhibition consists of brand new artworks created specifically for this context, alongside re-iterations of existing pieces which have been further developed to work in correspondence with this unique location.
Opening reception Jan 13th 3pm-5pm Cork Photo Gallery, Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Fitzgerald's Park Open Wed - Sun 10am - 4pm Closed Mondays and Tuesday |
Oh Everywhere There’s Gladness is the first exhibition in TACTIC’s programme for 2018. In conjunction with Cork Photo Gallery, TACTIC takes the premise of its show from Cork Photo Gallery’s historic location of the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion purpose built in 1903 for one of the four International Exhibitions held in Cork City between the years 1852 and 1903.
The International Exhibitions were once referred to ‘timekeepers of progress’ with their purpose to record and display advancement in industry, science, technology and arts from many countries across the globe at that period in time. The Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace in London in 1851 is the best-known of these. Cork City followed closely in 1852 with the first of the exhibitions intended to stimulate the local economy after the disaster of the Famine. In 1902 &1903 the Cork International Exhibition was held on the grounds of what later became known Fitzgerald’s Park. Oh Everywhere There’s Gladness aims to pay homage to those International Exhibitions through two artists contemporary interpretations. Maeve Lynch’s invisible rebuilding of the various pavilions by mapping soundscapes throughout the park for the duration of the exhibition allows the old fairs to be reimagined in the digital age. Michael Cleary’s repurposing of found industrial materials questions their use or need in today’s society contrasting their absolute necessity throughout the Industrial revolution of the 1800s. |