CURRENT EXHIBITION: CAHOOTS: THE SPACE BETWEEN
A digital exhibition of the work of the members of
Sample-Studios, A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studios
Curated by Guest Artist Curator Nicola Anthony
Click HERE to view the digital exhibition
Click HERE to view the series of artist interviews
Artists: Paul Malone, Brigid Mulligan, Noelle Gallagher, Aoife Claffey, Kim-Ling Morris, Seiko Hayase, Kathryn Kelly, Aideen Farrell, Alisha Doody, Megan Scott and Vivienne Molloy.
December 18th 2020 - February 28th 2021
Supported by Cork City Council and Galway 2020 European City of Culture
Our minds can work in a hybrid of sensory, verbal, and emotional modes. If we choose to, we can look under the surface of everything that we think of as a constant and understand it anew. As a result of Covid 19, the boundaries our personal realms have shifted. A more ambiguous space has opened up: how we read and understand the language and landscape of the world has changed. This exhibition brings together artworks which explore the liminal space in between: art borne of the year 2020 when we can often find ourselves at a loss for words, when time has elongated and place has been constricted, when death and loss have loomed large in all our lives.
Through the lens of the artists we start to see how messages and traces are present in unexpected places. The artists bring a glimmer of hope as well as an honest look at themes which are often deeply coded, hard to process, or unspoken. From artworks which explore the histories embedded within objects and spaces; to explorations of aphasia, anxiety, loss and death; to artworks examining the markers of place and time, language barriers, and otherness. The mediums include hologram, sculpture, morse code, soil, photography, embroidery and an interactive sound/art walk. The artists invite you to see the world from a more permeable, liminal, intangible place.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a series of weekly filmed interviews with participating artists.
Click HERE to view the digital exhibition
Image Credit: Kathryn Kelly, Untitled #6 2020 45x30cm Giclee print on paper
Sample-Studios, A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studios
Curated by Guest Artist Curator Nicola Anthony
Click HERE to view the digital exhibition
Click HERE to view the series of artist interviews
Artists: Paul Malone, Brigid Mulligan, Noelle Gallagher, Aoife Claffey, Kim-Ling Morris, Seiko Hayase, Kathryn Kelly, Aideen Farrell, Alisha Doody, Megan Scott and Vivienne Molloy.
December 18th 2020 - February 28th 2021
Supported by Cork City Council and Galway 2020 European City of Culture
Our minds can work in a hybrid of sensory, verbal, and emotional modes. If we choose to, we can look under the surface of everything that we think of as a constant and understand it anew. As a result of Covid 19, the boundaries our personal realms have shifted. A more ambiguous space has opened up: how we read and understand the language and landscape of the world has changed. This exhibition brings together artworks which explore the liminal space in between: art borne of the year 2020 when we can often find ourselves at a loss for words, when time has elongated and place has been constricted, when death and loss have loomed large in all our lives.
Through the lens of the artists we start to see how messages and traces are present in unexpected places. The artists bring a glimmer of hope as well as an honest look at themes which are often deeply coded, hard to process, or unspoken. From artworks which explore the histories embedded within objects and spaces; to explorations of aphasia, anxiety, loss and death; to artworks examining the markers of place and time, language barriers, and otherness. The mediums include hologram, sculpture, morse code, soil, photography, embroidery and an interactive sound/art walk. The artists invite you to see the world from a more permeable, liminal, intangible place.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a series of weekly filmed interviews with participating artists.
Click HERE to view the digital exhibition
Image Credit: Kathryn Kelly, Untitled #6 2020 45x30cm Giclee print on paper
FORTHCOMING EXHIBTIONS 2021:
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Half Way to Falling
February 18th - March 9th 2021 Open Daily: Wed-Sat, 11am - 4pm The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork ‘Half Way to Falling’ is artist Kate O’Shea’s first series of art works from ‘How Much Is Enough?’ a collective response to the Just City - Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Award. ‘Half Way to Falling’ is a series of collaborative printworks, art works and responses by The Just City Reading Collective, Aideen Farrell, Emma O’Hara, Eve Olney, Raphael Olympio, Aideen Quirke, Gemma Dardis, Lucia Pola, Enya Moore, Louise Harrington, Evelyn Broderick, Leah Brown, Lisa Crowne, Pat Curran, Aoife Barrett, Fionnuala O’ Connell, Siobhan Kavanagh, Craig Cox and Alec Moore, presented in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgeralds Park, Cork. This exhibition commences Sample-Studios’ TACTIC Visual Arts Programme 2021 programme, which marks its 10th anniversary. Common Ground awarded Kate O’ Shea the Just City - Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Award in March 2020, when Ireland entered its first period of lockdown. The impact and realities of that experience has pushed us all into new realms and forms of creating social solidarity, communication and work practices, being both transformational and challenging, individually and collectively. In April 2020, Kate O’ Shea established an online reading group of international activists, community workers, artists and academics from eight cities around the world. Her development process has involved engagement with local groups in the Dublin 8 area in which her studio is based, testing new film and music performances, creating soundworks and temporary large scale print installations, resulting in a film by Alec Moore, with music by Siobhán Kavanagh and Craig Cox and an iterative online platform built by Lucia Pola which are presented within and alongside this exhibition. This exhibition represents collective energy and is immersive in nature - the internal structure of The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion will be wrapped with large scale collaborative prints made by The Just City Reading Collective and sculptural work by HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? collaborators will inhabit the space. The exhibition will also mark the launch of the online platform for HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? which will examine ideas and practices around spatial injustices in multiple cities internationally. This online platform will continue to grow over the coming years, contextualising the work and incorporating past present and future collaborative projects. This exhibition will also premiere the first short film of The Just City Residency. Reflecting on ideas of legacy within collaborative arts practice, this exhibition reflects on Kate O’ Shea’s 10 year social arts practice. The necessity of physical spaces in which to imagine alternative social imaginaries to that of capitalism will be examined through a series of discussions around temporary and permanent spaces which Kate O’ Shea has engaged with over the last 10 years, in her practice. One of these events will reflect on SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism and future plans connected to the work and its international network. SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism which was co-produced with Eve Olney on North Main Street, Cork in September 2019, a two-week exhibition and social space with over 40 collaborators, which was framed within the rationale of critiquing institutional complicity within different forms of precarious living conditions. How Much Is Enough? is in response to the Just City Residency, working with Common Ground and local and international activists, community workers, artists, academics and urban planners to create artistic practices and events that challenge spatial injustice in cities. Each of the collaborators on HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? has worked within fluid and emergent social practices. She is supported in her practice by mentors, John Bissett and Rita Fagan. ABOUT KATE O’ SHEA Kate O’ Shea’s socially engaged artistic practice and collaborative projects include; The People’s Kitchen supported by the Artist In Community Scheme (CREATE) funded by The Arts Council of Ireland, (2016-present), The Living Commons led by Dr. Eve Olney (2018-present) ; SPARE ROOM: Art Architecture Activism, with Co-Producer Dr. Eve Olney (2017 – 2019); Durty Books, publishing house, a co-production with graphic designer Victoria Brunetta (2016 – present) and NomShtock Festival, a co-production with Aoife Scanlon and Emer Casey (2014) Kate O’ Shea and Common Ground are currently exploring a range of online platforms that will host artworks, radio and soundworks with local community activists, International and Irish artists in 2021. In 2021, Create Ireland will engage with Kate O’ Shea and Common Ground in hosting and devising an online event that includes major international socially engaged artists where we will reflect on HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? as a multi-disciplinary project that will critically reflect issues of spatial justice in Ireland and internationally. ABOUT COMMON GROUND Common Ground, an arts organisation took root in the Canal Communities of Rialto, Bluebell and Inchicore Dublin 8 in 1999. Common Ground works with communities and artists and places the role of arts and culture at the heart of community life. Working in collaboration with artists and local community and youth groups, their arts programmes explore community identity and have the power to shape and change who we are and where we live. In 2019, they became the new cultural tenant of the Lodge at Goldenbridge Cemetery, Inchicore, Dublin 8, at a time when Dublin 8, the area in which we are located continues to experience multiple changes to its urban and social fabric. The Just City, the Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Award 2020 marks Common Ground’s 21st year. The Just City is funded by Common Ground through its annual Arts Council funding. http://www.commonground.ie/ |
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