NOTHING/OUT OF THE ORDINARY

Preview: 17th May at 7pm

An exhibition of work by postgraduate students of Philosophy and Comparative Aesthetics at University College Cork. The overarching concern of the artists involved is in the exploration of the points of confluence between philosophical thought and other creative practices including visual art, sound and film.

Exhibition opening Thursday 17th May at 7pm, featuring a live sound improvisation by Declan Synott. Other artists include:

Chloe Brenan

Fergal Dunne

Valerio Giovannini

Laura Hadnett

Mercedes Lopez

Ashling Martin

A Non

Ouyang Xiao

The exhibition will close on Friday 25th May with an evening of film screenings curated by Moira Hassenfuss. Tom Tykwer’s ‘Run Lola Run’ and Chris Marker’s ‘La Jetée’ which will be screened from 7pm onwards.

With support from Philosophy, UCC

Basement Project / Camden Quay / Cork / Open Tues – Sat / 12 – 6

LOVESTACK

Title: Lovestack

What: LOVESTACK is an electro-acoustic performance and audio-visual installation for one night at BPS

When: Tuesday 8th May at 6pm

Lovestack’s performance at the Basement Project Space will involve
the activation of audio instruments constructed using a variety of
assemblage, common materials and everyday objects. These bespoke
mechanisms will be used in conjunction with software instrumentation.
Visual accompaniment will include the instruments themselves and
projected imagery.

Biography:
Luke McDonnell graduated form NCAD Dublin in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in
Fine Art and is currently studying for a Masters in Music Technology
at Cork School of Music. McDonnell’s work consists of electroacoustic composition,
performance, visual art and experimental pop music. Working under the
title of Lovestack, McDonnell’s practice attempts to straddle the
boundaries between experimental music, visual art and popular music.

http://lovestack.net/

 

BPS Movie Night: Female Trouble (1974) John Waters

Female Trouble is a sick & trashy, camp cult-classic. This bad-taste epic from director John Waters, takes us through the incredible life and times of Dawn Davenport, the depraved story of an obese criminal and her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer – all of which stems from her parents’ refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas! BPS Movie Night takes place on Wed 25th April at 7pm. Camden Place, Cork city.facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/438316606184568/

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‘Re_actions’ – Thursday 12th April @ 8pm

Your Video Here presents

‘Re_actions’

Basement Project Space Cork

A one night screening of selected video and film works on Thursday 12th April at 8pm. Basement Project Space, Camden Quay, Cork.                                                         Admission Free.

Your Video Here presents ‘Re_actions’, a series of film and video works that were selected from an open submission response to the theme Under_ground.        

 Screening: ‘Connect’ – Director Carol O’Keefe,  ’Kim’ – Director Kathy Raftery,        ’Then’ – Artist Atoose Pour Houssieni,    ‘Urban Swimming’ – Artist Vannessa Daws      

There will be an open discussion after the screening with the selected artists and filmakers. Your Video Here   - is a non profit organization that creates screenings, workshops and discussion about film and video across Ireland. YVH is also open to submissions of projects, films, videos and ideas. YVH is also open to collaboration with both groups and individuals. In January 2012 Your Video Here incorporated Videogram Limerick into its events. Videogram Limerick was founded by Alan O’Keefe and Joanna Hopkins in 2010.

www.yourvideohere.com                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Open call for Film and Video submissions – Your Video Here – April 2012

www.yourvideohere.com

Your Video Here at Basement Project Space Cork

Responding to the under ground space at Basement, Your Video Here is calling for submissions for Video and Film work responding to the theme ‘Under_ground’. The selected films will be screened at Basement Project Space in April 2012. The screenings will include audience conversation about the works shown, and Q&A with the film/video makers. Your Video Here intends to screen video and films issued with Creative Commons licenses, though this is not a stipulation for submissions.

Submission details:                                                                                                     Works must respond to the theme ‘Under_ground’.                                                          Max duration of submitted work 30 minutes.                                                                 Deadline for submissions: 31st March 2012.

Your Video Here intends to screen films issued with Creative Commons licenses, though this not a stipulation for entries. See www.creativecommons.org for more details on how to apply a CC license to your work.

Send a link to your work online to:                                             yourvideoexhibition@gmail.com

Alternatively post a copy of your work to:                                                                          Your Video Here, No. 4 Ducart House, Steamboat Quay, Limerick City.

www.yourvideohere.com                                     www.basementprojectspace.wordpress.com                               www.creativecommons.org

RETURNING TO JAMAIS VU – Live Performance Installation & Presentation, Granary Theatre, March 3rd 8pm

RETURNING TO JAMAIS VU

Live Performance Installation & Presentation

By Elaine O’Sullivan

Granary Theatre, March 3^rd 8pm

Free Event Pre-Booking Advisable

‘Returning to Jamais Vu’ gathers traces of a past event to compile a score to generate new actions and ideas. The event to which we return is Jamais Vu a performance/installation by the artist Anne Seagrave, which was premiered in the Granary in January 2005. Seven years on, audience memories of Jamais Vu are re-activated in the theatre through sound, movement and text.

The live performance installation will be followed by a presentation on my research into sensations of memory and strategies of re-enactment in contemporary art.

Elaine O’Sullivan is a PhD student at the University of Bristol and a studio member of Basement Project Space.

Returning to Jamais Vu a call for participants for research project by Elaine O’Sullivan

Elaine O’Sullivan is calling for participants to engage in her research project: Returning to Jamis Vu please find details on the image below. feel free to forward this info on to anyone who may be interested in participating.

Doctoral project: Returning to Jamais Vu: towards an embodied theory and practice of the ‘Uncanny’ in the work of Anne Seagrave
Keywords: Anne Seagrave, the ‘Uncanny’, psychoanalytic and deconstructive discourse
Research details: My research explores the ways in which the returns of the uncanny can be consciously and critically activated across aesthetic, social and sexual-political frames. Drawing on psychoanalytic and deconstructive discourse, I propose that Anne Seagrave’s performance practice partakes of the ‘Uncanny’ despite the resistance of this spectral concept to modes of embodiment that dominate live art. My research methodology pairs critical and creative writing with a practical strategy of performance re-enactment.
Supervisor(s): Dr Paul Clarke and Dr Ika Willis

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome Elaine on Board, Elaine O’Sullivan is BPS’s latest studio-member, and as part of her membership she will be utilising the space to conduct part of her research project.