2010

Just Keep Shopping (Everything will be ok)

Posted on November 18, 2010

Basement Project Space

Hosts

JUST KEEP SHOPPING (EVERYTHING WILL BE OK)

By

Sociable Science (IRL/NI)

as part of ArtTrail 2010

NOV 19 – DEC 4

for further details of events and times visit the Sociable Science Blog:www.sociablescience.wordpress.com

Greetings from Sociable Science!

We would like to invite you to join us as we create “Just Keep Shopping (everything will be okay)”, a multi-faceted project beginning November 19th in Cork City as part of Cork Art Trail Festival 2010. We will be setting up shop in Basement Project Space on Camden Quay, where we will be printing our own money and researching local alternative economic systems. Check out our blog to find out about interesting talks and workshops, and if you have any wares you would like to hawk we might be interested in taking them off your hands at a competitive price.

Hope to see you there!

Sociable Science

www.sociablescience.wordpress.com

Sociable Science is made up of artists Jan Uprichard, Sinead Conlon and Bernardine Carroll.

Join Sociable Science in their Talking-Social-Swap-DIY-Pop-up-Activist-Support-your-local-businesses-Drop-in-Workshop-Sustainable-economic-research-while-they-trade-and-float-a-new-currency Shop. Project info: “Just Keep Shopping (everything will be okay) is an experiment by artist collective Sociable Science. Recent upheaval in the economy and currency markets have pushed people to examine their past ideologies and search for more utopian, sustainable models to live their lives. We have all had to consider how our lifestyles have contributed to the fall of the Celtic Tiger and many have made a conscious effort to curtail or avoid the current system considered responsible for the economic downturn. However how sustainable are these models? Sociable Science will use Just Keep Shopping (everything will be okay) as a site for testing the alternatives to a capitalist system. By day it functions as a regular shop, buying and selling goods and services . By night it becomes a Talking Shop, a place to run workshops and themed discussions with invited speakers concerning alternative economics. The key thread to the experiment is the introduction of a temporary currency the Debloom. This currency will be the sole currency traded in the shop, undergoing constant evaluation throughout the project duration, accounting for all of the interventions and fluctuations it undergoes. These open events will allow Sociable Science and those following the project to track and understand how monetary systems work and underpin everyday life.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Group bio: Sociable Science are Jan Uprichard, Sinead Conlon and Bernardine Carroll, three artists based between Belfast, Dublin and London. Having completed their Masters together, they subsequently formed this collective in order examine current socio-political and economic issues. Through their participatory, dialogical practice they use the gallery as a site of engagement.

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‘Available Light’ An exhibition by Maximilian Le Cain

Posted on May 18, 2010

Exhibition will run from the 18th-30th May

open from 12-6 pm Daily

Artis’t talk and screenings 7pm on the 27th May

Maximilian Le Cain (b. 1978) has continuously made short and medium-length films and videos over the past decade. His always-personal, formally experimental work has included narrative, documentary, and video art installation, although it mostly wanders restlessly somewhere between those categories.

For an up-to-date filmography, please visit:

http://www.expcinema.com/wikien/Maximilian_Le_Cain

He is also a widely recognised film critic whose writings have appeared in a broad range of international film journals, most notably Senses of Cinema, and in several books, including The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World (Wallflower Press, 2006). He is editor of Cork Film Centre’s online experimental film magazine Experimental Conversations (www.experimentalconversations.com). He is based in Cork City, Ireland.

www.lecain.blogspot.com
www.youtube.com/user/closewatchfilms

‘I intended to kill him’ by Shauna Mc Gowan as part of the Toilet Lightbox Show

Posted on May 18, 2010

This body of work was created as a response to the execution of Ruth Ellis, the last female to be executed in the UK. The work reflects the candy-coated nature of society, with great horrors often being masked in a façade of glamour.

Biography

I am a multi-disciplined artist. Areas of interest include screen-printing, illustration, textile design, installation art, and poetry.

A magpie in a past life I am drawn to metallic surfaces and shiny vibrant things.

I love music, art, sleeping…cream buns and tea…camouflage, hot water bottles, wave watching and acetate.

Studying Fashion and Textile design, specializing in screen-printing has enabled me to illuminate diverse surfaces with my strong, graphic drawing skills.

My work has been exhibited throughout Ireland, China and Finland.

Imagery has been featured in Wonderland Magazine Denmark, Drawing Eire-Contemporary Irish Drawing, AU Magazine, State Magazine and Digital Textile Magazine amongst others.

www.shaunamcgowan.com

This piece can be seen in the Basement Project Space toilet from the 14th May till the 13th of June

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Desde El Dia de los Muertos hasta Semana Santa

FROM THE DAY OF THE DEAD TO HOLY WEEK

New Pinhole Photo Etchings by Brian Barry

Posted on April 29, 2010

Desde El Dia de los Muertos hasta Semana Santa
From The Day of the Dead to Holy Week

New Pinhole Photo Etchings from Mexico, Guatemala & Honduras by Brian Barry
Opens May 1st, 6pm and continues until May 13th

This is the second in a series of Pinhole Photos from Latin America by Brian Barry. (see www.cubaobscura.com for previous collection) The images were captured within a six month period beginning in Mexico with the famous Day of the Dead celebrations and finishing in Honduras’ Mosquito Coast during Holy Week.

Mexico’s Copper Canyon, the childhood towns of ‘Pedro Paramo’ author Juan Rulfo, a town destroyed by a volcano and an eruption in Guatemala all provided inspiration for this collection.

All Pinhole Photos are hand printed from copper plates using a Photo Intaglio Etching process and are all of a limited edition.

MAKE YOUR OWN PINHOLE CAMERA
Register your interest for an informal demonstration / workshop.
skabarry@hotmail.com
www.brian-barry.com

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Work by Sabina Mac Mahon as part of The Toilet Lightbox Show

Posted on April 18, 2010

This is a photograph of St. Blaise, St. Bonaventure and St. Vincent Ferrer. Invoked against bladder sickness, bowel disorders and called upon to protect plumbers, the photograph was taken of the saints when they were on holiday in Youghal, Co. Cork in the early 1930s.

Sabina Mac Mahon’s work focuses on photographic history and theory as well as traditional representations of the saints and the relationship their attributes have to biographical accounts of their lives, many of which exist somewhere between factual historical accounts and legendary fictions.

14th April-13th May 2010

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International Video Art event

the EYE-KEA project

16th – 25th April 2010

Posted on April 7, 2010

Basement Project Space

proudly presents

the EYE-KEA project

an International Video Art Event

Opening 16^th April 2010 at 6pm

continues 17th – 25^th of April, open 12pm – 5pm Daily

35 Artists from 14 different Countries

will have their work screened at Basement Project Space, Camden Place, Camden Quay, Cork city, Ireland.

 

- There will also be a Discussion about related topics on 20th April at 5pm, all welcome, free to attend.

- And a screening of a Documentary -  RiP: A Remix Manifesto by Brett Gaylor on 22nd April 2010. Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

Participating Artists:

Celeste Fichter (USA)

Oliver Laric (SLOVENIA)

Kelly Oliver & Keary Ronsen (USA)

Hugh Cooney (IRELAND)

Guy Ben-Ner (ISRAEL)

Chen Hangfeng (CHINA)

Cecile Wesolowski (FRANCE)

James Hayes (IRELAND)

Katie Waugh (USA)

Elisabeth Smolarz (USA)

Keren Zaltz (ISRAEL)

Aaron Oldenburg (USA)

Antti Savela (SWEDEN)

Laura O’Connor (IRELAND)

Lynne Heller (CANADA)

Jonathan Velardi (ENGLAND)

Bjørn Melhus (GERMANY/NORWAY)

Selina Shah (ENGLAND)

Jeremy Newman (USA)

Kevin Atherton (UK/IRELAND)

Michael Szpakowski (ENGLAND)

Carolyn Collier (IRELAND)

Mice Hell (IRELAND)

Karen Y Chan (USA)

Máire O’Mahony (IRELAND)

Lemeh42 (ITALY)

Louise Shine (IRELAND)

Catherine Weir (SCOTLAND)

Gareth Hudson (UK)

Wim Janssen (BELGIUM)

Richard O’Sullivan (UK)

Paul Wierbinski (GERMANY)

Clint Enns (CANADA)

James Snazell (ENGLAND)

Michael Fortune (IRELAND)

35 Artists from 14 different Countries

had their work screened at Basement Project Space

a Discussion was held about related topics on 20th April, the event was free to attend.

And a screening of a Documentary  -  RiP: A Remix Manifesto by Brett Gaylor on 22nd April 2010

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Strangely Familiar

DEBUT SOLO EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK BY

Aoife O’Brien

The exhibition was opened by James Hayes (Visual Artist and Tutor at CCAD) on

Thursday 1st April at 7pm

The exhibition continued until the 10th April 2010

Artist’s Statement:
Visual perception i.e. Interpreting and understanding what we see, is thought to consist of 80% memory and 20% input through the eyes. I explore this estimation in my work by offering the viewer depictions or suggestions of imagery, which lead the viewer into his or her own interpretation of what is represented.
The aim of the work is to create pictorial spaces, which toy with the viewer’s impulse to believe in them. The fictional compositions hold a tension between reality and fantasy. Anonymity prevails; distancing the viewer from reality, yet the work is strangely evocative of places we sense we might know.

- Aoife O’ Brien

Aoife O’Brien graduated with a B.A, (Honours) from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2009
And is currently on a Post-Graduate Bursary at Backwater Artists Group.

AN OPEN-ENDED ENQUIRY – IN/ELEGANT FORMALISM

An exhibition by

Colm Desmond

Opened Saturday 20th March at 6pm

the exhibition continued 21st – 29th March  2010

Sounding the endpoint

an exhibition by

Ann Maria Healy

11th – 17th March 2010

Colm Madden’s lightbox piece as part of the the Toilet Light Box show

everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies

An Exhibition by Martina McDonald and Kevin Kirwan

who were on an inter-studio residency exchange between two members from Basement Project Space and Ormond Studios, Dublin.

the exhibition opened on the 4th March and ran until the 6th March.

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rusted satellites gather and sing

An exhibition by Jonathan Sammon
Curated by Maeve Mulrennen
which ran from the 18th – 27th Feb 2010

For the Basement Project Space Jonathan Sammon presented recent works in drawing and video from an ongoing project which reflects his interests in dystopian Science fiction literature and film, particularly the works of Philip K Dick and Frederick Pohl. By playing with scale and the dislocation of time and space within both moving and drawn images the artist presents fragments of a dystopian world. The implication of infection looms large within the imagery, suggesting a possible source for these scenes of destruction and isolation but a definitive cause is not revealed.

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Finding is Losing Something Else

by

Joe Coveney

February 2nd – 14th

A sculptural installation which responded to the space.

For this project Joe invited the public to visit the space during the installation process.

He also gave an artist talk on the 13th Feb.

Detritus of installation process

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The Podium#1

January 29th 2010

The Podium is a one night, bi-monthly, performance orientated event.
The Podium #1: Artists by order of appearance: Stephanie Hough – Porn From The Podium, Colm Clarke – Electrical Appliance Ensemble, Seamus Bradley – From the texts of Icarus Crane, Com Madden – Self Love.
And then Brian Hourigan’s Head Shave for Haiti with disco lights! he raised over 400 euro !!

Stephanie Hough – Porn from the Podium

Colm Clarke – Electrical Appliance Ensemble

Colm Clarke – Electrical Appliance Ensemble

Seamus Bradley – From the texts of Icarus Crane

Colm Madden – Self Love

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The Toilet Lightbox

January 14th – Feb 14th

Damian Magee – Leonov’s Glove

The Toilet Lightbox is a changing monthly light-box show, selected through open call (one artist, one image per month)

Leonov’s Glove – Damian Magee

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the Jitney Trio

January 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th

the Jitney Trio are an experimental improvised music ensemble. And were Basement Project Space, Musicians in Residence for the month of January.