PEER to EAR a series of talks, presentations and workshops 17th – 21st Jan 2011
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PEER TO EAR
A series of talks, presentations and workshops
17th – 21st Jan 2011
Basement Project Space
Further info regarding the events:
Monday 17th
12pm: David Killeen – Artist Talk (Switzerland 1935/2010)
For his talk David presents his recent photographic project: Switzerland 1935/2010
His work focuses into the notion of journeys through landscape. His current project is based in Switzerland following a journey of a couple who travelled to the country in 1935. Their specific trip is catalogued in a photo album that contains a selection of small photographs but also a map of the route that they took three quarters of a century ago. Last September he followed the same route as the couple did in 1935 photographing the many sites that they photographed. Replicating the trip created a voyeuristic experience for the viewer as a direct comparative piece by photographing to the day which the couple did previous 75 years ago. Bio: Born in Dublin in 1984, he started photographing at the age of 16 in secondary school. In 2004 he was accepted into the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork to study Fine Art for 4 years, receiving an Honors Degree. The following year he would carry on in his studies were by he was accepted into the MA in Photography and Urban Culture in Goldsmiths University of London. In that time he has exhibited internationally in Ireland, Britain and the U.S. and in April of last year he was chosen as guest speaker at then 9th International Festival of the Image 2010, Manizales, Columbia on aerial photography and the urban form. Currently he is living in London and continuing his work where is both exhibiting and presenting his series at number of events.
2pm: Fiona Kelly – Artist Talk
For this talk Fiona will recount her experiences on Residencies and her personal practice developed on them and afterward. Fiona Kelly’s work is influenced by the surreal aspects of contemporary life and the vulnerability of the rural, in relation to the boon of the urban. In dealing with the vagaries of urbanization and the domestic, she adopts common place objects to address social concerns. By creating subjective narratives and humorous allegories, she molds a functionality for her individualized characters. Kelly works through a myriad of techniques and materials in reaction to her found environment. Selected Exhibitions include: 2010: The Self Portrait Collective, Ateliers BaZtille, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands (Solo); Object’s Fables, Belmont Mill, Co. Offaly (Solo); 2009:The Kitchen Table, Rediscovering Locality, Art-trail, Cork City. Exchangesix, ZeroPrint Studio, Seattle, USA. 2008: Impressions, Galway Arts Centre, Galway City, 2007:Seljavegur 32; Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland, 2006:Death Swap; Cannonball press, AD HOC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Tuesday 18th
12pm: April Gertler – Artist Talk
2pm: John Adams – Talk & Screening
John Adams presents a film about squatted art gallerys he ran in London in the 1990’s. Inspired by the 1995 London Southwark Open, one of the largest exhibitions ever held in London (over 650 artists) and which he co-curated, he founded the Cork Art Trail in 1996 together with artist Suzy O’Mullane. While actively campaigning for the arts, he has always worked as a fulltime professional artist.
Wednesday 19th
12pm – 4pm: Knee-jerk – Fort Building workshop
4pm – 6pm: Knee-jerk – presents the results of the Fort Building workshop (on view to the public)
Knee-jerk are a multi-disciplinary Galway Based Artist Collective. Intrigued by the roles of creative control between the artist and viewer, by exploring this space for mediation, the collectives work is conversing between the proposition of their creative motives and the publics involvement with and intervention with the work. knee-jerk collective proposes to transform The Basement Project Space by hosting a Fort Building workshop. The workshop will be introduced to the participants with a presentation by the Collective on Forts and alternative structures. Following on with an open discussion on this topic, the workshop participants will then, with the assistance of the collective become ‘Fort Architects’ and create a temporary fort structure. All materials will be supplied by the Collective. After the workshop has concluded, the fort will be open to the public to explore. By inviting the public to construct and engage with this interstitial space, knee-jerk aim to provoke the question surrounding the autonomous use of space and ultimately dramatize contemporary issues in relation to architecture, planning and how our individual identity and interests are negotiated through these spaces. There are limited places in the workshop. To sign up, please email your name to knee.jerk@live.com The workshop will begin at 12 noon Wednesday 19th January. The fort will be open for the public to view from 4- 6pm on the same day.
Thursday 20th
12pm: Stag and Deer – Talk
Stag & Deer is a curatorship project to facilitate emerging artists’ needs by giving a contemporary art space to exhibit work. Our goal is to showcase emerging contemporary art to the public without overbearing the art itself. We plan to do this by having exhibitions in “guerrilla galleries” under our own curatorship. These “guerrilla galleries” are spaces that do not have a permanent position. We intend to move our space for each exhibition/season to highlight different possibilities for art presentation and the possibilities for Cork City to showcase emerging art in a contemporary art context.
2pm: Mitch Conlon – Camden Quay C.R.P (Crime Reduction Programme) Workshop
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to create a crime-free Camden Quay for every resident and visitor. Well Mitch Conlon’s Feng-Shui Flower School have the answer in this workshop that will make you the envy of your friends when they see the fantastic flower arrangements you will be able to make after doing this course!. All are welcome, especially Camden Quay residents. This is a interactive workshop that aims to question the absurd potentialities of feng-shui for a community, how this small community can create their own social transformation and to promote the communication of information as a creative process. Mitch Conlon is a Sligo born artist based in Galway who graduated from GMIT in 2008 with first class honours. After recently completing his Hdip in education in LSAD he is now a member of the artist collective Kneejerk. He primarily works in performance and new media.
Friday 21st
12pm: BPS – Talk
Stephanie Hough will talk about Basement Project Space including the who, how and why. Stephanie Hough is a Cork based visual practitioner with a BA in Fine Art from CCAD and an MA (Art in the Digital World) from NCAD Dublin, Hough is a founding member of Basement Project Space.
2pm: Maureen Considine – Talk: ‘Photography, the peoples medium’
Photography as a revolutionary medium because of its unique properties: accessibility and automatism. Maureen will present a talk about photography including theoretical and personal observations relating to her research interests. Maureen is a Cork born visual artist with a BA in Fine Art from CCAD and an MA in Art History from UCC and is on the Board-Member of Basement Project Space.
4pm: Art in CONTEXT – open discussion group (Participatory Practices)
Art in CONTEXT is a monthly discussion group held at BPS, it is open to anyone to attend.
To Download the PDF of PEER to EAR event details click here:
Prisoner of Damp Patches
January 2011
27th Jan 2011: Opening of April Gertler’s exhibition: Prisoner of Damp Patches at 6pm. April is on Residency at the CAC Guesthouse for the month of January and this exhibition will form part of ‘All My Lovin’ photography festival taking place in Cork city.
The magnetically active star by April GertlerFebruary 2011:
- Prisoner of Damp Patches exhibition by April Gertler continues until Thursday 10th Feb. Opening times: 12:00 – 17:00
March 2011:
- ARTIFICIAL REBELLION: The Lessons of Nonceptuality – Opening Thursday 3rd March at 6pm, running thereafter until the 10th March, open daily 12pm – 6pm.
Opening March 18th
FUNAMBULISM – a touring exhibiton curated by White Wolf, the joint curatorship team of Anne Hendrick & Ciara O’Hara.
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ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French funambule or Latin funambulus (from funis ‘rope’ +ambulare ‘to walk’ )
This touring exhibition brings together the work of two young international emerging artists – Laura Green and Elizabeth Tubergen. The title of this exhibition is ‘FUNAMBULISM’, the art of tight rope walking. For us the title represents the balancing act between all participants in this project, the artists, curators and artist-led spaces. The notion of balance and harmony is also a common thread in both artists’ work. A main aim of this project is to work in a collaborative manner, which meant tailoring the show for each individual gallery, devising the education programme with the spaces, and the two curators selecting the artists and artwork through various discussions that took place over a period of time. This in turn led to a dialogue between the curators and artists, as both artists are based abroad it meant a different form of communication and discourse is necessary in order for the project to succeed. Green, a graduate of Royal College of Art London, is a painter and sculptor based in the UK. There is a dialogue between painting and object in her work which Green describes as ‘Objects [that] slip off the picture plane and into the three-dimensional domain, raising questions about whether they are real or imagined and whether they reside in the past, present, future, or perhaps a space between’. A quiet contemplativeness permeates her work accentuated with her neutral palette and the tension between the physicality of her three dimensional work and the representational quality of her painting. Tubergen is an American artist who is currently based in New York, completing a MFA at Hunter College. Her work is concerned with memories, place and literature. Her project based work spans drawing, sculpture, photography, video and she often employs craft methods as an artistic medium. Her recent work has been concerned with distance and desire. She finds ‘inspiration in voids, pauses, memory, ephemera, place, narrative,habit, paradox, and the everyday’. Her work strives to fight dislocation and commands a reconsideration of space and locational identity. Both artists have a strong yet quiet quality to their work, charged with ideas of memory and place. They both work across different media and together their work creates an interesting and provoking conversation. This project and the artists’ work achieves an evocation of a literal and metaphorical balancing act. This exhibition is the first time both artists have exhibited in Ireland.
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MAY 2011: Basement Project Space head to Limerick for in_flux Art Fair at Occupy Space in Limerick (see NEWS for further details of the event)
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June 2011: UPSIDER an exhibition by Anto D. Kelly opening 23rd June at 6pm
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JULY 2011:
Basement Project Space presents Socio-Fi a diverse group exhibition
Basement Project Space
presents
Socio-Fi
Opens 4th July 2011 at 6pm
Continues 5th – 7th July 12 – 5pm daily
A diverse exhibition including what might be described as Low-Fi Sci-Fi interventions, or social science fictional adventures into popular culture. A traveling morphing show, that takes inspiration from the Baudrillardian simulacral states at play in society.
The first leg begins at Basement Project Space as part of the AVANT festival in Cork city and continues to other spaces and places…
artists include but not limited to: Joan Healy, Stephanie Hough, Adam Gibney, Jonathan Mayhew and Semaus A. Bradley.
for further info e-mail: basementprojectspace@gmail.com
for further details about The AVANT festival including line-up see:http://theavant.wordpress.com/
Adam Gibney’s recent work investigates technology’s effect on our surroundings and reality. Through video, sound, projection and installation, he constructs scenarios in which technology validates or disrupts reality. Through installations that both rely on and question technology, his work highlights in a playful manner the dark undertones that exist in our technological landscape. With the growth of mass-production and the media, objects have developed a reliability on technology to define their function and value. Gibney’s work highlights the relationship between viewer, object and technology. Inherent in his new work is a need to correct technological mishaps. Adam also plays an organisational role in the MART collective, based in Ireland and the U.K., with which he has exhibited and taken part in shows around Europe. web: http://adamgibney.wordpress.com/ e-mail:adam.gibney1@gmail.com
Jonathan Mayhew: My practice is project based, utilising various media in the production of works from drawing, digital prints, painting and sound to ready-mades, sculpture and video. These projects share similar themes and interests, intersecting at various points. I am interested in sub and counter cultures from past and present and various other forms that exist on the edges of society or are at odds with society itself, the way in which they wish to negate the mainstream whilst using the same processes and tools for making and promoting their ideas. The images I use for the production of works and other source material are allowed to interact with each other creating a personal narrative. These open narratives are then grouped together by simple ideas or the points in which they intersect. http://j-mayhew-faint.blogspot.com/ e-mail: mayhew.jonathan@gmail.com
Joan Healy: Joan Healy is an artist and independent curator. Her work combines live and performance art, sculpture and paining. She recently co-organised Livestock, a bimonthly Live art night that acts as an open platform for experimental live performance at the Market Studios, Dublin. Her work has been exhibited across Europe and the US (Transnatural, Amsterdam; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; STRP art and technology festival, Eindhoven and Shunt, London). UK and featured in various publications (Irish Independent, the RTE news, the Metro Herald, Kunstbeeld magazine, Make magazine and Neural magazine)for further info see http://www.mart.ie/index.php/artists/j/joanhealy/ e-mail: joaniewoanie@gmail.com
Seamus Bradley’s work covers a variety of media and is chiefly concerned with the observation and reproduction of chaotic systems in nature, the individual and in society.. For Socio-Fi, Seamus will contribute darkly humourous kinetic sculpture, text and digital imagery, taking cues from contemporary consumer culture and utopian, futuristic visions from the science fiction of the past.seamusart.bradley@gmail.com
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Stephanie Hough: My work often derives from popular culture using various and disparate sources including television, social media and music. Using popular culture as a readily available raw material, in an attempt to subvert and unearth embedded imperceptible social structures. Rendering the kaleidoscope of cascading cultural codes partially visible, likened to viewing its essence through the fictional “x-ray specs” rather than viewing the entire actuality. I embrace aspects of culture not obviously visible or easily verbalized, I refer to many of my works as humorous renditions. web: www.stephaniehough.wordpress.com e-mail: hough.stephanie@gmail.com
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Raw-Nerved
Venue: Basement Project Space, Camden Quay, Cork
Dates: 21st July – 30th July
Opening 20th July at 6pm
This exhibition is the result of the rapport which exists between 3 artists:
Maureen Considine, Kathryn Kelly and Annette Persson. These artists have an
affinity for working intuitively and have shared with one another their diverse
experiences of pain: physical, emotional and social. These varied and
interlinked themes form the basis of the content of the show and the works
include: drawings, paintings, photography, video and installation. Finally, each
artist has expressed a desire to respond directly to the space (Basement
Project Space) in the installation of works in a co-operative and innovative
manner.
Artist Biographies
Maureen Considine graduated from the Crawford College of Art in 2006 and she was one of 4 students who received the Art Trail selected artist award. In 2008 Maureen received an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art from University College Cork. Her works have been selected for numerous exhibitions nationally and she works in a variety of media including: installation, video, performance and photography. Maureen is currently secretary and a board member of Basement Project Space.
Kathryn Kelly is a Cork based mixed media artist. She graduated from Limerick college of Art in 2009 and has exhibited throughout Ireland. Her solo-exhibition, ‘Emphatic drop’ showed in Cork this summer and most recently she co-curated the exhibition ‘Queer as Political’ with Cork Feminista collective as part of Cork pride 2011.
Annette Persson is a Swedish born interdisciplinary artist who graduated from Crawford College of Art in 2008. She has exhibited widely throughout Ireland and Sweden. In 2010 she co-curated experimental media exhibition Projected in Cork City. Annette currently divides her time between Sweden and Cork.
For Further inquiries e-mail: basementprojectspace@gmail.com
Lorraine McDonnell presents Manic Mesh – a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings at Basement Project Space, Cork. The selected works are inspired by the use of pareidolia as a creative mechanism for image interpretation. Pareidolia can be defined as “..the act by which the brain incorrectly interprets patterns of light, shadows or textures as being familiar patterns such as faces or human forms…”.
Manic Mesh chronicles McDonnell’s most recent body of work which utilises a selection of web-based images, of motor engines and mechanical devices, as the stimuli for this creative mechanism. The process originates with McDonnell’s habitual act of drawing which informs the fundamental structure throughout the entire creative practice. With the use of a graphics tablet and image editing software the drawings become digitised and manipulated along with the web images to inform the final composition.
The overall process of the painting from its original inception to its conclusion, and deconstruction to reconstruction becomes an integral part of the extended meanings within the work itself. From sketch to found materials the sources are distilled and meanings extrapolated through compostions and colour arrangements. Manic Mesh is the resulting experimentation of these combined processes.
Biography:
Lorraine McDonnell graduated from the Crawford College of Art & Design in 2005 with a B.A hons Degree in fine art. In 2009 she co-founded Basement Project Space and is currently on the board of members as Chairperson. McDonnell mainly uses the medium of painting and drawing, taking inspiraton from graffiti, street art and contemporary illustration. More recently she has been experimenting with animation and digital painting.
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Press Release:
Searching for Nick Drake, curated by Andrea Fitzpatrick in association with the Estate of Nick Drake http://www.brytermusic.com/
Artists include:
A Radience Enemy & Loner Deluxe , Ruth Beale, Gavin Bush, Cubs, Tom Flanagan and Megs Morley, Andrea Fitzpatrick, Francis Heery, Johanna Lecklin, Vicky Langan, Danny McCarthy, Jonas Mekas, Benn Northover, Tim Pope, Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon, Gavin Prior, Raising Holy Sparks, and Yawning Chasm
Basement Project Space, Camden Quay, Cork
22nd -28th September 2011
Open daily 1 – 5pm.
Opening event Thursday 22nd September 6 – 8pm.
Performances by A Radience Enemy & Loner Deluxe, Francis Heery, Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon and Gavin Prior.
Following a period of deep depression, the musician Nick Drake died on the 25th of November, 1974 of a prescription drug overdose. Nick had failed to found the recognition he had so desperately sought during his lifetime. No moving image documentation of the adult Nick Drake exists. Nineteen practitioners have attempted to find Nick Drake in a series of works. The resulting works demonstrate fictional versions of Nick – all of which have been sustained by the ever increasing audience for his work. Nick emerges as an enigmatic figure layered by tales and experiences of others who try to draw him into their lives. As his father, Rodney, said of Nick,
“And I remember in one of his reports towards the end of the time at his first school, the headmaster gave him a very good report, but said at the end that none of us seemed to know him very well. And I think that was it. All the way through with Nick. People didn’t know him very much.”
This retracing of Nick is explored through video, film, drawing, fanzine and sound. Sound works by A Radience Enemy & Loner Deluxe , Cubs, Francis Heery, Vicky Langan, Danny McCarthy, Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon, Gavin Prior, Raising Holy Sparks, and Yawning Chasm are broadcast in the gallery space so bring a radio or use one provided.
For more information, please see www.soundinthetree.com
Contact andreablue75@yahoo.com
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BPS Members conceive of and entertain the notion of a temporary collective model
As means to break down institutionalized stigmas, several BPS members decided to create a Temporary Collective under the TRUNCATED ADJUNCT COLLECTIVE which facilitates this idea of more fluid interaction between fellow artists who would like to develop projects and ideas collectively and most importantly temporarily.
CRAP Collective was formed to address the direct impulse of collectivity and the negotiation of individual creative desires. CRAP Launched during ArtTrail and aspects of the work can be viewed in the Art Work Embassy in the Elysian Building on Eglinton Street.
for more visit: www.crapcollective.wordpress.com
Basement Project Space participate in Mad Props @ Mexico Project Space, Leeds, UK (29/09/11 – 02/10/11)
Our opening project invites the spaces and groups whose program or practice we admire and ethos we relate to, to contribute elements of their spaces to our own. Operating within a condensed time period of eight months, this initial project seeks to examine, and experiment with, established models in the hope to contextualise our activity.
Recognising the need to share with and learn from our contemporaries as well as the inevitable assimilation, appropriation and replication that occurs during this process. Mad Props seeks to make more visible the support structures and interdependency that creative practice relies upon.
Mexico Would like to thank the following contributors.
AC Institute (US)
Basement (IR)
C.A.C. (SLV)
Eastside Projects (UK)
Hinterconti (DE)
Kulter (NL)
Preteen (MX)
Rex (SRB)
Tether (UK)
Transponder (DE)
WE artspace (US)
Wharf Chambers (UK)
