THE SUSPENSION OF HISTORY

THE SUSPENSION OF HISTORY

Opening Preview (Including Publication Launch): Thursday 7th June at 6pm

The exhibition will be opened by Trish Brennan, Head of Fine Art & Ceramic Design (Acting), CIT Crawford College of Art & Design.

Continues: 8th – 16th June 12pm – 5pm (closed Sundays)

Q&A with Artists: Saturday 9th June at 1pm

Michal Baror (IL) Beth Atkinson (UK) Elisabeth Molin (DK) Patrick Hough (IRL) Joanna Piotrowska (PL)

Basement Project Space presents ‘The Suspension of History’, an exciting international group exhibition of contemporary photography. This exhibition brings together the ambitious work of five artists from five countries who are currently undertaking an MA in Fine Art Photography at Royal College of Art London. Engaging with the subject of history, these artists query historical representation in varying ways: the official and unofficial, personal or universal, factual or fictive.

This exhibition signals a topical and timely moment of reflection on the nature of history and by extension certain moments of disjuncture, intersection and rupture between past and present. The show considers history not as a linear account of a past that is extrinsic to the present, but as something that can exist contemporaneously. Like a photograph, our historical inheritance can be seen, interpreted and manipulated in our own time, It is in this sense that history becomes suspended.

Michal Baror (IL) questions the politics of history writing and the limits of vision that are forced upon a subject from its historical and geographical settings, taking Israel-Palestine,  her homeland as a case study. Beth Atkinson’s (UK) work focuses on the folklore of Epping Forest, north of London, through exploring its repeating histories and the blurring of fact and fiction. Elisabeth Molin (DK) uses actors and props to momentarily transform existing spaces. The juxtapositions are attempts to render permanent and incontestable spaces more fragile, ephemeral and open to questioning. Patrick Hough (IRL) examines how history is represented and constructed in cinema and how it becomes stratified and layered through a multiplicity of representations in various forms. Joanna Piotrowska (PL) “portrays far off reflections of existence, the elliptical presence of humans in places where (it would seem) they have never been.”

A special limited edition publication has been produced as part of this exhibition, including a text by Dr Susan Butler. Available at BPS.

Artists Biographies:

Michal Baror born in 1984 in Safed, Israel is a conceptual artist working with photography. Baror is currently studying for her Master in the Photography department at the Royal College of Art, London, After graduating with honour her B.F.A.in the Photography department at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem in 2008. In-between she studied for one year at Alma – Home for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv, and participated in an artist residency in Vienna, supported by the akademie der bildenden künste wien. Selected group exhibitions from 2011-2012 include ‘Behind Illusion’ – ‘Merhav LeOmanut’, Jaffa,  ‘Paradise’ – the Milan Salone, Milan, ‘Work in Progress Show’ (the interim show of the RCA) – Dyson building Gallery, London, ‘Fresh Paint’ art fair, Tel Aviv, ‘Beauty’ – Gallery Florentin 45, Tel Aviv,   ‘Execiotion’ – Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv. During the last academic year, Baror won the Constance Fairness Foundation Prize, and the google photography prize – Israel.  During her B.A. Baror won two prizes of honour from the photography department (2006-2007) and one from the History and Theory department (2008) in Bezalel Academy, She also won the  ‘Keren Sharet’ Scholarship for 2006-2007.

Joanna Piotrowska was born in Warsaw 1985 and studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and Warsaw Film School. Now, she continues her education on MA Photography at Royal College of Art. This year she was awarded Genesis Foundation Award for the young artists, a major £20,000 prize to fund her two years study at the RCA.  In 2010 she was nominated for sittcomm.award and Terry O’Neil Award. She won Sony World Photography Award – Student Focus/Europe. She had her first solo show in Zpafiska Gallery in 2010. In 2009 she was artist in residence inGörlitz – Germany and she received The Scholarship of the Head of the City of Cracow.

Beth Atkinson was born in the East Midlands, UK in 1984. She completed her undergraduate studies in Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2007. Since graduating, Beth has exhibited widely in the UK, Canada and the US in both group and solo exhibitions. Beth provided editorial assistance for Gallery as Community, a publication by Whitechapel Gallery and works as Education Coordinator for October Gallery, London. She is currently studying MA Photography at the Royal College of Art where she was recently awarded the Tim Sayer Prize.

Patrick Hough was born in 1989 in Galway, Ireland. He received his B.A in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2011. He is currently a student on the MA in Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art, London. Patrick’s work has previously exhibited in several international group shows including the National Gallery of Kosovo in Prishtina, KT Contemporary, Dublin and in Volume , New Cross, London. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Emergent‐Fundació Sorigué Award in Lleida, Spain. In 2011 he received the Block T graduate award, along with awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust. In 2012 he was the recipient of one of three inaugural Burberry Design Scholarships at the Royal College of Art and was selected to take part in a residency at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, this summer.

Elisabeth Molin was born in 1985 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in London and is currently doing her Masters in Photography at Royal College of Art. The last three years she has exhibited in various group shows in Milan, Paris and Brussels, as well as in Copenhagen at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, in New York at the Art Currents Institute and in London at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition.

The Suspension of History has been made possible by the generous support of the Royal College of Art, London.

Basement Project Space, Camden Quay, Cork City, Ireland

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.

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)