Launches Thursday 1st April 7pm-9pm
Closes Monday 26th April
What happens when a printmaker teams up with an experimental sound artist? A celebration of sound and vision!
“Dr Lyon [Sonic Arts Research] and I have used sound and vision to create a fusion between printmaking and experimental sound, I have worked on collaboration projects before and this recent body of work is one of the most exciting ever!” – Dr Josephine McCormick, Belfast Print Workshop.
Belfast printmakers have formed a coalition with a multitude of artists who work in various artistic mediums, with an aim to create some truly original artworks that will be showcased in Belfast Print Workshop’s Gallery next month.
Josephine McCormick will be exhibiting her collaborative work beside numerous artists from various disciplines. The exhibition Launches on Thursday 1st of April at 7pm and promises to be a thought provoking and visually stimulating show.
For further information please contact:
Tomas Bamford
Gallery/Sales Manager
belfastprintworkshopgallery
gallery@belfastprintworkshop.org.uk
www.belfastprintworkshop.org.uk
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Monday, 29 March 2010
The F word
Following the great success of the Vagina Monologues performance in March we now invite you to a series of informal and inviting discussions to enlighten ourselves on some of the issues that we are faced with in Northern Ireland today.
Saturday 3rd of April, 1pm -4pm
The Black Box Cafe
"The F word -Feminism"
Representatives present from School of Gender Studies at Queens University to lead us in an informal, inclusive and invigorating round table discussion.
Saturday 10th of April, 1pm-4pm
The Black Box Cafe
"Our Bodies, Our Right to Choose?"
Representatives from the Alliance For Choice will lead us in an open, honest and curious conversation.
Donations welcome at all events;
All proceeds go to NEXUS Institute 'Helping people to survive sexual abuse'
http://www.facebook.com/l/42873;www.nexusinstitute.org
Saturday 3rd of April, 1pm -4pm
The Black Box Cafe
"The F word -Feminism"
Representatives present from School of Gender Studies at Queens University to lead us in an informal, inclusive and invigorating round table discussion.
Saturday 10th of April, 1pm-4pm
The Black Box Cafe
"Our Bodies, Our Right to Choose?"
Representatives from the Alliance For Choice will lead us in an open, honest and curious conversation.
Donations welcome at all events;
All proceeds go to NEXUS Institute 'Helping people to survive sexual abuse'
http://www.facebook.com/l/42873;www.nexusinstitute.org
old shed??
Exhibition by partially-sighted photographer Norman Taylor launches this Thursday at PLACE!
For Norman Taylor, the obsessive documentation of his own garden shed over a period of two-and-a-half years allows us to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of one of the most humble pieces of our built environment.
As his eyesight went into decline 5 years ago, Norman assumed his career as a photographer was over. His discovery of the digital camera was his way back in: it allowed him to see a large image of his subjects instantaneously, and to autofocus. The 1,300 or so images he took are a document of his experiences and senses: light and dark, shapes, colours, shades of colours and textures, atmosphere, feelings and moods.
The shed has changed over time to suit its uses. Holes for windows were cut out and replaced with glazing from an old caravan. The inside have gained new shelves as old ones became too full.
“The weather and all the seasons play a large part of this project. I have taken some very interesting atmospheric shots with the winter’s setting sun reflecting on frosted windows.”
Taylor’s collection of images encourages us to look around us at the houses we live in, the streets we walk down and the parts of our everyday environments that we often choose to ignore.
“It became an exercise in seeing, as the camera became my eyes. And I realised that it wasn’t just an ordinary shed that was in front of me, but a three metre squared work of art.”
Launch night: Thursday 1st April, 6-9pm (part of Late Night Art for April)
Continues Thursday 1st – Friday 30th April 2010
For Norman Taylor, the obsessive documentation of his own garden shed over a period of two-and-a-half years allows us to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of one of the most humble pieces of our built environment.
As his eyesight went into decline 5 years ago, Norman assumed his career as a photographer was over. His discovery of the digital camera was his way back in: it allowed him to see a large image of his subjects instantaneously, and to autofocus. The 1,300 or so images he took are a document of his experiences and senses: light and dark, shapes, colours, shades of colours and textures, atmosphere, feelings and moods.
The shed has changed over time to suit its uses. Holes for windows were cut out and replaced with glazing from an old caravan. The inside have gained new shelves as old ones became too full.
“The weather and all the seasons play a large part of this project. I have taken some very interesting atmospheric shots with the winter’s setting sun reflecting on frosted windows.”
Taylor’s collection of images encourages us to look around us at the houses we live in, the streets we walk down and the parts of our everyday environments that we often choose to ignore.
“It became an exercise in seeing, as the camera became my eyes. And I realised that it wasn’t just an ordinary shed that was in front of me, but a three metre squared work of art.”
Launch night: Thursday 1st April, 6-9pm (part of Late Night Art for April)
Continues Thursday 1st – Friday 30th April 2010
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Ormeau baths looking for Board members
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Ormeau Baths Gallery is one of Northern Ireland’s leading contemporary art spaces located in the heart of Belfast. The board of OBG is responsible for the decision making process of the gallery’s development in relation to funding, programming, building operations and publicity. Ormeau Baths Gallery is looking for committed and enthusiastic members who will bring with them a wide range of skills and knowledge that will meet the needs of the Gallery going forward. Details on how to apply, roles, responsibilities and requirements can be obtained by contacting, in confidence, Glenny Whitley tel: 028 90321402 028 90321402 or email gwhitley@ormeaubaths.co.uk. Closing date for return of expression of interest is 3.00pm, Friday 26th March 2010.
Ormeau Baths Gallery is one of Northern Ireland’s leading contemporary art spaces located in the heart of Belfast. The board of OBG is responsible for the decision making process of the gallery’s development in relation to funding, programming, building operations and publicity. Ormeau Baths Gallery is looking for committed and enthusiastic members who will bring with them a wide range of skills and knowledge that will meet the needs of the Gallery going forward. Details on how to apply, roles, responsibilities and requirements can be obtained by contacting, in confidence, Glenny Whitley tel: 028 90321402 028 90321402 or email gwhitley@ormeaubaths.co.uk. Closing date for return of expression of interest is 3.00pm, Friday 26th March 2010.
Friday, 26 March 2010
Announcing Technology World in partnership with UK NanoForum
SAVE THE DATE
Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th December 2010
NEW BIGGER VENUE
ExCeL Conference Centre, London
Technology World and UK NanoForum have joined together for 2010 to bring you the only event where UK science and technology excellence meets face to face with senior international business professionals.
This joint event will showcase over 200 industry and academic exhibitors and host around 2000 senior business decision makers from over 25 countries.
Connect with innovators, manufacturers, scientists and service providers and take advantage of the unique business partnering opportunities.
A Showcase for Emerging Technologies, new products and solutions
Conference and Workshops programme
Business Partnering opportunities
University Excellence Awards
Business Innovation Awards
Expert business advice for industry
Gala Dinner
To register your interest in the event, please reply to
technologyworld@ukti.gsi.gov.uk
Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th December 2010
NEW BIGGER VENUE
ExCeL Conference Centre, London
Technology World and UK NanoForum have joined together for 2010 to bring you the only event where UK science and technology excellence meets face to face with senior international business professionals.
This joint event will showcase over 200 industry and academic exhibitors and host around 2000 senior business decision makers from over 25 countries.
Connect with innovators, manufacturers, scientists and service providers and take advantage of the unique business partnering opportunities.
A Showcase for Emerging Technologies, new products and solutions
Conference and Workshops programme
Business Partnering opportunities
University Excellence Awards
Business Innovation Awards
Expert business advice for industry
Gala Dinner
To register your interest in the event, please reply to
technologyworld@ukti.gsi.gov.uk
Artist feels the love for Strangford
Strangford, 26 March 2010 - Local artist, Bronagh Lawson, is set to inject a dose of culture into the village as she launches her new exhibition "I love Strangford" on Saturday 3rd April at the Wild Strawberry gallery in Strangford.
The exhibition will showcase paintings and prints that reflect the talent of locally raised artist Bronagh Lawson who has been inspired by the unique beauty of the lough all her life. She feels that the location of the exhibition is paramount to the underlying message of her work:
“We are all products of our environment; luckily for me my family have deep connections with Portaferry and Strangford; the beauty of the Lough and the freshness of the air all contributed to my early socialisation. When working in very deprived areas of Belfast, I often pondered on how your environment affects your outlook, what the effect of the hidden and more obvious structures around us like the media we consume have on us; this exhibition brings together some works produced while discovering a visual language to express these inner observations.”
Bronagh’s work is situated in the long tradition of landscape painting, yet she pushes it into our own times and beyond. Not totally realistic, not totally abstract, she produces an emotional reading of the energy of the landscape, an internal rendering of the outside world. Each stroke mark is a sign directed straight from the inner workings of the artist mind, a primal interweaving of nature and nurture.
"I love Strangford" will be exhibiting at the Wild Strawberry gallery in Strangford, Co. Down, from 3rd April until 1st May 2010. Groups are welcome. Bronagh Lawson will attend the Opening on Saturday 3rd April and also deliver an artist talk on Wednesday 7th April at 2 pm in the gallery.
The exhibition will showcase paintings and prints that reflect the talent of locally raised artist Bronagh Lawson who has been inspired by the unique beauty of the lough all her life. She feels that the location of the exhibition is paramount to the underlying message of her work:
“We are all products of our environment; luckily for me my family have deep connections with Portaferry and Strangford; the beauty of the Lough and the freshness of the air all contributed to my early socialisation. When working in very deprived areas of Belfast, I often pondered on how your environment affects your outlook, what the effect of the hidden and more obvious structures around us like the media we consume have on us; this exhibition brings together some works produced while discovering a visual language to express these inner observations.”
Bronagh’s work is situated in the long tradition of landscape painting, yet she pushes it into our own times and beyond. Not totally realistic, not totally abstract, she produces an emotional reading of the energy of the landscape, an internal rendering of the outside world. Each stroke mark is a sign directed straight from the inner workings of the artist mind, a primal interweaving of nature and nurture.
"I love Strangford" will be exhibiting at the Wild Strawberry gallery in Strangford, Co. Down, from 3rd April until 1st May 2010. Groups are welcome. Bronagh Lawson will attend the Opening on Saturday 3rd April and also deliver an artist talk on Wednesday 7th April at 2 pm in the gallery.
Golden thread s international activities- back from New York
The Golden Thread Gallery has over ten years experience of representing Northern Ireland at venues all over the world, and is the only major contemporary arts space in Northern Ireland to incorporate cultivating an international presence into its core activities. The work exhibited at the Scope Art Fair, New York by Lisa Byrne, Victoria J Dean, Allan Hughes and Keith Winter, will be on view at the Golden Thread Gallery’s Project Space, opening on Thursday 1st April from 6-9pm, and runs until the 18th April 2010.
Led by the gallery’s Director, Peter Richards, and Exhibitions Officer, Sarah McAvera, the trip to New York was just part of a whole program of activities all promoting Northern Ireland as one of the most exciting centres of cultural production. Simultaneous to Scope New York, the gallery had an exhibition opening in Taiwan curated by Brian Kennedy and featuring ten Northern Irish artists including Ian Charlesworth, Susan MacWilliam and Victor Sloan. Following that, in April a major touring exhibition curated by Peter Richards will open at the esteemed Galeria Arsenale, Poland.
About The Artists
Lisa Byrne
London-based Lisa Byrne (b. Northern Ireland, 1973) has been exhibiting internationally since 1995, with major group shows including Time at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2009), where she exhibited alongside Mark Wallanger and Antony Gormley; the Scolt Head Screenings - Series 3, London (2008), showing with 2008 Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey; and Video Apartment 20, Body City, Dublin (2007).
Victoria J Dean
A member of Young Photographers United, Victoria J. Dean (b. Belfast, 1980) graduated from Blackpool and the Fylde College in 2003 with a BA in Photography, and has exhibited her work throughout the UK and Ireland in a number of group and solo exhibitions. Dean was commended by New York’s PDN in their 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch for 2007, and was awarded Honourable Mention in the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2007. Her work is held in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection and numerous private collections in the UK and Ireland.
Allan Hughes
Allan Hughes (b. Bangor, 1976) is currently based at Orchid Studios, Belfast and practices primarily in video installation: exploring psychological relationships and responses to the recorded voice. Exhibitions include: Read My Lips, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast,2007, (solo); Different Dimensions, Novisibirsk State Art Museum, Russia (2008); Camouflash, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland (2008)
Keith Winter
Keith Winter (b. Belfast, 1980) investigates the tensions between physical urban constructions and social architectures, questioning how these tensions might evolve in the future. Winter’s artistic practice incorporates painting, installation, video and sound. Exhibitions include: Old Maps from the Future, The Drawing Space, Melbourne, Australia,2009, (solo); Coaster (short film), Chicago Art University, Chicago (2007); Red Hand, 2009 ARC Brisbane Biennale, Brisbane (2009); Fury at the Florrie, Liverpool Biennial (with Masato Nakamura and JumpShipRat), (2008).
Led by the gallery’s Director, Peter Richards, and Exhibitions Officer, Sarah McAvera, the trip to New York was just part of a whole program of activities all promoting Northern Ireland as one of the most exciting centres of cultural production. Simultaneous to Scope New York, the gallery had an exhibition opening in Taiwan curated by Brian Kennedy and featuring ten Northern Irish artists including Ian Charlesworth, Susan MacWilliam and Victor Sloan. Following that, in April a major touring exhibition curated by Peter Richards will open at the esteemed Galeria Arsenale, Poland.
About The Artists
Lisa Byrne
London-based Lisa Byrne (b. Northern Ireland, 1973) has been exhibiting internationally since 1995, with major group shows including Time at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2009), where she exhibited alongside Mark Wallanger and Antony Gormley; the Scolt Head Screenings - Series 3, London (2008), showing with 2008 Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey; and Video Apartment 20, Body City, Dublin (2007).
Victoria J Dean
A member of Young Photographers United, Victoria J. Dean (b. Belfast, 1980) graduated from Blackpool and the Fylde College in 2003 with a BA in Photography, and has exhibited her work throughout the UK and Ireland in a number of group and solo exhibitions. Dean was commended by New York’s PDN in their 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch for 2007, and was awarded Honourable Mention in the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2007. Her work is held in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection and numerous private collections in the UK and Ireland.
Allan Hughes
Allan Hughes (b. Bangor, 1976) is currently based at Orchid Studios, Belfast and practices primarily in video installation: exploring psychological relationships and responses to the recorded voice. Exhibitions include: Read My Lips, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast,2007, (solo); Different Dimensions, Novisibirsk State Art Museum, Russia (2008); Camouflash, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland (2008)
Keith Winter
Keith Winter (b. Belfast, 1980) investigates the tensions between physical urban constructions and social architectures, questioning how these tensions might evolve in the future. Winter’s artistic practice incorporates painting, installation, video and sound. Exhibitions include: Old Maps from the Future, The Drawing Space, Melbourne, Australia,2009, (solo); Coaster (short film), Chicago Art University, Chicago (2007); Red Hand, 2009 ARC Brisbane Biennale, Brisbane (2009); Fury at the Florrie, Liverpool Biennial (with Masato Nakamura and JumpShipRat), (2008).
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Willie Dogherty at QFT
Saturday 27 March - 9pm until late!
WILLIE DOHERTY: GHOST STORIES
QFT has proudly teamed up with internationally renowned visual artist Willie Doherty on a series of screenings to coincide with the return of the Ulster Museum's permanent collection featuring the exhibition of his haunting video piece, Ghost Story (2007).
This personally curated season of films expresses different areas of influence on Doherty's practice, including themes of surveillance, paranoia, the effects of the ‘Troubles', intrusions on private moments, and psychological responses to trauma.
Much like the artist's own work, his chosen films will make us ask, is the audience really so distinguishable from those behind the CCTV cameras?
WILLIE DOHERTY: GHOST STORIES
QFT has proudly teamed up with internationally renowned visual artist Willie Doherty on a series of screenings to coincide with the return of the Ulster Museum's permanent collection featuring the exhibition of his haunting video piece, Ghost Story (2007).
This personally curated season of films expresses different areas of influence on Doherty's practice, including themes of surveillance, paranoia, the effects of the ‘Troubles', intrusions on private moments, and psychological responses to trauma.
Much like the artist's own work, his chosen films will make us ask, is the audience really so distinguishable from those behind the CCTV cameras?
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Tonya McMullan in London
Henry Fry / Laura and Lauren / Tonya McMullan / Police and Thieves /Steve Perfect
Friday 26th March 2010,
6-11 pm
Containers
Cells
Fingerprinting
Interview Room
The Gym
Sergeant's Locker Room
Location
The Old Police Station
114 Amersham Vale
London SE14 6LG
Website
www.theoldpolicestation.org
Contact
studios@tempcontemp.co.uk
Press
see the March issue of Dazed&Confused
Dirty Cop Friday 26.03.10
Welcome to the March's Dirty Cop Friday event where we have squeezed a night of performances and installation in spaces around the current exhibition, Police and Thieves. Exhibitions throughout the building.
Play, 2009, Laura and Lauren. Photography Lee Gentry.
Schedule
Doors open 6pm:
8.30 - 9pm
Poetry performance by Henry Fry in the café
9.30-11pm
Slow Dance, an interactive performance by Laura and Lauren,
throughout the Old Police Station
Throughout the evening, 6-11pm
PoSt-Projects – Joint Departure, Marc Müller & Niels Staats.
Container I – Installation by Tonya McMullan
Container II – Live Drawing performance by Steve Perfect
Gym and Interview Room and Cells – Police and Thieves
Curated By Sue Cohen. Continues to 31st March 2010 :
Sue Cohen Hannah Westwood Mark Bell Jon Howe Alexander Small and Jonathan Alibone Des Kilfeather Razvan Anton Jenna Collins Annabel Tilley June Glass Jessica Piddock Ian Goncrarow Alessando Columano and Vikrah Kanshall Janet Brown Shona Davis and David Monaghan Andy Wicks Emma Macleod Ben Westwood Owen Bowden Greer MacKeogh
Henry Fry
Information
Henry Fry is a poet, artist and general conversationalist who up and left the sticks to seek his fortune in the big city. That didn't work out, but maybe you can listen to him telling you what he's been up to since.
www.myspace.com/lyricalhenry
and http://scrawleddownpaperedges.blogspot.com/
Laura and Lauren present ‘Slow Dance’, an interactive performance which encourages audience members to take an active role in the creation of the work by joining a performer in a romantic dance. Using headphones enables both participants to become detached from the space around them and therefore enjoy this unusual intimate encounter. After the dance, the participant will receive a calling card which acts as a reminder of the brief moment that was shared between the two individuals. www.lauraandlauren.co.uk
Tonya McMullan presents a site-specific installation in one of the shipping containers. Tonya develops ideas in an attempt to offer the viewer a clue or comment to the struggles people go through in their desires to win, achieve and progress. Based in Belfast Tonya works out of AD HOC studios and is co founder of echo.
www.tonyamcmullan.co.uk
Steve Perfect presents an evening of ‘Live Drawing’ within a shipping container in the operations yard. Steve’s work is concerned with drawing’s ‘loose’ connection to the reality of appearance and it’s relation to the interpretation and misinterpretation of meaning.
www.steveperfect.com
Police and Thieves will explore the dark side of existence, the experiences and actions that bestow the twists and turns of our human endurance. Work has been selected by an open submission process that presents images that explore the Law and its boundaries, the murky deeds of crime and its wider implications, the undercurrent of sinister events that run through all walks of life and social and personal histories that consider the difficulties that are present in the trials of everyday survival, culture and self expression. Opening Hours:12.00-5.30pm Tuesday-Sunday Monday’s appointment only. Admission: Free. Enquiries: Sue Cohen. suecohen@ntlworld.com Tel: 07931 536327. Supported By: Out of Nowhere Design.
www. occupymytime.co.uk.
Joint Departure explores the imaginative possibilities of imminent discovery. During their month-long residency Marc Müller and Niels Staats used the architecture at PoSt-projects as a temporary base/container for their explorations. Joint Departure will showcase the accumulated works produced during their residency. PoSt-projects will also be open for visitors during the weekend of 27 - 28 March, from 12 - 5pm
PoSt-projects is an artist-run project space situated in the basement of an old police station close to the New Cross rail link, in South East London. The project space functions as a temporary workspace facilitating six experimental art-projects a year.
Email for more information. studios@tempcontemp.co.uk
Artist studios available from £100/m. Also, permanent gallery space available.
Logo from an artwork by Eduardo Padilha. Re-mixed by Aeon Rose
The Old Police Station, 114 Amersham Vale, London SE14 6LG
Email: studios@tempcontemp.co.uk | www.theoldpolicestation.org
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Friday 26th March 2010,
6-11 pm
Containers
Cells
Fingerprinting
Interview Room
The Gym
Sergeant's Locker Room
Location
The Old Police Station
114 Amersham Vale
London SE14 6LG
Website
www.theoldpolicestation.org
Contact
studios@tempcontemp.co.uk
Press
see the March issue of Dazed&Confused
Dirty Cop Friday 26.03.10
Welcome to the March's Dirty Cop Friday event where we have squeezed a night of performances and installation in spaces around the current exhibition, Police and Thieves. Exhibitions throughout the building.
Play, 2009, Laura and Lauren. Photography Lee Gentry.
Schedule
Doors open 6pm:
8.30 - 9pm
Poetry performance by Henry Fry in the café
9.30-11pm
Slow Dance, an interactive performance by Laura and Lauren,
throughout the Old Police Station
Throughout the evening, 6-11pm
PoSt-Projects – Joint Departure, Marc Müller & Niels Staats.
Container I – Installation by Tonya McMullan
Container II – Live Drawing performance by Steve Perfect
Gym and Interview Room and Cells – Police and Thieves
Curated By Sue Cohen. Continues to 31st March 2010 :
Sue Cohen Hannah Westwood Mark Bell Jon Howe Alexander Small and Jonathan Alibone Des Kilfeather Razvan Anton Jenna Collins Annabel Tilley June Glass Jessica Piddock Ian Goncrarow Alessando Columano and Vikrah Kanshall Janet Brown Shona Davis and David Monaghan Andy Wicks Emma Macleod Ben Westwood Owen Bowden Greer MacKeogh
Henry Fry
Information
Henry Fry is a poet, artist and general conversationalist who up and left the sticks to seek his fortune in the big city. That didn't work out, but maybe you can listen to him telling you what he's been up to since.
www.myspace.com/lyricalhenry
and http://scrawleddownpaperedges.blogspot.com/
Laura and Lauren present ‘Slow Dance’, an interactive performance which encourages audience members to take an active role in the creation of the work by joining a performer in a romantic dance. Using headphones enables both participants to become detached from the space around them and therefore enjoy this unusual intimate encounter. After the dance, the participant will receive a calling card which acts as a reminder of the brief moment that was shared between the two individuals. www.lauraandlauren.co.uk
Tonya McMullan presents a site-specific installation in one of the shipping containers. Tonya develops ideas in an attempt to offer the viewer a clue or comment to the struggles people go through in their desires to win, achieve and progress. Based in Belfast Tonya works out of AD HOC studios and is co founder of echo.
www.tonyamcmullan.co.uk
Steve Perfect presents an evening of ‘Live Drawing’ within a shipping container in the operations yard. Steve’s work is concerned with drawing’s ‘loose’ connection to the reality of appearance and it’s relation to the interpretation and misinterpretation of meaning.
www.steveperfect.com
Police and Thieves will explore the dark side of existence, the experiences and actions that bestow the twists and turns of our human endurance. Work has been selected by an open submission process that presents images that explore the Law and its boundaries, the murky deeds of crime and its wider implications, the undercurrent of sinister events that run through all walks of life and social and personal histories that consider the difficulties that are present in the trials of everyday survival, culture and self expression. Opening Hours:12.00-5.30pm Tuesday-Sunday Monday’s appointment only. Admission: Free. Enquiries: Sue Cohen. suecohen@ntlworld.com Tel: 07931 536327. Supported By: Out of Nowhere Design.
www. occupymytime.co.uk.
Joint Departure explores the imaginative possibilities of imminent discovery. During their month-long residency Marc Müller and Niels Staats used the architecture at PoSt-projects as a temporary base/container for their explorations. Joint Departure will showcase the accumulated works produced during their residency. PoSt-projects will also be open for visitors during the weekend of 27 - 28 March, from 12 - 5pm
PoSt-projects is an artist-run project space situated in the basement of an old police station close to the New Cross rail link, in South East London. The project space functions as a temporary workspace facilitating six experimental art-projects a year.
Email for more information. studios@tempcontemp.co.uk
Artist studios available from £100/m. Also, permanent gallery space available.
Logo from an artwork by Eduardo Padilha. Re-mixed by Aeon Rose
The Old Police Station, 114 Amersham Vale, London SE14 6LG
Email: studios@tempcontemp.co.uk | www.theoldpolicestation.org
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Copyright © 2009 temporarycontemporary Ltd. All rights reserved.
summer school
Back after a year's sabbatical, with another inspiring Summer School...
News & Commentary: The Creative Economy and the Recovery
What is the 'New Normal' for the creative economy? It is instructive to compare how the creative economy's role in recovery is being discussed in different part of the world.
The Developing World
In developing countries, and particularly in Asia, creative industries are being embraced as central to growth: in Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand (or in Thai), South Africa, Taiwan, even Myanmar and, of course, China.
The message is clear. The developed world does not own the knowledge economy. This generation of Asian entrepreneurs has exactly the same technologies that the developed world has used to build up service-based economies, and they are intent on transforming their countries.
Europe
In Europe a steady stream of policy papers, meetings and projects continue to advocate that culture and creativity are at the heart of European competitiveness. But how can the creative economy reach out to transform the performance and innovation capacity of traditional industries? This is surely the key issue facing the European Commission's upcoming strategy for the cultural and creative industries.
This question is explored in an inspiring programme of events at Ruhr Capital of Culture 2010. But with its visionary themes exploring post-modern European identity, industry and the metropolis, are vast public interventions like these now a thing of the past? With one half of the Euro zone picking up the bill for the other half's deficits for the next decade, the EU's most pressing practical challenge is to find a way of policy-making that does not involve spending so much money.
Perhaps not surprising, Iceland's Industry Minister gets it.
United Kingdom
Ahead of the May election, the UK is braced for major cuts in public spending, but the major political parties are eerily positive about culture and the creative economy. All promise the world's best environment for media entrepreneurs, the world's best broadband, a smaller BBC, reduced overheads at the Arts Council and more philanthropy. Will a new government abolish the Regional Development Agencies (see also here, here), or replace them with local 'enterprise partnerships'? Ominously, the arts 'will have to bear their share of the pain'.
There is more clarity from the Confederation of British Industry, which calls for a recalibration of the UK economy and promises to champion the creative industries' success.
And NESTA's recent research report Mass Localism, …offers a wake up call to Government, who need to tap into the vast reservoir of ingenuity which exists within local communities. The next generation of solutions to social problems will come not from Whitehall but from local groups. This is an idea that Creative Clusters has advocated for years, and is (again) a core theme of our Summer School.
Even The Times is arguing (sniffily) for a shift from financial to creative industries. Perhaps they heard that Bath's creative industries "generate more money even than the tourism and retail industries".
The USA
The Copyright Industries in the U.S. Economy Report spells out which is still the world's leading creative economy: In 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the real annual growth rates achieved by both the core and total copyright industries were more than twice the real growth rates achieved by the U.S. economy as a whole…. In 2006-2007, the core copyright industries contributed 22.74% of the real growth achieved for the U.S. economy as a whole. In the same period, the total copyright industries contributed an astounding 43.06% of total real U.S. growth.
Trying as ever to stay ahead of the curve, Richard Florida's new book, The Great Reset, due out in April, argues that a true recovery will require a complete break from the consumption lifestyle and a move towards a new economic model that is actually sustainable.
But what kind of lifestyle is that? At a local level in the USA, the creative economy conversation is getting less and less about software designers and film-makers, and more about semi-professional artists and subsistence craftspeople: Colorado, Hartford, Connecticut, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Duluth, Wisconsin, Salisbury, Connecticut, Rahway, New Jersey, Boston, to take a few random examples.
Perhaps they share the apocalyptic but strangely compelling vision of the BBC's Requiem for Detroit, which shows a city built for two million with only 800,000 people now left, where the principal growth industry, urban farming, is led by artists, musicians and social pioneers: a thrilling piece of film-making that swooped through the city's history and its spectacular blossoming into the hub of the global automobile industry, before charting its equally astounding decline. So is this what happens in Europe if we fail to keep up with Asia?
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Creative Clusters Summer School: 5-8th July 2010
Entrepreneurship, Workspace and the Local Creative Economy
We address all this and more at the second Creative Clusters Summer School, taking place again in Huddersfield, UK, from 5th to 8th July 2010. The School is intensely practical. Through guided visits to model projects and honest interaction with experienced professionals, we demonstrate practical solutions in action, and show how they can be customised for the participants' own localities.
In-depth exposure to the detail of creative economy projects and policies through collaborative learning, visits, focus groups, seminars, social and networking events.
Behind-the-scenes insights into leading creative workspaces that are contributing to the transformation of their local economies: The Media Centre, Huddersfield, the Workstation, anchor building in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter; and Saltaire's dramatic Salt's Mill.
We show the pitfalls and perils as well as success stories. The projects we visit are all works in progress, all evolving, and we will look at the setbacks as well as the successes.
Active engagement with the master-planning process for one of the UK's most challenging towns: Dewsbury. We will analysis the issues and develop solutions, working alongside local people, planning experts and the regional regeneration community.
Interaction, formal and informal, with practising creative entrepreneurs.
Guest lectures from leading experts in the regional creative economy.
Great social events: evening meals in some of Yorkshire's finest gastro-pubs, and a final dinner in the beautiful setting of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Substantial learning support: an in-course Workbook and digital archive of working documents from quarters and clusters around the world.
Widely experienced Course Leaders: Simon Evans (Director, Creative Clusters Ltd) and Lee Corner (Consultant and Trainer, LAC Ltd).
Participation by seasoned local partners: Integreat, Yorkshire Forward, The Media Centre, Huddersfield, Sheffield Media and Exhibition Centre, Kirklees MBC, CIDA, Salt's Mill.
The Creative Clusters Summer School will help you:
Deepen your insight
Galvanise your project
Focus your commitment
Build your confidence
Extend your network
To find out more, go to www.creativeclusters.com
News & Commentary: The Creative Economy and the Recovery
What is the 'New Normal' for the creative economy? It is instructive to compare how the creative economy's role in recovery is being discussed in different part of the world.
The Developing World
In developing countries, and particularly in Asia, creative industries are being embraced as central to growth: in Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand (or in Thai), South Africa, Taiwan, even Myanmar and, of course, China.
The message is clear. The developed world does not own the knowledge economy. This generation of Asian entrepreneurs has exactly the same technologies that the developed world has used to build up service-based economies, and they are intent on transforming their countries.
Europe
In Europe a steady stream of policy papers, meetings and projects continue to advocate that culture and creativity are at the heart of European competitiveness. But how can the creative economy reach out to transform the performance and innovation capacity of traditional industries? This is surely the key issue facing the European Commission's upcoming strategy for the cultural and creative industries.
This question is explored in an inspiring programme of events at Ruhr Capital of Culture 2010. But with its visionary themes exploring post-modern European identity, industry and the metropolis, are vast public interventions like these now a thing of the past? With one half of the Euro zone picking up the bill for the other half's deficits for the next decade, the EU's most pressing practical challenge is to find a way of policy-making that does not involve spending so much money.
Perhaps not surprising, Iceland's Industry Minister gets it.
United Kingdom
Ahead of the May election, the UK is braced for major cuts in public spending, but the major political parties are eerily positive about culture and the creative economy. All promise the world's best environment for media entrepreneurs, the world's best broadband, a smaller BBC, reduced overheads at the Arts Council and more philanthropy. Will a new government abolish the Regional Development Agencies (see also here, here), or replace them with local 'enterprise partnerships'? Ominously, the arts 'will have to bear their share of the pain'.
There is more clarity from the Confederation of British Industry, which calls for a recalibration of the UK economy and promises to champion the creative industries' success.
And NESTA's recent research report Mass Localism, …offers a wake up call to Government, who need to tap into the vast reservoir of ingenuity which exists within local communities. The next generation of solutions to social problems will come not from Whitehall but from local groups. This is an idea that Creative Clusters has advocated for years, and is (again) a core theme of our Summer School.
Even The Times is arguing (sniffily) for a shift from financial to creative industries. Perhaps they heard that Bath's creative industries "generate more money even than the tourism and retail industries".
The USA
The Copyright Industries in the U.S. Economy Report spells out which is still the world's leading creative economy: In 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the real annual growth rates achieved by both the core and total copyright industries were more than twice the real growth rates achieved by the U.S. economy as a whole…. In 2006-2007, the core copyright industries contributed 22.74% of the real growth achieved for the U.S. economy as a whole. In the same period, the total copyright industries contributed an astounding 43.06% of total real U.S. growth.
Trying as ever to stay ahead of the curve, Richard Florida's new book, The Great Reset, due out in April, argues that a true recovery will require a complete break from the consumption lifestyle and a move towards a new economic model that is actually sustainable.
But what kind of lifestyle is that? At a local level in the USA, the creative economy conversation is getting less and less about software designers and film-makers, and more about semi-professional artists and subsistence craftspeople: Colorado, Hartford, Connecticut, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Duluth, Wisconsin, Salisbury, Connecticut, Rahway, New Jersey, Boston, to take a few random examples.
Perhaps they share the apocalyptic but strangely compelling vision of the BBC's Requiem for Detroit, which shows a city built for two million with only 800,000 people now left, where the principal growth industry, urban farming, is led by artists, musicians and social pioneers: a thrilling piece of film-making that swooped through the city's history and its spectacular blossoming into the hub of the global automobile industry, before charting its equally astounding decline. So is this what happens in Europe if we fail to keep up with Asia?
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Creative Clusters Summer School: 5-8th July 2010
Entrepreneurship, Workspace and the Local Creative Economy
We address all this and more at the second Creative Clusters Summer School, taking place again in Huddersfield, UK, from 5th to 8th July 2010. The School is intensely practical. Through guided visits to model projects and honest interaction with experienced professionals, we demonstrate practical solutions in action, and show how they can be customised for the participants' own localities.
In-depth exposure to the detail of creative economy projects and policies through collaborative learning, visits, focus groups, seminars, social and networking events.
Behind-the-scenes insights into leading creative workspaces that are contributing to the transformation of their local economies: The Media Centre, Huddersfield, the Workstation, anchor building in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter; and Saltaire's dramatic Salt's Mill.
We show the pitfalls and perils as well as success stories. The projects we visit are all works in progress, all evolving, and we will look at the setbacks as well as the successes.
Active engagement with the master-planning process for one of the UK's most challenging towns: Dewsbury. We will analysis the issues and develop solutions, working alongside local people, planning experts and the regional regeneration community.
Interaction, formal and informal, with practising creative entrepreneurs.
Guest lectures from leading experts in the regional creative economy.
Great social events: evening meals in some of Yorkshire's finest gastro-pubs, and a final dinner in the beautiful setting of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Substantial learning support: an in-course Workbook and digital archive of working documents from quarters and clusters around the world.
Widely experienced Course Leaders: Simon Evans (Director, Creative Clusters Ltd) and Lee Corner (Consultant and Trainer, LAC Ltd).
Participation by seasoned local partners: Integreat, Yorkshire Forward, The Media Centre, Huddersfield, Sheffield Media and Exhibition Centre, Kirklees MBC, CIDA, Salt's Mill.
The Creative Clusters Summer School will help you:
Deepen your insight
Galvanise your project
Focus your commitment
Build your confidence
Extend your network
To find out more, go to www.creativeclusters.com
golden thread
How often do you see Tracey Emin in NI ???? not often well the Golden Thread have a great piece of a blanket hanging on the walls right now. Very emotive and descriptive called there is something wrong?? We all know that dont we??
I was very struck by a piece of video, I need to go back and look at it again but it was like it was reflecting my views on make up?? why do women wear it?? whats the point of it?? what bullshit are they buying into??consumerism bullshit, media bullshit, it's all bullshit.
It's also great to see the sales room refreshed there is a beautiful piece from Gary Shaw, the light just oozes out of it and Brendan O Neil I love his in god we trust from a recent exhibition in the project space. It reflects to me some things that I have been wondering about in my own art pratice. Not ready for human consumption yet.Not sure when it will be...............................go and see the golden thread exhibition. Excellent yet again developed on a shoe string.
I was very struck by a piece of video, I need to go back and look at it again but it was like it was reflecting my views on make up?? why do women wear it?? whats the point of it?? what bullshit are they buying into??consumerism bullshit, media bullshit, it's all bullshit.
It's also great to see the sales room refreshed there is a beautiful piece from Gary Shaw, the light just oozes out of it and Brendan O Neil I love his in god we trust from a recent exhibition in the project space. It reflects to me some things that I have been wondering about in my own art pratice. Not ready for human consumption yet.Not sure when it will be...............................go and see the golden thread exhibition. Excellent yet again developed on a shoe string.
quote of the day
The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
J Allen Boone
KInship with all life
J Allen Boone
KInship with all life
Monday, 22 March 2010
quote of the day
The most powerful thing you can do in the world, is to change your own beliefs abpout the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.
Sharki Gawain
Creative visulisation.
Sharki Gawain
Creative visulisation.
good food seminar
Good Food Means Good Business seminar
A business seminar will take place next week in support of the local food industry.
‘Good Food Means Good Business’ will be held in the Holiday Inn (8am-10am) on Thursday 25 March, as part of the ‘Great Belfast Food Week’.
Guest speakers at the free breakfast event will be Martin and Tracey Hamilton from Mash Direct who will give an insight into their award winning company’s strategy for success while Stephen Bogan from Genesis Advertising will speak on how an effective marketing plan is important to the promotion of food businesses. Belfast City Council’s Environmental Health Team will be there to talk about the adoption of best practice values in environmental health for business including the successful ‘Scores on the Doors’ initiative.
The breakfast seminar is open to small businesses across Belfast and is provided free of charge by Belfast City Council and the European Regional Development Fund. However registration is essential as places are limited. For further information or to book a place, contact the Economic Development Unit on 028 9027 0229 or by email at lynnr@belfastcity.gov.uk
The Great Belfast Food Week, which runs from Wednesday 24 to Saturday 27 March, will promote all that is good about local food, its producers and those who bring it to our tables.
Top local chefs such as Paul Rankin, Nick Price and Jason More will be joined by their celebrity friends’ James Martin and Gino D’Acampo as well as broadcaster Sheila Dillon, to spend four days highlighting Northern Ireland’s unique food culture and history as well as the benefits of supporting the local food industry.
The Great Belfast Food Week is organised by Belfast City Council in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and Regional Development.
Councillor William Humphrey, Chairman of Belfast City Council’s Development Committee, said: “Buying food which is produced locally processed locally and prepared and sold locally is one of the best ways of supporting the local economy and sustaining local jobs, especially in these difficult economic times.
“As well as celebrating and showcasing the best of our local produce, the ‘Great Belfast Food Week’ will give local food producers and chefs the opportunity to demonstrate the quality and exquisite nature of Northern Ireland’s food and showcase our culinary talent.”
A business seminar will take place next week in support of the local food industry.
‘Good Food Means Good Business’ will be held in the Holiday Inn (8am-10am) on Thursday 25 March, as part of the ‘Great Belfast Food Week’.
Guest speakers at the free breakfast event will be Martin and Tracey Hamilton from Mash Direct who will give an insight into their award winning company’s strategy for success while Stephen Bogan from Genesis Advertising will speak on how an effective marketing plan is important to the promotion of food businesses. Belfast City Council’s Environmental Health Team will be there to talk about the adoption of best practice values in environmental health for business including the successful ‘Scores on the Doors’ initiative.
The breakfast seminar is open to small businesses across Belfast and is provided free of charge by Belfast City Council and the European Regional Development Fund. However registration is essential as places are limited. For further information or to book a place, contact the Economic Development Unit on 028 9027 0229 or by email at lynnr@belfastcity.gov.uk
The Great Belfast Food Week, which runs from Wednesday 24 to Saturday 27 March, will promote all that is good about local food, its producers and those who bring it to our tables.
Top local chefs such as Paul Rankin, Nick Price and Jason More will be joined by their celebrity friends’ James Martin and Gino D’Acampo as well as broadcaster Sheila Dillon, to spend four days highlighting Northern Ireland’s unique food culture and history as well as the benefits of supporting the local food industry.
The Great Belfast Food Week is organised by Belfast City Council in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and Regional Development.
Councillor William Humphrey, Chairman of Belfast City Council’s Development Committee, said: “Buying food which is produced locally processed locally and prepared and sold locally is one of the best ways of supporting the local economy and sustaining local jobs, especially in these difficult economic times.
“As well as celebrating and showcasing the best of our local produce, the ‘Great Belfast Food Week’ will give local food producers and chefs the opportunity to demonstrate the quality and exquisite nature of Northern Ireland’s food and showcase our culinary talent.”
Golden thread talks
Collected Readings - Public Lectures
The Collected Readings public lectures coincide with an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Richard Long, Hilary Lloyd, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
Victor Burgin
"Log line and monologue in my recent work"
Wednesday 24th March at 12.00pm.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Burgin’s academic books include Situational Aesthetics (2009), The Remembered Film (2004), In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture (1996), The End of Art Theory: criticism and postmodernity (1986), and Thinking Photography (1982). The most recent books devoted to his visual work are Components of a Practice (2008), published by Skira, and Victor Burgin: Objets Temporels (2007), published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. His forthcoming book, Interviews and Interventions, will be published by Reaktion, London, later this year.
Burgin’s photographic and video work is represented in such public collections as: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Tate Gallery, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. His most recent video and photographic works were commissioned for the permanent collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse 2009 and the Musée de Picardie, Amiens. His present projects include a commissioned work for Istanbul, in the context of Istanbul 2010 - Cultural Capital of Europe.
Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Collective Reading - Relationships Between Contemporary Artists' Works and Literature
Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
In this talk, Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes will use the current exhibition as a starting point for elaborating on some of the many different ways in which artists today find literature exciting and engage with it in their diverse works - usually far from illustrating or serving writers. Their current approaches are more aptly described as what Jeff Wall calls the "ruination of literature" in Rodney Graham's works. It is a basis or material for practices that are often critical and engaged, but also adds a dimension of the magical, or stands for that which current culture appears to have lost.
Both this talk and the lecture by Victor Burgin on 24 March will set the scene for a conference in June 2010, entitled “Displaying Word and image” at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
www.ulster.ac.uk/displayingwandi.
"Displaying Word and Image"
AN IAWIS FOCUS CONFERENCE
University of Ulster, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
4-6 June 2010
Conference Convenors: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Dr Karen E. Brown
Keynote Speaker: Professor W. J. T. Mitchell
This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display.
The questions addressed will include: how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field? A publication and exhibition on the conference theme will be produced.
The Collected Readings public lectures coincide with an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Richard Long, Hilary Lloyd, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
Victor Burgin
"Log line and monologue in my recent work"
Wednesday 24th March at 12.00pm.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Burgin’s academic books include Situational Aesthetics (2009), The Remembered Film (2004), In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture (1996), The End of Art Theory: criticism and postmodernity (1986), and Thinking Photography (1982). The most recent books devoted to his visual work are Components of a Practice (2008), published by Skira, and Victor Burgin: Objets Temporels (2007), published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. His forthcoming book, Interviews and Interventions, will be published by Reaktion, London, later this year.
Burgin’s photographic and video work is represented in such public collections as: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Tate Gallery, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. His most recent video and photographic works were commissioned for the permanent collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse 2009 and the Musée de Picardie, Amiens. His present projects include a commissioned work for Istanbul, in the context of Istanbul 2010 - Cultural Capital of Europe.
Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Collective Reading - Relationships Between Contemporary Artists' Works and Literature
Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
In this talk, Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes will use the current exhibition as a starting point for elaborating on some of the many different ways in which artists today find literature exciting and engage with it in their diverse works - usually far from illustrating or serving writers. Their current approaches are more aptly described as what Jeff Wall calls the "ruination of literature" in Rodney Graham's works. It is a basis or material for practices that are often critical and engaged, but also adds a dimension of the magical, or stands for that which current culture appears to have lost.
Both this talk and the lecture by Victor Burgin on 24 March will set the scene for a conference in June 2010, entitled “Displaying Word and image” at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
www.ulster.ac.uk/displayingwandi.
"Displaying Word and Image"
AN IAWIS FOCUS CONFERENCE
University of Ulster, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
4-6 June 2010
Conference Convenors: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Dr Karen E. Brown
Keynote Speaker: Professor W. J. T. Mitchell
This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display.
The questions addressed will include: how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field? A publication and exhibition on the conference theme will be produced.
GOldr
Collected Readings - Public Lectures
The Collected Readings public lectures coincide with an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Richard Long, Hilary Lloyd, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
Victor Burgin
"Log line and monologue in my recent work"
Wednesday 24th March at 12.00pm.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Burgin’s academic books include Situational Aesthetics (2009), The Remembered Film (2004), In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture (1996), The End of Art Theory: criticism and postmodernity (1986), and Thinking Photography (1982). The most recent books devoted to his visual work are Components of a Practice (2008), published by Skira, and Victor Burgin: Objets Temporels (2007), published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. His forthcoming book, Interviews and Interventions, will be published by Reaktion, London, later this year.
Burgin’s photographic and video work is represented in such public collections as: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Tate Gallery, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. His most recent video and photographic works were commissioned for the permanent collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse 2009 and the Musée de Picardie, Amiens. His present projects include a commissioned work for Istanbul, in the context of Istanbul 2010 - Cultural Capital of Europe.
Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Collective Reading - Relationships Between Contemporary Artists' Works and Literature
Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
In this talk, Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes will use the current exhibition as a starting point for elaborating on some of the many different ways in which artists today find literature exciting and engage with it in their diverse works - usually far from illustrating or serving writers. Their current approaches are more aptly described as what Jeff Wall calls the "ruination of literature" in Rodney Graham's works. It is a basis or material for practices that are often critical and engaged, but also adds a dimension of the magical, or stands for that which current culture appears to have lost.
Both this talk and the lecture by Victor Burgin on 24 March will set the scene for a conference in June 2010, entitled “Displaying Word and image” at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
www.ulster.ac.uk/displayingwandi.
"Displaying Word and Image"
AN IAWIS FOCUS CONFERENCE
University of Ulster, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
4-6 June 2010
Conference Convenors: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Dr Karen E. Brown
Keynote Speaker: Professor W. J. T. Mitchell
This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display.
The questions addressed will include: how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field? A publication and exhibition on the conference theme will be produced.
The Collected Readings public lectures coincide with an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Richard Long, Hilary Lloyd, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
Victor Burgin
"Log line and monologue in my recent work"
Wednesday 24th March at 12.00pm.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Burgin’s academic books include Situational Aesthetics (2009), The Remembered Film (2004), In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture (1996), The End of Art Theory: criticism and postmodernity (1986), and Thinking Photography (1982). The most recent books devoted to his visual work are Components of a Practice (2008), published by Skira, and Victor Burgin: Objets Temporels (2007), published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. His forthcoming book, Interviews and Interventions, will be published by Reaktion, London, later this year.
Burgin’s photographic and video work is represented in such public collections as: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Tate Gallery, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. His most recent video and photographic works were commissioned for the permanent collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse 2009 and the Musée de Picardie, Amiens. His present projects include a commissioned work for Istanbul, in the context of Istanbul 2010 - Cultural Capital of Europe.
Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Collective Reading - Relationships Between Contemporary Artists' Works and Literature
Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
In this talk, Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes will use the current exhibition as a starting point for elaborating on some of the many different ways in which artists today find literature exciting and engage with it in their diverse works - usually far from illustrating or serving writers. Their current approaches are more aptly described as what Jeff Wall calls the "ruination of literature" in Rodney Graham's works. It is a basis or material for practices that are often critical and engaged, but also adds a dimension of the magical, or stands for that which current culture appears to have lost.
Both this talk and the lecture by Victor Burgin on 24 March will set the scene for a conference in June 2010, entitled “Displaying Word and image” at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
www.ulster.ac.uk/displayingwandi.
"Displaying Word and Image"
AN IAWIS FOCUS CONFERENCE
University of Ulster, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
4-6 June 2010
Conference Convenors: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Dr Karen E. Brown
Keynote Speaker: Professor W. J. T. Mitchell
This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display.
The questions addressed will include: how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field? A publication and exhibition on the conference theme will be produced.
GOldr
Collected Readings - Public Lectures
The Collected Readings public lectures coincide with an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Richard Long, Hilary Lloyd, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
Victor Burgin
"Log line and monologue in my recent work"
Wednesday 24th March at 12.00pm.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Burgin’s academic books include Situational Aesthetics (2009), The Remembered Film (2004), In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture (1996), The End of Art Theory: criticism and postmodernity (1986), and Thinking Photography (1982). The most recent books devoted to his visual work are Components of a Practice (2008), published by Skira, and Victor Burgin: Objets Temporels (2007), published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. His forthcoming book, Interviews and Interventions, will be published by Reaktion, London, later this year.
Burgin’s photographic and video work is represented in such public collections as: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Tate Gallery, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. His most recent video and photographic works were commissioned for the permanent collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse 2009 and the Musée de Picardie, Amiens. His present projects include a commissioned work for Istanbul, in the context of Istanbul 2010 - Cultural Capital of Europe.
Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Collective Reading - Relationships Between Contemporary Artists' Works and Literature
Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
In this talk, Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes will use the current exhibition as a starting point for elaborating on some of the many different ways in which artists today find literature exciting and engage with it in their diverse works - usually far from illustrating or serving writers. Their current approaches are more aptly described as what Jeff Wall calls the "ruination of literature" in Rodney Graham's works. It is a basis or material for practices that are often critical and engaged, but also adds a dimension of the magical, or stands for that which current culture appears to have lost.
Both this talk and the lecture by Victor Burgin on 24 March will set the scene for a conference in June 2010, entitled “Displaying Word and image” at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
www.ulster.ac.uk/displayingwandi.
"Displaying Word and Image"
AN IAWIS FOCUS CONFERENCE
University of Ulster, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
4-6 June 2010
Conference Convenors: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Dr Karen E. Brown
Keynote Speaker: Professor W. J. T. Mitchell
This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display.
The questions addressed will include: how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field? A publication and exhibition on the conference theme will be produced.
The Collected Readings public lectures coincide with an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Richard Long, Hilary Lloyd, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
Victor Burgin
"Log line and monologue in my recent work"
Wednesday 24th March at 12.00pm.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Burgin’s academic books include Situational Aesthetics (2009), The Remembered Film (2004), In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture (1996), The End of Art Theory: criticism and postmodernity (1986), and Thinking Photography (1982). The most recent books devoted to his visual work are Components of a Practice (2008), published by Skira, and Victor Burgin: Objets Temporels (2007), published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. His forthcoming book, Interviews and Interventions, will be published by Reaktion, London, later this year.
Burgin’s photographic and video work is represented in such public collections as: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Tate Gallery, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. His most recent video and photographic works were commissioned for the permanent collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse 2009 and the Musée de Picardie, Amiens. His present projects include a commissioned work for Istanbul, in the context of Istanbul 2010 - Cultural Capital of Europe.
Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Collective Reading - Relationships Between Contemporary Artists' Works and Literature
Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
In this talk, Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes will use the current exhibition as a starting point for elaborating on some of the many different ways in which artists today find literature exciting and engage with it in their diverse works - usually far from illustrating or serving writers. Their current approaches are more aptly described as what Jeff Wall calls the "ruination of literature" in Rodney Graham's works. It is a basis or material for practices that are often critical and engaged, but also adds a dimension of the magical, or stands for that which current culture appears to have lost.
Both this talk and the lecture by Victor Burgin on 24 March will set the scene for a conference in June 2010, entitled “Displaying Word and image” at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
www.ulster.ac.uk/displayingwandi.
"Displaying Word and Image"
AN IAWIS FOCUS CONFERENCE
University of Ulster, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
4-6 June 2010
Conference Convenors: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Dr Karen E. Brown
Keynote Speaker: Professor W. J. T. Mitchell
This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display.
The questions addressed will include: how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field? A publication and exhibition on the conference theme will be produced.
quote of the day
At any moment I could start being a better person- but which moment should I choose?
Ashleigh Briliant
Ashleigh Briliant
Friday, 19 March 2010
Thursday, 18 March 2010
golden Thread Friday
6pm and 8pm on Friday 19th March to celebrate the launch of two new exceptional contemporary visual art exhibitions, Bad Faith and Collected Readings at the Golden Thread Gallery.
Collected Readings is an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Richard Long, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
The exhibition, realised in collaboration with the British Council Northern Ireland, will be supported by a contextual program that includes a Key Note lecture by Victor Burgin on Wednesday 24th March at 12.00 noon and Dr. Christa-Mia Lerm Hayes’s lecture Collective Reading - Relationships Between Contemporary Artists' Works and Literature on Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
Bad Faith is an exhibition by the collaborative artist’s group Common Culture. The Bad Faith exhibition will feature the first showing of Common Culture’s new work I Dreamt I Was A Monkey – And They Made Me Wear Shoes, a multi–channel video installation featuring “ex–TV ‘soap’ actors performing scenes of discrete social interaction” set against a backdrop of high street consumption.
Common Culture, founded in 1996, has exhibited to much critical acclaim internationally and is well known for works that “take the stuff of real popular culture (not fashionably sanitised pop) and represent it as exercises in intellectual and aesthetic provocation and dislocation.” Robert Clarke, the Guardian. 25.11.06
We hope that you will be able to join with us to celebrate the launch of both of these truly remarkable exhibitions at Northern Ireland’s leading international contemporary art gallery.
Best regards
Peter Richards
Gallery Director
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Collected Readings is an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Richard Long, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
The exhibition, realised in collaboration with the British Council Northern Ireland, will be supported by a contextual program that includes a Key Note lecture by Victor Burgin on Wednesday 24th March at 12.00 noon and Dr. Christa-Mia Lerm Hayes’s lecture Collective Reading - Relationships Between Contemporary Artists' Works and Literature on Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
Bad Faith is an exhibition by the collaborative artist’s group Common Culture. The Bad Faith exhibition will feature the first showing of Common Culture’s new work I Dreamt I Was A Monkey – And They Made Me Wear Shoes, a multi–channel video installation featuring “ex–TV ‘soap’ actors performing scenes of discrete social interaction” set against a backdrop of high street consumption.
Common Culture, founded in 1996, has exhibited to much critical acclaim internationally and is well known for works that “take the stuff of real popular culture (not fashionably sanitised pop) and represent it as exercises in intellectual and aesthetic provocation and dislocation.” Robert Clarke, the Guardian. 25.11.06
We hope that you will be able to join with us to celebrate the launch of both of these truly remarkable exhibitions at Northern Ireland’s leading international contemporary art gallery.
Best regards
Peter Richards
Gallery Director
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Thursday, 11 March 2010
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Ronan Peden
In tonight telegragh a picture of one of the WEA's creative thirst students Ronan Peden with Lady Gaga who is wearing his jewellery. Ronan is an excellent creative person with fantastic ideas and imagination.
bELFAST FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCH
10th Belfast Film Festival has Launched...
Belfast Film Festival celebrates its 10th birthday and in order to mark this milestone this year’s Festival will be extended to run over 16 days from 15th–30th April.
The 10th Belfast Film Festival boasts over 30 UK/Irish premieres in a jam packed programme, with 125 screenings and events across Belfast from over 25 countries including, Russia, Japan, Iran, Argentina, Israel and South Africa, to name but a few.
The Festival opens on Thursday 15th April at the Moviehouse, Dublin Road with the UK/Irish Premiere of Triage starring man of the moment, Colin Farrell.
Closing night film of the 10th Belfast Film Festival, will be the UK/Ireland premiere of a film by one of Hollywood’s greatest directors-Francis Ford Coppola; Tetro starring Vincent Gallo is Coppola’s first original screenplay since The Conversation; this beautiful film, is shot in black and white and set in the bristling streets of Buenos Aires.
If you have not yet received the 10th Belfast Film Festival Programme, you can download it for a sneak preview and see the delights we have in store for our 10th Birthday.
http://www.belfastfilmfestival.org/2010/downloads/bff2010.pdf
We look forward to seeing you over the festival
Belfast Film Festival celebrates its 10th birthday and in order to mark this milestone this year’s Festival will be extended to run over 16 days from 15th–30th April.
The 10th Belfast Film Festival boasts over 30 UK/Irish premieres in a jam packed programme, with 125 screenings and events across Belfast from over 25 countries including, Russia, Japan, Iran, Argentina, Israel and South Africa, to name but a few.
The Festival opens on Thursday 15th April at the Moviehouse, Dublin Road with the UK/Irish Premiere of Triage starring man of the moment, Colin Farrell.
Closing night film of the 10th Belfast Film Festival, will be the UK/Ireland premiere of a film by one of Hollywood’s greatest directors-Francis Ford Coppola; Tetro starring Vincent Gallo is Coppola’s first original screenplay since The Conversation; this beautiful film, is shot in black and white and set in the bristling streets of Buenos Aires.
If you have not yet received the 10th Belfast Film Festival Programme, you can download it for a sneak preview and see the delights we have in store for our 10th Birthday.
http://www.belfastfilmfestival.org/2010/downloads/bff2010.pdf
We look forward to seeing you over the festival
salsa BelfaST
More info including maps can be found at: http://salsabelfast.com/groups/summary.php?g=1 http://salsabelfast.com/maps/index.php?name=Windsor%20Tennis%20Club http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=318121401505
lunchtime lectures
Thursday 11th March, 1pm – 1.45pm:
The architect Niall McCullough from McCullough Mulvin Architects (Dublin) will discuss his practice and his work in the Lives of Spaces Exhibition at OBG
LIVES OF SPACES EVENTS:
LUNCHTIME LECTURES
Thursdays/ 1pm - 1.45m at OBG/ Free
These are short presentations by the participants involved in ‘The Lives of Spaces’.
18th February - Dara McGrath 25th February- Tom de Paor
4th March - Simon Walker 11th March - Niall McCullough
LIVES AND SPACES SYMPOSIUM
Thursday 25th March/ Registration 9am/ Admittance Charge: £5 Lunch will be provided
OBG and PLACE present a major symposium: Lives and Spaces: Art, Architecture and the Public.
This will look at the intersection of art, architecture and curating in the public realm, through exhibitions, public art and the built environment.
A range of speakers from backgrounds in art, architecture, curating and commissioning will come together to address overlapping issues facing these professions including Nathalie Weadick (IAF), Noirin McKinney (ACNI), Artist Phillip Napier, Architect Ciaran Mackel to name a few. The symposium aims to initiate dialogues to better support healthy collaboration and communication between these areas.
To register your interest or for more information please contact OBG on E: chickey@ormeaubaths.co.uk or T: 02890 321402
LIVES OF SPACES EXPERIMENT/ PERFORMANCE
23rd/24th/25th March/ 7pm and 9pm ( The performance will last approx 40minutes)
£5/ £3 conc.
Over two weeks, the Lyric Studio (The Lyric Theatre’s professional training programme for 18-24 year olds) will construct an original performance piece based around themes and visuals from, and responses to the exhibition. The performance created during this exciting collaboration between one of the city’s leading galleries and Northern Ireland’s only fill-time producing theatre will be directed by the Lyric Studio’s Director, Anna Newell.
Audience capacity is limited to 20 so please contact OBG to reserve a place on E: chickey@ormeaubaths.co.uk or T: 02890 321 402
The architect Niall McCullough from McCullough Mulvin Architects (Dublin) will discuss his practice and his work in the Lives of Spaces Exhibition at OBG
LIVES OF SPACES EVENTS:
LUNCHTIME LECTURES
Thursdays/ 1pm - 1.45m at OBG/ Free
These are short presentations by the participants involved in ‘The Lives of Spaces’.
18th February - Dara McGrath 25th February- Tom de Paor
4th March - Simon Walker 11th March - Niall McCullough
LIVES AND SPACES SYMPOSIUM
Thursday 25th March/ Registration 9am/ Admittance Charge: £5 Lunch will be provided
OBG and PLACE present a major symposium: Lives and Spaces: Art, Architecture and the Public.
This will look at the intersection of art, architecture and curating in the public realm, through exhibitions, public art and the built environment.
A range of speakers from backgrounds in art, architecture, curating and commissioning will come together to address overlapping issues facing these professions including Nathalie Weadick (IAF), Noirin McKinney (ACNI), Artist Phillip Napier, Architect Ciaran Mackel to name a few. The symposium aims to initiate dialogues to better support healthy collaboration and communication between these areas.
To register your interest or for more information please contact OBG on E: chickey@ormeaubaths.co.uk or T: 02890 321402
LIVES OF SPACES EXPERIMENT/ PERFORMANCE
23rd/24th/25th March/ 7pm and 9pm ( The performance will last approx 40minutes)
£5/ £3 conc.
Over two weeks, the Lyric Studio (The Lyric Theatre’s professional training programme for 18-24 year olds) will construct an original performance piece based around themes and visuals from, and responses to the exhibition. The performance created during this exciting collaboration between one of the city’s leading galleries and Northern Ireland’s only fill-time producing theatre will be directed by the Lyric Studio’s Director, Anna Newell.
Audience capacity is limited to 20 so please contact OBG to reserve a place on E: chickey@ormeaubaths.co.uk or T: 02890 321 402
dying matters LGBT
The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), Dying Matters coalition and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Consortium are undertaking a short project on palliative and end of life provision for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.
Your views and perspectives on this are important, so we are asking you spare a few minutes to fill in the following short survey which should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. The results will help NCPC and the Consortium to highlight any issues in current policy, and assess what further work should be undertaken in this area.
To complete the survey visit: http://tiny.cc/NCPC_LBGT
The survey will close on Friday 19th March
Your views and perspectives on this are important, so we are asking you spare a few minutes to fill in the following short survey which should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. The results will help NCPC and the Consortium to highlight any issues in current policy, and assess what further work should be undertaken in this area.
To complete the survey visit: http://tiny.cc/NCPC_LBGT
The survey will close on Friday 19th March
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
quote of the day
the only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the now
Gita Bellin
Gita Bellin
Monday, 8 March 2010
Ben Allen at Creative exchange open all week
Thursday March 4th 2010 6 - 9pm
Creative exchange artists’ studios, unit b5, Portview trade centre, 310 Newtownards Road, Belfast.
Exhibition continues until 27th March. Viewing by appointment.
Tel: 028 90452299 or RSVP to Ben benallen7@hotmail.com or Tel: 07731360234 To view more of Ben’s Work visit www
Creative exchange artists’ studios, unit b5, Portview trade centre, 310 Newtownards Road, Belfast.
Exhibition continues until 27th March. Viewing by appointment.
Tel: 028 90452299 or RSVP to Ben benallen7@hotmail.com or Tel: 07731360234 To view more of Ben’s Work visit www
introduction to inventing
An Introduction to Inventing, Patents and Intellectual Property
Are you a budding inventor? Are you confused about patents, copyright and design rights? Belfast City Council is providing a workshop to look at all these issues giving a practical guide to intellectual property and the support available.
Date: Tuesday 9th March 2010
Venue: W5 (The Point Boardroom)
Speakers: Alan Wallace, FR Kelly; Paul Malcomson, Invest NI and Jonathan Wallace, University of Ulster
Time: 9.45-13.00 (including lunch & networking)
This workshop is free to small businesses in the Belfast City Council area. This programme is funded by Belfast City Council and the European Regional Development Fund. Please note that Invest NI client companies and retail businesses are not eligible for these workshops.
To book a place contact Rhonda Lynn on 028 9027 0229 or email lynnr@belfastcity.gov.uk
www.befastcity.gov.uk/businessprogrammes
Are you a budding inventor? Are you confused about patents, copyright and design rights? Belfast City Council is providing a workshop to look at all these issues giving a practical guide to intellectual property and the support available.
Date: Tuesday 9th March 2010
Venue: W5 (The Point Boardroom)
Speakers: Alan Wallace, FR Kelly; Paul Malcomson, Invest NI and Jonathan Wallace, University of Ulster
Time: 9.45-13.00 (including lunch & networking)
This workshop is free to small businesses in the Belfast City Council area. This programme is funded by Belfast City Council and the European Regional Development Fund. Please note that Invest NI client companies and retail businesses are not eligible for these workshops.
To book a place contact Rhonda Lynn on 028 9027 0229 or email lynnr@belfastcity.gov.uk
www.befastcity.gov.uk/businessprogrammes
gender pay gap
“The average gender pay gap – the average difference in gross hourly earnings between women and men across the economy as a whole - currently stands at 18% for the EU”.
international womens day
'Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.' Harriet Tubman
Happy International Women's Day!
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.
International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.
The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. Following is a brief chronology of the most important events:
1909
In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.
1910
The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.
1911
As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.
Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.
1913-1914
As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.
1917
With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.
Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and participation in the political and economic process. Increasingly, International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.
International Women's Day will reach a milestone in 2010 as it marks its 100th anniversary. For 100 years International Women's Day celebrates the political, economic, cultural and social achievement of women around the world. Not only is IWD a celebration it also serves as reminder of the continuing struggle for equality that so many women face across the world.
Happy International Women's Day!
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.
International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.
The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. Following is a brief chronology of the most important events:
1909
In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.
1910
The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.
1911
As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.
Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.
1913-1914
As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.
1917
With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.
Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and participation in the political and economic process. Increasingly, International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.
International Women's Day will reach a milestone in 2010 as it marks its 100th anniversary. For 100 years International Women's Day celebrates the political, economic, cultural and social achievement of women around the world. Not only is IWD a celebration it also serves as reminder of the continuing struggle for equality that so many women face across the world.
tonight on BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rbkkp
‘Acclaimed filmmaker Vanessa Engle turns her attention to sexual politics in a three-part documentary series about feminism and its impact on women's lives today.
This first episode charts the rise of the women's liberation movement in the 1970s, and includes interviews with legendary British and American feminists, including Kate Millett, Susan Brownmiller, Germaine Greer, and the last ever interview with novelist Marilyn French, who died in May 2009.’
‘Acclaimed filmmaker Vanessa Engle turns her attention to sexual politics in a three-part documentary series about feminism and its impact on women's lives today.
This first episode charts the rise of the women's liberation movement in the 1970s, and includes interviews with legendary British and American feminists, including Kate Millett, Susan Brownmiller, Germaine Greer, and the last ever interview with novelist Marilyn French, who died in May 2009.’
quote of the day
knowing that,in the grand scheme of things,we live in a world where rainy days eventually give way to sunnier skys.
RL Kieth
pretty apt for Belfast today as spring is the air.
RL Kieth
pretty apt for Belfast today as spring is the air.
Thursday, 4 March 2010
late night art tonight
dont forget www.belfastgalleries.com if the buses are booked why not walk and see what your city has to offer.
quote of the day
you should always be aware that your head creates your world
Ken Keyes Jr
handbook to a higher conciousness
Ken Keyes Jr
handbook to a higher conciousness
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
POlish cinema on at QFT
The showcase of the best of the new Polish cinema returns to QFT for the fourth consecutive year as part of the flagship Kinoteka project, organised by the Polish Cultural Institute in London.
Programme highlights include the true-life tale of a daring escape from Auschwitz, a classic from controversial director Roman Polanski and Poland’s answer to Trainspotting. More information available from www.kinoteka.org.uk
Programme highlights include the true-life tale of a daring escape from Auschwitz, a classic from controversial director Roman Polanski and Poland’s answer to Trainspotting. More information available from www.kinoteka.org.uk
quote of the day
My life is a performace for which I was never given any chance to rehearse
Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Brilliant
Demands denials freedoms 23 March
Campaign for Artists Freedom: 4pm - 5pm
Manick Govinda challenges new Home Office regulations - which will curb invitations to non-EU artists and academics to visit the UK for talks, artist residencies, conferences and temporary exhibitions.
Censorship, Self Censorship and artistic expression: 5pm - 6pm
An open conversation with curators and publishers about constraints on freedom of expression and how it impacts on their practice. Lead by Stacey Patton Anderson, Index on Censorship
Policing the Public Gaze: The Assault on Citizen Photography 7pm - 9pm
The Manifesto Club debates the growing restriction of citizen photography - by community safety wardens, private security guards and self-appointed ‘jobsworths’.
Manick Govinda challenges new Home Office regulations - which will curb invitations to non-EU artists and academics to visit the UK for talks, artist residencies, conferences and temporary exhibitions.
Censorship, Self Censorship and artistic expression: 5pm - 6pm
An open conversation with curators and publishers about constraints on freedom of expression and how it impacts on their practice. Lead by Stacey Patton Anderson, Index on Censorship
Policing the Public Gaze: The Assault on Citizen Photography 7pm - 9pm
The Manifesto Club debates the growing restriction of citizen photography - by community safety wardens, private security guards and self-appointed ‘jobsworths’.
Belfast Exposed 12 March
Copyleft, Intellectual Property, Creative Commons: 12pm - 3pm
Screening and discussion around Copyleft, Intellectual property rights and Creative Commons licensing.
Censorship, Self Censorship and Artistic Expression 4pm - 5pm
An open conversation with local artists about constraints on freedom of expression and how it impacts on their practice. Facilitated by Julia Farrington, Index on Censorship.
Privacy, Human Rights & the Law 7.30pm - 9pm
John Fitzpatrick director of Kent Law Clinic assess the importance of privacy in our lives today. Does the ‘surveillance state’ pose a threat to it? Does the retention of our DNA profiles represent an invasion of our privacy, or even undermine the principle that we are innocent until proven guilty? Should the principle of consent bow before the practical gains for the prevention and detection of crime?
For more information
Screening and discussion around Copyleft, Intellectual property rights and Creative Commons licensing.
Censorship, Self Censorship and Artistic Expression 4pm - 5pm
An open conversation with local artists about constraints on freedom of expression and how it impacts on their practice. Facilitated by Julia Farrington, Index on Censorship.
Privacy, Human Rights & the Law 7.30pm - 9pm
John Fitzpatrick director of Kent Law Clinic assess the importance of privacy in our lives today. Does the ‘surveillance state’ pose a threat to it? Does the retention of our DNA profiles represent an invasion of our privacy, or even undermine the principle that we are innocent until proven guilty? Should the principle of consent bow before the practical gains for the prevention and detection of crime?
For more information
you just have to figure out for yourself ?? Derry
As part of Women Building Bridges International Women’s Day celebrations IPOD Young Women’s Project is pleased to invite Duana McArdle to facilitate the seminar:
Below the radar- exploring the invisibility of young LGB women
The aim of this workshop is to explore issues facing young Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual women living in Northern Ireland and using recent research findings, increase awareness of how to reach young women who are less engaged and more invisible.
This workshop will help practitioners gain knowledge of recent research findings while at the same time think about how to improve practice to be more aware of young LGB women’s needs.
Findings from recent research “You just have to figure it out for yourself” authored by Duana McArdle will be disseminated.
This event will take place at The Women’s Centre, Guildhall Street, Tuesday 9th March at 10.00 – 12.00.
This seminar is for female youth workers, community workers and women interested in working with LGB young women.
If you wish to attend this event please contact paddymcnicholl@womencentre.co.uk or Tel 02871269898
Below the radar- exploring the invisibility of young LGB women
The aim of this workshop is to explore issues facing young Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual women living in Northern Ireland and using recent research findings, increase awareness of how to reach young women who are less engaged and more invisible.
This workshop will help practitioners gain knowledge of recent research findings while at the same time think about how to improve practice to be more aware of young LGB women’s needs.
Findings from recent research “You just have to figure it out for yourself” authored by Duana McArdle will be disseminated.
This event will take place at The Women’s Centre, Guildhall Street, Tuesday 9th March at 10.00 – 12.00.
This seminar is for female youth workers, community workers and women interested in working with LGB young women.
If you wish to attend this event please contact paddymcnicholl@womencentre.co.uk or Tel 02871269898
Perspectives on Design in Cathedral Quarter
Cathedral Quarter Steering Group, in conjunction with PLACE, are coordinating this forum to debate design issues as they pertain to Cathedral Quarter, and to look at best practice in other cities familiar with culture led regeneration. The format will include presentations on relevant work elsewhere followed by a panel discussion. We would be pleased if you could join us for the debate.
9th March 2010, 11am – 2pm
Belfast Exposed Gallery, 23 Donegall St, Belfast
Admission: Free
Enquiries – email: p.freedman@belfastcentre.com
Chair: Michael Hegarty, Architect & PLACE Director
Panelists:
Liza Fior – Architect, muf architecture + art, London
Barrie Todd – Architect, Belfast & Chair of Ministerial Advisory Group
Liz Davidson – Director Glasgow Townscape Heritage Initiative and Glasgow Merchant City
Peter Hunter – Architect, London, advisor to DSD
The narrow streets and idiosyncratic buildings of Cathedral Quarter hark back to the birth of Belfast and the subsequent history of its emergence as a centre of commerce and industry. Just as it did in earlier stages of the city’s growth, Cathedral Quarter today hosts some of Belfast’s most exciting new developments. What current and emerging policies will protect the creativity, history and heritage of the area while at the same time allowing for new developments and contemporary architecture?
About the panel
Liza Fior, Architect and founding director of muf architecture/art plp – a collaborative of artists, architects and urban designers based in London, specialising in the design of urban public realm to facilitate appropriation by users. In 2008, muf was awarded the 5th European Prize for Urban Public Space for their town square project in Barking. In 2001, muf received an RSA Art & Architecture Award for their Camden Arts Centre project. Liza and muf will represent the UK at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010. Her work is focussed on culture-led regeneration and the interface between the arts and the city.
Prof. Barrie Todd MBE is a retired architect who established his own practice in 1976 with offices in Belfast, London and Dublin. He was one of the original group of people who saw potential for the creative regeneration of Cathedral Quarter and supported that by relocating his practice. His work includes a number of award winning buildings. He is a past president of the RSUA and was founding chairperson of PLACE. He is the Chair of the N.Ireland Ministerial Advisory Group on Architecture and the Built Environment (DCAL).
Liz Davidson is currently the Project Director of the Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative – a multi-agency urban regeneration programme which seeks to address the issues of declining physical, economic and environmental performance in the historic heart of the City of Glasgow.
Peter Hunter is an architect based in London. Peter initiated the Laganside project in 1985 and has been involved in other waterside development schemes throughout the UK.
Michael Hegarty, Director of PLACE, is an architect who established his practice Hegarty Architects in Derry in 1997 and received an RSA Art & Architecture Award in 2001. His work has explored urban repair, collaboration across disciplines and community participation. PLACE is the Architecture & Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland.
9th March 2010, 11am – 2pm
Belfast Exposed Gallery, 23 Donegall St, Belfast
Admission: Free
Enquiries – email: p.freedman@belfastcentre.com
Chair: Michael Hegarty, Architect & PLACE Director
Panelists:
Liza Fior – Architect, muf architecture + art, London
Barrie Todd – Architect, Belfast & Chair of Ministerial Advisory Group
Liz Davidson – Director Glasgow Townscape Heritage Initiative and Glasgow Merchant City
Peter Hunter – Architect, London, advisor to DSD
The narrow streets and idiosyncratic buildings of Cathedral Quarter hark back to the birth of Belfast and the subsequent history of its emergence as a centre of commerce and industry. Just as it did in earlier stages of the city’s growth, Cathedral Quarter today hosts some of Belfast’s most exciting new developments. What current and emerging policies will protect the creativity, history and heritage of the area while at the same time allowing for new developments and contemporary architecture?
About the panel
Liza Fior, Architect and founding director of muf architecture/art plp – a collaborative of artists, architects and urban designers based in London, specialising in the design of urban public realm to facilitate appropriation by users. In 2008, muf was awarded the 5th European Prize for Urban Public Space for their town square project in Barking. In 2001, muf received an RSA Art & Architecture Award for their Camden Arts Centre project. Liza and muf will represent the UK at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010. Her work is focussed on culture-led regeneration and the interface between the arts and the city.
Prof. Barrie Todd MBE is a retired architect who established his own practice in 1976 with offices in Belfast, London and Dublin. He was one of the original group of people who saw potential for the creative regeneration of Cathedral Quarter and supported that by relocating his practice. His work includes a number of award winning buildings. He is a past president of the RSUA and was founding chairperson of PLACE. He is the Chair of the N.Ireland Ministerial Advisory Group on Architecture and the Built Environment (DCAL).
Liz Davidson is currently the Project Director of the Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative – a multi-agency urban regeneration programme which seeks to address the issues of declining physical, economic and environmental performance in the historic heart of the City of Glasgow.
Peter Hunter is an architect based in London. Peter initiated the Laganside project in 1985 and has been involved in other waterside development schemes throughout the UK.
Michael Hegarty, Director of PLACE, is an architect who established his practice Hegarty Architects in Derry in 1997 and received an RSA Art & Architecture Award in 2001. His work has explored urban repair, collaboration across disciplines and community participation. PLACE is the Architecture & Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland.
lunchtime lecture tomorrow oBG
Lunchtime Lecture at OBG
Thursday 4th March, 1pm – 1.45pm: The architect Simon Walker will discuss his practice and his work in the Lives of Spaces Exhibition at OBG
LIVES OF SPACES EVENTS:
LUNCHTIME LECTURES
Thursdays/ 1pm - 1.45m at OBG/ Free
These are short presentations by the participants involved in ‘The Lives of Spaces’.
18th February - Dara McGrath 25th February- Tom de Paor
4th March - Simon Walker 11th March - Niall McCullough
LIVES AND SPACES SYMPOSIUM
Thursday 25th March/ Registration 9am/ Admittance Charge: £5 Lunch will be provided
OBG and PLACE present a major symposium: Lives and Spaces: Art, Architecture and the Public.
This will look at the intersection of art, architecture and curating in the public realm, through exhibitions, public art and the built environment.
A range of speakers from backgrounds in art, architecture, curating and commissioning will come together to address overlapping issues facing these professions including Nathalie Weadick (IAF), Noirin McKinney (ACNI), Artist Phillip Napier, Architect Ciaran Mackel to name a few. The symposium aims to initiate dialogues to better support healthy collaboration and communication between these areas.
To register your interest or for more information please contact OBG on E: chickey@ormeaubaths.co.uk or T: 02890 321402
LIVES OF SPACES EXPERIMENT/ PERFORMANCE
23rd/24th/25th March/ 7pm and 9pm ( The performance will last approx 40minutes)
£5/ £3 conc.
Over two weeks, the Lyric Studio (The Lyric Theatre’s professional training programme for 18-24 year olds) will construct an original performance piece based around themes and visuals from, and responses to the exhibition. The performance created during this exciting collaboration between one of the city’s leading galleries and Northern Ireland’s only fill-time producing theatre will be directed by the Lyric Studio’s Director, Anna Newell.
Audience capacity is limited so please contact OBG to reserve a place on E: chickey@ormeaubaths.co.uk or T: 02890 321 402
Thursday 4th March, 1pm – 1.45pm: The architect Simon Walker will discuss his practice and his work in the Lives of Spaces Exhibition at OBG
LIVES OF SPACES EVENTS:
LUNCHTIME LECTURES
Thursdays/ 1pm - 1.45m at OBG/ Free
These are short presentations by the participants involved in ‘The Lives of Spaces’.
18th February - Dara McGrath 25th February- Tom de Paor
4th March - Simon Walker 11th March - Niall McCullough
LIVES AND SPACES SYMPOSIUM
Thursday 25th March/ Registration 9am/ Admittance Charge: £5 Lunch will be provided
OBG and PLACE present a major symposium: Lives and Spaces: Art, Architecture and the Public.
This will look at the intersection of art, architecture and curating in the public realm, through exhibitions, public art and the built environment.
A range of speakers from backgrounds in art, architecture, curating and commissioning will come together to address overlapping issues facing these professions including Nathalie Weadick (IAF), Noirin McKinney (ACNI), Artist Phillip Napier, Architect Ciaran Mackel to name a few. The symposium aims to initiate dialogues to better support healthy collaboration and communication between these areas.
To register your interest or for more information please contact OBG on E: chickey@ormeaubaths.co.uk or T: 02890 321402
LIVES OF SPACES EXPERIMENT/ PERFORMANCE
23rd/24th/25th March/ 7pm and 9pm ( The performance will last approx 40minutes)
£5/ £3 conc.
Over two weeks, the Lyric Studio (The Lyric Theatre’s professional training programme for 18-24 year olds) will construct an original performance piece based around themes and visuals from, and responses to the exhibition. The performance created during this exciting collaboration between one of the city’s leading galleries and Northern Ireland’s only fill-time producing theatre will be directed by the Lyric Studio’s Director, Anna Newell.
Audience capacity is limited so please contact OBG to reserve a place on E: chickey@ormeaubaths.co.uk or T: 02890 321 402
art in Cork
This Week at the Glucksman
Today at 1pm
In Detail: Sabine Kriebel
Dr. Sabine Kriebel (Art History, UCC) will present a talk on work in the exhibition Thingamajig: the Secret Life of Objects. Dr. Kriebel’s research interests are focused on twentieth-century German art, the history and theory of photography and montage, aesthetics and politics, the temporalities of art, and reception aesthetics. She is currently completing a book project Revolutionary Beauty, an in-depth analytical account of the radical 1930s photomontages of John Heartfield.
This series of In Detail presentations invites students and lecturers from the University College Cork Art History programme to present public discussions on specific works and items in the exhibition Thingamajig: the Secret Life of Objects (22 January – 9 May 2010). This collaborative programme offers audiences and participants the opportunity to experience the exhibition’s various objects of social documentary and local history as visual artworks in their own right and to explore how we choose to collect and communicate the stories behind them.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery
1pm, Thursday 04 March
Perspectives: What Isn’t Art
Brendan Earley
How do we decide what is an artwork and what isn’t? Why do some objects seemingly belong in an art gallery while others may look out of place? And how do artists use materials and ideas that are apparently unrelated to art in making their work? This series of lunchtime talks invites artists, critics and curators to explore these questions in relation to their own art-making and exhibition practices.
Brendan Earley’s practice addresses notions of the everyday alongside the futuristic, employing readymade objects, pre-fabricated materials and obsolete technologies. Earley received a Fulbright scholarship to attend Hunter College, New York City and graduated with a Masters in Fine Art in 1999, before returning to Dublin. Exhibitions include Artist Space (New York), Ars Electronica (Austria), Perspective OBG (Belfast) and Futures RHA (Dublin). Earley is currently studying for his PhD in National College of Art & Design, Dublin and recently won the Curated Visual Arts Award.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery
5pm, Thursday 04 March
Talk: Dr. David J. Butler on Masonic Painting
Masonic Tracing Boards came into being in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, their contents reflecting the reality of Freemasonry at the time of its greatest expansion, where Brethren in Lodges were experimenting with methods of communicating the Masonic message to each other and perfecting new rituals. Accompanying the exhibition Thingamajig: the secret life of objects, this talk by Dr. David J. Butler, Provincial Librarian & Archivist for the Masonic province of Munster, will explore the symbolic and historical relevance of painting in the Masonic order.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery
Eileen Kearney
Retail & Communications Manager
021 490 1846
Lewis GLucksman Gallery
University College Cork,
Cork
info@glucksman.org
www.glucksman.org
Today at 1pm
In Detail: Sabine Kriebel
Dr. Sabine Kriebel (Art History, UCC) will present a talk on work in the exhibition Thingamajig: the Secret Life of Objects. Dr. Kriebel’s research interests are focused on twentieth-century German art, the history and theory of photography and montage, aesthetics and politics, the temporalities of art, and reception aesthetics. She is currently completing a book project Revolutionary Beauty, an in-depth analytical account of the radical 1930s photomontages of John Heartfield.
This series of In Detail presentations invites students and lecturers from the University College Cork Art History programme to present public discussions on specific works and items in the exhibition Thingamajig: the Secret Life of Objects (22 January – 9 May 2010). This collaborative programme offers audiences and participants the opportunity to experience the exhibition’s various objects of social documentary and local history as visual artworks in their own right and to explore how we choose to collect and communicate the stories behind them.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery
1pm, Thursday 04 March
Perspectives: What Isn’t Art
Brendan Earley
How do we decide what is an artwork and what isn’t? Why do some objects seemingly belong in an art gallery while others may look out of place? And how do artists use materials and ideas that are apparently unrelated to art in making their work? This series of lunchtime talks invites artists, critics and curators to explore these questions in relation to their own art-making and exhibition practices.
Brendan Earley’s practice addresses notions of the everyday alongside the futuristic, employing readymade objects, pre-fabricated materials and obsolete technologies. Earley received a Fulbright scholarship to attend Hunter College, New York City and graduated with a Masters in Fine Art in 1999, before returning to Dublin. Exhibitions include Artist Space (New York), Ars Electronica (Austria), Perspective OBG (Belfast) and Futures RHA (Dublin). Earley is currently studying for his PhD in National College of Art & Design, Dublin and recently won the Curated Visual Arts Award.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery
5pm, Thursday 04 March
Talk: Dr. David J. Butler on Masonic Painting
Masonic Tracing Boards came into being in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, their contents reflecting the reality of Freemasonry at the time of its greatest expansion, where Brethren in Lodges were experimenting with methods of communicating the Masonic message to each other and perfecting new rituals. Accompanying the exhibition Thingamajig: the secret life of objects, this talk by Dr. David J. Butler, Provincial Librarian & Archivist for the Masonic province of Munster, will explore the symbolic and historical relevance of painting in the Masonic order.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery
Eileen Kearney
Retail & Communications Manager
021 490 1846
Lewis GLucksman Gallery
University College Cork,
Cork
info@glucksman.org
www.glucksman.org
sex trafficing in Derry
As part of Women Building Bridges International Women’s Day celebrations IPOD Young Women’s Project and Children in Crossfire are organising a joint Women only seminar:
“Exploring the Sex Industry and the trafficking of Women from a Local and Global perspective”
The aim of this workshop is to
· Explore the issue of trafficking and sexual exploitation of women
· Consider the impact that this has on young women locally.
· Raise awareness about the sex trade both locally and globally.
This event will take place at The Junction, Bishop Street, Wed 10th March at 10.00 – 12.00.
It is a seminar is for young women, youth workers, community workers and women interested in global issues and work with young women.
This event coincides with a screening of Trade, The Nerve Centre Mon 8th March at 7pm. A film about the sex trafficking of a young Mexican girl into USA by Russian sex traffickers.
If you wish to attend this event please contact caroline.murphy@childrenincrossfire.org or Tel 02871269898
“Exploring the Sex Industry and the trafficking of Women from a Local and Global perspective”
The aim of this workshop is to
· Explore the issue of trafficking and sexual exploitation of women
· Consider the impact that this has on young women locally.
· Raise awareness about the sex trade both locally and globally.
This event will take place at The Junction, Bishop Street, Wed 10th March at 10.00 – 12.00.
It is a seminar is for young women, youth workers, community workers and women interested in global issues and work with young women.
This event coincides with a screening of Trade, The Nerve Centre Mon 8th March at 7pm. A film about the sex trafficking of a young Mexican girl into USA by Russian sex traffickers.
If you wish to attend this event please contact caroline.murphy@childrenincrossfire.org or Tel 02871269898
Art collectors dream
‘33’
This Thursday we are launching an exhibition of 33 artworks from some of the best artists that have worked in our studios over the last 33 years this includes...
Basil Blackshaw
Neil Shawcross
Felim Egan
Alphonso Monreal
Tom Carr
Jack Pakenham
Hughie O'Donaghue
Michael Warren
This is a perfect opportunity to invest in artworks from big name artists!
AN OUTSTANDING EXHIBITION FROM THE BELFAST PRINT WORKSHOP ARCHIVES
Exhibition opens 4th March 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Exhibition closes 29th March 2010
If you would like any more information on this exhibition please contact:
Tomas Bamford
Gallery/Sales Manager
belfastprintworkshopgallery
gallery@belfastprintworkshop.org.uk
www.belfastprintworkshop.org.uk
Cotton Court
30-42 Waring Street
Belfast BT1 2ED
T: 028 90230323
corporate art service:
www.printcircular.com
This Thursday we are launching an exhibition of 33 artworks from some of the best artists that have worked in our studios over the last 33 years this includes...
Basil Blackshaw
Neil Shawcross
Felim Egan
Alphonso Monreal
Tom Carr
Jack Pakenham
Hughie O'Donaghue
Michael Warren
This is a perfect opportunity to invest in artworks from big name artists!
AN OUTSTANDING EXHIBITION FROM THE BELFAST PRINT WORKSHOP ARCHIVES
Exhibition opens 4th March 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Exhibition closes 29th March 2010
If you would like any more information on this exhibition please contact:
Tomas Bamford
Gallery/Sales Manager
belfastprintworkshopgallery
gallery@belfastprintworkshop.org.uk
www.belfastprintworkshop.org.uk
Cotton Court
30-42 Waring Street
Belfast BT1 2ED
T: 028 90230323
corporate art service:
www.printcircular.com
the troubles with Harry Thursday opening
The Troubles with Harry’, a video installation and collaboration between film maker Gareth Mayes and Visual Artist David Turner.
‘In this exhibition we have utilized rare and unique 8mm amateur footage of ‘the Troubles,’ taken in 1973 by local chemist and amateur videographer Harry Martin. Our aim is to invite the spectator to draw upon their historical awareness of the country: upon the nature of art activity itself and to consider one man’s personal endeavor to visually document the history of his country, and its ability today, to communicate contemporary societal truths. Highlighting notions of identity, the fallibility of memory and the ambiguity of imagery the work is not necessarily to deliver a discourse or provide a political or social message for interpretation but more to express towards a collective contemplation of the past and personal reflection of ‘the Troubles.’’
The conflict in Northern Ireland, commonly referred to as ‘the Troubles,’ has been one of the most documented, closely watched and hotly debated disputes of our time. It has provided subject material and theme for many artists throughout the world. Still and motion picture photography has played an important part in the recording and representing of the conflict and has provided either directly or indirectly the basis for many artists to approach the inherently controversial and problematic subject.
The Troubles With Harry previews in Platform Arts, No 1 Queen Street, Belfast, BT1 6EA on Thursday 4th March 2010, and runs until 20th March 2010 (Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 4pm).
For further information please contact platformarts@live.co.uk or David on 077 79255375
‘In this exhibition we have utilized rare and unique 8mm amateur footage of ‘the Troubles,’ taken in 1973 by local chemist and amateur videographer Harry Martin. Our aim is to invite the spectator to draw upon their historical awareness of the country: upon the nature of art activity itself and to consider one man’s personal endeavor to visually document the history of his country, and its ability today, to communicate contemporary societal truths. Highlighting notions of identity, the fallibility of memory and the ambiguity of imagery the work is not necessarily to deliver a discourse or provide a political or social message for interpretation but more to express towards a collective contemplation of the past and personal reflection of ‘the Troubles.’’
The conflict in Northern Ireland, commonly referred to as ‘the Troubles,’ has been one of the most documented, closely watched and hotly debated disputes of our time. It has provided subject material and theme for many artists throughout the world. Still and motion picture photography has played an important part in the recording and representing of the conflict and has provided either directly or indirectly the basis for many artists to approach the inherently controversial and problematic subject.
The Troubles With Harry previews in Platform Arts, No 1 Queen Street, Belfast, BT1 6EA on Thursday 4th March 2010, and runs until 20th March 2010 (Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 4pm).
For further information please contact platformarts@live.co.uk or David on 077 79255375
golden thread in New york
Golden thread is in new york www.scope-art.com its taken over a number of NI artists and its great to see that some of the great talent there is in NI is getting international exposure. Will give you a list of the names so you can keep an eye out for them. Some were in the GT Christmas show a really good selection of local talent with an international reach.
(click link at side of Blogg)
(click link at side of Blogg)
belfast i phone app
THE BELFAST MUSIC IPHONE APP
As part of their ongoing commitment to lifting the international profile of music in the city, Belfast City Council in partnership with Filmtrip, OhYeah & NITB have created this iPhone application to accompany the new Belfast Music website, and the music bus tour.
Imagine there was a way to discover the rich musical heritage of a world-renowned city, through a mixture of historical anecdotes and street level music info, accessible anywhere, anytime. It exists and it’s called the Belfast Music iphone app.
The Belfast Music iPhone app showcases past legends and contemporary inspirations that have shaped the music landscape of our city. Check out where Belfast legends grew up and cut their musical teeth, and check out the many venues that show off the present wealth of musical talent.
There is an explosion of new music coming out of Northern Ireland, building on the global success of past & present artists in many genres, and with some of the best audiences in the world, Belfast can be sure that it’s legendary status lives in many musical memories.
Thanks to the Design Zoo & Hothouse Music, for all of their hard work, and thanks to the music lovers, makers & shakers of Belfast for their assistance in getting it to here.
So get off to that apps store now, type in 'Belfast Music' and go exploring.
film trip is coola bulla
As part of their ongoing commitment to lifting the international profile of music in the city, Belfast City Council in partnership with Filmtrip, OhYeah & NITB have created this iPhone application to accompany the new Belfast Music website, and the music bus tour.
Imagine there was a way to discover the rich musical heritage of a world-renowned city, through a mixture of historical anecdotes and street level music info, accessible anywhere, anytime. It exists and it’s called the Belfast Music iphone app.
The Belfast Music iPhone app showcases past legends and contemporary inspirations that have shaped the music landscape of our city. Check out where Belfast legends grew up and cut their musical teeth, and check out the many venues that show off the present wealth of musical talent.
There is an explosion of new music coming out of Northern Ireland, building on the global success of past & present artists in many genres, and with some of the best audiences in the world, Belfast can be sure that it’s legendary status lives in many musical memories.
Thanks to the Design Zoo & Hothouse Music, for all of their hard work, and thanks to the music lovers, makers & shakers of Belfast for their assistance in getting it to here.
So get off to that apps store now, type in 'Belfast Music' and go exploring.
film trip is coola bulla
station on Saturday queens street police station
‘Station’
Part 2
A presentation of site specfic installation
4th March 2010
6-9pm
Platform, 1 Queen’s Street, Belfast
Platform presents Station, a unique event featuring installation by Belfast-based artists. The event will take place in a fascinating unusual space: the former Police Station in Queen Street. This is the second in a series of residency based presentations organised by Platform Arts.
Alissa Kleist, Mairead Dunne and Ruaidhri Lennon present their response to the building, its atmosphere, its history and its future, in the form of three installations
their presentation will be open to the public on thursday 4th March from 6pm - 9pm.
Fiona Goggin, Platform Co-director explained:
Station is an experimental curatorial project organised by Platform. The premise of the project is to invite artists to come and make work in or in response to the building. The project will run until 2012 and we are planning to invite local and international artists to produce a variety of art pieces exploring this amazing space.
Further information from Fiona Goggin, Station Project Manager platformarts@live.co.uk / Mobile 07979 752279.
Part 2
A presentation of site specfic installation
4th March 2010
6-9pm
Platform, 1 Queen’s Street, Belfast
Platform presents Station, a unique event featuring installation by Belfast-based artists. The event will take place in a fascinating unusual space: the former Police Station in Queen Street. This is the second in a series of residency based presentations organised by Platform Arts.
Alissa Kleist, Mairead Dunne and Ruaidhri Lennon present their response to the building, its atmosphere, its history and its future, in the form of three installations
their presentation will be open to the public on thursday 4th March from 6pm - 9pm.
Fiona Goggin, Platform Co-director explained:
Station is an experimental curatorial project organised by Platform. The premise of the project is to invite artists to come and make work in or in response to the building. The project will run until 2012 and we are planning to invite local and international artists to produce a variety of art pieces exploring this amazing space.
Further information from Fiona Goggin, Station Project Manager platformarts@live.co.uk / Mobile 07979 752279.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
St Patricks day in Belfast -
Our 2010 St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Belfast on 17 March will offer a colourful carnival atmosphere for the whole family to enjoy!
Carnival parade
The carnival procession, featuring hundreds of participants from all corners of Belfast, will leave Belfast City Hall at 12 noon, move down Chichester Street, then into Victoria Street and from there to Custom House Square.
The carnival parade, with the theme of Spring, will feature the biggest springtime bouquets ever seen in Belfast, surrounded by huge exotic butterflies!
View photos of last year's St Patrick's Day Carnival
Free concert - Chipmunk
Rising teenage rap sensation Chipmunk will headline this year’s multi-cultural concert at Custom House Square. It will begin at 1pm, after the carnival parade (gates open at 12 noon).
Other performers include The X Factor's Ruth Lorenzo, traditional music from Flook and Session Beats and K1, Romania’s chart-topping band. The concert will be compèred by Cool FM's Pete Snodden.
Tickets
The concert is free but a ticket is required.
Tickets are available from Belfast Welcome Centre, Donegall Place (beside Boots) from Friday 26 February at 9am.
Tickets are limited to four per person.
Tickets are only available to people over the age of 16.
Anyone under 16 attending the concert must be accompanied by an adult.
Please note, no alcohol will be sold or permitted on the site, and our standard terms and conditions apply.
More information
For more information, please visit www.belfastcity.gov.uk/events or call the Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 9024 6609.
The information contained in this email was correct when sent. Belfast City Council cannot be held responsible for errors, omissions or cancellations.
Other St Patrick's Day events
12 March - Hounds of Ulster Music Unites Belfast Waterfront
17 March - BBC St Patrick's Day Concert Belfast Waterfront
13 and 20 March - St Patrick's Day activities St George's Market
Carnival parade
The carnival procession, featuring hundreds of participants from all corners of Belfast, will leave Belfast City Hall at 12 noon, move down Chichester Street, then into Victoria Street and from there to Custom House Square.
The carnival parade, with the theme of Spring, will feature the biggest springtime bouquets ever seen in Belfast, surrounded by huge exotic butterflies!
View photos of last year's St Patrick's Day Carnival
Free concert - Chipmunk
Rising teenage rap sensation Chipmunk will headline this year’s multi-cultural concert at Custom House Square. It will begin at 1pm, after the carnival parade (gates open at 12 noon).
Other performers include The X Factor's Ruth Lorenzo, traditional music from Flook and Session Beats and K1, Romania’s chart-topping band. The concert will be compèred by Cool FM's Pete Snodden.
Tickets
The concert is free but a ticket is required.
Tickets are available from Belfast Welcome Centre, Donegall Place (beside Boots) from Friday 26 February at 9am.
Tickets are limited to four per person.
Tickets are only available to people over the age of 16.
Anyone under 16 attending the concert must be accompanied by an adult.
Please note, no alcohol will be sold or permitted on the site, and our standard terms and conditions apply.
More information
For more information, please visit www.belfastcity.gov.uk/events or call the Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 9024 6609.
The information contained in this email was correct when sent. Belfast City Council cannot be held responsible for errors, omissions or cancellations.
Other St Patrick's Day events
12 March - Hounds of Ulster Music Unites Belfast Waterfront
17 March - BBC St Patrick's Day Concert Belfast Waterfront
13 and 20 March - St Patrick's Day activities St George's Market
Queens street studios under threat?
We invented Halloween is a five-channel installation recorded on Halloween night, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 in the artist’s family home in rural County Wexford. Each year a central activity of the night involves the artist’s mother dressing up in an improvised manner with anything that will disguise her identity, and calling to his granny’s house, which is next door. Prior to calling to the house we see his mother getting d ressed, with the aid of his sisters, who dress and undress her with layers of coats, socks, tights and plastic masks. The work, which involves long, hand-held takes, follows her along the road and into the grannies house. In both recordings she is unaware of her identity, thinking instead that she is one of her great grand children. Each of the five films finishes when his mother leaves the house, happy that she has fooled his granny once again.
Previously this work has only been presented as a three-channel work, however the artist has produced the five-channel version for the Catalyst show.
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Catalyst Arts supports the campaign to save the Athletic Stores Building
Catalyst Arts would like to express its support for the campaign to save the Athletic Stores building on Queen Street, and invites Catalyst members to write to the Belfast planning office to express their concern that a planning application to demolish this building has been resubmitted. The future of buildings like Catalyst Arts and Queen Street Studio could be under threat if permission to demolish this historic building is granted.
You can register an objection to this application by writing to the planning service at this address:
Bedford House
16-22 Bedford St
Belfast
Co.Antrim
BT2 7FD
The Application Number is: Z/2008/1258/DCA and the details of this application can be found at: http://explorer.planningni.gov.uk
Previously this work has only been presented as a three-channel work, however the artist has produced the five-channel version for the Catalyst show.
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Catalyst Arts supports the campaign to save the Athletic Stores Building
Catalyst Arts would like to express its support for the campaign to save the Athletic Stores building on Queen Street, and invites Catalyst members to write to the Belfast planning office to express their concern that a planning application to demolish this building has been resubmitted. The future of buildings like Catalyst Arts and Queen Street Studio could be under threat if permission to demolish this historic building is granted.
You can register an objection to this application by writing to the planning service at this address:
Bedford House
16-22 Bedford St
Belfast
Co.Antrim
BT2 7FD
The Application Number is: Z/2008/1258/DCA and the details of this application can be found at: http://explorer.planningni.gov.uk
Monday, 1 March 2010
equality for LGBT history month
The GEO has launched a new fact sheet during LGBT History month on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality. Click here to view: http://www.equalities.gov.uk/news/lgbt_history_month.aspx.
a rare opportunity to purchase past works opening this thursday
‘33’
AN OUTSTANDING EXHIBITION FROM THE BELFAST PRINT WORKSHOP ARCHIVES
Exhibition opens 4th March 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Exhibition closes 29th March 2010
Prints From The Last Three Decades!
Since 1977 Belfast Print Workshop has been a hub of activity for both local and international artists. Every year they run at least one artist in residence programme where an artist can study various printmaking techniques and create artworks using the printmaking facilities available and the expert knowledge of the staff and members.
Since its foundation Belfast Print Workshop has collected works from all the artists who have worked with them and they have an extensive archive of artworks from well-respected artists. BPW are proud to announce they will be launching an exhibition of prints from their archive.
Many of the artists who have worked with Belfast Print Workshop in the last 33 years have given copies of editioned prints. This means Belfast Print Workshop are able to exhibit and sell prints from their archive and still keep a copy of these valuable prints in their archive for posterity.
This will be an amazing opportunity to pick up a rare hidden gem from a collection of artworks that have been meticulously looked after for the last 33 years. It is expected to be a sell out show due to the high quality of works and the calibre of artists who have produced prints at Belfast Print Workshop.
‘33’ is being exhibited in the Belfast Print Workshop Gallery on Waring Street opposite the Merchant Hotel. The opening night of the exhibition is happening on Thursday 4th March from 7pm to 9pm and it will run until Monday 29th March. Belfast Print Workshop look forward to seeing you there!
Artists include:
Basil Blackshaw, Hugh McDonald, Elizabeth Taggart, Neil Shawcross, Jack Pakenham, James Allen, Ivan Armstrong, Camilla Brown, Josephine McCormick, Tom Carr, Richard Croft, Hughie O'Donaghue, David Dubose, Norman Fraser, Felim Egan, Alphonso Monreal, Gordon Woods, Valeska Zabel, David Evans.... and many more!!
AN OUTSTANDING EXHIBITION FROM THE BELFAST PRINT WORKSHOP ARCHIVES
Exhibition opens 4th March 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Exhibition closes 29th March 2010
Prints From The Last Three Decades!
Since 1977 Belfast Print Workshop has been a hub of activity for both local and international artists. Every year they run at least one artist in residence programme where an artist can study various printmaking techniques and create artworks using the printmaking facilities available and the expert knowledge of the staff and members.
Since its foundation Belfast Print Workshop has collected works from all the artists who have worked with them and they have an extensive archive of artworks from well-respected artists. BPW are proud to announce they will be launching an exhibition of prints from their archive.
Many of the artists who have worked with Belfast Print Workshop in the last 33 years have given copies of editioned prints. This means Belfast Print Workshop are able to exhibit and sell prints from their archive and still keep a copy of these valuable prints in their archive for posterity.
This will be an amazing opportunity to pick up a rare hidden gem from a collection of artworks that have been meticulously looked after for the last 33 years. It is expected to be a sell out show due to the high quality of works and the calibre of artists who have produced prints at Belfast Print Workshop.
‘33’ is being exhibited in the Belfast Print Workshop Gallery on Waring Street opposite the Merchant Hotel. The opening night of the exhibition is happening on Thursday 4th March from 7pm to 9pm and it will run until Monday 29th March. Belfast Print Workshop look forward to seeing you there!
Artists include:
Basil Blackshaw, Hugh McDonald, Elizabeth Taggart, Neil Shawcross, Jack Pakenham, James Allen, Ivan Armstrong, Camilla Brown, Josephine McCormick, Tom Carr, Richard Croft, Hughie O'Donaghue, David Dubose, Norman Fraser, Felim Egan, Alphonso Monreal, Gordon Woods, Valeska Zabel, David Evans.... and many more!!
search engine optimisation
An introduction to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
The aim of this workshop is to improve your online presence through simple and inexpensive techniques and tools to boost your web visibility and consequently traffic to your web site.
Date: Tuesday 16 March 9.15-12.30
Location: i2 CIDO Innovation Centre
73 Charlestown Road
Craigavon
BT63 5PP - Google map ref: http://bit.ly/i2_cido
Cost: £40+VAT
The workshop will help attendees to:
" de-mystify the black art of attracting web visitors;
" define their target audience and understand their behaviour;
" develop the content relevant to that audience;
" see how Google Analytics provides essential information about access to content;
" review the potential of the social media-related services.
If you would like to attend this workshop, please contact us on:
" +44 28 9581 0551 (phoning from NI, please use 028 in front of number) or
" emailing us at support@platypusconsultancy.com.
The aim of this workshop is to improve your online presence through simple and inexpensive techniques and tools to boost your web visibility and consequently traffic to your web site.
Date: Tuesday 16 March 9.15-12.30
Location: i2 CIDO Innovation Centre
73 Charlestown Road
Craigavon
BT63 5PP - Google map ref: http://bit.ly/i2_cido
Cost: £40+VAT
The workshop will help attendees to:
" de-mystify the black art of attracting web visitors;
" define their target audience and understand their behaviour;
" develop the content relevant to that audience;
" see how Google Analytics provides essential information about access to content;
" review the potential of the social media-related services.
If you would like to attend this workshop, please contact us on:
" +44 28 9581 0551 (phoning from NI, please use 028 in front of number) or
" emailing us at support@platypusconsultancy.com.
Daniel Libeskind chosen to chair EXPO West design competition
Perspectives on Design in Cathedral Quarter
Belfast Exposed, 11am - 2.00pm, Tuesday 9th March 2010
Part of Belfast Exposed's Exchange Mechanism
The narrow streets and idiosyncratic buildings of Cathedral Quarter hark back to the birth of Belfast and the subsequent history of its emergence as a centre of commerce and industry. Just as it did in earlier stages of the city’s growth, Cathedral Quarter today hosts some of Belfast’s most exciting new developments. What current and emerging policies will protect the creativity, history and heritage of the area while at the same time allowing for new developments and contemporary architecture?
PLACE and the Cathedral Quarter Steering Group are coordinating this forum to debate design issues as they pertain to Cathedral Quarter, and to look at best practice in other cities familiar with culture led regeneration. The format will include presentations on relevant work elsewhere followed by a panel discussion.
Panelists:
Liza Fior – Architect, muf architecture + art, London
Barrie Todd – Architect, Belfast & Chair of Ministerial Advisory Group
Liz Davidson - Director Glasgow Townscape Heritage Initiative and Glasgow Merchant City
Peter Hunter – Architect, London, advisor to DSD
More info on this event on the PLACE Website.
On show until March 27th...
The Secret Laboratory @ PLACE
Don't forget our current exhibition, Notebooks and Narratives - The Secret Laboratory continues until Sat 27th March!
// Full details of PLACE events and exhibitions are publicised on the website at www.place.uk.net //
PLACE News...
EXPO West/Andersonstown Barracks redevelopment...
Daniel Libeskind chosen to chair EXPO West design competition
The "most celebrated" architect working internationally, Daniel Libeskind, has been appointed as Chair of the design competition for the site of the former Andersonstown Barracks in West Belfast. This process is being coordinated by PLACE and the West Belfast Partnership.
“PLACE is delighted that DSD are showing commitment to creating high quality architecture and approaching this development in such an inclusive way with real public engagement in the local area around the site. Mr Libeskind’s interest and involvement shows the high level of international interest in the regeneration of Northern Ireland. He is perhaps the most celebrated architect currently working globally and he wants to ensure both a thorough process and a high quality end result for the development.” - Michael Hegarty, Director.
The project is currently going through community consultation phase - follow the process
Belfast Exposed, 11am - 2.00pm, Tuesday 9th March 2010
Part of Belfast Exposed's Exchange Mechanism
The narrow streets and idiosyncratic buildings of Cathedral Quarter hark back to the birth of Belfast and the subsequent history of its emergence as a centre of commerce and industry. Just as it did in earlier stages of the city’s growth, Cathedral Quarter today hosts some of Belfast’s most exciting new developments. What current and emerging policies will protect the creativity, history and heritage of the area while at the same time allowing for new developments and contemporary architecture?
PLACE and the Cathedral Quarter Steering Group are coordinating this forum to debate design issues as they pertain to Cathedral Quarter, and to look at best practice in other cities familiar with culture led regeneration. The format will include presentations on relevant work elsewhere followed by a panel discussion.
Panelists:
Liza Fior – Architect, muf architecture + art, London
Barrie Todd – Architect, Belfast & Chair of Ministerial Advisory Group
Liz Davidson - Director Glasgow Townscape Heritage Initiative and Glasgow Merchant City
Peter Hunter – Architect, London, advisor to DSD
More info on this event on the PLACE Website.
On show until March 27th...
The Secret Laboratory @ PLACE
Don't forget our current exhibition, Notebooks and Narratives - The Secret Laboratory continues until Sat 27th March!
// Full details of PLACE events and exhibitions are publicised on the website at www.place.uk.net //
PLACE News...
EXPO West/Andersonstown Barracks redevelopment...
Daniel Libeskind chosen to chair EXPO West design competition
The "most celebrated" architect working internationally, Daniel Libeskind, has been appointed as Chair of the design competition for the site of the former Andersonstown Barracks in West Belfast. This process is being coordinated by PLACE and the West Belfast Partnership.
“PLACE is delighted that DSD are showing commitment to creating high quality architecture and approaching this development in such an inclusive way with real public engagement in the local area around the site. Mr Libeskind’s interest and involvement shows the high level of international interest in the regeneration of Northern Ireland. He is perhaps the most celebrated architect currently working globally and he wants to ensure both a thorough process and a high quality end result for the development.” - Michael Hegarty, Director.
The project is currently going through community consultation phase - follow the process
craftni conferance
Craft NI conferance next week www.craftni.org interesting speakers including me.
why not slow down and make.?????????????????
why not slow down and make.?????????????????
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