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Attended this performative lecture

'The lecture is researched, created and delivered by Ingrid Lyons and takes the form of a studio (laptop) visit/tour'

This event is part of a on-going research project by Frank Wassar.

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The Virtual Lectures presents: A lecture by Ingrid Lyons | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

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The Virtual Lectures presents a new lecture by Ingrid Lyons with guests Susan Hughes, Sinéad Kennedy, Kathy Tynan and Ilona McGuire.

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honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise

Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

various locations around Galway

Contributors to honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise include: Áine O’Hara, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Bog Cottage, Bridget O'Gorman, Edward Lawrenson & Pia Borg, Holly Márie Parnell, Jamila Prowse, Jenny Brady, Leila Hekmat, Nat Raha, P. Staff, Paul Roy, Philipp Gufler, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Sarah Browne and Sean Burns.

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TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to announce the contributors to its 2023 exhibition programme, titled honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais.

Festival dates: 3 - 19 November 2023, Galway city and county.

Contributors to honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise include: Áine O'Hara, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Bog Cottage, Bridget O'Gorman, Edward Lawrenson & Pia Borg, Holly Márie Parnell, Jamila Prowse, Jenny Brady, Leila Hekmat, Nat Raha, P. Staff, Paul Roy, Philipp Gufler, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Sarah Browne and Sean Burns.

Taking its title from the description of an Irish folk cure, honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise responds to the evolving experiences of disability and medicine in the West of Ireland. Reflecting on the legacy of institutions such as St Brigid's Mental Health Hospital and how ideas of health and treatment can shape landscapes and communities. The festival is dedicated to Ballinasloe born artist J.J. Beegan, who made drawings recalling home while living at Netherne Mental Health Hospital in Surrey, England.

You will find sounds, drawings, films, quilts, sculptures, performances, social spaces and paintings throughout Galway city and county. There are prints that express the experience of disability with ironic wit and soundscapes that dream of the sounds we wish we could hear from our sick beds.

There are films dedicated to loved ones through memories of illness and music, and the longing and access barriers of returning home as a disabled person. There are quilts weaving archives of disabled artists and others that celebrate queer artists and scholars whose lives were pathologised or touched by medicine.

Paintings visit sites of medical incarceration and we spend time with a group of young people who reimagine these sites through a neurodiverse lens. There are stories of how chemotherapy changes how we see ourselves, and others that transport us to a surrealist hospital for women that delves into the comedy and self-discovery of malady.

We are brought to tower blocks in Birmingham as havens of queer life and witness the inhabitants' history with HIV and AIDS. We will also share in the intimacy of a memory test for dementia through the retelling of Iranian resistance films. Other spaces are transformed into Faery Forts that create spaces of softness and play, re-enchanting a familiar landscape and sculptures built upon the support and collaboration necessary to create.

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais: "It has been a joy to spend more time at home in Galway curating this year's TULCA Festival, reflecting with artists on the many ways the experience of disability and medicine can shape places and communities, here in the west and elsewhere. It's been such a nourishing process, and I'm over the moon to share the compelling and tender work of the artists in this year's programme."

TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise will run from 3-19 November 2023 across multiple venues in Galway city and county.

Full festival programme and a commissioned publication will be announced in early October.

Contributors

Áine O'Hara
Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha
Anna Roberts-Gevalt
Bog Cottage
Bridget O'Gorman
Edward Lawrenson & Pia Borg
Holly Márie Parnell
Jamila Prowse
Jenny Brady
Leila Hekmat
Nat Raha
P. Staff
Paul Roy
Philipp Gufler
Rouzbeh Shadpey
Sarah Browne
Sean Burns

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TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to announce the contributors to its 2023 exhibition programme, titled honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. Festival dates: 3 - 19 November 2023, Galway city and county.

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SEA CHANGE 'is a long term project which we hope will ultimately result in an ambitious touring exhibition'

Artists Donegal: Tim Stampton, Cliodhna Timoney, Cathal McGinley

Artists Roe Valley: Bernie McGill, Nicola Nemec, Andrea Spencer

I unfortunately couldn't make this weekend but I was particularly interested in the work of Cathal McGinley. McGinley's event titled 'Meitheal Líniochta (Drawing ‘Work Team’)' aimed to create a collaborative drawing or Meitheal Líniochta. The idea of ‘Meitheal’ or ‘work team ’as it is the Irish term that denotes a community collective working towards a common goal, an act of neighbourly help and cooperation. This social concept is embedded in our Irish consciousness and McGinley utilises this approach not just as an instinctive methodology for his practice but also as a way to include and engage with both his own community and the audience. This activity will be accompanied by a live fiddle player.

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On my residency with Creative Spark in Co Louth I heard about SJ McArdle and his year-long research and writing project around the history and stories of Drogheda’s ancient Port, conducted during SJ’s tenure as Artist in Association at Droichead Arts Centre in 2019.

The lyric theatre in Belfast held this event for one night.

https://www.ents24.com/belfast-events/lyric-theatre/port/6908870

Attending this event aided my research into long-term writing projects. McArdle spent most of his residency writing songs, story songs, love songs to the sea.

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Guest Curator Wendy Erskine. This years theme Polyphonic.

Erskine writes, "multiple voices; multiple narratives; multiple perspectives: the polyphonic. Whether it’s simultaneous or sequenced, whether it’s in visual art, text or sound, let’s celebrate polyphony in all its complexity and contrariness. Let’s explore this non-hierarchical, democratic mode which allows for plurality of expression and response. The polyphonic, a challenge to the controlling, totalising ‘I'."

I purchased a few textie things

Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields & Gardens Edited by Karen E.Till (Maynooth University Department of Geography

Positive Blow Lauren Gault

Protecting Sea Creature Consciousness onto the Moon (collection of 13 handmade zines made by participants in workshop) Sarah Edmondson & Jess Raymon

Without Reduction -The Happy Hypocrite-

Take Hold. Edited by Rachel Botha

Shy Radicals The Antisystemic Politics Of The Militant Introvert Hamja Ahsan

The Hidden Green NCAD

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Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde's exhibition 'With son of'. Mac Giolla Bhríde attempts to dismantle the complexity of these gendered hierarchies by consciously inhabiting the role of the builder, architect and interior designer simultaneously. This serves as a way of positioning themselves, and manifesting sculptural artwork responsive to site. Construction materials, such as salvaged glass panels and personal artifacts, are selected, gathered, deposited and arranged on site, finding resolution in a sculptural staging that reconciles inherited architectural histories with the immediate physical environment, via subjective reinterpretations from a feminist/queer perspective.

One section of the exhibition had architectural maps that were concealed/hidden/tucked behind sheets of clear glass.

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Huddle Tests

Exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery 'transforms the gallery into a testing ground for the exploration of social relations, group dynamics and associated anxieties. The installation, including sculpture, drawing and wearables, reflects on the desires and tensions experienced between private thought and public behaviour, feelings of isolation and belonging, connectivity and relating, distraction and attending and the fragile state between comfort and discomfort. Rhona Byrne will present her new project, Huddlewear, a series of wearable artworks/social clothing developed by the artist during an artists residency at Facebook HQ Dublin.

To take part in this artwork there has to be a level of communication, understanding and mutuality for both individuals as it is a wearable sculpture. This is an interactive performative work.

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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to present an exhibition by Irish artist Rhona Byrne. Huddle tests transforms the gallery into a testing ground for the exploration of social relations, group dynamics and associated anxieties. The installation, including sculpture, drawing and wearables, reflects on the desires and tensions experienced between private thought and public behaviour, feelings of isolation and belonging, connectivity and relating, distraction and attending and the fragile state between comfort and discomfort. Rhona Byrne will present her new project, Huddlewear, a series of wearable artworks/social clothing developed by the artist during an artists residency at Facebook HQ Dublin.

For this exhibition, Huddlewear becomes a tool for activating exchanges in relationships between individuals, groups and communities. The exhibition invites and encourages visitors to wear and inhabit Huddlewear and to explore the intimacy and complexities of connection in real time. The interconnected designs of the garments can be worn by pairs and groups and aim to explore the wearer's sense of self and vulnerability during moments of interaction and gathering. By inviting participation and reflection the 'Huddle tests' exhibition will involve a series of events and activities as well as an open invite for 'group work' for the duration of the exhibition.

Rhona Byrne lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Rhona makes sculptural objects and spatial environments combining sculpture, performance and processes of participation that explore a negotiation of object, place and social practice. Recent selected projects and exhibitions include, Facebook Air program, Dublin; On that Note, Heart of Glass, Liverpool; Uillinn, Skibbereen, Moving Thresholds, National Gallery of Ireland; Verksmi∂jan, Hjalteyri, Iceland; Cowper Care home, Dublin; Its All up in the Air, Norfolk and Norwich Arts Festival, Uk; Bolthole, Open Studio, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, IMMA.

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Solo exhibition by Irish artist Rhona Byrne

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Is an artist, author, and video essayist. Her artistic practice is strongly research oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations from Greenland to Amazonia, where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil, ice, forests and water.

There are two projects of Biemann that I believe reference my 'reflections to sit with doc' acoustic ocean (2018) and Devenir Universidad (2019-2022).

acoustic ocean

'Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway, Acoustic Ocean sets out to explore the sonic ecology of marine life. The scientist as an explorer and important mediator of the contemporary understanding of our planetary ecosystems is a central figure in this video. She makes her appearance in the person of a Sami biologist-diver (indigenous of northern Scandinavia) who deploys all sorts of hydrophones, parabolic mics and recording devices to sense the submarine space for acoustic and other biological forms of expression.'

Devenir Universidad

'The quechua speaking Inga people of Colombia living in the ecologically rich zone between the Amazonian lowlands and the Andes, invited me to co-create of their most ambitious project, an Indigenous University. The aim is to create an institution for research and higher learning toward life-sustaining ecological cohabitation in the Andean-Amazonian region.'

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eco-operations: Talk with Ursula Biemann

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Listen to this episode from NYUAD Institute on Spotify. Presenting two captivating works by director Ursula Biemann, explore the profound connections of Indigenous communities to their natural environments. In the enthralling oceanic journey titled "Acoustic Ocean," we are transported to the Arctic Islands of Lofoten.

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Listen to this episode from Cultures of Energy on Spotify. Dominic and Cymene talk about the weltschmerz of turning 10, review this week's flood & fire news and offer handy recycling tips (e.g. don't recycle snakes!) on this week's podcast.

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Project: Mapping Below the Waterline (2016-ongoing) is a series of workshops that map intersecting care and community economies form part of a wider body of work that looks at how concepts of feminist economics and feminist ethics of care relate to people’s lived experiences.

Mapping Below the Waterline uses feminist economists JK Gibson-Graham’s metaphor of the ​“Economy As An Iceberg” as a way to visualise the diverse, multiple economies that make up our world https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-handbook-of-diverse-economies-9781788119955.html

There is a beautiful reflection by Rutherford in Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 4. https://frame-finland.fi/en/resources/rehearsing-hospitalities-companion-4/

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Carl Giffney and Ruth E Lyons

The Good Hatchery is an experimental project that sets out to challenge the norms for the production and presentation of contemporary art in Ireland today.An artist-led initiative and space based in the remote bog lands of North Offaly. 'We are committed to the support of artists in the production of high quality progressive art works. We promote an ethos of DIY and sustainability that takes advantage the spread of information and online learning opportunities enabled by our global age. TGH, its development and work are all closely aligned with a broad understanding of what resource is.'

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about

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The Good Hatchery is an experimental project that sets out to challenge the norms for the production and presentation of contemporary art in Ireland today. We are committed to the support of artists in the production of high quality progressive art works. We promote an ethos of DIY and sustainability that takes advantage the spread of information and online learning opportunities enabled by our global age. TGH, its development and work are all closely aligned with a broad understanding of what resource is.

The Good Hatchery is based in the rural bog lands of north Offaly in the Irish Midlands. Currently run by visual artists Carl Giffney and Ruth E Lyons, TGH operates a curatorial programme of residencies, on site projects and exhibitions. TGH offers residential studios and workshop spaces to artists for the realisation of ambitious artworks free of charge. The Good Hatchery is also the name of a collaborative practice conducted by the two artists, that often deals with issues that relate to TGH. With it they often embody their approach to art making methods developed in the deep rural.

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"The location in which the Good Hatchery is based is a fascinating one which for various histrorical reasons, has been overlooked by investment and tourism. The surrounding landscape is characterised by vast expanses of flat industrial bogland. Within the county of Offaly as a whole there is not one dedicated gallery space. All these issues combine to make it a raw and challenging context for the production and presentation of contemporary art. Throughout our curated projects we encourage artists to confront the challenges and new opportunities inherent in this context. We feel that the practice of contemporary art in Ireland can be enriched by artists challenging themselves to work outside their comfort zones and in doing so that new audiences can be reached.

We are interested in the affect that global networking has had on rural space. We encourage artists to go against the trend of centralisation and avail of the space and the aesthetic and contextual opportunities available in rural areas which in light of the spread of broadband internet no longer bear the stigma of isolation."

-Ruth E Lyons, 2010

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The Good Hatchery is an artist led space in the bog lands of North Offaly, Ireland. It is directed by Carl Giffney and Ruth Lyons

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Detail: taraxos, 20212021taraxosSteel, copper, willow, titanium, concrete and reflective pigment paint650 x 200 x 200 cm255 7/8 x 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in

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Taraxos Project

taraxos is an ongoing project by Sophia Al-Maria at Serpentine inspired by the dandelion.

'Sophia Al-Maria considers the dandelion an emblem of freedom and resistance, as each seed has the potential to become an agent of resilience and change. Inspired by the life cycle and geometry of the dandelion (taraxacum officinale), the sculpture taraxos is a model for understanding and listening to the world.

taraxos is a meditative place for anyone to slow down time for themselves. Visitors can sit beneath and stand amongst a constellation of 12 metal achenes, which take the form of futuristic dandelion ‘seeds’, and listen to the sculpture. Activated by the wind, the sculpture can also be'

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Seba Calfuqueo : The Voice Of The River 2023 

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Mapuche Artist, their work recurs to their cultural heritage as a starting point in order to propose a critical reflection on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche subject within contemporary Chilean society. Their work includes installation, ceramics, performance and video, with the aim of exploring the cultural similarities and differences between the crossing of indigenous and Western ways of thinking, as well as their stereotypes. Their goal is also to make the issues regarding feminism and queer theory visible.

'The show features different languages and techniques used by the artist, such as performance videos, drawings and ceramic works, all of which have the "river" as their starting point. Starting from indigenous worldviews in South America and the intervention of hydroelectric projects in riverbeds. The exhibition presents stories of connection and defence of rivers, from the Mapuche people to the connections with indigenous peoples in the Amazon'

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Seba Calfuqeuo, a Chilean artist of Mapuche origin, opens her first solo exhibition at Galeria Marilia Razuk

Seba Calfuqueo (1991) presents - "The Voice of River" - a solo exhibition in Room 2 of Galeria Marilia Razuk, from October 21 to December 16, 2023. The show features different languages and techniques used by the artist, such as performance videos, drawings and ceramic works, all of which have the "river" as their starting point. Starting from indigenous worldviews in South America and the intervention of hydroelectric projects in riverbeds. The exhibition presents stories of connection and defense of rivers, from the Mapuche people to the connections with indigenous peoples in the Amazon.

"The Voice of the River" will feature two performance videos by Seba Calfuqueo, "TRAY TRAY KO", made in 2022 and "Kowkülen", made in 2020. Both address issues related to privatized water in Chile, from the Pinochet dictatorship to the present day, and how this has an environmental, political and territorial impact. Seba Calfuqueo also presents drawings and ceramics made recently, which refer to extractive projects and hydroelectric plants that, as well as having an environmental impact, disrespect indigenous cosmovisions - which by definition have territory as part of their own bodies.

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Seba Calfuqeuo, a Chilean artist of Mapuche origin, opens her first solo exhibition at Galeria Marilia RazukSeba Calfuqueo (1991) presents - The Voice of River - a solo exhibition in Room 2 of Galeria Marilia Razuk, from October 21 to December 16, 2023.

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Artists:

boredomresearch (Cavan Burren and the Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Global Geopark)

William Bock (North shore of the Shannon Estuary)

Tania Candiani (Costal town of Glin)

Nathan O’Donnell (Lough Derg)

Residences as time to research and develop concept, embedded yourself and your practice into the local community, build relationships.

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River Residencies

Ormston House is delighted to announce the artists for the River Residencies following an international open call. The River Residencies will bring together artists and rural communities including boat-builders, folklorists, Geopark guides, historians, swimmers, citizen scientists and other catchment custodians, in partnership with four local authorities along the River Shannon.

Cavan Arts Office will host boredomresearch in the Cavan Burren and the Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Global Geopark. boredomresearch are UK-based artists, Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, internationally renowned for exploring an understanding of the natural world through their work at the interface of art, science and technology. Their practice considers our strategies for coping in a world increasingly destabilised by human activity. You can read more about the artists here .

Clare Arts Office will host William Bock along the north shore of the Shannon Estuary, a Special Area of Conservation and home to various protected species of avian and aquatic life. William is an interdisciplinary artist working in Ireland and the UK exploring the connections between people and the environments they inhabit. Through photography and sound, he will explore connections between the community and the body of water of the River Shannon where they live and work. You can read more about the artist here .

Limerick Culture and Arts Office will host Tania Candiani in the coastal town of Glin. Tania is a visual artist from Mexico City who has a special interest in site-specific projects because of the precise social links that they trigger. She uses historical records and archives as materials, and often works with sound, rhythm and translation. The artist will research the industrial heritage and traditional crafts of Glin. You can read more about the artist here .

Tipperary Arts Office will host Nathan O'Donnell on Lough Derg, the largest of the three lakes along the river. As a writer and editor, Nathan is interested in how publishing can be used as a device for participation and what forms participatory publishing can take. He will visit villages, swimming spots, and monastic sites along the shores of the lake, speaking to swimmers and mapping some of the mythologies, place-names, customs, and daily rituals that have evolved around the water. You can read more about the artist .

"There was great interest in the River Residencies from artists around the world and we received 295 thoughtful proposals exploring the river, its culture and stories. After a lengthy selection process, the partners are delighted to be working with William Bock, boredomresearch, Tania Candiani and Nathan O'Donnell. We look forward to connecting them with our knowledgeable communities in Cavan, Clare, Limerick and Tipperary to co-create a series of collaborative artworks along the River Shannon in 2021 and 2022." Pippa Little, Limerick City and County Council, lead partner.

The River Residencies are co-funded by the Arts Council's An Invitation to Collaboration scheme, led by Limerick Culture & Arts Office in partnership with the Arts Offices in Cavan, Clare and Tipperary. The River Residencies are curated by Caimin Walsh and Mary Conlon as part of the Museum of Mythological Water Beasts (2017-), a multi-year project about, along and on the River Shannon.

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4 June 2021-30 September 2022 Image: Lough Derg in Tipperary, the first destination for the River Residencies curated by Ormston House in 2021. Photograph by Jakub Walutek Productions.

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Ormston House is delighted to announce the artists for the River Residencies following an international open call. The River Residencies will bring together artists and rural communities including boat-builders, folklorists, Geopark guides, historians, swimmers, citizen scientists and other catchment custodians, in partnership with four local authorities along the River Shannon.

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'sculptural commission addresses place, the environment, and our relationship to time through the rhythm of the tides. Beattie places community participation at the heart of the project; inviting the local community to consider the ebb and flow of the river, encouraging participants to rethink their relationship with the river and their natural environment, prompting introspection and an examination of personal and collective histories. In this period of lockdown, the river has become a central point, giving people access to nature and to commune with the idea of slowing down. In Rebecca Solnit’s book, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, she says, “The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were travelling rather than making.”

In addition, a temporary sonic event will be held each day at high and low tides to mark the ebb and flow of the River Foyle.

~Tide time research

~Ebb and flow research

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Publication Launch & Bell Ringing

Saturday, 23rd July, 5 - 6:30pm (bell ringing at 5:45pm)

Void Gallery

Funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Drinks will be served

Void Gallery is delighted to announce details of forthcoming finissage event for its ambitious outdoor public art sculpture project by artist David Beattie as part of our Void Offsites programme.

To celebrate the culmination of David Beattie's sculptural commission, join us at Void Gallery for the publication launch of Listening to Places: exercises toward environmental composition by Robin Parmar.

Robin Parmar explores the phenomenology of place and the poetics of memory using non-narrative film, generative installations, and environmental composition. Interests include psycho-acoustics, visual music, field recording, radiophonics, and epistemologies of nature. He has released eleven albums of music and curates the label Stolen Mirror. Robin has a doctorate in Sonic Creativity from De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and is Lecturer in Video, Film, and Visual Communication at the University of Limerick (Ireland). He is Vice-President of the Irish Science, Sound, and Technology Association (ISSTA) and is on the editorial board of Interference: Journal of Audio Culture .

In addition, a temporary sonic event will be held each day at high and low tides to mark the ebb and flow of the River Foyle. The nearby bell will be rung daily from the 20 - 27 of July as part of Slowtime, a multi-part project by artist David Beattie.

Bell Ringing

20 - 27 July

Daily bell ringing at high and low tide

David Beattie's sculptural commission addresses place, the environment, and our relationship to time through the rhythm of the tides. Beattie places community participation at the heart of the project; inviting the local community to consider the ebb and flow of the river, encouraging participants to rethink their relationship with the river and their natural environment, prompting introspection and an examination of personal and collective histories. In this period of lockdown, the river has become a central point, giving people access to nature and to commune with the idea of slowing down. In Rebecca Solnit's book, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, she says, "The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were travelling rather than making."

David Beattie is an artist and lecturer based in Dublin, Ireland. Beattie's sculptural practice explores the material world through experiential, physical engagements with objects and non-objects. He was a recipient of the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA collection in 2016 and his work was recently acquired by the Arts Council for the National Art Collection in 2021. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Void Offsite Commissions, Derry (2021), The Glucksman (2019), Berlin Opticians (2018 - 2019) TULCA Art Festival, Galway (2017), CCA Derry-London- derry (2017), Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017 +2 013), and The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh (2010).

Acknowledgements

Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Government of Ireland. Supported by Derry City and Strabane District Council.

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Derry City and Strabane District Council, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation, Art Fund,, Halifax Foundation, The Arts Society.

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Publication Launch & Bell Ringing Saturday, 23rd July, 5 - 6:30pm (bell ringing at 5:45pm) Void Gallery Funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Drinks will be served Void Gallery is delighted to announce details of forthcoming finissage event for its ambitious outdoor public art sculpture project by artist David Beattie as part of [...]

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The Complex Object, 2007performance and video, 21:27min. performance registration Lisson Gallery, 2007

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Falke Pisano | Figures of Speech (2007-2010) 

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Figures of Speech is a long-term examination of processes that occur, when 'objects' start shifting their form, materiality, meaning, description, understanding, role, agency.

I am particularly interested in this series of work as it is largely based Pisano's performative writing practice, 'of formulating and reformulating of ideas-the works involved a circulation and exchange of language, ideas and forms; A transfer from one work to another often involving a change of status, a reflection within a different context or a further elaboration on an idea.'

The term 'object' can shape-shift into any guise. Writing is a key method within my practice but it is an area I struggle to give form to. For example, how something sculptural can be transformed into a glossary.

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Weathering is a slow-growth transdisciplinary research project currently tended by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Tessa Zettel and Astrida Neimanis. Formed in 2016 on Gadigal Land (Sydney)

'The project is an experimental collaboration around the seemingly quotidian phenomenon of weather and the theme of weathering as an embodied experience. We acknowledge Indigenous Australians’ unfathomable weathering of settler invasion and much more through time, and that land & water sovereignty were never ceded.'

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how will theory operate here? Sara Ahmed 

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How do I begin discussing theory?

What form will it take within the discussion?

Ahmed is challenging how we perceive feminist theory, to do this she starts by situating the word theory 'the word theory has a lot of capital' to asks how the word theory itself is distributed; 'how some materials are understood as theory and not others.'

As a student of theory Ahmed describes how 'theory is used to refer to a rather narrow body of work. Some work becomes theory because it refers to other work that is know as theory.'

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"In this way of thinking, swamps, woods, salt marshes and their shoals all partake of something shared, perhaps, by the broader oceanic tidalectic of unfixity (Brathwaite, in DeLoughrey, 2007, pp. 1-48)"

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..."to explore how thinking with the sea can assist in reconceptualising our geographical understandings. In short, we propose a wet ontology not merely to endorse the perspective of a world of flows, connections, liquidities, and becomings, but also to propose a means by which the sea’s material and phenomenological"

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Donna Haraway | Chapter 7 (A Curious Practice) 

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To think with an enlarged mentality means that one trains one’s imagination to go visiting.

—Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy

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Thoughts

~ references essay 'Hydrofeminism' to kind of thinking

~ membrane logic : 'from the perspective of watery embodiment, connection happens via the traversal of water across or through only partially permeable membranes. In an ocularcentric culture, some of these membranes—human skin, for example—give the illusion of impermeability, which is belied by the fact that we perspire, drink, leak, pee, bleed, and so on'

~ ecotonal thinking: Ecotones are transition areas between two adjacent ecosystems. They might be considered markers of connection and/or separation, but in ecological terms, they are zones of fecundity, creativity, transformation, multiplication, divergence, and reassembly. Estuaries, tidal zones, and wetlands, for example, are all liminal spaces (link research on Dundalk estuary)

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Preparing from the Not-Yet

'How can people feel that they can have agency as a collective body yet? It is a process of becoming, a balancing act between individual and the collective needs. If we think of agency only as a collective undertaking, then we forget the step of how two or more people actually become a collective.

What is critical to that is being able to let go of some of your own subjectivity, to put your subjectivity in order to approach other kinds of agencies and look at the space that is in between, in order to find common ground with other person.'

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Falke Pisano | word by Laura McLean-Ferris 

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Falke Pisano | word by Laura McLean-Ferris 

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I printed this article a while ago but I can't find the link anymore. McLean-Ferris situated Pisano's practice as human speech 'transformed into tangible form. Imagine that someone said something which had effects-on her own ability to speak, on that of others, on the future -and that you could see these effects, like a perfectly formed, beautifully crystalline schema spilling forth from the speaker. MAPPING out all future potentials. Imagine this was a sculpture. MAPPING and materialising characteristics the kinds of propositions Pisano puts forward via diagrams, sculptures, writing, lectures, interviews (for she has done them, when she has elected to) and books.'

I thought how the term MAPPING was used here was key to understand or coming to an understanding of Pisano's practice. That the artworks can inhabit any form and MAP out the same narrative but through a different kind of language.

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Research Questions

1)   To investigate how Art Writing might function as an artistic practice and methodology, and to devise new practice-based strategies to do so.

2)   To what extent can a floating methodology be used as a ‘lens’ to examine the relationship between the non-human?

3)   To examine the concept and practice of ‘floating’ within ‘archipelagic’ thinking

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Through the 'lens' of Vilém Flusser. Flusser's work was interested in new media art, he did utilise watery language to situate his philosophy around new media art. Horáková's paper straddles metaphors between water and dreams.

I stumbled upon this paper and wasn't very familiar with Flusser's work, his essayistic and poetic style of writing can be speculative, he is often described as a 'poet-philosopher'

Relating to Flusser's stylistic approach to presenting arguments, it references how I think and approach writing about floating. That things are always in a state of flux, streams of changing rambles. It is dream-like, and the process of floating can even in itself be dream-like, because there is a point of letting go and closing down that fight or fight response.