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Impromptu: Live Performances developed through an all day workshop
Images from Impromptu: Live Performances developed through an all day workshop. The workshop was lead by myself and Eleanor Lawler and kindly supported by Market Studios and MART. The aim of the workshop was to being to explore the possibilities of 'liveness': a means to develop ones practice by in the first instance leaving it behind. Through group work and individual actions participants were encouraged to engage with and explore the theme and the boundaries of their own practices. We were delighted at the level of willingness of the participants to test their own ideas and levels of comfort. There was a real sense of engagement as a group, through which moments arose and fell away again, some lingering some drifting. It felt like a very valuable way to work. Many thanks to the participants. More workshops coming soon!
Impromptu: Performances Fri 24th Aug from 6pm
Impromptu: Live Performances developed through an all day workshop
Market StudiosFriday 24th August 2012, from 6pm.
A small group of artists with a variety of experience, approaches and positions in relation to live art and performance, will be presenting their explorations that have evolved from the days workshop. We hope that this will foster an interesting dynamic to both share and break out of the processes of own practices, and allow things to happen. The aim of the workshop is to build an environment of trust and experimentation, that can then lead into an...
Participating Artists: Donna McLoughlin, Eleanor Lawler, Katherine Nolan, Paula Fitz
The exchanges between the artists and their practices will structure the event, but there is one aim:
to create something live - to explore where we feel the edges and boundaries of our practices are, and to move beyond them:
live in the sense that anything could happen,
live as being present in the moment
live as an energy
live as a response
live as fluid
live as the unplanned moments that happen
live as a dialogue
Performances from 6.00
Market Studios
MAP
BYOB
We look forward to seeing you there
Eleanor & Katherine
This event is free and kindly supported by Market Studios andMART
Market StudiosFriday 24th August 2012, from 6pm.
A small group of artists with a variety of experience, approaches and positions in relation to live art and performance, will be presenting their explorations that have evolved from the days workshop. We hope that this will foster an interesting dynamic to both share and break out of the processes of own practices, and allow things to happen. The aim of the workshop is to build an environment of trust and experimentation, that can then lead into an...
evening of 'actions'.
Participating Artists: Donna McLoughlin, Eleanor Lawler, Katherine Nolan, Paula Fitz
The exchanges between the artists and their practices will structure the event, but there is one aim:
to create something live - to explore where we feel the edges and boundaries of our practices are, and to move beyond them:
live in the sense that anything could happen,
live as being present in the moment
live as an energy
live as a response
live as fluid
live as the unplanned moments that happen
live as a dialogue
Performances from 6.00
Market Studios
MAP
BYOB
We look forward to seeing you there
Eleanor & Katherine
This event is free and kindly supported by Market Studios andMART
At the edge of the land, of practice, and of knowing
Images: Jon Greenland
Exploring the concept of 'edge' through experiential and reflective exercises, through the lens of the workshop the landscape moved between metaphor for psychological states and material for physical engagement. Workshop info This three full day (four nights) intensive workshop will explore, in a sensorial and experiential way, what it is like to be out at the very periphery of a ‘bleak and rugged land’ – where historically experimentation, innovation, pioneering, radicality and alternative methods/philosophies have emerged strongly and are embedded in an ancient, seemingly ‘untouched’ landscape. Working site and context specific, we will be mapping the psycho-geographical landscape through our bodies and actions, trying to find our inner edge through exploring the outer edges, stepping into the spaces in-between land and water. Through body centred and material-led exercises/experimentations at sites along the West Penwith coastline, the workshop’s activities respond to the complex context and multiple realities revealed by being at the edge. (Zierle and Carter)
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Participating artists: Alister Lownie & Katerina Radeva Ann Haycock Cool Diabang Helen Goodwin Ilker Cinarel Jo Dimbleby Jon Greenland Katherine Nolan Nicole White Saffy Setohy Sarah Kent Sheila Ghelani Veronique Maria
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Participating artists: Alister Lownie & Katerina Radeva Ann Haycock Cool Diabang Helen Goodwin Ilker Cinarel Jo Dimbleby Jon Greenland Katherine Nolan Nicole White Saffy Setohy Sarah Kent Sheila Ghelani Veronique Maria
Scope New York
Images from Lost in Lust at Scope New York, March 2012. A group exhibition featuring the work of Ursula Burke Allan Hughes Jenny Keane Deirdre McKenna Katherine Nolan and Maurice Doherty. The exhibit sought to present ideas on the idea of 'woman' and its mis-representation. My video work You are a very Naughty Boy! was exhibited, and also 2 live performances which continue to develop the 'Untitled Panties' series, produced 2 new artworks. This new setting provided an interesting context for this new series of works, which seeks out new ways to discomfort the viewer through an over-determind sexualised relationship to the viewer. In the highly commerical nature of this New York based Art Fair, the nudity of the performance appeared more sensationalised than previous incarnations...not helped by copious amount of Margaritas! This mood was reflected in some on-line reviews- White Hot Magazine
Producing Untitled (Panties no.1)
This video records the process of making the art piece Untitled (Panties no. 1). Made in front of a live audience the piece consists of polyester Walmart panties, $3.99, worn during a performance at C4 Gallery LA 4/8/2011 for a duration of 1 min 23 sec. The artwork can be bought for $4,503.99.
Forthcoming Performance 4th of August @6pm C4 Gallery LA
‘Invite or Reject’ opens in C4 Gallery Los Angeles as part of Imagine Ireland; an initiative by Culture Ireland.
MART’s ‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new Irish Visual Arts Exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 15 selected Irish artists to create new work spread over a three-city exhibition.
This the third and final leg of a 3 part exhibition opens in C4 Gallery on August 4th at 6pm. The first show opened in Chicago in June and carried on to New York in Flux Factory in July. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of Artists in the international contemporary art scene. The work is challenging yet irresistibly welcoming for American audiences to interact and communicate with.
Artists: Adrian Duncan Benjamin Gaulon Adam Gibney Tony Kenny Katherine Nolan Ciara Scanlan Matthew Nevin.
Opening @6pm on August 4th at 5647 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90028 Map.
Exhibition runs from August 4th – August 24th
MART’s ‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new Irish Visual Arts Exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 15 selected Irish artists to create new work spread over a three-city exhibition.
This the third and final leg of a 3 part exhibition opens in C4 Gallery on August 4th at 6pm. The first show opened in Chicago in June and carried on to New York in Flux Factory in July. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of Artists in the international contemporary art scene. The work is challenging yet irresistibly welcoming for American audiences to interact and communicate with.
Artists: Adrian Duncan Benjamin Gaulon Adam Gibney Tony Kenny Katherine Nolan Ciara Scanlan Matthew Nevin.
Opening @6pm on August 4th at 5647 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90028 Map.
Exhibition runs from August 4th – August 24th
Flux Factory, New York, 14th July 2011
This new work, performed at FLUX factory, New York July 2011, extends my exploration of how the gallery space frames the erotic female body in performance, using live feed and play with the space to structure the gaze.
The work aims to explore the processes that produce the erotic female body as spectacle, flipping the focus from the performing body to include the camera, gallery space and spectator. An interchange between the ‘live’ and the represented is theatrically stage to produce slippage between bodies that may act and be acted upon , and those that exist as spectacular image that can be exchanged in the economy of the visual. Themes of voyeurism, exhibitionism and narcissistic fascination twist and cross, as viewers become embroiled in their own act of consumption.
With thanks, as ever to MART
The work aims to explore the processes that produce the erotic female body as spectacle, flipping the focus from the performing body to include the camera, gallery space and spectator. An interchange between the ‘live’ and the represented is theatrically stage to produce slippage between bodies that may act and be acted upon , and those that exist as spectacular image that can be exchanged in the economy of the visual. Themes of voyeurism, exhibitionism and narcissistic fascination twist and cross, as viewers become embroiled in their own act of consumption.
With thanks, as ever to MART
New Performance in FLUX , New York, 14th July
I will be doing a new performance this Thursday 14th July in FLUX factory New York @ 9.30.pm. This work extends my previous exploration of how the gallery space frame the female body in performance, using live feed and play with the gallery walls to structure the gaze.
The work aims to explore the processes that produce the (erotic) female body as spectacle, flipping the focus from the performing body to include the camera, gallery space and spectator. Theatrically staged interchange between live feed and live performance, producing slippage between a 'live' tangible body moving in the same space as the spectators, an acting body that may act and be acted upon, and a body that exists only as image, an image that can be edited, cut up, fetished and exchanged in the economy of the visual.
Along with a video piece from performances in Berlin in July 2010, the work is part of MART's Invite or Reject supported by Imagine Ireland, an initiative by Culture Ireland.
Performances on Flux Thursday, July 14th 8pm +
Exhibition runs July 9th – 30th, Thurs – Sun, 12 – 6pm
FLUX factory, 39-31 29th Street, New York 11101
Artists: Benjamin Gaulon, Joan Healy, ColleenKeough, Margaret O’Brien,Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan,
Ciara Scanlan, Stephen Woods
MART’s ‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new Irish Visual Arts Exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlanand Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 15 selected Irish artists to create new work spread over a three-city exhibition.
This the second leg of a 3 part exhibition opens in FLUX Fctory at 6pm on July 9th in FLUX Fctory. The first show opened in Chicago in June and will carry on to C4 Gallery Los Angeles in August. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of Artists in the international contemporary art scene. The work is challenging yet irresistibly welcoming for American audiences to interact and communicate with.
MART‘Invite or Reject’ refers to the duality of understanding and miscommunicationthat exists within Irish Emigration. It was common for the Irish to be rejected and treated as second-class citizens for the early part of 19th century. This Irish diaspora flocked to America for a better life away from famine, war and hardship, to help build a better America for today. In spite of over 37 million Irish Americans living today, the current political and social climate in America and Ireland, leaves it difficultto gain a working visa, leaving America more of a holiday destination for the Irish in stark contrast to its history.
MART is an Irish Visual Artist organisation. Our primary aim is to create a platform for New Media, Installation, Experimental Film, and Performance artists to showcase their work. MART was founded on an inclusive ethos, to inspire a curiosity for knowledge, to bring contemporary art to the forefront of culture by actively engaging people from all sectors of society in both its viewing and production.
The work aims to explore the processes that produce the (erotic) female body as spectacle, flipping the focus from the performing body to include the camera, gallery space and spectator. Theatrically staged interchange between live feed and live performance, producing slippage between a 'live' tangible body moving in the same space as the spectators, an acting body that may act and be acted upon, and a body that exists only as image, an image that can be edited, cut up, fetished and exchanged in the economy of the visual.
Along with a video piece from performances in Berlin in July 2010, the work is part of MART's Invite or Reject supported by Imagine Ireland, an initiative by Culture Ireland.
Performances on Flux Thursday, July 14th 8pm +
Exhibition runs July 9th – 30th, Thurs – Sun, 12 – 6pm
FLUX factory, 39-31 29th Street, New York 11101
Artists: Benjamin Gaulon, Joan Healy, ColleenKeough, Margaret O’Brien,Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan,
Ciara Scanlan, Stephen Woods
MART’s ‘Invite or Reject’ is an ambitious new Irish Visual Arts Exhibition curated by MART’s Ciara Scanlanand Matthew Nevin. The show consists of 15 selected Irish artists to create new work spread over a three-city exhibition.
This the second leg of a 3 part exhibition opens in FLUX Fctory at 6pm on July 9th in FLUX Fctory. The first show opened in Chicago in June and will carry on to C4 Gallery Los Angeles in August. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of Artists in the international contemporary art scene. The work is challenging yet irresistibly welcoming for American audiences to interact and communicate with.
MART‘Invite or Reject’ refers to the duality of understanding and miscommunicationthat exists within Irish Emigration. It was common for the Irish to be rejected and treated as second-class citizens for the early part of 19th century. This Irish diaspora flocked to America for a better life away from famine, war and hardship, to help build a better America for today. In spite of over 37 million Irish Americans living today, the current political and social climate in America and Ireland, leaves it difficultto gain a working visa, leaving America more of a holiday destination for the Irish in stark contrast to its history.
MART is an Irish Visual Artist organisation. Our primary aim is to create a platform for New Media, Installation, Experimental Film, and Performance artists to showcase their work. MART was founded on an inclusive ethos, to inspire a curiosity for knowledge, to bring contemporary art to the forefront of culture by actively engaging people from all sectors of society in both its viewing and production.
Screening as part of PQ Quadrennial Prague
Documentation of one of my performances in Berlin in July 2010 screened as part of MART's ////a////form////in////space/// , featured as part of PQ - the 11th Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space.
Location: The National Theatre, Prague. Czech Republic.
Date: Friday 24th June
Time:10:00 pm
Format : Film Screening
Artists:Darragh O'Callaghan, Molly O'Dwyer, Ciaran Hussey, Colleen Keough, Nicky Larkin,Eleanor Lawler, Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan, Emanuel Rohss, Ciara Scanlan.
Through the films shown in ////a////form////in////space//// we wish to touch on the intimacy and spectacle of the use of performance, visuality and space in experimental film. Each selected Artist works extensively in recontextualising space and the environment in which we inhabit. The artists question our notions of comfort and apathy in the world and push us reevaluate our role in society and place. From the subjective and personal to the distant and objective each work challenges the viewer.
Location: The National Theatre, Prague. Czech Republic.Date: Friday 24th June
Time:10:00 pm
Format : Film Screening
Artists:Darragh O'Callaghan, Molly O'Dwyer, Ciaran Hussey, Colleen Keough, Nicky Larkin,Eleanor Lawler, Matthew Nevin, Katherine Nolan, Emanuel Rohss, Ciara Scanlan.
Through the films shown in ////a////form////in////space//// we wish to touch on the intimacy and spectacle of the use of performance, visuality and space in experimental film. Each selected Artist works extensively in recontextualising space and the environment in which we inhabit. The artists question our notions of comfort and apathy in the world and push us reevaluate our role in society and place. From the subjective and personal to the distant and objective each work challenges the viewer.
I’m very excited to be performing a new collaborative piece this weekend, with artist Eleanor Lawlor.The piece is a response to the theme of Memoirs of Youth – an exhibition curated by Aine Macken, to correlate with publication of Volume II of Never Never and Elsewhere,This Sat Feb 19th at 7pm at ExchangeDublin.
This new work is still very much in flux and will be a collision of the two practices, at points which they both intersect and pull apart from eachother. I am interested in the dynamics that might occur between the Eleanor's use of the camera as a first person viewpoint, and the highly eroticized female body that is performed in my work. The collaboration feels full of possibility and tensions that might occur between homeliness and erotica, game playing and gazing, hiding and being seen, the safety or restriction of containment versus the vulnerability or pleasure of exposure.
Evolved at this point only through conversation, the piece will only finally come together on the night of the performance. This deliberately precarious method of working we hope will give a sense of urgency, risk and rawness to the piece. I’ll be flying by the seat of my pants, but at least I’ll be wearing some.
The context of Never Never and Elsewhere also presents a new venture for my practice. “An Irish queer literary journal dedicated to publishing creative, autobiographical and memoir writings”, could present a shift in the understanding or assumption of a heterosexualised dynamics of the gaze of mainstream culture, to a more complex understanding of erotic performance and spectatorship.
Never Never and Elsewhere is an Irish literary journal dedicated to publishing creative autobiographical and memoir writings by lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans writers. The title of Volume II is 'Memoirs of Youth' and includes writings from Senator David Norris, Ailbhe Smyth, Ciarán Rua, Stephen Quinn and Gillian Watt, amongst others.
Working with curator and visual artist Aine Macken, 'Memoirs of Youth' has collected imagery from seven artists. Facilitated by Exchange Dublin, there will be a dedicated location to launch the limited edition publication with exciting new work both being exhibited and within the publication itself.
Artists include Peter Fingleton, Catherine Harty, Gerry Lee, Kieran McBride, Katherine Nolanand TueMeTues , along with a new body of work from Áine Macken's own practice. There will be workshops and events occurring throughout the week including a special workshop from Gerry Lee (a recent graduate with an MA in Art Therapy) on Wednesday at 7pm. The night of Saturday the 19th of February will see Katherine Nolan perfoming a brand new piece along with selected personal readings from the journal from 7pm.
All contributors are responding to the theme of the collection and viewers can expect both written and visual works operating within the complicated sphere of the memoir, the record, and the creative response to one's influence and history.
Launch on Saturday, 19 February 2011, 7pm
Exhibition 14th to 20th February.
Exchange Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar
This new work is still very much in flux and will be a collision of the two practices, at points which they both intersect and pull apart from eachother. I am interested in the dynamics that might occur between the Eleanor's use of the camera as a first person viewpoint, and the highly eroticized female body that is performed in my work. The collaboration feels full of possibility and tensions that might occur between homeliness and erotica, game playing and gazing, hiding and being seen, the safety or restriction of containment versus the vulnerability or pleasure of exposure.
Evolved at this point only through conversation, the piece will only finally come together on the night of the performance. This deliberately precarious method of working we hope will give a sense of urgency, risk and rawness to the piece. I’ll be flying by the seat of my pants, but at least I’ll be wearing some.
The context of Never Never and Elsewhere also presents a new venture for my practice. “An Irish queer literary journal dedicated to publishing creative, autobiographical and memoir writings”, could present a shift in the understanding or assumption of a heterosexualised dynamics of the gaze of mainstream culture, to a more complex understanding of erotic performance and spectatorship.
Never Never and Elsewhere is an Irish literary journal dedicated to publishing creative autobiographical and memoir writings by lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans writers. The title of Volume II is 'Memoirs of Youth' and includes writings from Senator David Norris, Ailbhe Smyth, Ciarán Rua, Stephen Quinn and Gillian Watt, amongst others.
Working with curator and visual artist Aine Macken, 'Memoirs of Youth' has collected imagery from seven artists. Facilitated by Exchange Dublin, there will be a dedicated location to launch the limited edition publication with exciting new work both being exhibited and within the publication itself.
Artists include Peter Fingleton, Catherine Harty, Gerry Lee, Kieran McBride, Katherine Nolanand TueMeTues , along with a new body of work from Áine Macken's own practice. There will be workshops and events occurring throughout the week including a special workshop from Gerry Lee (a recent graduate with an MA in Art Therapy) on Wednesday at 7pm. The night of Saturday the 19th of February will see Katherine Nolan perfoming a brand new piece along with selected personal readings from the journal from 7pm.
All contributors are responding to the theme of the collection and viewers can expect both written and visual works operating within the complicated sphere of the memoir, the record, and the creative response to one's influence and history.
Launch on Saturday, 19 February 2011, 7pm
Exhibition 14th to 20th February.
Exchange Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar
MART: Kickstarter
MART is a platform that supports emerging and established artists show their work internationally. They are an incredibly inclusive, generous and dynmaic organization who support the work of artist's like me by providing opportunities to show and develop work in creative and supportive atmosphere.
MART have helped made my work happen over the last 2 years, so please help them make their upcoming project happen by donating to their fundraising initiative on KICKSTARTER
Donating even £5 will help support this vibrant and important initiative. A message from them below.
MART is looking for your support raising funds for our planned North American Exhibition this summer.
Invite or Reject is an ambitious new exhibition to be held in New York, Chicago & Los Angeles from the Irish Arts Organisation MART , it refers to the duality of understanding and miscommunication that existed when Irish people first immigrated to America. MART is a non profit art organisation based in Ireland. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of our work in the international contemporary art scene.
We need your help to make this happen and would love for you to support our exhibition by gleefully asking you for your kind support through our KICKSTARTER fundraising page, you can back 5, 10, 25, 50 and higher to help us make this happen - Plus you get some exciting Rewards for doing so ... T-Shirts, DVD's, Art Works, Photographs, dinners out and much much more!!! Our target is $5000 and if we dont reach it we don't recieve any of the funds...so we really do need your help!! If a lot of people donate an amount we can reach it!!!
Please check out KICKSTARTER and back our project and receive some exciting rewards :
Please help us out and also spread the word on any websites, groups or your social network
We hope you all can donate a little and spread the word.
From The Lovely Curators of MART
MART have helped made my work happen over the last 2 years, so please help them make their upcoming project happen by donating to their fundraising initiative on KICKSTARTER
Donating even £5 will help support this vibrant and important initiative. A message from them below.
MART is looking for your support raising funds for our planned North American Exhibition this summer.
Invite or Reject is an ambitious new exhibition to be held in New York, Chicago & Los Angeles from the Irish Arts Organisation MART , it refers to the duality of understanding and miscommunication that existed when Irish people first immigrated to America. MART is a non profit art organisation based in Ireland. This exhibition shall showcase some of Ireland’s leading and emerging visual artists and highlight the strength of our work in the international contemporary art scene.
We need your help to make this happen and would love for you to support our exhibition by gleefully asking you for your kind support through our KICKSTARTER fundraising page, you can back 5, 10, 25, 50 and higher to help us make this happen - Plus you get some exciting Rewards for doing so ... T-Shirts, DVD's, Art Works, Photographs, dinners out and much much more!!! Our target is $5000 and if we dont reach it we don't recieve any of the funds...so we really do need your help!! If a lot of people donate an amount we can reach it!!!
Please check out KICKSTARTER and back our project and receive some exciting rewards :
Please help us out and also spread the word on any websites, groups or your social network
We hope you all can donate a little and spread the word.
From The Lovely Curators of MART
In View : Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. 10th Dec - 29th Jan
I will be performing live as part of In View exhibition at the Golden Thread GalleryBelfast on Friday 10th of December. Developing previous enactments of Surface Attention this performance further seeks to twist the erotic spectacle, attempting to elicit responses somewhere between the voyeuristic and empathetic.
This is followed by In Conversation discussion panel on Sat 11th Dec. My video works You are A Very Naughty Boy! and Silver Screen Shimmy(2009)will also be screened as part of the exhibition.
In View
10th December 2010 – 29th January 2011
Opening 6pm – 8pm
In View is an exhibition that establishes a context from which to explore the tensions and dialogues concerned with the physical act of looking. The gaze holds multiple interpretations, such as the voyeuristic, scopophilic, erotic; and is as much dependant upon the viewer, as that which is being viewed. Each artist challenges us to consider our role as a viewer of the works on display, calling into question our gender, the gender of the artist, and our preconceived understanding of the subject, therefore highlighting the tensions that exist within the topic of the gaze.
In Vito Acconci’s video work Pryings (1971), his violent attempts to force open the eyes of his subject are difficult to watch, as is the challenging gaze of Laura O’Connor in her video work Dull, Limp, Lifeless (2010). Like O’Connor, Katherine Nolan encourages the viewer to watch her, and yet reprimands them for doing so. Her work, You Are a Very Naughty Boy! (2009), obscures our view of her at intervals, as if in punishment for gazing upon her scantily dressed body. The photographic works of Shaleen Temple take a slightly different approach, commenting on the level of control held by the gaze of the subject, the artist, and ourselves, the viewer. The exhibition also includes work from Phil Collins, Common Culture, Sara Greavu, Magaret Harrison, Noemi Lakmaier, ORLAN, and Aine Phillips.
Golden Thread Gallery, 84-94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast BT1 2LU
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10.30am - 5.30.pm & Saturday 10.30am – 4.00pm
Tel. +44(0)28 9033 0920 E. info@gtgallery.co.uk W. www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk
This is followed by In Conversation discussion panel on Sat 11th Dec. My video works You are A Very Naughty Boy! and Silver Screen Shimmy(2009)will also be screened as part of the exhibition.
In View
10th December 2010 – 29th January 2011
Opening 6pm – 8pm
In View is an exhibition that establishes a context from which to explore the tensions and dialogues concerned with the physical act of looking. The gaze holds multiple interpretations, such as the voyeuristic, scopophilic, erotic; and is as much dependant upon the viewer, as that which is being viewed. Each artist challenges us to consider our role as a viewer of the works on display, calling into question our gender, the gender of the artist, and our preconceived understanding of the subject, therefore highlighting the tensions that exist within the topic of the gaze.
In Vito Acconci’s video work Pryings (1971), his violent attempts to force open the eyes of his subject are difficult to watch, as is the challenging gaze of Laura O’Connor in her video work Dull, Limp, Lifeless (2010). Like O’Connor, Katherine Nolan encourages the viewer to watch her, and yet reprimands them for doing so. Her work, You Are a Very Naughty Boy! (2009), obscures our view of her at intervals, as if in punishment for gazing upon her scantily dressed body. The photographic works of Shaleen Temple take a slightly different approach, commenting on the level of control held by the gaze of the subject, the artist, and ourselves, the viewer. The exhibition also includes work from Phil Collins, Common Culture, Sara Greavu, Magaret Harrison, Noemi Lakmaier, ORLAN, and Aine Phillips.
Golden Thread Gallery, 84-94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast BT1 2LU
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10.30am - 5.30.pm & Saturday 10.30am – 4.00pm
Tel. +44(0)28 9033 0920 E. info@gtgallery.co.uk W. www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk
Trans West : Collaboration with Joan Healy
Documentation of work performed in collaboration with Joan Healy at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin. Also preformed at Live Stock
in Market Studios, Dublin July 2010, and perhaps further mash-ups to come....
In a further interrogation of the nature of objectivity, Trans West is a collaboration with artist Joan Healy in which the body of the performance artist(s) is interrogated as artwork.
This collision of the two practices pushes and pulls understandings of what constitutes the artwork in performance. As two independently acting bodies intersect, authorship and art object are entangled in the intersubjective exchange. Processes of objectification are opened out as the body presses against the material object, and the material presses against the body. Indeed the very distinction between what and who, material and body, author and artwork are distended and collapsed in a fluid process of exchange and transfusion
in Market Studios, Dublin July 2010, and perhaps further mash-ups to come....
In a further interrogation of the nature of objectivity, Trans West is a collaboration with artist Joan Healy in which the body of the performance artist(s) is interrogated as artwork.
This collision of the two practices pushes and pulls understandings of what constitutes the artwork in performance. As two independently acting bodies intersect, authorship and art object are entangled in the intersubjective exchange. Processes of objectification are opened out as the body presses against the material object, and the material presses against the body. Indeed the very distinction between what and who, material and body, author and artwork are distended and collapsed in a fluid process of exchange and transfusion
Surface Attention. Space, Bratislava 13:07:10
Raw footage of a live performance of Surface Attention at Space Gallery in Bratislava.
This industrial building, formerly used for coal storage, has been whitewashed into the ostensibly neutral space that characterizes the contemporary art gallery. The performance focuses on the idiosyncrasies of the architecture, namely the large black ramp that marks the buildings history. The female performer - also marked as erotic body by her black lingerie - spreads her body across the surfaces and structure of the iron framework. Investing her desires in the cold and inanimate, she raises questions in relation to her own vulnerability as object through the absurdly perverse and erotically ridiculous.
This industrial building, formerly used for coal storage, has been whitewashed into the ostensibly neutral space that characterizes the contemporary art gallery. The performance focuses on the idiosyncrasies of the architecture, namely the large black ramp that marks the buildings history. The female performer - also marked as erotic body by her black lingerie - spreads her body across the surfaces and structure of the iron framework. Investing her desires in the cold and inanimate, she raises questions in relation to her own vulnerability as object through the absurdly perverse and erotically ridiculous.
Livestock, Dublin: New Performance
I will be developing a new performance as part of Livestock, in
Market Studios, Dublin. Livestock events foster an experimental space in which artist's are encouraged to develop work in a live but supportive creative environment. This mobilizes the potential fluidity of performance, pulling and stretching artistic practice across and through disciplines, and fostering a crucial space for dialogue and exchange.
As a performance artist this presents a fantastic opportunity for work to be energized by the public moment and yet unconstrained by expectation. Emphasis on experimentation and creative exchange fosters a productive instability, which opens out performance practice and its critical contribution to contemporary culture and discourse.
The line up includes:
Katherine Nolan
Sinead McCann
Dominic Thorpe
Jess Kelly
Katherine Barragry
Valerie Joyce
The Troupe
Colm Clarke
Toymonger
Jennie Guy
Andy Behan
StephenDoyle
Kit McDermot
Sat 31st July, from 6.30 + rooftop party after!
This event is free, all welcome, BYOB.
The Market Studios,Corner of Mary’s Lane and Halston Street, Dublin 1. Map
Market Studios, Dublin. Livestock events foster an experimental space in which artist's are encouraged to develop work in a live but supportive creative environment. This mobilizes the potential fluidity of performance, pulling and stretching artistic practice across and through disciplines, and fostering a crucial space for dialogue and exchange.
As a performance artist this presents a fantastic opportunity for work to be energized by the public moment and yet unconstrained by expectation. Emphasis on experimentation and creative exchange fosters a productive instability, which opens out performance practice and its critical contribution to contemporary culture and discourse.
The line up includes:
Katherine Nolan
Sinead McCann
Dominic Thorpe
Jess Kelly
Katherine Barragry
Valerie Joyce
The Troupe
Colm Clarke
Toymonger
Jennie Guy
Andy Behan
StephenDoyle
Kit McDermot
Sat 31st July, from 6.30 + rooftop party after!
This event is free, all welcome, BYOB.
The Market Studios,Corner of Mary’s Lane and Halston Street, Dublin 1. Map
Surface Attention The Box: Berlin 21:07:10
The tour continues...
Documentation of the evolving Surface Attention series as performed in Stattbad Berlin.
Documentation of the evolving Surface Attention series as performed in Stattbad Berlin.
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