From the Rijksakademie website:

The Rijksakademie contributes to the development and renewal of the artistic practice by carefully selecting talented and ambitious artists for a work period. This two-year program offers artists theoretical, technical and artistic facilities. Research into, experimentation with, and development of the work are central aspects in the programme. The new group joins the 21 artists who started their residency in 2017. The selection committee consists of internationally renowned artists and professionals who are attached to the Rijksakademie and act as advisors. The advisors guide and coach the artists during their residency through studio visits and theoretical guidance.

The artists of the 2018 residency year:

Immaculate Mali Anderu (1990, UG)
Kévin Bray (1989, FR/NL)
Omar A. Chowdhury (1984, BD/AU)
Morgan Courtois (1988, FR)
Jude Crilly (1982, UK/CA/NL)
Aslan Gaisumov (1991, RU)
Elleke Hageman (1987, NL)
Omar Imam (1979, SY/NL)
Florence Jung (1986, FR/CH)
Maria Kley (1981, JP/DE/NL)
Mire Lee (1988, KR)
Christopher Mahon (1988, IE)
Astrid Nobel (1983, NL)
Yashaswini Raghunandan (1984, IN)
Bert Scholten (1988, NL)
Zamir Suleymanov (1987, AZ)
Remco Torenbosch (1982, NL)
Omar Vega Macotela (1988, MX)
Arian de Vette (1989, NL)
Marit Westerhuis (1992, NL)
Marina Xenofontos (1988, CY)
Shen Xin (1990, CN/UK)
XPRNC - Sujin Bae (1984, KR) & Jonathan Lemke (1987, DE)
Dan Zhu (1985, CN/DE)

Paul Moore, Unsettlement. Photo credit: Eavan Aiken

Unsettlement, a solo show by ARC graduate Paul Moore, opens in Gallery 1 at Platform Arts in Belfast on Thursday 6 July 2017, 6-9pm. The exhibition is curated by Moran Been-noon and continues 7th – 22nd July.

This exhibition is the latest outcome of the artist Paul Moore’s ongoing #nonarnia project. This Belfast-focused project critiques the adoption of fantastic cultural icons as signifiers of the gentrification processes. For ‘Unsettlement’ Moore, a multidisciplinary Belfast-based artist, will take over Gallery 1 of Platform Arts Belfast in July to create a No-Narnia No-Fantasy artistic comment to these administration-directed processes in Belfast.

On opening night, 6th July a procession-performance ceremony will take place at 6.45pm on the ground floor of Platform Art, entrance from Castle St.

For this seminar on art and ethics, artist Eoghan McIntyre has invited contributions from Dr Ben Bramble (Trinity College Dublin), artist Isadora Epstein and Dr Tina Kinsella (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology). The event will be chaired by curator Benjamin Stafford.  
In 2011, the artist John Timberlake wrote, “the radical quality of art is that it has no use in a culture dominated by profit, loss and use value.” This familiar claim for art’s autonomy is often a site of conflict when it encounters ethical and moral norms. Should works of art conform to what is morally acceptable or does its status as art make it separate from moral transgression?

This seminar will examine various meeting points between ethics and aesthetics, allowing for responses to such questions as ‘What are the ethical responsibilities of a work of art?’, ‘If a work of art is morally suspect should it be censored or destroyed?’ and ‘Can art be morally edifying?’

Admission is free but booking is essential.

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Installation view, This is Not Architecture, courtesy of Highlanes Gallery

Responding primarily to the current Highlanes exhibition This is Not Architecture, Dr Maeve Connolly will present an illustrated talk on the intersection of research and imagination within the gallery.

At a time when artworks can be encountered through a range of media and platforms, gallery exhibitions continue to function as vitally important contexts and settings in which to engage directly with artistic and curatorial research.
This talk will explore how group exhibitions, which often bring diverse artworks into dialogue or tension with each other, can produce powerful temporary conjunctions (or disjunctions) of actual, imagined and half-remembered spaces. It will refer to specific works by some of the artists included in the exhibition, such as Gerard Byrne, Maggie Madden and Colin Martin, and also to other recent artistic and curatorial projects engaging with the imagination of actual and imagined spaces.

This talk draws upon themes and questions being explored by staff and students on the MA in Art and Research Collaboration (ARC), co-directed by Maeve Connolly at IADT, and will reference some projects developed by MA researchers.

This is Not Architecture is presented on the occasion of Drogheda Arts Festival 2017 and the exhibition is also on view at Droichead Arts Centre on Stockwell Street, Drogheda.

The exhibition has been sponsored by Murtagh’s of Drogheda.

Event Date: 17 June

Time: 12.00-1.30 pm

Price: Free

Booking essential through Eventbrite

Biographies

Mary Cremin, Director of Void Gallery

Georgina Jackson, Director, Douglas Hyde Gallery. Photo: Eoin Williams

IADT BA Art Exhibition, 26 May – 1 June 2017

How Do Curators Research?
Exhibition tour and discussion at IADT, Wednesday 31 May 2-4pm.

You are invited to attend a tour of the IADT BA Art Exhibition on Wednesday 31 May, hosted by ARC Programme staff and students. The tour will be followed by a discussion with short presentations by four guest speakers:

Jennie Guy (Art School)
Alissa Kleist (CCA Derry-Londonderry)
Marguerite O’Molloy (IMMA)
Livia Paldi (Project Arts Centre)

Meet at the main entrance to the Quadrangle Building, IADT.
The tour begins at 2pm.
All welcome. Booking not required.

Biographies
Jennie Guy is an artist, curator and educator based in Dublin. Her artistic practice embraces visual, textual, performance, and event-based output. She is interested in the rituals surrounding artistic production, seeking alternate modes of observation and response. She is the founder and director of Art School, a platform that establishes new interfaces between contemporary art and sites of education. She develops workshop and residency programmes that unite artists, students, and educators in substantial research exchanges and partnerships, both nationally and internationally. Her projects generate collaborative art-works, exhibitions, screenings and publications, while remaining primarily invested in exploring artistic process and decisive interventions within educational curricula.

Alissa Kleist is a curator currently based between Belfast and Derry. She is the Curator (Exhibitions) at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Derry-Londonderry  and as one of the founders and directors of the organisation Household collaboratively curates site-specific exhibitions, residencies and events, often in disused, non-institutional spaces. From 2011 to 2013, she was a co-director of Catalyst Arts and collectively ran the organisation. She has written for a number of publications, and also works as an independent curator. In this capacity she has curated projects in galleries such as PS2, Golden Thread, and MCAC Portadown. She holds an MFA from Ulster University and have given talks and lectures at the invitation of institutions and organisations such as the Ulster University, National College of Art and Design Dublin, Limerick School of Art and Design, Queen’s University, Belfast City Council, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Visual Artists Ireland, Plus Tate, and IKT.

Marguerite O’Molloy was recently appointed IMMA’s first Programme Production Manager and is responsible for managing an ambitious international Programme. Highlights include As Above, So Below, GRIZEDALE A Fair Land, Emily Jacir Europa and Jaki Irvine If the Ground Should Open. Curatorial collaborations with artists have included Group coordination, 2014 with Caroline McCarthy and Fragments with Alan Phelan, 2015. Marguerite holds a First Class Honours MA.Vis from IADT and has extensive experience curating, both through her previous role programming the IMMA Collection and on a freelance basis. Solo exhibitions include Vong Phaophanit, Line Writing, 2014; Liam Gillick Literally Based on H.Z., 2009; James Coleman Background, 2008; Rose Finn Kelcey: Bureau de Change, 2003 and numerous group shows from the IMMA Collection including One Foot in the Real World, 2013; Between Metaphor and Object, 2010; What happens next is a secret, 2010. Marguerite was Project Co-ordinator for Gerard Byrne, Ireland at Venice, 2007 and Stage Manager for Marking the Territory, curated by Marina Abramovic 2001.

Born in Budapest, Lívia Páldi is the Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre in Dublin. Between 2012 and 2015 she was director of BAC – Baltic art Center, a residency and production space in Visby, Sweden and between 2005 and 2011 curator and chief curator of the Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest where she organised numerous exhibitions and events. Páldi has edited several exhibition catalogues; she was a contributing editor of East Art Map magazine and book organized by the artist collaborative IRWIN in Ljubljana (2002–5). She holds an MA in English Literature and Language and Art History from the Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest and participated in the Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam in 2000/2001. She was one of the curatorial agents of dOCUMENTA (13) and during 2016 she was member of the OFF-Biennale Budapest curatorial board. Her latest curatorial work include The Fevered Specters of Art (co-curated with Edit Molnár and Marcel Schwierin), Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg (DE) and Damage & Loss – Alternativa 2016 (co-curated with Anna Nawrot and Aneta Szyłak), Gdansk (PL).

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IADT Graduate Exhibition Opening Hours

Image copyright Steven Nestor

Exhibition Launch: 7pm Thursday 4 May 2017

Venue: The Tara Building, Tara Street, Dublin. Opening Hours: Mon to Fri 10am-5pm/Sat-Sun 12-6pm. Exhibition continues to 31 May.

Full details can be found on the PhotoIreland Festival 2017 website. 

Photo: Ruby Wallis, AQC, 2017

On Friday the 7th of April from 1-2pm, Debbie Paul and Ruby Wallis will present A Question of Communication, in the intimate surroundings of the Main Bandstand at St. Stephens Green Park, Dublin, Ireland. A participatory performance in which we will think about the various guises of this city centre park. The park was in 1663 a private dwelling with plots of land that were rented to local families for farming, then in 1880 re-landscaped and gifted to the state by Lord Ardilaun as an oasis of rest in the city centre. Later, the Bandstand was improvised as a field hospital during the 1916 uprising and so it became a place known for care and recuperation.

A Question of Communication is the first in a series of meditations on park life; this is a site-specific dynamic performance that is rooted in place; curator Debbie Paul in collaboration with artist Ruby Wallis will reimagine the architecture of a public park in order to unearth and gently challenge how people embody the underused space of the bandstand.  Acknowledging that we are increasingly disconnected from our physical environment, Paul and Wallis will create a situation for spontaneous collective engagement.  The performance will explore whether it is possible to cause a shift in how a familiar place can be experienced anew.

You are invited to begin by finding human bird welcomers at the Central Victorian Flower Garden; they will guide you towards the Main Bandstand to spread seeds of connection.

St. Stephens Green

Victorian Flower Gardens

Main Bandstand

Debbie Paul is a curator and sculptor,  her interest lies in the interaction between bodies and place. She works with artists, makers, and dancers to explore phenomena of connection. Chance encounters, as well as movement, are integral to her work. Recent projects include; A Fair Land, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2016); statecraft, IMMA project spaces (2016); Osmosis, Filmbase (2015).

Ruby Wallis is a visual artist, her work uses movement, through “seeing” and walking in Unfixed Landscape “sensing” through swimming in Turlough Swim, and “touching” through her photographic work Contact. Recent exhibitions include; Post-Picturesque: Photographing Ireland, Perlman Teaching Museum (2017); Interactions, Belfast Exposed Gallery (2017); Unfixed Landscape, Burren College of Art (2015)

This event is made possible through the kind support of the MA in Art & Research Collaboration (ARC) at IADT and The Office Of Public Works. Special thanks to Eavan Aiken, Tracey Behan, Eileen Brennan, Lucia Bonazzelli, Fiona Gannon, Michael Herbert, John Paul O’Brien, Paul Moore and Brian Young.

For further inquiries please contact Debbie Paul | debbie@debbiepaul.com

http://debbiepaul.com

http://ststephensgreenpark.ie

http://arciadt.ie/

Venue: The Darkroom, 32 Brunswick St North, Smithfield, Dublin 8.

Behold! The Anchoress is a graphical and auditory performance that invites the audience to swim in the layers of translation that stand between the present and the medieval reality of the first known female writer, Julian of Norwich. Julian describes the mystical experience that inspired her to become an anchoress, becoming dead to the world and living in a cell in a church. Radically defying the traditional public advisory role that could only make use of the pre-existing scriptures, Julian wrote and interpreted her own ‘shewings’, visceral scenes of Christ’s Passion, and in so doing became the earliest documented female writer in the English language. Her writings are preserved through manuscripts transcribed by nuns in the 16th century. 

Dublin filmmaker and artist Eavan Aiken and poet / translator Edwin Kelly will present an audiovisual performance that translates the mystical experience through the acousticity of voice and live drawing. The event will also mark the launch of Kelly’s translated pamphlet of Julian’s text ‘And After This I Saw’.
For further information please contact: eavanaiken@gmail.com

Book your ticket for the screening on Wednesday 29th March here: https://shop.ifi.ie/performance/56333

This event is made possible by partnership between the Irish Film Institute and the ARC Masters program at IADT.