Director Call Out
11/05/2012
Catalyst Arts welcomes applications of expressions of interest for new Co-Directors. Please download the information below which outlines the personal criteria as well as the roles and responsibilities for the position of director at Catalyst Arts. Details of how to apply are also in this document. Email us for anymore queries at Catalystarts@gmail.com
Director Callout – Application Download
Closing Date June 15th
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SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION / DE LA PLUIE & DU BEAU TEMPS
29/04/2012
Catalyst Arts, Nice Exchange in partnership with ”La Station”, Nice, France.
This year we are very excited to organize a new partnership with La Station as an exchange between both organisation and gallery space.
SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION / DE LA PLUIE & DU BEAU TEMPS
12th – 19th may 2012.
Opens on 12th at 6pm/18h,
Sarah Maison & Little d Big B will perform at 8pm/20h
The show will be presented a selection of Catalyst Arts members ‘s curiosities.
La Station is an Organisation that promotes the most contemporary artistic creations through its artists’ studios and its exhibition space. The collective has occupied many different spaces since 1996 and is now situated in a disused slaughterhouse.
La Station has participated in several projects and exchanges with other organisations around France and Europe.
more information on La Station can be found at www.lastation.org or via facebook:
www.facebook.com/LaStation.nice
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‘Ward Zero’
18/04/2012
Catalyst Arts
Presents
‘WARD ZERO’
A selection of new works from the students of SVTP at the University of Ulster.
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Annual General Meeting
16/04/2012
AGM
Monday 16th April, 6pm
Catalyst Arts, 5 College Court, Belfast
We find ourselves in a position where interesting changes are happening within the Arts sector in general, how does Catalyst Arts fit into this discussion and how do we want Catalyst Arts to progress in the coming years. The current Catalyst Arts committee will present a breakdown of both last year’s and future programming, as well as a presentation from the new archive committee. In order to ensure that Catalyst Arts is headed in the best possible direction over the next year, and to gain the broadest range of opinions on all matters under discussion, we would request and very much appreciate your attendance at this event.
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“Walking as Research – Research as Art”, chaired by Pauline Hadaway
12/04/2012
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Jean Pierre Bertrand
08/04/2012
Brussels based artist, Jean Pierre Bertrand, travelled to Belfast to make new work for
Vicinity, his hexagonal concrete blocks can be found at six locations on the outskirts of Belfast
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Catalyst Arts AGM
04/04/2012
Catalyst Arts invite you to attend the annual general meeting on Monday 16th April 2012 @ 6pm.
The committee call on the membership to put forward your opinions and suggestions on how the organisation should proceed and develop.
The Agenda for discussion is:
• Programming for 2012-2013
• Future strategies for Catalyst Arts
• Accounts
• Website,PR & marketing
• Any further business
Catalyst Arts appreciates your ongoing support and looks forward to seeing you at the A.G.M.
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Upcoming events for V I C I N I T Y at Catalyst Arts
30/03/2012
Saturday 31st March 12noon
This Saturday Jim McCracken will give an urban print w.shop, learn how to use rasterbator technology to create large scale prints for fly – posting in the area.
To book a place please email or call the gallery
Thursday 5th April 6pm
zones of response will give a talk about the interactive work VICINITY Openzone.
Saturday 7th April 10 – 5pm
Play, Subversion and The City with Mr. Hook
This day event looks at games in the spaces of the city, and how the use of play in the city (traditionally a space or commerce and capitalism) can be thought of as a form of ambient (and fun) resistance. This workshop will look at existing pervasive games, such as PacManhattan, Cruel 2 B Kind, and 7 Days of Manchester and help participants think about how to create games for the spaces of Belfast. Too long our cities have been a place for corporations and capital, let’s make them a place of play.
Saturday 7th April 1pm
Marie Flaherty will take groups of people on a walking and drawing expedition
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CALL FOR SUBMISSION Nice Exchange
09/03/2012
Catalyst Arts, Nice Exchange in partnership with ”La Station”.
Catalyst Arts would like to invite their membership to take part in an international project. An exhibition which will take place in La Station, Nice, France, in May 2012.
Annual membership can be purchased via paypal on our website: catalystarts.org.uk/membership/
If you are interested in being part of this project send us a short proposal no more than five images of your work, Artist Statement or website address, before the deadline on march 15th at 1pm to catalystarts@gmail.com
La Station is an Organisation that promotes the most contemporary artistic creations through its artists’ studios and its exhibition space. The collective has occupied many different spaces since 1996 and is now situated in a disused slaughterhouse.
La Station has participated in several projects and exchanges with other organisations around France and Europe.
more information on La Station can be found at www.lastation.org or via facebook:
www.facebook.com/LaStation.nice
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Artist in Residence Launch
05/03/2012
This March Catalyst Arts in collaboration with the Ulster Museum, Belfast sees the launch of an Artist in residence at the Ulster Museum. First to take residence is Artist Jayne Cherry, Jayne will be in residence from the 1st to the 31th of March.
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Sean Lynch Solo Show
13/02/2012
Sean Lynch
24 February – 16 March
Opening to the public on Thursday 23 February, 7–9pm.
Catalyst Arts presents the first solo show in Belfast by Irish artist Sean Lynch, showcasing an expanded version of the artist’s ongoing DeLorean Progress Report. Based around the bankruptcy and subsequent aftermath of the DeLorean car factory, which operated in Dunmurry from 1981-2, a series of photographs trace a path taken by the artist to find the location of the tooling once used to make the body of the car. Furthering this investigation of the materiality of DeLorean, the gallery will feature ongoing work by Lynch to produce sections of a DMC-12 car by handmade rather than industrial means. New developments in the project are detailed in a free booklet accompanying the exhibition
In addition, a collection of photographs, sculptures and archival material are displayed in Catalyst’s Project Space, all collected through Lynch’s investigations into the contexts and histories of public art in Ireland.
Sean Lynch (b. 1978, Kerry. Lives and works in Berlin and Co. Limerick) has exhibited at IMMA, Dublin; Camden Arts Centre, London; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; neugerriemschneider, Berlin, and the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. He is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.
Sean Lynch will give a talk in the gallery on Friday 24 February at 1pm. All are welcome to attend.
Sean Lynch Website
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Catalyst Arts Talk at NCAD
12/02/2012
NCAD Gallery Talk:
Catalyst Arts directors Alissa Kleist & Rob Hilken will give a talk tomorrow on the Catalyst Arts and it’s archive to its present day function.
13th February 5pm in the Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.
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‘Directors Cut’ Catalyst Arts Archive Exhibition at NCAD Gallery
09/02/2012
New Ecologies of Practice: A short season of projects by
Catalyst Arts [Belfast] / Occupy Space [Limerick] / The Good Hatchery [Offaly] /
Basic Space [Dublin]
NCAD Gallery is presenting a series of new projects which will represent the work of a number of artist led
initiatives, working throughout Ireland, which embodies a new approach and a challenge to institutional visual
arts programming.
In recent years, and pre-dating recession in some cases, Catalyst Arts [Belfast]; Occupy Space [Limerick]; The
Good Hatchery [Offaly] and Basic Space [Dublin] have established strong, coherent and critically significant
presences in the Irish visual arts context and, in their strategic ideologies, argue for a reconfiguration of
inherited thinking about the nature and purpose of art and the nature and purpose of art institutional practice.
This aligns with other transnational artist led initiatives and ideologies which respond to ‘situations’.
For this project artist-led Catalyst Arts presents ‘Director’s Cut’ a selection of work sourced from the
organisation’s archive symbolising a legacy of commitment from past members and directors. Transforming
the gallery ‘Director’s Cut’ will display artefacts, past publications, a selection of posters, the re-exhibit of Art
Rebels, a selection of slides with notes by the current Catalyst directors and the original Catalyst Arts neon
sign designed by David Shrigley. In addition, a number of archive posters will be fly-posted in proximity to
NCAD, re-contextualising them in light of this exhibition.
Catalyst Arts ‘Director’s Cut’ is open from 9 – 25 February at NCAD Gallery celebrated by an opening view on Monday
13 February 6pm. *Catalyst directors Rob Hilken and Alissa Kleist will give a talk on the Catalyst Arts archive to its
present day function on 13 February 5pm in the Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.
Occupy Space is a non-commercial gallery in the heart of Limerick City, established through the Creative
Limerick Scheme in 2009. As part of the programme at NCAD Gallery they have invited Art Links Limerick
(ALL) present their on-going research about Irish water to the public in the form of an Interactive Public Studio
(IPS). ALL will disseminate their research to date while continuing to use the gallery as an open studio space
over a three day period, encouraging interaction and dialogue within the space.
Occupy Space at NCAD Gallery is open to the public for participation from 28 February – 3 March 2012.
* Presentations by Aoife Madden, Creative Limerick Coordinator and by Noelle Collins and Kevin O’Keeffe of Occupy Space on Tuesday 28 February, 12 – 3pm, NCAD Gallery
* Presentations by Creative Limerick Spaces; Faber Studios, The Raggle Taggle Consortium, Ormston House on Friday
2nd March 12pm – 3pm, NCAD Gallery
The Good Hatchery is an artist-led initiative and space based in the remote bog lands of North Offaly. In its
development, large portions of The Good Hatchery have been constructed from recycled artworks and
salvaged materials from the exhibitions that its members have been involved in throughout the years. Its
development is on-going. Through a series of collaborations, curated projects and free residencies it
challenges methodologies of contemporary art making and often investigates relationships between site and
resource.
A new installation, Good Hatchery, will be presented at NCAD Gallery. Opening view Monday 12th March 6-8pm.
Exhibition continues until 21st March 2012. * The Good Hatchery directors Karl Giffney and Ruth E.Lyons will host a
seminar on Thursday 29th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.
BASIC SPACE located on Vicar Street, across the road from the NCAD Gallery has been running since
August 2010 and during this time has existed as a space for exhibitions and projects. For the duration of a
week BASIC SPACE shop will open at the NCAD Gallery. Mementoes from artworks and performances,
limited edition collectables and memorabilia from exhibitions, and the opportunity to be involved in “Sq Foot of
BASIC SPACE” scheme, will all be up for grabs. Avoiding romantisization of BASIC SPACE while outlining the
physical and ideological elements that structure the space, the visitor can ‘browse’ the shop, but will be
immediately involved in accumulating a knowledge of BASIC SPACE that is recognisably estranged from the
memorabilia.
* BASIC SPACE shop opening view Monday 26 March 6-9 pm, it is open to the public from 26 –30 March from 10am-9pm and remains in situ at NCAD Gallery from Thursday 22 March–Friday 13 April 2012.
BASIC SPACE Artist talk Wednesday 28th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.
* Refreshments & Discounts available on the opening view night.
In addition to work by the artist-led initiatives the exhibition programme includes The Artist-led Archive -
Sustainable Activism and the Embrace of Flux open to the public to view by appointment at the National
Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) housed at NCAD Library. The archive was initiated by the artist and curator
Megs Morley in 2006 as part of an on-going investigation into artist-led initiatives in Ireland. The project aimed
to decipher the kind of cultural conditions that led to artist-led initiative’s birth, their economic independence (or
lack of), their organizational structures and how all of these factors effected their activities and life spans.
For more information on The Artist-led Archive please see www.theartistledarchive.com.
*NIVAL is open Monday-Friday 10am– 5pm Contact: +353 (0)1 636 4347 or +353 (0)1 636 1102 and romanod@ncad.ie.
For more information on NIVAL please see www.nival.ie
To coincide with New Ecologies of Practice exhibition What Do You Stand For Now? is a public seminar
and discussion that looks at some artistic and curatorial practices from the last few decades in Ireland. In
particular, they all proposed methods and models of display and distribution as alternatives to established
mainstream and institutional practices. What Do You Stand For Now? is chaired by Francis Halsall and Vaari
Claffey, speakers include Valerie Connor; Mark Garry; Garrett Phelan; Sarah Pierce; members of The Enquiry,
Gradcam and others. What Do You Stand For Now? Saturday 31st March, 2012, 12.30-5pm at the National College
of Art and Design, (Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre), Dublin.
In currently redesigning its own provision, NCAD is an appropriate context in which to explore aspects of this
increasingly visible dynamic in the visual arts, as articulated in the NCAD Gallery space and the
accompanying events and discussions.
The National College of Art and Design Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
NCAD Gallery opening hours 10am–5pm, Monday-Saturday.
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“Press Start” Presents Skip Cloud
03/02/2012
Sound Artist Skip Cloud Performs at Catalyst Arts as part of the exhibition ‘Press Start’. Listen to Skip Cloud here Skip Cloud
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Press Start
20/01/2012
Preview Thursday 26th January 7pm-9pm
Friday 27th January – Friday 17th February.
Opening hours Tuesday- Saturday 11am-5pm.
Press Start will be an innovative interactive show, featuring work by international and local artists, that aims to showcase artworks that have been inspired by retro video games, old technology and the gaming experience.
Catalyst Arts Director call out
12/12/2011
Catalyst Arts welcomes applications for new Co-Directors. Please download the information below which outlines the personal criteria as well as the roles and responsibilities for the position of director at Catalyst Arts. Details of how to apply are also in this document. Email us for anymore queries at Catalystarts@gmail.com
Director Callout – Applications Welcome
The Featherweight Portable Museum
22/11/2011
Catalyst presents The Featherweight Portable Museum, a joint venture between Catalyst Arts (Belfast) and Media Pyhat (Finland), bringing together an eclectic body of work made by selected UK, Irish and Finnish artists in a travelling multi-media exhibition. The first showcase of the exhibition will take place at Catalyst Arts on Thursday 1st of December, with screenings, installations and performance art running from 6pm to 9pm. The work (a combination of the independent selections made by both organisations) will travel to Finland next year.
Culture Night Friday
23/09/2011
For Culture Night Friday 23rd September 6 – 9pm
Catalyst Arts Presents
THE TRUTH BOOTH.
The Assembly Rooms, Cathedral QuarterIn
Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth) A Cause Collective project(Jim Ricks, Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev)
Three artists aretraveling the world with an inflatable ‘Truth Booth’ searching for thetruth.It is a massive cartoon speech-bubble that asks the public: “What isthe Truth?”.American artists Ryan Alexiev, Jim Ricks and Hank Willis Thomas willbe touring their new public project titled In Search of the Truth (TheTruth Booth). The inflatable piece is a new collaborative piece byCause Collective and is shaped like a giant cartoon speech bubble. It is a portable video ‘booth’ that will be available for members of the public to leave their opinions and responses on video. The piece will travel throughout Ireland gathering video documentation and then onto the rest of the world.
PreFIX.
Bridge Street, Cathedral QuarterCatalyst Arts organises Fix – a biennale of live performance art.
For Pre FIX we will utilise the two phone boxes on Bridge Street,performance artists who use improvisation as part of their practicewill telephone the phone boxes for passers by to pick up and listento/ converse with the artist.
Thisyear Fix takes places on November 10th – 15th and the launch Pre FIX -takes place as part of Culture Night Belfast.
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‘Notice’
18/08/2011
‘Notice’
18 August 2011 07:00 – 08 September
Curfew Tower Residency Exhibition
19th August – 8th September
preview Thursday 18th August, 7-9pm
Artist Talk with Bill Drummond, Thursday 1st September, 7:30pm
Catalyst Arts Gallery
“The Curfew Tower is a fortified building built in the early years of the nineteenth century in Cushendall. It has five floors, one room on each floor. From the ground up: dungeon, bathroom, living room, bedroom, bedroom. There is a kitchen adjoining the back of the tower. The accommodation allows for no more than two artists in residence at any one time.“
‘NOTICE’ is a multi-disciplinary exhibition showcasing the work of the artists who took part in the Catalyst Arts curated Curfew Tower residency program of 2010.
Exhibiting Artists: Bill Drummond, Nathan Crothers, Sinead Conlon, Stephen Anderson, Anne-Marie Dillon, Aoife Desmond, Florian Hollerweger, Angela Halliday, FIELD.
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(dis)playing the other
14/07/2011
(dis)playing the other
This exhibition will explore ways in which artists today continue to challenge, subvert, or deconstruct hegemonic notions of heteronormative identity in contemporary visual culture.
Through video, photography, drawing, painting, and installation, the work on display will offer an eclectic and dynamic representation of ‘other’ in today’s society.
Exhibiting artists:
Breda Lynch (Limerick)
Gavin Devine (Belfast)
Ins A Kromminga (Berlin)
Jenny Keane (Belfast)
Quinnford + Scout (Manchester)
There will also be a series of glorious accompanying events running alongside the show. Please email the gallery at catalystarts@gmail.com to reserve a place for any of the following:
Ins A Kromminga – Intersex Identities and Politics
Saturday 16th July 6pm Catalyst Arts
An informal lecture followed by a Q&A session with critically acclaimed international artist Ins A Kromminga, which will address a significant gap in public knowledge on the subject of Intersexuality as well as offer fascinating insights into the artist’s life and work.
(dis)playing the Other Film Night
Thursday 21st July 8pm Catalyst Arts
A selection of cinematic delights selected by artists Quinnford & Scout. Details of which will be announced nearer the time.
Breda Lynch and Jenny Keane in conversation
Wednesday 27th July 7pm Catalyst Arts
As part of (dis)playing the Other, artists Breda Lynch and Jenny Keane will host an evening of engaging discussion, offering insights into their respective artistic practices and their work on show as part of the exhibition.
Pride Week tour of (dis)playing the Other at Catalyst Arts
Thursday 28th July 2pm
An afternoon introduction and tour of the show with Catalyst curators Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese.
Artist talk: Gavin Devine
Friday 29th July 2pm Catalyst Arts
Following on from the success of his recent degree show at the University of Ulster, Devine will be discussing his intimate portraits of an older generation of LGBTQ individuals in Northern Ireland.
Catalyst Critical Mass as part of Belfast Pride Parade
Saturday 30th July
Get your wheels out and come join the Catalyst Bike Gang as part of Ireland’s largest LGBT parade. Further details to be announced in the coming weeks.
Sterile Environment
02/06/2011
Sterile Environment
2nd June – 23rd June. Preview Thursday 2nd June, 7pm-10pm
This art and architecture crossover exhibition explores the city of the past, present and future. Local Artists explore the vitality, heritage and character of old and new Belfast. What is the city becoming? Are we protecting heritage adequately? And international artist wouder if cities are just becoming clones of one another, creating an endless high street existence…
There will be a series of events/talks/debates running throughout the duration of the exhibition to keep things interesting and hopefully answering some of the above questions. Details of which can be found below
Exhibiting Artists
Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell / Aideen Doran / Andrew Dodds
Sharone Lifschitz (speaker) / Eoin McGinn / Michael Pinsky
Keith Winter / Forum for Alternative Belfast
Events/Talks-
Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell- Builder Bowling
7pm-10pm, 2nd June, Catalyst Arts Gallery
Playfully making visible the threat of extinction of real buildings in Belfast.
Keith Winter and Forum for Alternative Belfast.
6:30pm, 9th June, Catalyst Arts Gallery
A talk based on the work shown the gallery space, relating to the constant changing face of Belfast.
Sharone Lifschitz- The Traffic Light and Monument.
6:30pm, 16th June, Catalyst Art Gallery.
Sharone Lifschitzs talk will centre on actions and projects created in cities such as London, Munich, Belfast and Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Lifschitz’s work unfolds as a progression of actions and interactions for which she is both choreographer and participant and through which the city becomes a ground for an encounter and the encounter becomes a tool for a reading of the city and creating interventions in its urban fabric. The talk traces several projects both completed and in progress.
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¿@#!*$ (Comics Show)
14/04/2011
¿@#!*$ (Comic Show)
List of artists: Simone Lia / Phil Barrett / Fionnuala Dorn / Malcy Duff / Chris Ware / Travis Millard / Tom Gauld Audience numbers:
Absence Launch Party Thursday 21t April – Local artists andy Luke and Stephen Downey (Cancertown, Slaughterman’s creed) launch their latest work ‘Absence’
Secret Cinema
Comic Zine Fair 23rd April
Pretty Circus presents ‘Live music and Live drawing’ Sunday 1st May
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Members Show, Divine Creation
18/02/2011
Divine Creation
Catalyst Arts’ Annual Members Show
Catalyst Arts would like to invite all members to submit work for the 2011 members exhibition, scheduled to open on 17th February and centred upon the notion of ‘Divine Creation’.
Each member is eligible to submit one piece of work in any medium, but we would ask that members take into consideration the large amount of submissions annually received, all to be displayed in the gallery, and to tailor the scale of the work accordingly.
Annual membership for 2011 is £20 waged / £10 unwaged, and new members may pay this when submitting their work or through Paypal on our website (www.catalystarts.org.uk).
Deadline for submission: 5p.m. Thursday 10th February.
Work may be submitted in person from 8th-10th February from 11am-5pm or via post or email (catalystarts@gmail.com).
Catalyst Arts Annual Student Show
16/12/2010
Catalyst Arts Annual Student Show
16 December 2010 19:00 – 06 January
We are delighted to announce the opening of
Catalyst Arts Annual Student Show.
The first group exhibition in our new gallery space showcases a range of work from some of the most interesting artists currently in / recently finished education. The exhibition opens on Thursday 16th December 2010, 7 – 9pm and continues until 6th January 2011.
The show will close with a performance by artist Anthony Keigher, Anthony is looking for six participants to be involved in the work which will take the form of a 3 course dinner. If you would like to participate please RSVP to studentshowcatalyst@gmail.com.
Participating artists; Phillip Liam McCrilly and Cecile Le Couedic, Christopher Burns, Ciaran Hussey, Anthony Keigher, Alissa Kleist, Laura O’Connor, Sean Redahan, Karolin Reichardt, Nadine Stewart, Anne Marie Taggart, James Ward.
Alongside the exhibition will also be a Critical text by Sarah Lundy.
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Nevan Lahart ‘Genuine Irish Mug’
19/11/2010
Nevan Lahart ‘Genuine Irish Mug’
19 November 2010 18:00 – 11 December
Switched
02/09/2010
Switched
Date: 2 September 2010
Adrian Duncan & Fiona Marron
Of Process
Both artists’ current work takes, as its shared root, physical, speculative and necessary human activities, which are used as tools for investigating other, less tactile, human activities and processes. These physical activities reveal a process that is used to view the less tactile processes from a different angle. Duncan and Marron share an interest in addressing the complications inherent in attempting to define such an abstract topic. In the manifestation of these ideas, metaphors are introduced that provoke thought and enquiry into our claims to knowledge.
Duncan’s work overlays everyday empirical investigative activities upon less obvious processes of measurement. His work at first illustrates the flaws in this scientific method (the problem with induction, statics, etc.), particularly when applied to dynamic systems. The work attempts to marry one method of measurement with another seemingly incomapatible system, and from this, investigating how institutional structures are formed and changed. This is done with reference to Popper’s Objective Knowledge.
In her sculpture and video installation Marron pursues her interests in the relationships between labour, knowledge and value, using the mining industry as a model. Combining appropriated text from sociologist Alvin Gouldner’s 1954 field report of an American gypsum plant and footage from the realms of production at a present-day Irish mine, Marron examines the ‘many standpoints in terms of which the raw data of factory life can be ordered and made meaningful.’ (Gouldner 1954)
Adrian Duncan studied and worked as a structural engineer in the UK and Ireland for over a decade before returning to study fine art at IADT. His practice is based in sculpture/installation, video, writing and drawing. He has exhibited at Pallas Contemporary Projects, The Joinery and The Lewis Glucksman, UCC. He is assistant editor of Paper Visual Art to which he also contributes. Fiona Marron was born in Co. Monaghan in 1987 and graduated from Fine Art at Dublin Institute of Technology last year. She has had solo exhibitions at The Joinery, Dublin (2010) & FOUR gallery, Dublin (2009). She has participated in many group shows including Reverse Pedagogy III, a residency and exhibition hosted by The Model, Sligo (2009).
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Until the Light Takes Us
01/08/2010
Until the Light Takes Us [2008ce]
1 August 2010 18:00 -
Vinyl Reclamation
A Lughnasa reaping for Danse Macabre
Catalyst Arts, Sunday 1st August 2010ce, 6pm
Until the Light Takes Us [2008ce]
Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans worldwide.
Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of “Satanists
running amok in Europe” to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.
To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement. The result is a poignant, moving story that’s as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of what’s actually true,
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Vinyl Consummation
Vinyl Consummation documents an event held on the first of May 2010ce, celebrating the sacramental dimension of the vinyl record; a ritual rendition and subsequent immolation of Buzum’s album ‘Belus’, executed high in the hills of South Armagh.
Marking Burzum’s inaugural artwork following Varg Vikernes’ emergence from the darkness of prison, Vinyl Consummation called forth Burzum’s hymn to the God of Light Belus on the feast-day of his Celtic equivalent Belenus, in the ritual landscape of Ulster’s Mythic Heart.
Vinyl Consummation brings to light folkish and pop-cultural mythologies in a contemporary rite, blending Norwegian Black Metal and Iron-Age Ulster in a rebirth of subcultural desire.
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Event scored by Jordan Hutchings
An Ichor Inc. event in association with Catalyst Arts
Catalyst Arts, 5 College Court, Belfast, BT1 6BX.
T: 02890 313303 E: catalystarts@gmail.com W: www.catalystarts.org.uk
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Student Show 2009
21/10/2009
Student Show 2009
21 October 2009 00:00 – 06 November
Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Call for submissions for the Annual Student Show, December 2009.
Catalyst Arts believes in supporting artists at all stages in their careers, and the student show is our main showcase for newly emerging visual artists, providing gallery support and fresh networking opportunities.
We are interested in presenting a broad range of innovative, exciting new work in any and all mediums.
This call is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students, including those who have graduated during 2009.
Those wishing their work to be considered for exhibition should submit a written proposal with artist statement and no more than 5 images of work to:studentshowcatalyst@gmail.com
Closing date for submissions is Friday 6th November no later than 4pm.
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FIX09 BBEYOND PERFORMANCE RE SCHEDULED
01/10/2009
FIX09 BBEYOND PERFORMANCE RE SCHEDULED
1 October 2009 00:00 – 04 October
Bbeyond – Brian Connolly
FIX09 BBEYOND PERFORMANCE RE SCHEDULED
NOW ON SUNDAY 4TH OCTOBER,
OLD DUNNES CAR PARK,
CRUMLIN ROAD, BELFAST
9.30am – 1pm
Due to circumstances beyond our control Brian Connolly’s performance at the St. George’s market will not take place as advertised on Friday 2nd October. It has been moved to Sunday 4th October on the Crumlin Road Old Dunnes Store’s car park, 9.30-1pm.
For any enquires please ring us on 02890313303 or email catalystarts@gmail.com
Please accept out apologies for the inconvenience.
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FIX 09 Action Hero Guardian Review
04/09/2009
FIX 09 Action Hero Guardian Review
4 September 2009 00:00 – 04 October
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/28/a-western-edinburgh-review
Action Hero will perform A Western in FIX09 26th Sept – 4th October 2009
see: http://fixcatalyst.wordpress.com/
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Barry Cullen: Archive Remix
03/09/2009
Barry Cullen: Archive Remix
Date: 3 September 2009
Barry Cullen- Archive Remix
An installation and performance by Barry Cullen, re-examining work curated and accumulated by Catalyst over its 16 year history.
Cullen will delve into the hoard of material stored in the Catalyst archive, in order to celebrate and commemorate the institution.
Hands on cut and paste techniques and digital sampling will be used, to create new work from the old, remixing and editing the past.
The finished piece may not depict history accurately.
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M.A.R.I.N. Irish Sea Residency at ISEA 2009: Panel Presentations at the Black Box
27/08/2009
M.A.R.I.N. Irish Sea Residency at ISEA 2009: Panel Presentations at the Black Box
Date: 27 August 2009
M.A.R.I.N. Irish Sea Residency at ISEA 2009
Continues at Catalyst Arts until 29 August
Thursday Aug 27th ISEA2009 Conference
Panel Presentations – Black Box
11:00 – 13:00 M.A.R.I.N.
Tapio Makela, Marko Pejhan, Matthew Biederman
14:00 – 16:00 Ecolocated
Environment, Sound and Engagement.
Nigel Helyer, Tapio Makela, Andreas Siagian and Daniel Woo
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Capitalyst Arts, Charlotte Andrew – Art conveyed limited company
22/08/2009
Capitalyst Arts, Charlotte Andrew – Art conveyed limited company
22 August 2009 09:00 – 29 August
CHARLOTTE ANDREW
ART CONVEYED LIMITED COMPANY
22nd-29th August 2009 at SHAC (Writers Square)
ART CONVEYED LIMITED COMPANY
Dear ladies (though not exclusively, men are welcome),
I am doing a project in Belfast from August 22-29 at the S.H.A.C. which is on Writers Square opposite St Annes Cathedral. It is part of Capitalyst week and will run in conjunction with the Catalyst Gallery.
I plan to turn the little disabled flat into a sweat shop with a bunch of sweaty artists working as if on a conveyer belt, each making their own mark on the paper which moves down the line and so on, producing at the end of the line a multiple original art work. You will of course be paid for your labours, in line with the basic sweat shop pay scheme, which after tax, national insurance, pension and devaluation is 2p per day, 1p for half a day. Hours will be 1000-1500 with I hour for lunch. Split shifts available. A rota will be set up, please clock in and out on arrival.
The work which is now owned by the company will be put up for sale. Seconds will be sold in the factory shop outlet at a reduced price. The best work will be packaged and exported to the Catalyst Gallery.
Profits from sales will go to the Managing director (me) and probably be spent on expenses such as large lunches with the board (you).
Applications for factory workers will be assessed on grounds of equal opportunity disregarding race, colour, religion and sex. All applications tocharlotteandrew@mac.com, please mark the form S.H.A.C.
Charlotte Andrew
Managing Director and Head of Recruiting
residence is an artist-led experiment in how space changes and stays the same through its use by different people and activities. With each new project the boundaries between living, working, private and public change. It is organised by Sighle and Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell and these spaces are currently being provided by SHAC Housing Association. Projects so far include residence: Flat 1, House/Home in a house on the Shore Road and ongoing events and residencies in Flat 4.
Flat 4 is our artist led space located in the Donegall Street flats in Belfast city centre. Each month it hosts a variety of artists in residence (AiR) who’s activities range from film screenings and workshops to open studios and tea parties. Click on Fresh Air to see the latest programme of residencies and opening hours.
Keep an eye on Fresh AiR to find out what you can look forward to this summer with residence
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ISEA 2009:M.A.R.I.N.
06/08/2009
ISEA 2009:M.A.R.I.N.
6 August 2009 18:00 – 29 August
Catalyst Arts presents…
ISEA 2009: M.A.R.I.N
Preview: Thursday, 6th August 5-8pm
Exhibition continues 7th-29th August
Founded by artists Tapio Makela (Finland) and Marko Peljihan (SL/USA), M.A.R.I.N is a mobile residency programme set on board a catamaran sailboat, redesigned and equipped to be a sustainable environment for transdisciplinary research in arts, sciences and technology.
M.A.R.I.N. will host an 11 week long residency on the Irish Sea, starting from Belfast and travelling down the coast of Cumbria to Liverpool. The gallery exhibition hosted by Catalyst Arts will highlight work developed during the residency.
Ecolocated: Littoral Lives by Tapio Makela, Nigel Helyer (AU), Andreas Siagian (ID), with Audio Nomad collaborators Daniel Woo (AU) and Michael Lake (AU) will map marine ecology along the northwest coastline using sensors and a small field laboratory. Combining maritime history, interviews and a workshop offshore, the artists will create podcasts, a geo tagged web blog and an Ecolocated audio installation in 3D.
For more information on the residency and its projects for ISEA 2009, please seehttp://marin.cc
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Catalyst Arts presents as part of FIX09: T5 Field Cinema by Dan Shipsides
03/08/2009
Catalyst Arts presents as part of FIX09: T5 Field Cinema by Dan Shipsides
3 August 2009 09:00 – 05 October
T5 field cinema
Small groups of people going to remote-ish and pertinent locations to watch films and artist videos.
This is the launch of artist Dan Shipsides’ ongoing project of informally showing artist and feature films in interesting remote locations. It utilises a T5* generation VW van, converted as a campervan to screen videos in remote locations (screen, video projector and petrol generator).
The T5 field cinema is supported by a forum which will bring together people, films and locations. Participants can use the forum to involve themselves and help initiate or propose screening events.
Please register to become involved
It’s Belfast based with potential screening locations initially within an hour or two drive of the city – but anyone can take part via the forum and potentially in person.
T5 field cinema is launched as part of FIX 09 – the 8th Catalyst Arts performance art biennial, which this year focuses on participatory aspects of contemporary live art practice. Screenings will take place during the week of the festival, which runs from from 26 September – 4 October 2009.
* T5 – the 5th generation of VW van – lineage of the cult Split and Bay window vans.
T5 field cinema forum:
http://www.danshipsides.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl
Dan Shipsides:
http://www.danshipsides.com
http://www.catalystarts.org.uk
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Captalyst Arts, The Light Surgeons, The Waterfront Hall
25/07/2009
Captalyst Arts, The Light Surgeons, The Waterfront Hall
Date: 25 July 2009
Capitalyst Arts
The Light Surgeons
The Waterfront Hall, 8.00pm
The result of a year long digital performance art project
produced and directed by Christopher Thomas Allen and
commissioned by EMPAC, The Experimental Media and
Performing Arts Centre in Troy, New York. The final piece
was completed and presented in September 2007 and has
begun touring to festivals internationally.
True Fictions is an audio visual spectacle that fuses
documentary film making, music, animation and motion
graphics with cutting edge digital performance tools. A
stunning collage of music and live cinema which explores
the themes of truth and myth through a multitude of
American and Native American voices; with a original
musical score created through the collaborations of 25 New
York based musicians and vocal artists.
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Pedro Lagoa- Record Breaking Party, Friday 24th July
24/07/2009
Pedro Lagoa- Record Breaking Party, Friday 24th July
24 July 2009 22:00 – 25 July
Capitalyst Arts
Pedro Lagoa, Record Breaking Party
Catalyst Arts, Friday 24th July, 10pm
Guests are invited to bring old unwanted records, which Lagoa will play and depending on the crowds response they will either be saved or thrown out into the crowd to face destruction. The records that guests bring can be used as token in exchange for a drink.
After Lagoa’s set the party will continue with DJ,s
Doors 10pm Tax £10 BYO
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Capitalyst Arts: Ivo Burokvic, Life as a Fake Artist as a Young Business Model
23/07/2009
Capitalyst Arts: Ivo Burokvic, Life as a Fake Artist as a Young Business Model
Date: 23 July 2009
Catalyst Arts presents…
Capitalyst Arts
Ivo Burokvic, Life as a Fake Artist
An artists talk and presentation by Paul Weirbinski
Catalyst Arts, Thursday 25th July 7.30pm.
Told through the character of artist Ivo Burkovic, Weirbinski documents the ordering of a custom oil painting from China, and it’s sale as an original artwork at a renowned auction of emerging artists work.
Wierbinski’s work touches on the tensions between the material and symbolic value of a contemporary art product.
“In a world of greed nothing is worth more than something which cannot be sold.”
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Capitalyst Arts: Aisling O’Beirn- Boom or Bust Pub Quiz
02/07/2009
Capitalyst Arts: Aisling O’Beirn- Boom or Bust Pub Quiz
2 July 2009 21:00 -
Catalyst Arts presents… as part of Capitalyst Arts
Aisling O’Beirn
Some Things About Belfast (or so I’m told)
The Boom or Bust Quiz
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Capitalyst Arts
02/07/2009
Capitalyst Arts: First Thursday, 2nd July 2009
Date: 2 July 2009
Capitalyst Arts:One night, three events.
2nd July 2009
Evelyne LeBlanc Rouberge
Chinese Welfare Centre, 7.00pm
Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge- Wet Markets
How do we occupy or define our personal space? What is the relationship we have with our city, our home and the architecture that defines that space? Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge’s photography is an exploration of urban geography, the tension between public and private space and its impact on the individual narrative. Through the media of digital colour photography, collage and online media, Canadian artist Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge explores the impact of urban landscapes on identity, and invites viewers to observe each mise-en-scene and recreate their own narratives.
In 2008, she spent 7 months in China where she continued working along these lines. In her exhibition Wet Markets Evelyne presents a personal journey, underlining the small details that caught her eye over there. This is a collection of observations in and on China in construction, in transformation, with all the tensions between tradition and modernity, wealth and poverty, urban/rural, the ephemeral and the perpetual.
Exhibition continues through to July 30th
Raster Noton
Black Box Cafe, 7.00pm
“raster-noton . archiv für ton und nichtton” is meant to be a platform — a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art and science. Emerging from the fusion of the two labels rastermusic and noton (in 1999) they realize music projects, publications and installation works. The common idea behind all releases is an experimental approach — an amalgamation of sound, art and design.
So far the catalogue of the label consists of about 70 releases. Most of the projects follow the concept of a series with contributions by very different artists such as, william basinski, alva noto, ivan pavlov aka coh, ryoji ikeda, ryuichi sakamoto or carl michael von hausswolff.
Olaf bender and carsten nicolai run raster-noton. the label is based in chemnitz / germany.
Catalyst will be showing thier CD designs, print and audio visual works.
Exhibition continues through to July 30th
Aisling O’Beirn
Boom or Bust Pub Quiz
Rose and Crown Bar, Ormeau Road
Quiz Starts 9.00pm
Aisling will host a pub quiz with a local feel relating to Belfast. Entrants will get a free poster and there will be a prize for the winning team.
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Capitalyst Arts, Martin Boyle
01/07/2009
Capitalyst Arts, Martin Boyle
1 July 2009 12:00 – 30 July
MARTIN BOYLE
VARIOUS RETAIL SPACES AROUND BELFAST CITY CENTRE
1st – 30th July
Martin Boyle produces video pieces that are playful and performative. He re-presents mass produced objects and packaging in digital form for the viewer and highlights a preoccupation with ideas of value or lack off, through the use of consumer goods. This is achieved through manipulation and illusion playing on our need for gratification and the need to reveal and expose. At first glance his pieces may seem like any other advertisement for a product but looking closer Martins shorts depict issues of capitalism using subtle movements or quickly moving objects.
Boyle’s work will be displayed in various retail spaces around the city centre.
CURRENTLY DISPLAYED IN THE WINDOW OF
COPPER MOON, 3 WELLINGTON STREET, BELFAST
VIEW WORK ONLINE AT: www.irishartnow.com/mbshow01.html
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Capitalyst Arts presents… Jen Sykes ‘Blogcabin’
22/06/2009
Capitalyst Arts presents… Jen Sykes ‘Blogcabin’
22 June 2009 09:00 – 28 June
JEN SYKES
166-174 UPPER NORTH STREET (opposite Star Bingo) OPENING 7pm Saturday 27th June
22nd June – 28th June
Blogcabin is a wilderness retreat that strives to be at one with nature while at the same time refusing to detatch itself from technology. Blogcabin will move through various locations around Belfast becoming an information point, a cinema, an internet location and a space for exchange.
27TH JUNE at 166-174 Upper North Street.
(across from Star Bingo)
Watch Ray Mears as he instructs you through the wilderness and come and see the products of blogcabins week on the streets. Receive mobile instructions for sourcing the internet.
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Capitalyst Arts, Martin Carter, Burn the Banks
20/06/2009
Capitalyst Arts, Martin Carter, Burn the Banks
Date: 20 June 2009
BURN THE BANKS,
MARTIN CARTER, LAWERENCE STREET WORKSHOPS, Saturday 20th June,9pm,
Burn the Banks is a unique event that will give you a chance to voice your revenge by joining in the burning of effigies of major banks. Come along and bring any unwanted bills to help fuel the flames of change.
Pictures from the Night:
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Capitalyst Arts, Rich White, Vigilance
18/06/2009
Capitalyst Arts, Rich White, Vigilance
Date: 18 June 2009
RICH WHITE
VIGILANCE UPPER NORTH STREET (opposite Star Bingo), OPENING 7pm Thursday 18th June
Vigilance was originally installed in a pair of vacant retail units in Barrow-in Furness. It was inspired by the town’s submarine building history with the form of the derived from the shape and scale of the vanguard class nuclear submarine. The work was constructed from flattened cardboard boxes suspended from the ceiling by string and designed to make it appear that the submarine had landed on top of the building, but instead of demolishing it the building had adapted itself to accommodate the shape of the hull. For Capitalyst White will be recreating the work in a vacant shop on North Street.
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Helen Sharp ‘The Hero and Now’ Closing Event
14/05/2009
Helen Sharp ‘The Hero and Now’ Closing Event
Date: 14 May 2009
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Derek Holzer, Eisberg & Resnick, Neanderthal Electronics Workshop Participants
25/04/2009
Derek Holzer, Eisberg & Resnick, Neanderthal Electronics Workshop Participants
25 April 2009 21:00 -
Derek Holzer, Eisberg & Resnick, Neanderthal Electronics Workshop Participants
Saturday, 25 April 2009 at Catalyst Arts
9pm til late.
BYO. £5 donations welcome to support Catalyst Arts.
dB6 Festival (digital belfast 6)
20th April – 3rd May
Derek Holzer will be performing his TONEWHEELS concert. Support from Eisberg & Resnick, and participant’s of Derek’s workshop will present their hand crafted synthesizers.
TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound,
inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions.
Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive
electronic circuitry to produce sound and light pulsations and textures, while
projected graphical loops and textures add richness to the visual environment.
This year the Digital Arts Studios is 6 years old and we will be holding 2 weeks of events in April to celebrate. Workshops and events focus on sound one week, and video the second week with artists coming from as far as Berlin and L.A.
The Workshops and Talk will take place at the Digital Arts Studios, and there will also be evening events at Catalyst Arts and Brown & Bri.
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Capitalyst: Fundraiser with Deviant Sound System
27/03/2009
Capitalyst: Fundraiser with Deviant Sound System
Date: 27 March 2009
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Catalyst Arts Annual General Meeting
13/03/2009
Catalyst Arts Annual General Meeting
13 March 2009 18:00 -
CATALYST ARTS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Catalyst Arts invite you to attend the annual general meeting on Wednesday 11th March 2009 @ 6pm, tea and coffee from 5.30pm.
The committee call on the membership to put forward your opinions and suggestions on how the organisation should proceed and develop.
The Agenda for discussion is:
• Programming for 2009-2010
• Future strategies for Catalyst Arts
• Funding applications
• Relocation
• Any further business
Catalyst Arts appreciates your ongoing support and looks forward to seeing you at the A.G.M.
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The Performance Collective
20/02/2009
The Performance Collective
20 February 2009 18:00 – 26 February
Alex Conway, Amanda Coogan, Dominic Thorpe, Francis Mezzetti, Michelle Browne and Pauline Cummins.
Friday 20th Feb Living Installation – 6-8pm
Saturday 21st Feb Big Jam – 6-8pm (at Catalyst)
Walking in the Way – 1-2pm
(located on Church Lane between Victoria Street and High Street)
Sunday 22nd Feb Discussion – 3-4.30pm
Monday 23rd – Thursday 26th Detritus of Performance and projected 11-5pm
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126 Member’s Swap
03/02/2009
Catalyst Arts presents… 126 Members Swap
3 February 2009 19:00 – 19 February
126 Member’s Swap
The swap is now entering its fourth year, 126 was set up onthe model of Catalyst Arts. The galleries have a shared ethos of providing space and opportunity for artists atvarious stages of their careers and a strong commitment to their membership bases.
The Annual Members Show provides a prime opportunity for early career artists to exhibit alongside more established artists. The richness and diversity of practice in the membership is best reflected in the open submission policy.
The exhibitions this year will run simultaneously in both galleries.
Opening event Tuesday 3rd February at 7pm.
Exhibition runs in 126 in Galway, 5th Feb – 20th Feb.
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‘Notes and Volcanoes’ Lyndsey McDougall and Hannah Casey
15/01/2009
‘Notes and Volcanoes’ Lyndsey McDougall and Hannah Casey
15 January 2009 19:00 – 24 January
‘Notes and Volcanoes’
Lyndsey McDougall and Hannah Casey show the accumulation of work made for their Masters in Textiles. The work includes paintings, drawings, textiles and mini sculptures. The work will be displayed until Saturday 24th of January.
Opening event Thursday 15th January at 7pm.
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Open Studios Week 4: Cian Donnelly
08/12/2008
Open Studios Week 4: Cian Donnelly
8 December 2008 11:00 – 20 December
Open Studios Week 4: Cian Donnelly
‘Vampire on his hands and knees’
Donnelly will be working and performing within an enclosed space created in the gallery. Inhabiting the character of Daniel Cullen, a man who following the death of his wife and child has retreated to this room and made pieces in remembrance of the family he has lost. The two-week period will culminate in a closing performance, with songs from The Order of the Golden Ghost, a choir of artists and musicians.
This project will for the first time bring together all the aspects of Donnelly’s practice: song, painting, works on paper and storytelling.
Opening event Saturday 20th at 8pm.
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Open Studios Week 3: Revati Mann
01/12/2008
Open Studios Week 3: Revati Mann
1 December 2008 11:00 – 06 December
Open Studios Week Three: Revati Mann
London-based artist Revati Mann will create an immersive environment with materials collected from Belfast: personal affects, found objects, fabricated objects. Over the course of the week, she will be creating a space that allows for free associations of colour, shape, movement and form; balloons, cardboard, trinkets, images, slide projection, sweet wrappers….an open ended impermanent space, welcoming and engaging. A space to spend time in.
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Open Studios Week 2: Ben Craig & Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell
24/11/2008
Open Studios Week 2: Ben Craig & Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell
24 November 2008 11:00 – 29 November
Open Studios Week 2: Ben Craig and Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell
Ben Craig ‘Goodie Boxes’
Ben Craig will be giving away all his stuff as presents for free; toys, videos, tapes, books and a lot of other little things. He will bring his stuff round to the gallery and sort through it. Each present will be beautifully wrapped and a tag will be attached to each one with his email address on it. The week will close with a lunchtime event on the Friday where visitors are invited to take presents.
‘Six years ago they began to get invisible, glass or no glass. Nobody has ever seen the last five I made because no glass is strong enough to make them big enough to be regarded truly as the smallest things ever made. Nobody can see me making them because my little tools are invisible into the same bargain. The one I am making now is nearly as small as nothing.’
Page 76, chapter 5 of ‘The Third Policeman’ by Flann O’Brien.
Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell ‘Plunder’
Sinéad will take on the roles of Builder and Pirate, plundering the surrounding area for treasure in her umbrella boat and construct a pirate’s lair out of Belfast’s debris. During this time she will fill a section of the gallery with sand and ask people to hide treasure in it, for herself and others to search for. Using the Catalyst Archive Sinéad will create video dominos /video Jenga with vhs tapes. Sinéad will close her activities along with Ben Craig with the lunchtime event on the Friday afternoon.
Sinead Breathnach Cashell
Ben Craig
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Open Studios Week One: tit-tat Disco Olympics
17/11/2008
Open Studios Week One: tit-tat Disco Olympics
17 November 2008 11:00 – 23 November
Open Studios Week One: tit-tat Disco Olympics
tit-tat is a collaborative effort between artists Jude Bennett and Ruth McCullough. tit-tat put on live events that they find inspiring and fun, bringing extraordinary delightful art events to the public.
During the week tit tat will be designing, developing and creating a temporary sporting installation.
On closing event on Saturday 22nd November tit-tat will have the disco olympics with events such as techno sprint, disco ball shot put, wrestling, and sequined sac race ending the night with a Wedding Disco! tit-tat strive to bring a little bit of friendly rivalry mixed with ridiculous sporting fancy dress and silly games.
Let the Games begin!
www.tittat.org
The Winners
Score Board
Sack Race – 1st place: Kate McCollough
Sequin – 1st place: Kate McCollough 2nd place: Darren 3rd place: Mike
Ribbon Dance – 1st place: Diana 2nd place: Cecilia 3rd place: Gemma
Techno Sprint – 1st place: Marty Carter 2nd place: Sighle Breathnach Cashell 3rd place: Phil Hession
Cocktail 1- 1st place: Colm’s team 2nd place: Kate’s team
Cocktail 2 – 1st place: Fiona’s team 2nd place: Mike’s team 3rd place: Abbie’s team
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Catalyst Arts presents Open Studios
17/11/2008
Catalyst Arts presents Open Studios
17 November 2008 11:00 – 20 December
Open Studios
Gallery hours – 11-5pm Tuesday – Saturday
Exhibition dates :
17th – 22nd November – Tit Tat ‘Disco Olympics’ – Opening Event Saturday Evening 22nd
24th – 29th November – Ben Craig – Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell. Opening event Friday 28th 12pm-5pm
1st – 6th December – Revati Mann – Opening Event Thursday 4th 7pm
8th – 20th December – Cian Donnelly – Opening Event Saturday 20th 8pm
Open Studios presents six artists to making new work in and for the Catalyst gallery space, over five weeks this winter.
The selected artists will transform the Catalyst gallery space into a creative laboratory, investigating contemporary studio practice through relocation of the studio into a gallery- a space in which audiences are invited to chat, observe and engage with the artists’ processes.
Visiting hours will be 11am to 5pm daily, Tuesdays to Saturdays.
We will develop photographic documentation of the space as it changes, which will be displayed in our Resource Room.
Come down and see whats happening!
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Annual Student Show 2008
30/10/2008
Annual Student Show 2008
30 October 2008 19:00 – 15 November
Catalyst Arts Annual Student Show 2008
Opening Thursday 30th October, 7pm
Exhibition runs from October 31st to November 15th
Catalyst Arts presents its annual Student Show. featuring the work of this year’s best and brightest students and graduates,.
Showcasing a selection of artists from across the UK and Ireland producing the best work in photography, sculpture, drawing and multi-disciplinary practise.
Catalyst Arts is committed to promoting and nurturing the artistic talent of tomorrow and providing support and opportunities for emerging artists. The Student Show is our finest expression of this.
Catalyst Arts has hosted over 1,000 artists since its formation 15 years ago, developing into a ground breaking, stimulating home for contemporary art. We are committed to exhibiting a broad range of work, focusing on new developments, new technologies and contemporary debates about art.
Catalyst Arts looks beyond traditional forms, questions received logic and develops innovative ways of enhancing the vocabulary of the artistic medium.
Selected artists:
Helen Tubridy (Glasgow School of Art)
Elliott Wilcox (Newport School of Art)
Tristan Fennell (Goldsmiths College, London)
Ditte Knus Tonnesen (Glasgow School of Art)
Rachel Adams (Edinburgh College of Art)
Joseph Noonan Ganley (NCAD, Dublin)
John McLaren (Glasgow School of Art)
Cecilia Sandrini (Norwich School of Art and Design)
Gallery Opening hours: 11 – 5, Tuesday to Saturday, open late night the first Thursday of every month
For photos of the opening night, please see Catalyst’s Flickr group or Facebook page.
Cecilia Sandrini
Judge Me
Wall Drawing, 2008
Tristan Fennell
From the Midori series
Projection
Ditte Knus Tonnesen
Sticks
John McLaren
Chord Memory, 2008
Helen Tubridy
Untitled, Installation
Elliott Wilcox
Courts
Joseph Noonan Ganley
Untitled, 2008
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24 Hour Comics at Catalyst Arts
18/10/2008
24 Hour Comics at Catalyst Arts 18 October 2008 10:00 – 19 October October 18th-19th Catalyst Arts, 2nd floor, 5 College Court, Belfast In association with Queen Street Digital Studios Bring your pencils and pyjamas to Catalyst for 24 Hour Comics- the annual, international events challenges individuals to produce a 24 page comic written, drawn and completed in 24 consecutive hours. From the Official 24hr Comics website: On August 31st, 1990, Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), originator of the 24 Hour comic concept, completed his first creative marathon. On April 24th, 2004 Nat Gertler organized the first 24HCD bringing together legions of participants all over the world in this annual event. In the years since, thousands have tried and many have succeeded in creating their own 24 hour comics. This event was held in assocation with Queen Street Digital Studios. Participants are advised to bring their own materials, something cosy to doze in and their own choice of food There was a series of mystery film screenings after 9pm. Participants in 24 Hour Comics Belfast 2008 included: Patrick Brown Richard Davis Andrew Croskery Jonny Shields Michael McNulty Fionnuala Doran Among others! To see some of the comics made, visit Belfast 24 Hour Comics’ comicspace profile. Michael McNulty- Shaving is Still a Bastard Richard Davis- Secret Andrew Croskey- Four Seasons * * * Patrick Brown- Something Jonny Shields- Untitled No. 2 Fionnuala Doran- Corgi For more information on the other locations worldwide for 24hr Comics, check out: Official 24hr Comics Website Irish 24hr Comics
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Accidental Theatre presents…No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
29/09/2008
Accidental Theatre presents…No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
29 September 2008 20:00 – 01 October
Accidental Theatre presents…No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
Monday 29th September- Wednesday 1st October 2008, at 8pm
Tickets available on door: £5/£3 concession
No Exit or Huis Clos was written by Jean-Paul Sartre and was first performed in Paris in 1944 just before it’s liberation. It stands as the finest example of his existentialist philosophy. It has been argued that in No Exit Sartre discusses the idea of creating one’s own future and the result of not having the power to control one’s future, therefore, one’s existence.
Each of the three main characters has a connection with the other and this beautiful play comes alive in the interplay between these three, as they look at themselves and each other for hope, salvation and torture.
The most famous line from the play and one that describes it perfectly, “Hell is…other people” is one of the great lines in 20th Century Theatre.
Fore more information, see Accidental Theatre’s website.
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Open Studios at Catalyst Arts
08/09/2008
Open Studios at Catalyst Arts
8 September 2008 00:00 – 27 September
Open Studio Space at Catalyst
Catalyst Arts presents an exciting opportunity for students, graduates and emerging artists to create innovative, location focused work inside the Catalyst Arts Gallery.
Catalyst is looking for 2-4 artists to work from 11 – 5 p.m. in the gallery which will be open to the public to view the work in progress. Both individuals and groups are welcome.
Artists are invited to submit proposals for work that will take place in the gallery. The Open Studios invites submissions from students, recent graduates and artists who are interested primarily in the Catalyst Space itself.
Artists MUST be available to work in the gallery space at least 4 days a week 11-5pm- there will also be opportunities for other hours and late nights.
Deadline for submissions is the 27th of September. Please include a CV, and up to 8 images of your practice. Work/projects tailored for the Catalyst Space are desirable.
Email to: catalystarts@gmail.com.
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First Thursdays at Catalyst: Artist’s Short Films
04/09/2008
First Thursdays at Catalyst: Artist’s Short Films
4 September 2008 19:00 -
As part of Late Night Art, Catalyst Arts presents a night of artists’ short films.
Short Films Showreel Thursday 4th September 2008
1: M. Dawn Hannah, When Enough is Never Enough 1.30 minutes
2: Kate McCulllough, Self Safari 5.30 minutes
3: Alex Perl. Automatic Film 4.30 minutes
4: Lisa Byrne, Taxi III: Stand up and Cry Like a Man 3.50 minutes
5: Jeremy Newman, Derf 3.58 minutes
6: Alexander Heim, Dog 4.15 minutes
7: Seamus Harahan, Before Sunrise 3.25 minutes
8: Erica Scourti, Ghost Story 3.50 minutes
Presented as part of Late Night Art, in association with Belfast Galleries.
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Moss Graffiti Workshop
29/07/2008
Moss Graffiti Workshop
Date: 29 July 2008
Moss Graffiti Workshop
Tuesday 29th July 3pm
No charge
Introduction to Moss Graffiti, how to do it, and where to do it..
For more info on Moss Graffiti visit here
Image from storiesfromspace.co.uk
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FIX 07- 7th International Performance Art Festival
14/11/2007
FIX 07- 7th International Performance Art Festival
14 November 2007 00:00 – 07 December
FIX07 presents a programme of performances, interventions, discussions and workshops illustrating creative strategies for a dynamic engagement with the praxis of live art.
Established since 1994 FIX has an international reputation for presenting emerging and established national and international artists. The seventh edition of this festival has evolved its programme to over three weeks with focus on expanding collaborative, investigative artworks that engages with the notions of what is public and live.
FIX07 seeks to engage audiences with challenging performances and interventions to explore new approaches and open dialogues.
For more information on FIX07, see the official website.
Or for photos and coverage from the events as they happened, check out the Blog or the FIX07 Flickr gallery.
