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October 3rd - November 2nd 2024

an abstract text with dates and logos at the bottom. The logos are for Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Ri Ra Irish Lager and the show, Asterix hyphen asterix

✱-✱ interrogates an interplay of labour, identity and production within contemporary practices. Highlighting a lens of constant construction, the space is left open, and thematically broad, to commemorate, and to allow space for, thought and engagements throughout ✱-✱’s run. The show considers where we are, where we’ve been and speculates a future for organisations and institutions in the modern age; not so much a critique as a ~dream~.

✱-✱ features new and re-imagined (work / w̶o̶r̶k̶* ) by Edy Fung, Luke van Gelderen and Cecelia Graham, amongst others. ✱-✱ opens on Thursday October 3rd, and runs until November 2nd. There will be a series of events, workshops, gatherings and engagements throughout this time period, more details soon <3

✱-✱ is generously supported by ACNI, and sponsored by the GOATs at Rí-Rá Irish Lager ~ delicious.

It’s a shade of purple referenced from a space you’ve lived in / it’s functioning / it’s gonna work / it’s difficult - never impossible.

(i) Dreamed a dream³

Time after time⁴

Asterix hyphen asterix⁵

*-* ʜᴀꜱ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴄᴜʀᴀᴛᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱᴛ ᴀʀᴛꜱ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛᴏʀ ʜᴜꜱᴋ ʙᴇɴɴᴇᴛᴛ

Edy Fung is a post-disciplinary artist, curator and music composer. Her current research focuses on the origins of machine electronics, logic and philosophy of information. With interest beyond the anthropocentric perspectives, she works with sound, text, documentation, archive, installation, sculpture, public intervention and transmission art. Together with her sonic project Quantum Foam//QNTMFM, her practice seeks to explore and address current technological paradigms and the resulting epistemic limitations.
Fung’s work has been presented at museums, art and music contexts internationally, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Goethe-Institut Irland, RHA Dublin, Muine Bheag Arts, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Golden Thread Gallery, Somerset House Studios, FACT Liverpool, Galway International Art Festival, Irish Arts Center New York, Nobel Week Lights Stockholm, MUTEK Festival, CTM Festival Berlin.
Luke van Gelderen works across video, sculpture, and digital media, creating immersive installations that examine the performance and mediation of contemporary identities through technology. Converging celebrity culture, alienation, masculinity and violence, his work is grounded in his own experience of recurring intrusive thoughts and images amplified by the internet.
Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘HARDCORE FENCING’, Pallas Projects/Studios (2024); ‘unrecognisable (spillway)’, Ormond Art Studios (2020); ‘My Activity’, Rua Red (2019); ‘Chatroulette’, K4 Galleri, Oslo (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: ‘this is perfect, perfect, perfect’, Transmediale, Berlin (2024); ‘Manslows Hammer–Periodical Review 13’, Pallas Projects/ Studios, Dublin (2023); ‘LOCKJAW’, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin (2023); ‘FAKE BODY’, Platform Arts, Belfast (2023); ‘you breathe differently down here’, Draíocht Gallery, Dublin (2022) and ‘Rendering New Realities’, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2021). Recent screenings include Toxi Space, Zurich (2024) and Terrarista TV, online (2020). He lives and works in Dublin and is a current studio member in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
Cecelia Graham is a practitioner based between Belfast, Derry and Mid-Ulster in the north of Ireland.
Cecelia explores collective knowledge gathering, alternative economies and labour practices in order to challenge notions of hyper-productivity, disciplinary borders and power structures often relied on within institutions. Her work considers modes of working that emerge from collaborative and slow methods within ecology, agriculture, craft and messy acts of love and vulnerability. Challenging the language of professionalism, Cecelia seeks alternative modes of advocating for and supporting a community of artists that resist strict, slick outputs.
Cecelia has a collaborative practice with curator Grace Jackson, researching kind-hearted and vulnerable approaches to artistic-curatorial relationships and establishing alternative modes of advocating for a community of artists. The duo were Curators-in-Residence at PS2 in Belfast from 2021-2023.