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Difference Engine

June 10, 2011 — June 18, 2011

Thisisnotashop: The Lighthouse Project presents…

Difference Engine: MANIFESTATION III
Mark Cullen, Jessica Foley, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawlor and Gordon Cheung

June 10 – June 18, 2011 open daily 3.30-7pm
Opening: Friday June 10 7.00pm with a live performance by BLOODYENDS at 9.30pm

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, New York City 10002
www.csvcenter.com

Curated by Jessamyn Fiore and Victoria Keddie

Direct from Ireland, Difference Engine is an evolving serial exhibition, and a model of autonomous artist curation, by artists Gillian Lawler, Wendy Judge, Jessica Foley, Mark Cullen & Gordon Cheung. Each Manifestation of Difference Engine is based upon an ongoing collaboration, a kind of ‘Jamming’, between the artists. The result yields engaging experimental exhibitions combining installation, video, painting, sculpture and writing.

Difference Engine: MANIFESTATION III will include a program of live readings and performance, featuring the Irish band BLOODYENDS, and workshops by the artists will run concurrently, promoting audience engagement and creative response.  A night of auditory performances by New York based artists in response to Difference Engine will conclude the show.

Saturday June 11- Sun June 12 : Artist Workshop led by Jessica Foley & Jessamyn Fiore. 4.00pm-6.00pm.

Wednesday June 15 : The Literary Event: an evening of live readings featuring Irish authors curated by Belinda McKeon. 6.30pm-9pm.

Friday June 17 : The Closing Event: An Audible Response
New York artists respond to Difference Engine through live text, story telling, sound, performance and music. 7pm-10.30pm.  With Rachelle Rahme, Sarah Halpern, Zac Layton, Dana Bell, and more!

This exhibition is part of Thisisnotashop: The Lighthouse Project, a series that presents contemporary Irish art in New York City and promotes cross cultural creative exchange and collaboration curated by Jessamyn Fiore and Victoria Keddie. 

This exhibition is generously supported by Culture Ireland and is a part of Imagine Ireland 2011 www.imagineireland.ie

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Websites:
www.thisisnotashop.com
www.differenceengine2010.wordpress.com

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Jessica Foley

September 24, 2010 — October 7, 2010

Experiments in Measurement – A REGULATIVE FICTION
Written, Directed & Documented by Jessica Foley

Culture Night – Friday September 24th, 2010. 8-10pm
at The Market Studios as part of LIVESTOCK
http://themarketstudios.wordpress.com/ 

And also
September 30th to October 7th, 2010
at Occupy Space, Limerick as part of SHOW ME
http://www.showmeexhib.com/

Thisisnotashop is pleased to announce that Jessica Foley is presenting Documentary Video Footage & Book based upon the Thisisnotashop Flux Clinic Event that was held in May, 2009 as part of Fluxus with Larry Miller.  This work was previously exhibited as part of Thisisnotashop@No Soul For Sale held at X-Initiative in Chelsea, New York City in June 2009. 

In Science, convictions have no citizens’ rights, so people say with good reason: only when they decide to descend to the modest level of hypothesis, of provisional experimental standpoint, of a regulative fiction, can they be allowed the right of entry and indeed certain value within the realm of knowledge, - albeit with the proviso that they remain under police supervision, the police of mistrust. -The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche.

This ‘Clinic’ began with notes sent from artist Larry Miller – these were the blueprints – a story of a story retold. The possibility of copying was eliminated – this was interpretation – this was finding an artifact, a document (notes by Larry based upon the Hi Red Group’s Flux Clinic from 1966) and using it to tell another tale, or to tell a tale in another way…as Larry says:

“Part of FLUXUS ‘ideology’ is that events are interpreted differently, added to, updated, amplified upon, etc. when done in various venues. That is part of the power of resilience of the body of all FLUXUS work – that it is a kind of ‘Darwinian Evolution’ in a way that keeps it alive. It survives because of it’s adaptability to new circumstances and because it remains ‘useful’…”

The starting point was measurement…thinking about how value systems based upon measurement, measuring up, fitting the bill so-to-speak, are orchestrated, arranged and brought into the status quo of things. What does it take to build a system? Who do you need to do it? What do you need to put in place? The process of setting up the Clinic became a grand experiment in system building – scripting & installing & operating a system for 4 hours on one day in May 2009 – and the experiment was done in an effort to perhaps understand more how systems function and how we operate within them. Building the system of the Clinic required a large team of contributors – essentially a generous & voluntary staff who came forward to try on the roles and fill-out the Clinic’s system. The system became diversified by virtue of its multiple participants – the Patient/Visitors as important as the Staff/Performers – no system can work without some form of participation, some form of compliance, whether conscious or otherwise. This experimental system, this regulative fiction was built upon many parts – parts which involved role-play – each role separate & distinct. Each player was dedicated to their own role, and this dedication became the scaffold for the system…

Kathryn Maguire

September 19, 2010 — September 20, 2010

Hunter Gatherer

An Ephemeral Art Event

Sunday 19th September 2010 at 5pm

Find the work along the Grand Canal banks of Dublin, at Fishing posts 5- 7 near the Harolds Cross bridge

Thisisnotashop is delighted to present a new artwork by Kathryn Maguire entitled Hunter Gatherer, an ephemeral art intervention along the canal banks of Dublin. Please join us on Sunday evening for the swans release into city.

Artist Statement:

While walking along the Grand Canal in Dublin near the Harold’s Cross bridge area I noticed there were no swans. As I walked, pondering on the whereabouts of the swans, I found a lonely origami crane/swan on the grass. When I looked closer I realised it was made from a Tesco’s receipt.

Hunter Gatherer is a term coined for certain tribes who only gather foods when required.

According to Sahlins, ethnographic data indicated that hunter-gatherers worked far fewer hours and enjoyed more leisure than typical members of industrial society, and they still ate well. Their “affluence” came from the idea that they are satisfied with very little in the material sense.

Like the swans people have migrated to Ireland to improve their lives, bringing their different cultures, both culinary and behaviorally with them. There has been an increase in groups of people gathering along the banks of the canals. It is possible such a person created the solitary origami crane.

My idea is to create lots of origami swans/cranes and leave them strewn along the canal walk for others to find and also experience what happened to me. As they are made from receipts from my food shopping and consumerism, they are a thing of beauty, and also made from a banal material.

In Japan, a thousand origami cranes are considered to be very lucky.
Tsuru: The Japanese Crane

This event will happen on the 19th September 2010 at 5pm along the Grand Canal banks of Dublin, at Fishing posts 5- 7 near the Harolds Cross bridge.

BYOB & BBFB (bring bread for birdies)