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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 exhibits a tendency to fictionalize, seemingly squinting at reality through a half-cocked eye. The works establish a gravitational system of sorts between them, pulling the visitor in to their stories and forms…
Difference Engine is modeled on the understanding that the exhibition is a site where meaning can be generated, ideas tested through experiments in form and display. Shared expertise, knowledge, learning & mutability makes up the DNA of the model: whilst the exhibition travels it is never repeated, it is responsive to its context and location, and to temporal and ontological frames.
MANIFESTATION III will see the first articulation of D.E. Chronicles, a serialized publication to accompany (but not represent) the Difference Engine exhibitions. D.E. Chronicles: Episode One will involve a fair bit of jamming between Difference Engine, BLOODYENDS and curators Jessamyn Fiore & Victoria Keddie.
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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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)
Everything is ‘Up’ in Dublin
May 25, 2010 — May 27, 2010
Thisisnotashop presents Everything is ‘Up’
a group exhibition featuring live performances and events by Thisisnotashop artists
Presented by Thisisnotashop and La Catedral Studios
Tuesday May 25 – Thursday May 27th 2010
Open from 5pm daily with live performances/events nightly
CLOSING Party – Thursday May 27th 6.30-9.30 pm
The Back Loft, La Catedral Studios
7/11 Saint Augustine Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
www.lacatedralstudios.org
Artists:
Clive Murphy
Wendy Judge
Kathryn Maguire
Robert Carr
Marta Fernandez Calvo
Catherine Barragry
and The Writing Workshop
Curated by Jessamyn Fiore
Thisisnotashop is delighted to bring home to Dublin the exhibition Everything is ‘Up’ after its run in the TATE Modern, London, as part of No Soul For Sale – A Festival for Independents on May 14-16. No Soul For Sale brings together 70 independent art spaces from around the world for a three-day festival of art and music to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the TATE Modern for which 45,000 visitors are expected. Thisisnotashop is the only arts organization participating from Ireland and we are proud to represent the Irish independent arts scene with our exhibition and performances.
So for all who cannot make it to London for the big event we are very pleased to announce that Everything is ‘Up’ will be shown in Dublin at The Back Loft at La Catedral Studios for three days of exhibition, performance, and events. The exhibition will be open daily from 5pm with live performance/events beginning at 7pm.
To view the exhibition outside these hours please call 087 986 7643 to schedule an appointment.
Tuesday May 25th:
An Evening with The Writing Workshop
7pm – 9pm
Based in Dublin, Ireland, The Writing Workshop is an open hub for writers and artists to explore text. Founded by Jessica Foley and Jessamyn Fiore in 2007, The Workshop is catalysed by a shared desire to explore the expansive & pervasive possibilities of text & words, particularly when extended through transdisciplinary arts practices. A New York City branch of The Writing Workshop began in April 2010.
Dublin: Jessica Foley, Áine Ivers, Susan Thomson, Kay Inckle, Jennie Guy, Claire Behan, Fiona Fullam, Helen Horgan and Terry Markey.
New York: Jessamyn Fiore, Audrey Kombiashi, Georg Freese, Michelle Meier, Elizabeth White, and Jesse Jones.
Wednesday May 26th:
Thisisnotashop Performance & Film
7pm – 10pm
This evening will consist of live performance by Catherine Barragry, Susan Thomson & Terry Markey. There will also be a performative 8mm film screening by Jessica Foley entitled for one, for all. Exact performance times and descriptions to be confirmed so check back for updated details.
Thursday May 27th:
Everything is ‘Up’ CLOSING Party
Featuring a live performance by Marta Fernandez Calvo
6.30-9.30 pm
To mark the finish of this incredible journey we are celebrating with a closing rather than an opening. So please join us for a toast to Everything is ‘Up’ and the wonderful artists of thisisnotashop!
Marta Fernandez Calvo will present the final iteration of the performance/sculpture she is creating for the TATE Modern (performance time to be confirmed, check back for updated details)
Huge thank you to Antonella at The Back Loft, La Catedral Studios, for her generous support in bringing Everything is ‘Up’ to Dublin.
Another huge thank you to Culture Ireland for their support of Thisisntoashop at No Soul For Sale in the TATE Modern.
No Soul For Sale at Tate Modern
May 14, 2010 — May 16, 2010
Thisisnotashop presents Everything is ‘Up’
A group exhibition as part of No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall – London, England
May 14 – 16 2010
Thisisnotashop is pleased to announce we will be participating in the second No Soul For Sale – A Festival For Independents being held from May 14-16 in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London. We will be exhibiting a group exhibition alongside 70 other independent arts organizations from around the world in a three-day festival celebrating alternative art and the 10th anniversary of the Tate Modern (yes… there will be cake!)
Everything is ‘Up’ is an exhibition curated by Jessamyn Fiore featuring new work by thisisnotashop artists including Clive Murphy, Wendy Judge, Kathryn Maguire, Robert Carr, Marta Fernandez Calvo, Catherine Barragry and The Writing Workshop (whose members include Jessica Foley, Susan Thomson, Aine Ivers, Jessamyn Fiore, Kay Inckle, Jennie Guy and more…)
For further details visit www.nosoulforsale.com and www.tate.org.uk
Please see No Soul For Sale Press Release below for full details:
Press Release
No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
Admission Free
14 and 15 May 2010, 10:00 – Midnight
16 May 2010 10:00 – 18:00
For public information number please print 020 7887 8888
To celebrate Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, the gallery will host No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents. For this free arts festival, Tate Modern is inviting over 70 of the world’s most innovative independent art spaces, not-for-profit organizations and artists’ collectives, from Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro, to take over the Turbine Hall. The festival will fill the iconic Turbine Hall space with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge arts events, performances, music and film on 14-16 May 2010. The gallery will stay open until midnight on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 May for late night events with special guests to be announced very soon. Tate Modern first opened on 12 May 2000 and over 45 million visitors have passed through the gallery’s doors since.
To stage No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern is working in collaboration with artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni. The festival will bring together some of the most exciting and experimental new art from around the globe, displayed in an unconventional, do-it-yourself style. Ranging from monumental structures to witty interventions, epic performances to interactive installations, participants will exhibit alongside each other without partitions or walls, creating a pop-up village of global art for visitors to explore.
The organisations taking part will respond to the invitation with a range of unique projects, building on the participatory spirit of previous Turbine Hall commissions. White Columns (New York) will work with Sonic Youth-musician, Thurston Moore, to launch the new issue of his Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal. Publishing poetry by individuals who intersect the worlds of poetry, music and art, the journal will be printed on paper designed to fly as a kite in the Turbine Hall. Meanwhile, Barcelona-based duo Latitudes will collaborate with Spanish artist Martí Anson, who will set up a taxi firm and drive the pair from Barcelona to London and back, designing the vehicle, chauffeur’s uniform and route.
Elsewhere in the space, Kling & Bang gallery (Reykjavík) will dangle a large-scale column of cash register rolls from the 40-metre high ceiling of the Turbine Hall, creating an interior space filled with video projections. Hailing from New York, K48 Kontinuum will make their stamp on the Turbine Hall with a giant photo of a slice of pizza plastered to the floor. Arthub Asia (Shanghai/Bangkok/Beijing) will add to the playful, anarchic atmosphere of the festival with work from artist Zhou Xiaohu, who will translate the gallery’s signs into Chinese. A number of UK-based organisations will take place including Museum of Everything (London), Auto Italia (London) and The Royal Standard (Liverpool).
The festival will bring together a number of cutting-edge contemporary film and video organisations including Light Industry (New York), Centre Cinématèque de Tanger (Tangier), and no.w.here (London), who will devise programmes of screenings and collaborations with video artists. It will also invite art-related publications such as e-flux (Berlin), who will set up a production space that allows visitors to act as publisher. All participants will host a live event of their choice on the dedicated performance space on the Turbine Hall bridge, ranging from talks and screenings to performances.
The first edition of No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents was spearheaded by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan, and Massimiliano Gioni, and took place in June 2009 at X initiative in the former Dia Center for the Arts in New York. The idea for the festival was devised to celebrate and foster a spirit of independence and diversity in the art world.
As part of No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern is opening late on the 14 and 15 May 2010, tying-in with the nationwide project Museums at Night. Museums at Night is the annual after-hours celebration of UK culture, history and heritage that sees museums and galleries all over the UK staying open late and putting on special events to get people to do something different with their evening – and enjoy the history and heritage on their doorstep.
Independent arts organisations taking part in No Soul For Sale include: Alternative Space LOOP (Seoul), Arrow Factory (Beijing), Arthub Asia (Shanghai/Bangkok/Beijing), Artis - Contemporary Israeli Art Fund (New York / Tel Aviv), Artspeak (Vancouver), Artists Space (New York), Auto Italia (London), Ballroom (Marfa), Black Dogs (Leeds), Barbur (Jerusalem), Capacete Entertainment (Rio de Janeiro), Casas Tres Patios (Medellín), Centre Cinématèque de Tanger (Tangier), Cinema Project (Portland), cneai= (Paris-Chatou), Collective Parasol (Kyoto), Dispatch (New York), e-flux (Berlin), Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel - 220 jours (Paris), Embassy (Edinburgh), Exyzt & Coloco (Paris), Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado (Lisbon), FLUXspace (Philadelphia), FormContent (London), Galerie im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar Project (Berlin), Green Papaya Art Projects (Manila), Hell Gallery (Melbourne), Hermes und der Pfau (Stuttgart), i-cabin (London), Intoart (London), K48 Kontinuum (New York), Kling & Bang (Reykjavík), L’appartement 22 (Rabat), Latitudes (Barcelona), Le Commissariat (Paris), Le Dictateur (Milan), Light Industry (New York), Lucie Fontaine (Milan), lugar a dudas (Cali), Machine Project (Los Angeles), Mousse (Milan), Museum of Everything (London), Next Visit (Berlin), New Jerseyy (Basel), Not An Alternative (New York), no.w.here (London), Oregon Painting Society (Portland), Or Gallery (Vancouver), P-10/Post Museum (Singapore), Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Peep-Hole (Milan), PiST (Istanbul), PSL [Project Space Leeds] (Leeds), Rhizome (New York), Salamanca (Jerusalem), San Art (Ho Chi Minh City), Studio 1.1 (Liverpool), Suburban (Chicago), Swiss Institute (New York), The Mountain School of Arts (Los Angeles), The Royal Standard (Liverpool), Thisisnotashop (Dublin), Torpedo - supported by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Oslo), Tranzit (Prague), Viafarini DOCVA (Milan), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Western Bridge (Seattle), Western Front Society (Vancouver), White Columns (New York), Y3K (Melbourne), 2nd Cannons Publications (Los Angeles), and 98 Weeks (Beirut).
Catherine Barragry
April 23, 2010 — April 23, 2010
underground
Friday April 23rd , evening time
Who doesn’t love a good secret? Thisisnotashop would like to invite you to a secret performance by artist Catherine Barragry… I can’t tell you what happens because after watching I was sworn to secrecy… I can’t tell you where it is except it’s not where you’d expect…. I can say that Barragry is one of the most inventive and engaging performance artists I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with and this performance is the secret that gets everyone talking… - Jessamyn Fiore (Director Thisisnotashop)
Numbers are strictly limited so booking is essential. Please email Michael to make a reservation and put UNDERGROUND PERFORMANCE in the subject line. He will reply with the details of when and where.
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The Writing Workshop in New York City
April 3, 2010 — April 10, 2010
at UnionDocs Thu April 8 - Sat April 10, 6-10pm daily (see details below)
at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Sat April 3 & Sat April 10, 2-4pm
Based in Dublin, Ireland since 2007 and supported by Thisisnotashop Gallery, The Writing Workshop has become an open hub for people to explore & develop writing. The Workshop is catalysed by a shared desire to explore the expansive & pervasive possibilities of text & words, particularly when extended through transdisciplinary arts practices.
Core member artists of The Writing Workshop (Jessica Foley, Susan Thomson, Áine Ivers and Jessamyn Fiore) are journeying from Ireland to present their work and host a series of writing workshops at UnionDocs in Williamsberg, Brooklyn and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens. This series will include sculptural/film installation, screenings, live readings and participatory workshops that will explore the work and also launch a New York branch of The Writing Workshop.
All Workshops are open to the public- please come along if you are at all interested in text (open to artists, writers, filmmakers… anyone who wishes to explore and play with words & ideas)
UnionDocs Thu Apr 8 – Sat Apr 10
322 Union Ave, Williamsberg, Brooklyn 11211 www.uniondocs.org
Daily 6pm-8pm: Installation
- Jessica Foley’s film/audio installation entiled for one, for all.
Artist Statement: This work has developed in my head mostly, and only of late has become ‘visible’. In November 2008 I visited America for the first time with the resolve to film in Super 8 a personal experience of accompanying my friend to make her vote in what was predicted by many to be ‘an historic’ presidential election for America & the World. The films have only come to light (as in literally projected) in the past number of weeks, and during this time I have attempted to articulate for myself, & for whomever might come across this work, a kind of minor personal inquiry of Democracy, of Vision & of Unity. for one, for all is incomplete, though I hope that it will evolve through it’s exhibiting, through the eyes & voices & ears of those who encounter it…
- Áine Ivers sculptural installation entitled Pattern for moving through an element.
Artist Statement: Animals who roam our cities freely in the future… This installation is an attempt to manifest in New York a pack of wolves, based on a pattern I have been developing over the past few months. A pattern for a wolf that moves over ground, that I can bring anywhere, and build where desired.
Thu Apr 8 at 8pm: Workshop
Jessica Foley will lead a Writing Workshop based on ideas extended from her work for one, for all, exploring the realtionship between writing and democracy.
Fri Apr 9 at 8pm: Screening
Fire Practice Theatre by Susan Thomson. Residing somewhere between fiction and documentary, this two screen film shows firefighters practicing their skills on a tall purpose built house in a fire station. This is depicted as if it were a piece of theatre, a rehearsal or ritual in a theatre where only one play is performed. There are different levels of fiction. A script is performed by actors playing firefighters; lines are swapped, dramatically forgotten and a scene arrives early. The house is unlived-in, sinister, the piece reminiscent of a psyche where trauma and desire are endlessly replayed.
Fire Practice Theatre runs for approx 15 minutes and will be followed by audience discussion with the artist.
Sat Apr 10 at 8pm: Reading
Live readings of members work including a theatrical reading of A Play About Lee Lozano by Jessamyn Fiore followed by audience discussion. A Play About Lee Lozano uses found text (articles/interviews/statement) to explore the mystery of 1960’s New York painter/conceptual performance artist Lee Lozano whose work led her to boycott the art world and women in general. The extremity of her boycott created a void that others have attempted to fill in order to understand her life and work.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Sat Apr 3 & Sat Apr 10 2-4pm
22-25 Jackson Ave at intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City 11101 www.ps1.org
Writing Workshop members Jessica Foley, Susan Thomson, Áine Ivers, and Jessamyn Fiore will lead two workshops at P.S.1 on the first two Saturdays in April. Please join us for one or both workshops that are open to any and all who are interested in exploring text and ideas.
Workshop 1 on Sat Apr 3, 2-4pm:
Introduction to The Writing Workshop – in this workshop we will talk about what the Writing Workshop is and how we work. We will do some fun exercises that will get members thinking creatively and working together. We will also share and discuss work in process so if you have a piece or idea you would like to share please bring it along (nothing too long so everyone has time to present).
Workshop 2 on Sat Apr 10, 2-4pm:
Imaginative Tourism– this workshop will explore the idea of travel writing and trying to capture a place and experience- both for somewhere you have and have not been. Do you need to ‘experience’ in order to write comprehensively about something? We will tease out ideas of Truth & Fiction - writing about an experience never experienced, and seeing if the reader can identify the limits of this, ie: can you tell whether this is true or not? Believe the text or not…
The Writing Workshop at P.S.1 is supported by ARTBOOK.
The Writing Workshop in New York City is generously supported by Culture Ireland.
If you have any specific questions about workshops or events please email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Aoife Giles as part of St. Patrick’s Festival Art Trail
March 12, 2010 — March 17, 2010
Pieces of Cake
As part of The St. Patrick’s Festival 2010 Art Trail
OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Exhibition Continues thru Wednesday 17 March, open daily 2-6pm
2010 is a year of new beginnings for Thisisnotashop as we have let go of our gallery space to present a series of independent exhibitions in Ireland, New York, and Internationally. This series began in New York with The Writing Workshop at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center last month and we are now delighted to announce the next exhibition opens this Friday in Dublin as Thisisnotashop presents new work by Aoife Giles at the Crow Gallery in Temple Bar as part of the St. Patrick’s Festival Art Trail.
Aoife Giles (1980, Dublin) is a visual artist currently based in Dublin. She works in a variety of media including, photography, performance, video and installation. Her work explores the relations created between spaces and activities that we deem sacred or profane, the crossover between our public and private lives and the challenges of representing subjective experiences. This will be her third show with Thisisnotashop. She has exhibited and worked in Ireland, Brazil, England and Sweden.
For more details visit www.stpatricksfestival.ie
The Crow Gallery is located on the 1st Floor at 6 Crow Street (above Shan Indian Restaurant) in Temple Bar, Dublin 2. For a map visit www.crowgallery.net
Writing Workshop Exhibition at P.S.1 MOMA
February 11, 2010 — February 27, 2010
Glass I…
The Writing Workshop will exhibit an installation of work by four of its members in the vitrines at the cafe in P.S.1 MOMA from February 11th to 27th 2010.
Based in Dublin, Ireland since 2007 and supported by Thisisnotashop Gallery, The Writing Workshop has become an open hub for people to explore & develop writing. The Workshop is catalysed by a shared desire to explore the expansive & pervasive possibilities of text & words, particularly when expanded through transdisciplinary arts practices. Each of the Vitrines at P.S.1 Cafe will contain individual work specifically developed in response to the particular space of exhibition (the glass vitrine) by Áine Ivers, Jessica Foley, Susan Thomson & Jessamyn Fiore.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Opening Hours Thursday through Monday, 12-6pm
Address: 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
www.ps1.org
Behind the glass you will find…
Free Energy City by Áine Ivers. Through text and drawing an imaginary ecological town is depicted. A lost lover guides us through streets where houses photosynthesize and wolves roam freely…
Allegory for Occupation by Jessica Foley sketches rough outlines of an experience in a crumbling workhouse in the midlands of Ireland, agitating currents of history & myth…
Susan Thomson’s The Swimming Diaries, excerpts from a 25,000 word book where each word corresponds to a stroke swum during the month when her mother was dying
Jessamyn Fiore’s remnants and text memory from a month spent living in the wilds of Patagonia, Chile, as well as A Play About Lee Lozano.
For more information please see:
www.thewritingworkshop.wordpress.com
www.aineivers.org www.jessicadfoley.com www.susanthomson.co.uk
The exhibition is supported by ArtBOOK and Culture Ireland.
3rd Annual Christmas (Art) Fair
December 17, 2009 — December 19, 2009
Thursday December 17th, 2-9pm
Friday December 18th, 2-10pm (Canabrism performs 8.30 pm)
Saturday December 19th, 12pm-7pm
This end of year tradition is where we throw open the doors to every artist who fancies putting their work on the wall and see what happens! We provide a suitably lively holiday atmosphere with fairy lights, mulled wine, music, and Christmas films galore…
Artists: bring down your work during the designated times* and claim your spot on the wall- first come first serve. We don’t curate, we don’t take a commission – it’s totally up to you!
Everyone Else: Come down to the most unique Christmas Fair in Dublin that includes a massive variety of different work by different artists- from paintings, to jewelry, to toys, to much much more!
*Artists can bring work for inclusion on Wed Dec 16th from 2pm-8pm.
It MUST BE COLLECTED on Sunday Dec 20th between 12-7pm (after that we are no longer in the gallery and cannot take care of your work!)
Plus on FRIDAY DECEMBER 18th 8.30 pm Live Music by Canabrism
Canabrism (www.canabrism.com) presents a performance of music and video The Machine That Changed The Music. This will be a 40 minute multimedia event which explores the theme of how the development of the computer has impacted on modern culture in general, and music in particular. The music itself will be performed using a variety of modern computer-based techniques including live mixing, sample triggering, effects manipulation and time stretching, as well as synthesized sounds played via a traditional keyboard.
The visual components will be largely excerpted from the 1991 documentary on the history of computing The Machine That Changed The World. This five-part series is now out of print and unavailable commercially, but can be viewed online in its entirety at waxy.org
The Long Goodbye
December 10, 2009 — December 13, 2009
Group Show of Past Thisisnotashop Artists
Opening Thursday Dec 10th, 7-9pm
Exhibition Continues Dec 11-13, open 2-7pm daily
Featuring work by Wendy Judge, Robert Carr, Marta Fernandez Calvo, Gordon Matta-Clark, Chequerboard, Kathryn Maguire, Jessica Foley, Aine Ivers, Clive Murphy, Patricia McKenna, Fiona Larkin, Terry Markey, and Will St Leger
Please join us to celebrate that high caliber of work that has passed through the gallery over the years with this goodbye to Benburb group show featuring a mix of new and old work by some of our most inspiring artists.
Siobhan McDonald
December 2, 2009 — December 6, 2009
Siobhan McDonald
Opening Wednesday December 2nd, 7-9pm
Exhibition Continues December 3 – 6, 2009
Open 2-7pm daily
For nearly a decade McDonald has investigated the fundamentals of place and landscape. Using lens based reference material she transposes the images into studies on place and human experience. Recently she has begun to include the structural elements of walls, grids and deserted sites in her paintings. They act as territorial markers and stand as witness to the passage of time. They become a record of civilization in its various stages of flux and unrest.
During time spent in Venice earlier this year she found a collection of old Venetian printing wood blocks and a set of fifteen century Venetian maps which has inspired a series of work depicting the fragility of the Venetian Lagoon and disappearing places in the world. This discovery led her to employ the structure of layering and methodologies of maps and seismographs into my work.
She is also studying a volcano know as Mount Chance which is on an island in Montserrat in the West Indies. As part of her research she worked in the Observatory with the scientists where the ground movements of the earthquake are recorded in the field by seismometers sited around the volcano. The stations are powered by batteries, which are augmented by solar energy. The signals from the stations are also recorded on paper and give the scientists an immediate view of the current seismic activity. She began to see it as a form of mapping, which has become part of her recent work. The layers of line and latitude create a visual score, which maps the vibration of the earth’s signals.
Gillian Lawler
November 19, 2009 — November 29, 2009
Opening Thursday November 19th, 7-9pm
Exhibition Continues November 20 - 29
Gallery Open Wed– Sun, 2-7pm
Lawler’s paintings are modeled on modern building developments, high-density living, apartment upon apartment, tightly packed and claustrophobic. These densely layered images meditate on the possible long-term rise and fall of cities, suggesting vast and possibly fragile ambitions. The American historian Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) argued that the structure of modern cities is partially responsible for many social problems seen in western society. While pessimistic in tone, Mumford argues that urban planning should emphasize an organic relationship between people and their living spaces.
This body of work focuses on a sense of unease within an urban architectural context. Lawler considers spatial, structural and psychological fluctuations and schisms within an urban framework. Formerly familiar structures appear strange and peculiar. The act of architecture is significant in its unavoidable manner of influence and its ability to affect mood, orientation, pleasure, economy and feelings. This work explores anxiety and estrangement associated with the experience of architectural space within urban living.
Gillian Lawler was born in Kildare in 1977 and currently lives in Dublin. She received a BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design in 2000. She has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland including recent solo shows at The Dock (2009), Cross gallery (2008), Fenderesky Gallery (2007) and Draiocht Arts Centre (2007). Group shows in 2009 include, Preponderance of the Small, Douglas Hyde Gallery, No Soul For Sale: A Festival for Independents, X-Initiative New York City, RHA Annual Exhibition and Eigse Arts Festival. She was awarded the Hennessey Craig Award at the RHA Gallery Annual exhibition in 2007 and awarded the overall winner of the Open Selection exhibition at the Eigse Arts Festival in 2009. Other awards include a Kildare Arts Services Award 2009 and an Arts Council Bursary Award 2009. Future exhibitions include a solo show at the Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, 2009, Difference Engine, a group show at Cake Contemporary Arts, Kildare, 2009 and the Black Mariah Gallery, Cork 2010..
Susan Thomson
November 12, 2009 — November 15, 2009
Fire Practice Theatre
Opening Thursday November 12th, 6-9pm
Exhibition Continues through Sunday Nov 15th, open 2-7pm daily
Written and directed by Susan Thomson Director of Photography Piers McGrail
Actors Joseph Paul Travers, David Coakley, Elga Fox Sound design Sven Anderson
The film is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland
Residing somewhere between fiction and documentary, this two screen film shows firefighters practising their skills on a tall purpose built house in a fire station. This is depicted as if it were a piece of theatre, a rehearsal or ritual in a theatre where only one play is performed. There are different levels of fiction. A script is performed by actors playing firefighters; lines are swapped, dramatically forgotten and a scene arrives early. The house is unlived-in, sinister, the piece reminiscent of a psyche where trauma and desire are endlessly replayed.
Susan Thomson is an artist and writer originally from Scotland. She holds an M.A. in Visual Arts Practices from IADT, Dublin a degree in Modern Languages from Cambridge University and a Masters in European Literature from Oxford University. She has performed and exhibited her work at venues in Europe and beyond including the UK National Review of Live Art, the International Video Art festivals of Alcoi and Valencia, Spain and X Initiative, New York. She has written for books and publications including Circa, The Times and Women’s News and has received a number of Visual Arts bursaries, including a South Dublin County Council Award (2003), an Arts Council New Work Award (2008), and Culture Ireland Award (2009) www.susanthomson.co.uk
Aisling Finn
November 5, 2009 — November 8, 2009
It’s Over…
Opening Thursday November 5th, 7-9pm
Exhibition Continues thru Sunday Nov 8th, open 2-7 daily
Aisling Finn presents a body of work which explores the idea of the fleetingness of daily life. The exhibition consists of numerous candles in the form of letters that together form sentences. These sentences were recorded by the artist from one day to the next in an attempt to retain some small memory of days passing by.
Aisling Finn graduated from Dun Laoghaire IADT in 2008 where she received a first class honours degree in Visual Arts Practice. She lives and works in Dublin and has exhibited in Dublin.
For more information please visit http://aislingsart.blogspot.com/
Tinderbox Network
October 21, 2009 — October 25, 2009
STORYTELLING
Opening Wednesday Octobr 21st, 7-9pm
Exhibition Continues October 22nd-25th, open 2-7pm Thursday 22nd - Late Night Openings 23rd, 24th & 25th, until 9pm.
Storytelling is a group exhibition that explores the themes of narrative and ubiquitous human curiosity through urban legend, fairytale, folklore and more. Exhibiting tinderbox artists, illustrators and photographers include: Frances Tyrrell, Emma Rowe, Damien Martin, Noirin Collins, Michael Cawley, Michelle Cunningham, Jackie O’Neill, Seán McGarr, and Claire Gallagher.
Tinderbox is a Dublin-based, not-for-profit creative network founded in March ‘09. The purpose of Tinderbox is to showcase creative talent and create a network of people who are enthusiastic to share skills, collaborate and communicate.
We aim to:
• create opportunities for emerging artists to share their work with a wider audience
• to run skill-exchange workshops for anyone who wishes to broaden their creative skills
• to generate a community that offers support, feedback and enthusiasm about creativity in Ireland
We always welcome new members, supporters and contributors. See tinderboxnetwork.blogspot.com for details, or email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to request membership.
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Friday 23 October
Gallery open til late 14.00 - 21.00
Saturday 24 October
Gallery open til late 14.00 - 21.00
19.00 - 21.00
Live music from Crooked Fish and friends
(BYOB)
Sunday 25 October
Gallery open til late 14.00 - 21.00
19.00 - 21.00
Glór Session with Stephen James Smith (in association with the Red Line Roots Festival)
Personal interpretations by a number of Glór poets, of the lyrics of folk hero Woody Guthrie, alongside the usual eclectic mix of singer-songwriters.
Aoife Merrigan
October 14, 2009 — October 18, 2009
Look-See
Open October 14th-18th from 2-7pm daily
Aoife Merrigan will take residence in thisisnotashop from the 14th-18th October. The artist will occupy the gallery space as studio in an experiment to focus on the process rather than product, within an exhibition space.
Aoife Merrigan lives and works in Dublin. The current practice is motivated by space and function. Her site specific installations highlight aspects of a gallery which are often overlooked or hidden by the viewer. She completed a BA in Fine Art in IADT in 2006 and has exhibited in various group and solo shows nationally.
Michael Fortune as part of Darklight 2009
October 8, 2009 — October 11, 2009
As part of the Darklight Festival 2009…
Michael Fortune
We Invented Halloween
October 8th – October 11th, 2009
We Invented Halloween is the title of a three channel installation recorded on Halloween night, 2005, 2006 and 2007 in the artists family home in rural Wexford, Ireland.
Each year a central activity of the night involves the artists mother dressing up in an improvised manner with anything that will disguise her identity, and calling into his granny’s house, which is next door. Prior to calling to the house we see his mother getting dressed, with the aid of his sisters, who dress and undress her with layers of coats, socks, tights and plastic masks.
The work, which involves long, hand held takes, follows her along the road and into the grannies house. In each recording his granny ignores the camera and welcomes his mother, though she is unaware of her identity thinking instead it is one of her great grand children. Each of the three films finishes when his mother leaves the house delighted she has fooled his granny once again. By revisiting this annual practice the viewer is offered an insight into the immediate environment of family life, human relationships and contemporary ritual.
More Info: http://www.darklight.ie/festival-2009/art/
“A playful irreverence is the first thing you notice in Michael Fortune’s work. It’s like entering the world of kitsch as might have been imagined by a stoned Flann O’Brien. The ‘embarrass de richesses’ that is the curated array of cups, mementoes from holidays, pilgrimages to Lourdes, plates stamped with Jackie and JFK, crucifixes by telephones, ‘holy’ statues, religious ephemera, fridge magnets and the circumstantial boundaries of culture and art and where they overlap are areas of interest for artist Michael Fortune. Referring to the forms of video diaries, home movies, and photography as archive, Fortune’s work decodes and recodes everyday rituals and folklores.
In his three-channel video installation We Invented Halloween Fortune uncovers and locates Halloween as a scene with a structure, a piece of time that unfolds in a particular direction endlessly replayable. The ritual of dressing up is meticulously observed, a cushion for a hunchback, socks for gloves, the face masked. The performance is the ritual observation of these details, just as much as it is the journey next door. Outside a passing car flashes it’s headlights in a gesture of recognition to the carnival charade; everyone is in on the act.”
From Performing Folklore
By Sarah Tuck
Aoife Giles
October 3, 2009 — October 4, 2009
You Will Travel To Many Places
Saturday October 3rd, 6.30-9.30
‘whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning’’
Hermann Hesse
The mixed media installation “You Will Travel to Many Places” consists of hundreds of helium filled balloons and handmade floating fortune cookies.
It is an exploration of the the confines of the gallery and of making choices. Whether informed or otherwise, it remains impossible to foresee the outcomes of the choices we make. Viewers are invited to choose their own fortune and take a balloon and the attached cookie away with them. The duration and form of the piece depends on the fortunes being chosen and taken away or floating out of the door of the gallery.
Aoife Giles (1980, Dublin) is a visual artist currently based in Dublin. A 2009 Graduate of the NCAD, Art in the Digital WorldMasters Programme, she works in a variety of media including photography, video and installation.
Her work explores the relations created between spaces and activities that we deem sacred or profane, the crossover between our public and private lives and the challenges of representing subjective experiences. She has exhibited and worked in Ireland, Brazil, England and Sweden.
Mind The Gap
September 5, 2009 — September 20, 2009
Mind The Gap
September 5, 2009- September 20, 2009
The hub of the Mind the Gap operation, thisisnotashop gallery will host an exhibition of ideas for the city. Inspired by the urban myth that Santiago Calatrava designed the James Joyce Bridge on the back of a napkin, we invite you, the viewer, to present your ideas for the city of an ever-expanding array of napkins. The gallery will also host The Smithfield Archive presenting the history of the area and unrealized proposals for its regeneration.
Mind The Gap is a collaborative public art project initiated by Michelle Browne to work with artists, designers, architects and planners to look at open spaces in the city and consider new uses for them. Over the course of two months the group have explored areas across Dublin city considering how we can re-imagine our civic society. Throughout Absolut Fringe we will present a range of interventions that will informa and delight. The project is based at thisisnotashop on Benburb Street Dublin 7 where you can get information and contribute to our exhibition of ideas for the city. Mind The Gap is an Absolut Fringe Commission.
List of Participants: Michelle Brown, Siobhan Carroll, Carolann Courtney, Mark Durkan, John Holten, Colm Keller, Isaac Lawless, Bryan O’Connell, Jeni Roddy, Naomi Ronan, Tom Walsh, Chong Wang.
More info:
www.Mindthegapdublincity.blogspot.com
www.fringefest.com
SEPT 5th - 4.30pm
Utopian Bus Tour – A guided tour through
Dublin with a difference. Drawing on unrealised
proposals for the city and imagining new uses
for vacant spaces, the Utopian Bus Tour will
guide you through an alternative vision for the
city. Leaves from Smithfield Square.
SEPT 12th + 19th 8-11pm
Don’t Quote Me – Projected on the outside
of the iconic Screen cinema, Mind The Gap
looks to the silver screen to investigate
Dublin’s current dilemmas. The city, planning,
corruption, and the fall of a nation are explored
through the history of cinema.
SEPT 7th -12th
Fare Play? – Taking off in a taxi from Foster
Place, Mind The Gap will offer you a chance
to learn about NAMA while visiting the sites
of the nation’s current big question. Informed
taxi drivers will explain the workings of NAMA
and show you where it will all happen. Various
times, limited space, booking essential. Email
for details.
SEPT 11th + 18th 6pm - 6.30pm
Operetta – A lone performer looks out over the
city and sings a lament to its citizens. Mind The
Gap presents a solo operatic performance on
Foster Place of arias that highlight the current
plight of the city and its uncertain future.
SEPT 19th 12pm - 3pm
Flower Show – Following from the tradition of
competitive window box competitions in the
Smithfield area, Mind The Gap offer you the
chance to come to Smithfield Plaza and design
your own flower box display to be adjudicated
by Lord Ross of Birr Castle, Father to Lord
Oxmantown. Take this opportunity to bring plant
life to the plaza.
SEPT 20th 3pm
The Big Freeze – Goethe famously said
“architecture is frozen music.” Taking
inspiration from the architecture of Smithfield
Plaza, a brass band will perform The Ride of
The Valkyries by Wagner. This collaborative
performance highlights the
peaks and troughs of Smithfield Square
as a public space.
Ongoing
Public Seating – Mind the Gap will provide
alternative public seating in the city for
visitors and commuters over the course of
Absolut Fringe. Seating will be provided on
Aungier Street, Hawkins Street and other
city centre locations
Sunken Site – Hammond Lane – A series
of visual proposals will be presented for an
unused site on Hammond Lane and Church
Street. A collection of proposals taken from
an open call from designers and architects
explore the possibilities of the disused spaces
in the city.
Thisisnotashop – The hub of the Mind The Gap
operation, the gallery will host an exhibition of
ideas for the city. Inspired by the urban myth
that Santiago Calatrava designed the James
Joyce bridge on the back of a napkin, we invite
you, the viewer, to present your ideas for the
city of an ever-expanding array of napkins.
The gallery will also host The Smithfield
Archive presenting the history of the area and
unrealised proposals for its regeneration.
Watch out for other surprise events on our blog!
Talia Moscovitz: 3 Works
August 27, 2009 — August 30, 2009
Talia Moscovitz: 3 Works. Thisisnotashop @ Market Studios
Preview: Thursday August 27, 2009, 7—9pm.
Exhibition: Friday August 28 — Sunday August 30, open daily from 2—7pm
At: Market Studios, Corner Mary’s Lane and Halston Street, Dublin 7
For Map click here
3 Works is the first Irish show by American photographer, Moscovitz, and features new photographic work and installation based pieces exhibited in three key areas of the studio. In one such section of the “3 Works” exhibition, the artist has created an installation entitled ‘Home Boxes’. Here we see a selection of images held in light boxes which are randomly placed amidst the inter-twining tangle of electrical wire. “The reason for doing it in this way correlates directly to the ideas behind the concept for Home Boxes” explains Moscovitz.
The artist goes on to explain the ideas behind ‘Home Boxes’ , “This work examines the tension between the external factuality of home as a building and place and the intangible, emotional home of the mind. As we absorb information, our minds shuffle through collected memories and emotions in order to orient and digest what we experience. The visible wires of the low watt bulbs, as well as the boxes themselves recall the cycle of dismantling and rebuilding of “home” that one must go through as they grow up and are forced to re-evaluate for what that means”.
From Over your Shoulder is another section of the 3 Works show, consisting of 9 framed Polaroids, each labelled to indicate the time and place when taken. Moscovitz chooses to take the photographs with the subjects turned away. “By having the subjects not look into the camera or even facing the viewer, I am photographing the distance between the subject and myself. The Polaroid’s express the awareness of the present already being relocated to the past as you live it and depict the ultimate impossibility of grasping a relationship at a fixed moment in time”.
Continuing on from the Home boxes and From Over Your Shoulder sections of 3 works, the artists final part of the show features a slideshow of transitioning imagery transposed with photographic images of herself, her mother and grandmother. Entitled Her, She, Me, this is notably the the most personal aspect of the show. Moscovitz goes on to explain the ideas behind the piece and the reasons for its creation. “My mother and grandmother were both diagnosed with degenerative brain disorders by the time they were middle age. As my mother’s memory deteriorates, she confuses her mother’s life with her own, and stories from her childhood are more vivid and clear than the events of the previous day. Through the overlapping of photographs and drawings, I am directly transposing my struggle to understand my own individual identity, despite the dissolution of the barriers between generations and the crumpling of time, space, mother, daughter, past, and present.”
Originaly hailing from Atlanta Georgia, Talia Moscovitz has been living in Dublin since March 2008. Whilst working on new material she has also been working with various galleries in Dublin in curation and photographic based roles.
Summer Season 09
August 7, 2009 — August 23, 2009
Summer Season ‘09
Program of Events this August curated by the Thisisnotashop Interns
Thisisnotashop is proud to announce that this summer our interns are taking over… they are programming a series of events and exhibitions that are sure to chase away those late summer blues.
Date To Be Announced*
You Will Travel To Many Places
An Exhibition of Floating Fortunes
by Aoife Giles
A mixed media installation that creates an occasion to chose your own floating fortune.
Date To Be Announced*
Plays In Progress
Curated by Emma Creedon
Date To Be Announced*
A selection of readings from up and coming Dublin based playwrights.
Date To Be Announced*
Aoife Merrigan
Open: Wed August 19 – Sun August 23, 2-7pm
Talia Moscovitz: 3 Works
Opening Thurs. 27 Aug. 7-9pm
28-30 Aug 2-7pm
Opening Wed August 26, 7-9pm
Exhibition Continues Aug 27-30, 2-7pm
*due to building construction this event has been postponed, it was originally scheduled to open July 31st and will now most likely open Friday August 7th- please check back for confirmation
Thisisnotashop Is Going Rogue
July 30, 2009 — August 27, 2009
Due to unforeseen building construction Thisisnotashop is literally taking the show on the road… we will be presenting our Summer Season 09 in alternative venues so please check back for continuous updates. For any specific queries please email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The first of our rogue exhibitions will be Talia Moscovitz: 3 Works which is being held at Market Studios.
For map click here
thisisnotashop @ No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents
June 24, 2009 — June 28, 2009
We are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting in New York City as part of NO SOUL FOR SALE: A Festival of Independents held by X Initiative at the former DIA space in Chelsea opening June 23rd and continuing until June 28th, 2009. X has invited more than 30 not for profit art spaces from around the world to present their programs and artists. Thisisnotashop is proud to represent Dublin alongside arts organizations from such diverse places as Hong Kong, Barcelona, Trinidad, Berlin, Reykjavik, Milan, Paris, Los Angeles and more.
Thisisnotashop will exhibit a group show featuring artists involved with our gallery (both past and future) including Clive Murphy, Wendy Judge, Kathryn Maguire, Robert Carr, Jessica Foley, Esperanza Collado, Gillian Lawlor, Paula Barrett, Catherine Barragry, and The Writing Workshop at Thisisnotashop. This group exhibition will include work that reflects past exhibitions — such as Clive Murphy’s Porn Spam T-Shirts (2007) — as well as debut new projects by artists we support, including as Kathryn Maguire’s Footage, a video/sound installation that investigates the recent history of Benburb Street where Thisisnotashop is located. It seeks to express the diversity and quality of our own program as well as give an international audience a taste for the independent Dublin arts scene. This exhibition is organized and curated by Jessamyn Fiore, assisted by Michael Kynaston.
On Wednesday June 24th from 7—9pm Thisisnotashop presents Thisisnotashop Live, a series of live events on the building’s ground floor including a new piece by Catherine Barragry and featuring NYC based Wreckio Ensemble performing excerpts from their show The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture which they created specifically for Thisisnotashop Gallery and performed July 2008.
Thisisnotashop is a not for profit gallery founded in 2006 in Dublin, Ireland, dedicated to supporting the work of emerging artists from both Ireland and abroad, directed by Aideen Darcy and Jessamyn Fiore.
For further details about NO SOUL FOR SALE please visit: www.x-initiative.org
Opening: June 23, 6—9pm / Exhibition continues June 24—28, 1—9pm.
X Initiative, 248 West 22nd Street, New York City.
Thisisnotashop Live —
An Evening of Performance with Catherine Barragry and The Wreckio Ensemble.
Wednesday, June 24, 7—9pm.
Exhibition of The Writing Workshop @ thisisnotashop
June 16, 2009 — June 20, 2009
The Writing Workshop 2008/2009 has spun quite a few yarns over a years worth of bimonthly sessions. Each workshop involved the introduction of some kind of a framing device to initiate conversation (ironically the writing workshops involve more talking than writing); from notions of ‘politics’ to ‘instructional writing’, from ‘tandem writing’ to ‘ghost writing’, and from writing exercises to writing experiments.
The workshop becomes more than a sum of it’s parts - it involves improvisation & adaptation; it is about listening, sharing, thinking - it is about working as a unit within the frame of the workshop itself, but allowing yourself the beat to step into a new rhythm and outside of the ‘comfort zone’.
This year The Writing Workshop went ‘on retreat’ to Co. Laois and the hospitality of Roundwood House. There, six of us incubated over the course of a weekend - we talked through a lot of stuff at the retreat - weaving in and out through each others thoughts - we talked a lot about media and mediation, about the internet, technology, sustainability, the body, birth, connection and contagion - odd ideas - dancing madnesses and alterities - we talked about struggles - we played games…and then we wrote when we could.
There was a kind of vague intention between us to co-ordinate our efforts collectively for this ‘exhibition’ of our developing work…it seems though, that the time spent together over the course of that weekend has become the frame for this exhibition - which is effectively an open book about open systems - about tangents & the possibilities of overlap, assimilation, consensus & dissent which can occur between people through shared experience & exchange.
We hope you will come & enjoy the writings of this years Writing Workshop, featuring works by Áine Ivers, Jessamyn Fiore, Nessa Malone, Susan Thomson, Jessica Foley & Kay Inckle.
Preview: Tuesday June 16th, 2009 (Bloomsday), 7—9pm.
Exhibition from Wednesday June 17 — Saturday June 20, open daily from 2—7pm
Special Event: A reading of a play written by Jessamyn Fiore, Wednesday June 17th, 8pm
The Writing Workshop @ thisisnotashop was formed in July 2007 as a place for writers and artists interested in text to share their work and collaborate.
Circa / Salon 2 @ thisisnotashop
May 29, 2009 — May 31, 2009
An evening coinciding with the launch of the Summer 2009 issue of Circa Magazine, featuring performance work by Dominic Thorpe, and exhibiting work covered in the CIRCA reviews by Aideen Barry, Ciara Finnegan, Mark Garry, Wendy Judge, Dragana Jurisic, Ciara Moore with more to be confirmed.
Performance. 6 — 9.30pm. Admission free.
Music by Aiden Kelly, afters at the Dice Bar til late.
Exhibition open Sat May 30 and Sun May 31, 2—7pm
More information http://www.recirca.com/salon
Fluxus @ thisisnotashop
April 26, 2009 — May 16, 2009
Since 1969, Miller has been closely associated with the International Fluxus group of artists, having had many of his original compositions assimilated into the extensive Fluxus catalogue of works. He is reknowned as an active interpreter of “classic” Fluxus scores, bringing the ethos & vitality of Fluxus works to a wider Public throughout the world.
Miller’s own work, whether live performance, site specific installation or gallery exhibition, shares an artistic attitude that breaks with fixed boundaries between objects, events, time & space, and between rigid definitions imposed by society of science, art & religion. Miller’s work, characterized by his provocative approach to subject matter & telling humour, and by an unconventional approach to materials & subject matter, has explored the invisible biology of the mind through working with professional hypnotists, ‘psychic’ mediums, healers & ritual magic, in an effort to address ambiguities of inner experience and its outward manifestation. His work draws on music, theatre, and the visual arts, merging diverse media & participatory elements, cutting across disciplines to blend ironic humour & poetic contemplation.
Figure / Ground Live Performance by Larry Miller
Sunday April 26th, 3—4pm @ The Phoenix Park.
Join us at a scenic location in the Phoenix Park for a Sunday afternoon performance — the first in our series of Fluxus events. Larry Miller will physically enact the Figure/Ground relationship in painting using chance, nature and intention to create a live work that will be exhibited as part of the Figures in the Ground exhibition at thisisnotashop. Figure/Ground will be held next to the Old Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park.
Figures in the Ground Exhibition
May 1st—16th, Open Wed-Sun, 2—7pm.
The exhibition is comprised of works by the artist from throughout his career, supported by a Fluxus reading room incorporating audio-visual resources & text based paraphernalia. The Fluxus Reading Room, curated by Michael Kynaston, provides a space for the Public to relax & take time to engage with the works by Larry Miller and to delve a little deeper into the world of Fluxus.
Fluxus Concert Dublin
Friday May 1st, 8pm @ The Banquet Hall above Cultivate
Arranged & conducted by Larry Miller, a 15 strong team of Dublin based performers will present a series of original Fluxus Scores, including event scores by George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Robert Watts, George Brecht and others.
This performance promises unexpected melodies from such instruments as water, balloons, paper, bubbles, combs… Tickets are priced at €10 and are on sale now at www.tickets.ie. It is advised that tickets are booked in advance to avoid disappointment.
This event is sponsored by Temple Bar Cultural Trust. The location of the performance is The Banquet Hall above Cultivate (former SS Michael&John), 15-19 Essex Street West, Temple Bar, Dublin 8.
Flux Clinic
Market Studios, Corner of Mary’s Lane and Halstrom St, Dublin 7, Saturday May 9th, 2—4pm.
The Flux Clinic originates with a group of Asian artists known as Hi Red Center, and was first presented at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in 1966. Since then it has been reproduced in many other ways & places, including mobile Flux Clinic, hosted in the back of a truck.
Flux Clinic Dublin is a one day event that is an evolution rather than a reenactment of that original Flux Clinic. Catalysed by & derived from notes by Larry Miller on the original Flux Clinic, this event will incorporate ‘experiments in measurement’ developed by members of The Market Studios, with contributing experiments & visual research donated by the 1st Class students of Balbriggan Educate Together National School under the guidance of teacher Elaine Gleeson.
In the same vein (so-to-speak) as Larry Miller’s philosophy of ‘art-as-experiment’, the public are invited to come and be sized up at the Flux Clinic, and to engage with these experiments in measurement.
The Flux Clinic will take place at The Market Studios, Corner of Mary’s Lane and Halstrom St, Dublin 7, Saturday May 9th, 2—4pm.
View images / Figures in the Ground Opening Night
Onesheet
April 17, 2009 — April 19, 2009
Dublin Art Collective Eek presents the first in a series of collaborative projects exploring the relationship between the written word & art. Onesheet is a series of single-broadsheet publications, each featuring the inspired collaborative art work of a visual artist and writer.
To launch the series, visual artist Dáinne Nic Aoidh and poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin have created “Constellations” , an exhibition of printed imagery, paintings and art installations in response to words. Onesheet, featuring work from the “Constellations” exhibition will be launched at Thisisnotashop Gallery, Benburb Street, where the full exhibition will run until Sunday April 19th.
For more Information on the publication or exhibition go to www.eek.ie
Andrea Stanislav / Fogtiogarburn
March 20, 2009 — April 2, 2009
Fogtiogarburn is a multimedia installation project that presents a spectacle event of the “ghosts” of Smithfield Market, Dublin. The work begins with an event/video shoot in Smithfield and following that, an exhibition of 3D souvenirs saturated in pink glitter that evoke the “ghosts” of the Smithfield Market in the gallery space. A video of the event will be projected in the gallery’s front window.
The gallery space is configured so that it’s optimally (and briefly) viewed from the “Luas” — a ghostly slice of a dream space for flaneurian passengers that is paradoxically filled with souvenirs of pink fog and posters of forgotten events that have been re-remembered.
Andréa Stanislav lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and New York City. Born in Chicago in 1968, Stanislav received an MFA from Alfred University in 1997 and a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990. She is currently a PhD candidate in New Media and Communication at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee Switzerland. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Minnesota and regularly exhibits her work both in the USA and abroad. This is her first exhibition in the Republic of Ireland.
Read the Andrea Stanislav article in Totally Dublin.
James Merrigan / Hardware
February 26, 2009 — March 8, 2009
For thisisnotashop, Merrigan has fabricated a site-specific installation that plays with the image of a hardware store as a site of possibility. From this fabricated stage, he invites the audience to extract the end, beginning and centre of a potentially hazardous narrative. James Merrigan’s recent work has been focused on the idea of the event, and how we, as an audience, capture or read the event. He fabricates these events from videos and paraphernalia that are crudely cut fractions of a bigger happening. His work is a lead in, or the afters of an event, and centers around ideas of crisis, horror and ritual.
Born in Dublin in 1976. Recently completed an MFA at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. Awarded NCAD Graduate Studentship, 2008. Has taken part in a number of selected group exhibitions in Dublin and Galway. Most recently selected for a solo show at Queen Street Gallery, Belfast. Reviewed in CIRCA twice in succession for Solo Show ‘…could we talk before and after… (PART 1),’ Queen Street Gallery, Belfast (2008); and for CIRCA’S Critics Choice at Degree Shows (2008). Lives and works in Ireland.
Wendy Judge / Works of the World United… More Great Works
January 30, 2009 — February 12, 2009
More Great Works takes a surveillance view of no go hazardous areas, where the sometimes-intense secrecy surrounding such places leads to the breeding of rumors and conspiracy theories as to what their function really is.
Wendy Judge works mainly though sculpture and drawing. Her art practice is concerned with the anomalous within the landscape, both in structures on the land and also within the land itself.
These landscapes are recreated through models. It is not only the representations and the approximations that interest her but the dynamic between the actual and the imagination, the relationship between the objects, and what that may trigger.
This work is driven by connecting threads, associations and coincidences found through cultural references such as literature, historical painting, popular culture and film. This process of cross-pollination helps propel odd dialogues and private conversations though to a querying of the mechanisms of culture, power and politics.
This current project is a continuation of Great Works, work shown in the Goethe Institute in 2008. The work is accompanied by a publication with texts by Sarah Pierce and Antonio Beecroft.
2nd Annual Christmas (Art) Fair
December 18, 2008 — December 20, 2008
Come down and celebrate the season- show off your creativity and pick up a few stocking stuffers - it’s all about the holiday cheer thisisnotashop style!
Artists: bring down your work during the designated times and claim your spot on the wall- first come first serve. We don’t curate, we don’t take a commission - it’s totally up to you!
Everyone Else: Come down to the most unique Christmas Fair in Dublin that includes a massive variety of different work by different artists- from paintings, to jewelry, to toys, to much much more….
We provide a suitably lively holiday atmosphere with fairy lights, mulled wine, music, and Christmas films galore…
Plus in our back room we’ll be holding a hands on “make your own plush toy” workshop led by Louise Bagnall- so get crafty and make your own Christmas decorations and toys!
Perdember 2nd Weekend
December 12, 2008 — December 14, 2008
Creative Spaces
Organized by Aisling Ryan.
As part of an ongoing series that moves throughout Dublin, Creative Spaces presents spaces for creative experimentation for artists of all genres. The working concept of “no stage, no set list, no (traditional) audience” allows performers freedom from the constraints of scheduled performances. This event is not programmed and is open to musicians and performing artists.
The Surrounding
Claire-Louise Bennett
“Even on a hot day, even from a distance, you could see, as the handle of a wooden spoon lowered into a fresh tin, how cool it was. How cool the paint was, going across the walls.”
The Surrounding is a story of place, its the story of the boundary that confines, conceals and protects place, its about being here and those walls there, its about psychical reach and the skin’s despair. Its about brilliant white and French doors, it’s about the sudden appearance of ducks and emulsion paint drying on a cardigan sleeve, its about creosoting the fence and drawing the wind. It’s a constellation of consciousness, a network of sensory output, its about coming into a room and coming into being, its about you, its about you, its all about you, its everywhere and its moving in.
The Surrounding is living text, vivified and transmitted by Claire-Louise Bennett. From the comfort of an armchair. In a room somewhere.
Perdember 1st Weekend
December 4, 2008 — December 7, 2008
Michelle Browne
Site-Specific Performance for thisisnotashop.
Dublin artist Michelle Browne’s practice is fundamentally performance based. Her more recent work focuses on issues intrinsic to performance itself: the body, duration and the relationship between the viewer and the performer. She is interested in how social structures and the design of our environment impact on the way we live.
Come Back to Ireland
An Evening of Silent Film With Live Irish Traditional Music
Presented by Davis Watson of Junto Rímur Films Featuring a live traditional music trio with Banba Fitzgerald on the Uilleann pipes At sundown the show will begin with a short silent film on loop from the 1930’s titled “Come Back to Ireland”. Promptly at 9pm, a live trio of young Irish musicians will accompany a final projection of the film with an original arrangement of traditional tunes. A brief session will follow the performance.
To end the night, Davis Watson will screen a short presentation from his documentary work-in-progress on Uilleann pipers. Banba Fitzgerald, one of the stars of the film, will close the event with a solo tune or two.
Sunday Supper
The Urban Fires
Beating those December blues with winter coddle & a live music session with artists Neil Conlan (guitar/vocals), Aidan O’Donovan (percussion), Rory Conlan (saxophone), Neil McAvinia (electric guitar).
In an attempt to warm up a winters evening, the culinary talents of Paula Dempsey have been summoned to stir a little of Old Dublin’s flavors into a mix showcasing tracks from Neil Conlan’s debut album, Know This(www.neilconlan.com), with hints of laid back Blues, Folk & Reggae from the band.
Neil’s philosophy is that “through music we can elevate consciousness, reconnect to the Gaian mind, draw more energy to humanity’s heart chakra, and take our place in the grand march to our destiny in the stars.” Space is limited, so come early to secure some hearty fare & tasty tunes.
Folka Polka / Helene Hortlund and Veronica Forsgren
November 15, 2008 — November 16, 2008
This group exhibition sponsored by Swedish Women’s Education Association (SWEA) brings together the work of Swedish artists Helene Hortlund (Stockholm) and Veronica Forsgren (Dublin). The exhibition draws on the heritage of Swedish Folk Art in an exploration of the innate human need to decorate and beautify our close surroundings. Pushing the traditionally private work of adornment into the public sphere both artists use the creative process to mark out and become part of a territory. The imprinting of the intimate in the public space is a way to construct a place for oneself in existence.
Helene Hortlund graduated from the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 2001 with a Master of Arts Degree in Fine Art. Since then she has exhibited extensively throughout Sweden and received several scholarships as well as public and private commissions. Veronica Forsgren graduated from NCAD in 2007, where she obtained a joint Bachelors of Arts Degree in Fine Art and Art History. She was awarded SWEA’s culture grant in 2008 and recently had two solo exhibitions in St Margarets, Roundstone and the Bookcube Gallery, Dublin.
Folka Polka is an exhibition documenting public and performance art through the medium of photography and installation at thisisnotashop.
Preview, Saturday Nov 15, 4:30-8 pm
Exhibition will be opened by the Swedish Ambassador Mr Claes Ljungdahl
Artist talk and open discussion, Sunday Nov 16, 2-4 pm
Refreshments provided - please arrive early as space is limited.
Curated by Veronica Forsgren
Mark Grehan / Occurrences
October 31, 2008 — November 2, 2008
Thisisnotashop is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by Dublin based artist Mark Grehan. Colours and lines are layered to form images where several spaces coexist within a singular picture plain. For the viewer an image that has an apparent balance reveals composition variations on further investigation.
Photography and image analysis are fundamental to Grehans practice. Gathering visual material on a daily basis Grehan explores this research using several computer programs. The results are then brought to the studio where they are introduced onto surfaces with paint and drawing materials. Without working towards a predetermined resolution the artist includes creative development within the artworks execution and in so doing opens the work up to alternative decisions and unforeseen outcomes.
Opening Thursday Oct 30th, 6pm-9pm
Exhibition Continues through Sunday Nov 9th
Open Wed-Sun, 2-7pm
Auralog
October 21, 2008 — October 27, 2008
Auralog is a collaborative project by Anthony Kelly (Ireland), Slavek Kwi (Czech Rep), Seán McCrum (Ireland) and David Stalling (Ireland). This project is a collection of sound postcards, aural objects framed by silence, which seek to relate the sounds and timeframe of Newfoundland to the specific place of thisisnotashop and redefine the experience of space and time through electronic and actual sound.
During the investigation of a long-term project entitled Shorelines, Auralog travelled to Newfoundland in June 2008 to collaborate with a group of Canadian artists in the creation of numerous sound recordings. The Canadian artists, Angela Antle, Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Troake, will be sending their audio postcards as part of this event.
Anthony Kelly — Slavek Kwi — Seán McCrum — David Stalling
First Draft: Audio Postcards
Tue 21st - Mon 27th October
Open 4.00-8.00pm each day
Reception, Thursday 23rd October
7.00-9.00pm
Kate Minnock / Karkinoma
October 3, 2008 — October 12, 2008
Kate Minnock, in collaboration with Vera Klute presents ‘Karkinoma’
thisisnotashop presents ‘Karkinoma’, an exhibition of new works by Kate Minnock in collaboration with Vera Klute. The title refers to the term first used by the Greek physician Hippocrates twenty-five hundred years ago to depict a tumor as a ‘muddled irritable cavity with spindly legs flaring out of control in all directions’. Fascinated with its evil animal-like appearance, he called it karkinoma, cancer, the Greek word for crab.
Minnock graduated from NCAD in 2003. Her current practice spans site-specific installation, digital & Fine Art print & drawing, focusing on the interdisciplinary area of art and science. This research-based exhibition was influenced by the work of Dr. Angel H. Roffo. His groundbreaking research was presented at the 2nd International Congress of Scientific and Social Campaign Against Cancer in 1936 to over 200 eminent cancer research specialists.
For this exhibition the artist has produced a limited edition artists book, using the format of a timeline, to highlight significant events relating to Roffo’s research. The book was created using original letterpress techniques at the National Print Museum. Printed as a blind deboss the deliberate, laborious yet meditative process of letterpress printing becomes an intrinsic element within the work.
The exhibition includes a collaboration by Minnock and Klute. Klutes work merges drawing, video, stills, and photography into collage like animations. The animation is based on the detailed drawings A.H Roffo used to accompany his pioneering research into the carcinogenicity of solar radiation. The animation will be back-projected onto the window of the gallery.
Opening Thursday Oct 2nd, 6pm-9pm
Dublin Culture Night
September 12, 2008 — September 12, 2008
After the success last year, thisisnotashop is proud to again participate in Dublin Culture Night. Come down and enjoy the festivities with live music, refreshments, and workshops led by Wheels Beneath Toys artists Jessica Foley and Elva Carri.
For Culture Night, Canabrism presents a screening of ‘Uberglobule’ in the intimate setting of thisisnotashop. The screening event features a variety of video, animation and custom imagery accompanied by a live mix soundtrack of Canabrism music. Running time is approx. 45 minutes and will commence at 9pm.
For more information about Dublin Culture Night visit www.culturenight.ie
Jessica Foley and Elva Carri / Wheels Beneath Toys
September 8, 2008 — September 21, 2008
Two artists present an eclectic ensemble of paraphernalia generating a space to explore diverse aspects of childhood play.
Foley’s work is a development of research, investigating playgrounds & play histories within the north Dublin Inner city, which manifests in a kind of pseudo-historical narrative through objects, drawings & audio tape recordings. Carri’s work explores the childhood activity of building huts as hiding places, the transformation of the object that occurs within children’s play and the benefits of being childlike as an adult.
Opening Wed Sep 10, 7pm-9pm
Wreckio Ensemble
July 23, 2008 — August 2, 2008
Wreckio Ensemble’s new original work, The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture, was created especially for performance at Thisisnotashop. Inspired by the gallery’s unique architecture, which features a shop front window facing the street, the show blurs the lines between artist and spectator inspiring a dialogue about who art is for and at what cost it exists. The production makes its international premier July 23, 2008 at Thisisnotashop, 26 Benburb Street, following a controversial run in New York City.
To reserve your tickets please email info@wreckio.com with your name, the date of the performance you would like to attend and the number of tickets you would like to reserve. Tickets have no set price. You will be asked to “pay what you feel its worth” at the end of the show. There will be a cap of 12 tickets per performance available so please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. If you have any questions regarding reservations or the show please email info@wreckio.com or call Jessamyn Fiore (thisisnotashop) at 087 986 7643
The American Theatre Company was invited by Thisisnotashop’s Director, Jessamyn Fiore, to present a show in her space after she was introduced to their work in New York last summer. Fueled by the challenge of creating theatre for a gallery space, the company spent the last year collaboratively creating a show that explores the intersection of power and art, but quickly discovered that central to that story would be another story. “The changing economic climate in America has greatly impacted our process and our narrative.” explains the show’s director Kimberlea Kressal “America has become the play’s main character, a tragic hero who is beginning to face her own limitations.” The company’s choice to expose those limitations and how they impact art incited debate surrounding the show’s premier in New York. “There was concern over some of the show’s more controversial imagery from people outside of the creative team.” says co-writer and performer Randi Berry “We found life very much imitating the art we’d created.” Another of the show’s writer/performers elaborates “We were suddenly faced with the possibility of being asked to censor our work; the cost of art was no longer an ethereal idea we were exploring in the play, but a reality we were experiencing in that moment.” Ultimately, the company was able to quell the concerns of outsiders without altering the show.
Debate and discourse are exactly what the company is hoping for from their audience. The show has no defined playing space, audience members move with the actors, sometimes participating in the action. They also choose their own ticket price after seeing the show. The company recognizes the risk they are taking in giving their audience so much agency over the piece. Kressal explains that examining the show’s central question requires a certain amount of peril and discomfort, “We’re exploring both the economic and very human costs of making and selling art, we can’t do that if we keep the audience at arms length, this is a dialogue we must have together and that is inherently unpredictable.”
The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture begins its Dublin run on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 8:00PM. The exclusive engagement at Thisisnotashop, 26 Benburb Street, Dublin, Ireland, runs Wednesdays – Saturdays at 8:00PM through August 2nd. Doors open at 7:30PM. Tickets are “pay what you feel it’s worth”. Reservations can be made for any performance by emailing info@wreckio.com .
The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture was written by the ensemble and directed by Kimberlea Kressal, the cast includes: Randi Berry, Dechelle Damien, Karly Maurer and Benjamin Spradley. The show was created in residence as part of the Performing Arts Residency @ chashama.
Wreckio Ensemble
Wreckio Ensemble is a not-for-profit movement-rooted theatre collective incorporated in November 2000. Wreckio produces original, character rich, and socially relevant work in an ensemble setting. Wreckio has four foundational beliefs: 1) ample time must be allotted to artistic development and rehearsals; 2) administrative and creative decisions are made by consensus, 3) core members are encouraged to take on various roles in the production company: as director, designer, actor, writer, etc.; 4) having fun is mandatory!
Media Contact : Kimberlea Kressal 001.347.870.4848 kim@wreckio.com
Killer Heels
July 16, 2008 — July 20, 2008
Killer Heels is a two hour performance where a hooded figure stands as though wearing imaginary heels. This small but intense gesture draws upon popular culture as well as ritual practices. The performance acts as an initiation into a domain, while skeleton keys offer a return to this place.
The work carries anachronistic signifiers that topple logic’s hierarchical position; dissolving fixed points of reference. These fluid dissolutions accentuate the contingency of information. Killer Heels is playful disruption.
thisisnotapicnic with the FOG
June 25, 2008 — June 25, 2008
Due to terrible weather conditions thisisnotapicnic with The Fog by Marta Fernandez Calvo will not take place in Pheonix Park - instead we will have our picnic at:
thisisnotashop gallery
Wednesday 25th June, 6pm-9pm
Fog by Marta Fernández Calvo
Fog is a participatory artistic intervention work intended to be developed in the landscape. The large fog banks that move across the landscape are the actual starting point of this project. The artist, Marta Fernández Calvo, has created a “portable fog kit” from different photographs of fog taken in Dolomitas (Italy). The “kit” will be presented to Dublin inhabitants at a meeting and presentation on the 18th of June at Thisisnotashop, in which people will be invited to book Fog for its installation during one day in whatever public space they require (btw June 19-25).
All request forms to install Fog in the city will be used by the artist to construct a calendar containing the dates and locations of Fog in Dublin. This process will be shown daily in the gallery, which will become a documentation base of accumulative work generated by Fog.
Fog functions according to the temporal availability of the audience, and, as real fog, moves in the landscape, appearing and disappearing eventually. This work, therefore, will be shown exclusively if required directly by Dublin inhabitants.
Fog by Marta Fernández Calvo
June 19, 2008 — June 25, 2008
Fog is a participatory artistic intervention work intended to be developed in the landscape. The large fog banks that move across the landscape are the actual starting point of this project. The artist, Marta Fernández Calvo, has created a “portable fog kit” from different photographs of fog taken in Dolomitas (Italy). The “kit” will be presented to Dublin inhabitants at a meeting and presentation on the 18th of June at Thisisnotashop, in which people will be invited to book Fog for its installation during one day in whatever public space they require (btw June 19-25). All request forms to install Fog in the city will be used by the artist to construct a calendar containing the dates and locations of Fog in Dublin. This process will be shown daily in the gallery, which will become a documentation base of accumulative work generated by Fog.
Fog functions according to the temporal availability of the audience, and, as real fog, moves in the landscape, appearing and disappearing eventually. This work, therefore, will be shown exclusively if required directly by Dublin inhabitants.
Fog Schedule
Wednesday 18th June:
Opening and Fog Presentation. 7pm
Thursday 19 June:
Ulrike Klein — Phoenix Park (Beside Robert Emmet statue) from 5-7pm.
Friday 20 June:
Victor Beckett Portobello Road/Grand Canal from 12-3pm.
Saturday 21 June:
Anne-Marie Kilfeather — The Band Stand in Phoenix Park from 2-4pm.
Sunday 22 June:
Nora Duggan — Dollymount Strand (at the beach) from 1-5pm.
Monday 23 June:
Donal Foreman — 4 Bayview Avenue, North Strand, Dublin 3 from 2-5pm
Tuesday 24 June:
Seoidin O’Sullivan — Dolphins Barn Community Garden (South Circular Road).
Wednesday 25 June:
Jessamyn Fiore — thisisnotashop gallery hosts thisisnotapicnic in the gallery showing images of the Fog’s journey through Dublin, 6pm-9pm
Márgenes: Experimento y Praxis
June 12, 2008 — June 25, 2008
Márgenes: Experimento y Praxis is a month of Spanish contemporary avant-garde art featuring a series of talks, experimental film screenings, multiple sound-screen environments, expanded cinema events, and interventions in the public space. Márgenes: Experimento y Praxis is an initiative of Dublin based Spanish curator Esperanza Collado.
Film-programs at The National Gallery of Ireland curated by Albert Alcoz and Antoni Pinent. Video-installation works at thisisnotashop curated by Oriol Sánchez.
Featured artists include: Reivaj Yudato, Isaac Gimeno, Oriol Sánchez, and Marta Fernández Calvo.
Márgenes: Experimento y Praxis is sponsored by thisisntoashop, The National Gallery of Ireland, Institute Cervantes Dublin, and Institut Ramon Llull.
PROFANACIONES
by Oriol Sánchez. Thursday 12th June.
Profanations is a three-channel video work consisting in appropriation and reconstrucion of images and sequences of films by Jules Marey, Pudovkin, Kirsanoff, Eisenstein, Romero, Halperin, Kulechov… from which a series of little, miniature micro-stories have been created. These stories have been organized according to Campanas de Luz (Light Bells), a music composition by Joan Riera Robusté.
Profanations emerges from an interest in exploring relashionships between sound and image with narratives and abstraction, playing with the (dis)articulation found in film narratives; creating a rupture within narrative and representation.
TRAYECTO(S) 1 & 2 + 8.19MIN
by Isaac Gimeno. Friday 13th June.
TRAYECTO 1.2, TRAYECTO(s)(2) and 8,19MIN are 3 video-installation works that look at different aspects of time and the so-called velocity phenomenon associated to new technologies and how they interfere in everyday life. “In these distances… there aren’t destinies as which to arrive. They are the consequence of a videographic experimentation through velocity. Velocity is not a phenomenon, but a relationship between phenomena subject to the laws of relativity. In TRAYECTO(S), relativity is understood as a circular medium between object and subject, which is reflected in a perceptual setting created with a spinning video camera.”
ABISMO PROXIMO
by Reivaj Yudato. Saturday 14th June.
Abismo Próximo is a multi-channel video-installation work that explores notions of montage as incarnation and metamorphosis from a complex perspective that contemplates historical visual representation in Christian imagery, television and cinema. “This work demonstrates that the same principle applies in all television broadcasts, whether if it is a football match or war news. Both are simultaneously abysmal (distant) and close (visible)”.
CINEMA… CORPUS VS CEREBRUM
by Esperanza Collado. Sunday 15th June.
Cinema… Corpus vs Cerebrum is an on-going expanded cinema project by Esperanza Collado consisting in a live film performance in collaboration with all artists and filmmakers present in Márgenes: Experimento y Praxis.
CCC is a site-specific work; an arrangement of four concurrent 16mm/Super8 film projectors in the public space, opposite to thisisnotashop. The intention is to create a dialogue between the internal and external boundaries of the gallery and the periodical presence of the Luas (tram) interfering the projection beam. A series of direct improvised manipulations during the projection event, all celluloid used is found-footage, will interact with live music by Irish composer Neil O’Connor aka Somadrone and his modular analogue synthesizers.
Fog
by Marta Fernández Calvo.
Fog is a participatory artistic intervention work intended to be developed in the landscape. The large fog banks that move across the landscape are the actual starting point of this project. The artist, Marta Fernández Calvo, has created a “portable fog kit” from different photographs of fog taken in Dolomitas (Italy). The “kit” will be presented to Dublin inhabitants at a meeting and presentation on the 18th of June at Thisisnotashop, in which people will be invited to book Fog for its installation during one day in whatever public space they require (btw June 19-25). All request forms to install Fog in the city will be used by the artist to construct a calendar containing the dates and locations of Fog in Dublin. This process will be shown daily in the gallery, which will become a documentation base of accumulative work generated by Fog.
Fog functions according to the temporal availability of the audience, and, as real fog, moves in the landscape, appearing and disappearing eventually. This work, therefore, will be shown exclusively if required directly by Dublin inhabitants.
At the National Gallery of Ireland.
KINETIC LANDSCAPES
Film-program by Albert Alcoz. Thursday 12th June.
Countryside and urban landscapes interchange prominence in all the works presented in this program, which combines structures that experiment formally with Super8 film practices, such as the frame-by-frame technique, and other procedures which nature or format addresses forms of documentary, diary and essay in filmmaking.
- La Playa David Domingo (2001). 1’10”
- Vivid Obedientes Vivid, Hugo Cornelles (2005). 2’40”
- Pentland’s Patrick Danse (2007). 3’18”
- Wien — Tagebuch (Diari de Viena) Cristina Giribets (2007). 3’17”
- Todo tiene su fin Armand Rovira (2005). 2’54”
- Fragmentos, primera impresión en S8 Oriol Sánchez (1999). 14’44”
- Texas Sunrise Lluis Escartín (2002). 20’.
- Siete vigías y una torre Manuel Asín (2004). 30’.
PARTIAL RETROSPECTIVE
Film by Albert Alcoz. Friday 13th June.
Albert Alcoz is a writer, artist, and filmmaker from Barcelona working mainly on Super8. Appropriation or object trouvé, direct work on the surface of the filmstrip, and other techniques that spoil the emulsion and distort the original found footage make his work definable as materialist filmmaking. One of his most recent films, Forth and Back and Forth was made with one of the most influential experimental filmmakers of all times, Michael Snow.
- Levitated Frames (2006), 3’
- NYC SYNC (2008), 3’
- Forth and Back and Forth (2007), 2’
- Psychedelic Light Show (2006), 2’
- Aterganiv (2008) 3’
- NIF FIN (2007) 3’
- Interlude (2006) 3’
- URB (2008) 1’
- La Costa Brava (2008), 8’
- Home Movie Holes (2008), 5’
- L’ultimo Paradiso (2008), 8’
- Farce Sensationelle! (Laida Lertxundi)
CINE EXPERIMENTO
Film-program by Antoni Pinent. Saturday 14th June.
The contemporary moving-image works presented in this program share the research, reformulation, and destruction of different aspects that define formally and politically the so-called cinematographic language. Notions that have preoccupied avant-garde filmmaking at large, such as montage, image manipulation techniques, the essence of light,decontextualization, agitation, activism, etc., become elements of exploration of the specificity of the medium and a particular prismatic view of the cinematic) experiment through this works.
- Film: Laida Lertxundi Drums: Corey Fogel, Laida Lertxundi (2007), 3’50”
- De la hospitalidad Derecho de Autor, Oriol Sánchez (2006), 15’
- Farce Sensationelle! Laida Lertxundi (2004), 3’10”
- Copy Scream Oriol Sánchez (2005), 2’19”
- Alice in Hollywoodland Jesús Pérez-Miranda (2006), 7’
- Feedback Esperanza Collado(2005-06), 6’40”
- Grrr! no 8: suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara Oliver Laxe (2007), 8’
- Deconstrucción en Clave de Fa Maximiliano Viale (2008), 3’
- Pó de estrelas Alberte Pagán (2007), 24’
Spirasi / Placeways
May 28, 2008 — June 1, 2008
Placeways is a video installation that explores the consequences of personal displacement. The exhibition is a collaborative art project involving asylum seekers, refugees and migrants and engages with ideas of place, safety, home, transition, departure and arrival. SPIRASI is a humanitarian, intercultural, non-governmental organization that works with asylum seekers, refugees and other disadvantaged migrant groups, with special concern for survivors of torture.
Also on show is the photography work of Dilman Ahmedi, a Kurdish refugee from Iran who was imprisoned for his art practice which dealt with the issues of human rights and gender inequalities in Iran. His current exhibition is called ‘a view of my world through the photographer’s lens’‘. Dilman’s story is also featured in Placeways.
Co-ordinator: Anne Walsh
This project was a combined programme involving Spirasi, Artists in the Community, Create, the Arts Council and Firestation Artists Studios.
Artists: Christopher Harrington and John Travers
Preview:
Wednesday May 28, 3-6.30pm. Thursday May 29, 3-6 pm
Launch:
Thu May 29, 6pm. Guest speaker, Ugandan playwright George Seremba.
Jenny Brady / Imitation of Life
May 22, 2008 — May 24, 2008
“Imitation of Life” is an exhibition of Dublin artist Jenny Brady’s research into the practice of reborning, an activity involving customizing vinyl dolls to realistically resemble human babies.
Reborning, the art of transforming a play or collector doll into a realistic, unique baby doll began in the late 1980s. Using veining, mottling, blushing, weighting, and other enhancement techniques, the dolls are made to resemble, in as much as possible, real babies. For this exhibition, Brady has created a ‘reborn’ of herself as an 8-week old baby on the day of her baptism, making reference to the history of self-portraiture within art practice.
Zambia Appeal Art Sale
May 20, 2008 — May 20, 2008
An Art Sale in aid of the Zambia Appeal, an organization to support four Irish volunteers travelling this July to teach and work in the poverty-stricken town of Mazabuka. A wide variety of pieces generously donated by well known and up-and-coming artists will be available and all proceeds go towards the work in Mazabuka. For more info visit www.zambiaappeal2008.net
This exhibition, kindly supported by thisisnotashop, is a showing of a wide variety of pieces generously donated by well known and up-and-coming artists and photographers. There will be lots of art work on sale for this one night only and is a genuine opportunity to see and purchase work from over 30 artists.
Tuesday 20th May, 6-9pm.
thisisnotashop at ART 08
May 16, 2008 — May 18, 2008
thisisnotashop is proud to participate is the Art ‘08 at the RDS May 15th-18th. We will present new work by Irish artist and musician Chequerboard consisting of a series of textured and intricate montages themed on the sound of his recently released and critically acclaimed Penny Black album.
Also on show will be a selection of original photographs by internationally renowned 1970’s conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark, from his “cutting” projects and graffiti work.
Chequerboard (aka John Lambert)
Corresponding to the rich musical world created for his Penny Black album, the pieces are assembled on top of old vinyl record jackets which convert into wall hangings and feature antique collectibles, military curios, old postcard details and other various quotidian debris singled out for its unique qualities. In 2007, John received a music fellowship from the Model Arts & Niland Gallery in Sligo where he spent a year writing and producing Penny Black and creating the related artworks. Both album and artwork will be available for sale.
Gordon Matta-Clark
On show will be a series of original photographs from Matta-Clark’s Splitting, Office Baroque, Circus, and Graffiti projects. Now internationally recognized as one of the most important American artists of the 1970’s, Gordon Matta-Clark was a central figure in the birth of the artistic community in Soho, NYC, which included such luminaries as Robert Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim, Mary Heilmann, and Robert Rauschenberg. Major recent exhibitions of Matta-Clark’s work include a retrospective that toured from the Whitney Museum, NYC, to LA MOCA in 2007 and is now currently running at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. His first Irish exhibition, entitled Food, was held at Thisisnotashop Gallery in December, 2007.
Occidental Tourist
May 16, 2008 — May 17, 2008
Occidental Tourist is the self-organized exhibition by the first year participants of NCAD’s MA Art in the Digital World Course. Working primarily, but not exclusively, with lens based digital media the show represents a diverse range of works from the group’s current research interests.
Artists: Aoife Giles, Sheila Hough, Myrna Epstein, Karen McCormack, Gerard Reilly, Coilin Rush, Gary Somers.
The ewxhibition is open May 16 & 17, 2pm-8pm.
CREATE / Inter Art College Learning Development Programme 2008
May 1, 2008 — May 3, 2008
Exhibition of work from students who undertook the learning development placement programme exploring collaborative arts practice. Thirty four students were placed with a variety of groups and organisations over a seven week period in spring of 2008.
This programme is managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, on behalf of the participating colleges of the National College of Art and Design, Institute of Art, Design and Technology – Dun Laoghaire, Fine Art Faculty – Dublin Institute of Technology and Tisch School of Performing Arts – New York University.
Participating students
NCAD: Aoife Casey, Ian Clotworthy, AnaMaria Connerly, Kiernan Duffy, Amanda Durkan, Dagmar Fella, Fionnuala Hanahoe, Frauke Ketelsen, Kevin Kirwin, Paul Maguire, Alba Pistolesi, Berenice Prendiville, Alice Rekab, Liz Seaver
IADT: Aine Belton, Aoife Ní Chaoilte, Jennette Donnelly, Emma Farrelly, Katherine Fitzgerald, Helen Horgan, Sofie Loscher, Angela McAndrew, Karen O’Connor, Jennifer O’Rourke, Aoife O’Sullivan, Jennie Taylor, Janet Williams
DIT: Peter Dowie, Gerard Erraught, Fiona Marron, Serena Teehan
Tisch: Megan McGrath, Kira Pearson, Katherine Sheehan
Participating groups/organisations
Ballybough Community Centre, SPIRASI (Refugee and Asylum Service), RADE (Recovery through Art, Drama & Education), Pearse Street Drug Treatment Centre, Exchange House Travellers Service, Fountain Resource Youth Project, Dublin Aids Alliance, Sophia Housing, Coolmine Therapeutic Community, Bradóg Regional Youth Service, Irish Wheelchair Association, Vista Community Development Project, Robert Emmet Community Development Project, Clay Youth Service.
Ed Chaplin / 25 Years of Drawings
April 25, 2008 — April 27, 2008
New York based visual artist Ed Chaplin makes his Irish debut at thisisnotashop with a selection of drawings from a lifetime of work. Born in 1932, Chaplin has pursued a life in art and architecture outside the traditional gallery system. His meditative drawings combine blurred geometry and multiplex colours to form an exploration of total abstraction.
Opening Thursday April 24th, 7-9pm.
Stephen Blayds & Terry Markey
April 10, 2008 — April 17, 2008
Stephen Blayds work is a showing of results of an ongoing inquiry into decision-making. The investigation was undertaken whilst completing the MAvis at IADT.
Role, identity and situation in society features in the constructed forms by Markey building large assemblages comprising of found wood and objects. The Souring of material from the surrounding areas is an important aspect to the work. The lost components of the city are regenerated in art to provide a place of self reflection on the meaning and the assumption of role and position of the individual within society.
Forming work that has a challenging and confrontational presence in the art space, the work engages the viewer and ponders the physical act of looking. The construction of the work is a documented performance, with eight to ten hours of continuous making provides a platform for the artist to commune with the raw material and to react to the structure of the art space in a conversation of movement and material. Working from sketches the constructions formed from the creative act existed only in the point of making, continually change during the exhibition till the work has completely dissipated and the art space has returned to awaiting art environment.
Back For Beyond Redemption @ thisisnotashop
Friday 11th April. Doors 8.30, show begins 9pm.
Followed by reception @ The Dice Bar.
Call for live artists and alternative performers.
Terry Markey and thisisnotashop present an open event of live art and alternative performance, which invites artists and performers to attend and participate. Any and all live actions are welcome (less than ten minutes) no submissions required just turn up and make contact come early to secure a slot. This event is to create a forum for live art and action where artists and performers can relay work in an informal environment. Live art, live action, free style spoken word, readings, dance, burlesque, comedy magic and music any and all are welcome.
Fiona Larkin / This Is Not The Place
March 28, 2008 — March 30, 2008
For thisisnotashop Fiona Larkin has created a body of new work, making actions, photos, drawings and stop-gap animations which refer directly to site and look closely at the everyday experience of the commute. Using the newspaper as both material and a means to communicate she will create discreet interventions culminating in handing out a paper to LUAS commuters on Thurs March 27th. Here she focuses on the ‘in between’ nature of the commute, and examines the void between our two helical sites of aspiration and ambition, home and work.
Since completing her MFA at the University of Ulster in 2004 Fiona Larkin has been based at Queen Street and Flaxart Studios in Belfast. She has exhibited both locally and internationally. Recent projects have included a residency with Youkobo Artspace in Tokyo, a solo show in OMAC, Belfast and a curatorial collaboration with Manchester based artist Jane Anderson Travel Agents Projects, facillitating both online and gallery based projects. She currently lectures in the University of Ulster Belfast.
Opening Thursday March 27th, 7-9pm.
5 O n A D a y O u t… and other stories
March 19, 2008 — March 23, 2008
5OADO is the group name of a talented mix of emerging, Dublin-based artists, currently in their 3rd year at the National College of Art and Design. Working across a variety of media and from disparate perspectives, the 5OADO cooperative’s diverse aesthetic groundings resonate a singular energy.
Killian Dunne, Nicole Tilley, Bláhnaid Ní Mhurchú, Attracta Manson, and Myra Jago.
Opening Tuesday March 18th, 7-9 pm.
Patricia McKenna / Between the Lines
March 8, 2008 — March 16, 2008
In Between the Lines, Patricia McKenna prompts questions about the nature and technique of drawing. Using traditional and non-traditional materials including Wisteria and plastic, thisisnotashop will become a canvas of line, movement and shadow. McKenna’s work will show us a point of connection between nature and man-made materials, creating a shadow dance that meanders through and out of the building.
The Writing Workshop Week
February 26, 2008 — March 2, 2008
A Week of Miscellany. The Writing Workshop at thisisnotashop was formed in July 2007 as a place for writers and artists interested in text to share their work and collaborate. A Week of Miscellany showcases the fruits of this exploration with evenings of presentation, participation, entertainment, and reflection: a veritable exercise in ‘work-in-progress-ness’. Each night one of the workshop’s participants will present / perform their work.
- Felicity Williams Tuesday February 26th
- Gerry McDonnell with Maura Foley and Damein O’Donnell Wednesday February 27th
- Kay Inckle Friday February 29th
- Jessica Foley and Kathryn Maguire Sat March 1st
- Jessamyn Fiore Sun March 2nd
Solus Film Collective and Alan Lambert
February 19, 2008 — February 20, 2008
After 10 years of programming, Solus are presenting their first DVD compilation, which presents works from the early screenings in 1998/99 through to the most recent additions for Anthology Film Archives in 2006, and Marseilles in January 2008. This new DVD features short films by James Kelly, Zoe Greenberg, Stom Sogo, Dónal Ó‘Céilleachair, Johnny Kelly, Ronan Coyle, Moira Tierney, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Masha Godovannaya, Alan Lambert, Dennis Kenny.
- Solus Film Collective DVD Launch Tuesday February 19th, 7pm.
- Alan Lambert Screening of Metal Dragon Wednesday February 20th, 7pm
Jonas Mekas, one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking or the “New American Cinema,” who hosted the early Solus programmes in Anthology Film Archives, will be attending, as will many of the Filmmakers mentioned above.
Solus is an independent film collective and platform for film-makers working in Super-8mm / 16mm and DV. The group was formed in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, by Moira Tierney and Alan Lambert. It has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films internationally and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland. So far Solus has programmes for a variety of Arts Institutes and venues in Ireland, France, America, Russia, Trinidad and Egypt. The website will also be launched on the same evening: http://www.soluscollective.org/
ALAN LAMBERT OUROBOROS: First Metal Dragon Feature
‘Ouroboros’, is a set of short improvised ghost stories made on mini-DV with a variety of artists in a variety of locations around the world over the past year – from Bermuda to Philadelphia to Yokohama to Trinidad and New York, with composers, mural painters, stand up comics, animators and conceptual artists. ‘Ouroboros’ will ultimately become a feature film comprising these short films when viewed end to end. The soundtrack includes contributions from Aphasia Recordings, Five Green Circle, Dave Donohoe, Secret Society, Fergus Kelly and many more.
As Metal Dragon, Alan Lambert has been providing audio visual works for festivals and live events over the past 5 years, with a wide range of visual material collected on travels in America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Previous visual works have been primarily non-narrative music video oriented. ‘Ouroboros’ is the first set of works which lean more towards the narrative.
http://www.metaldragon.com/
http://www.myspace.com/metaldragon_film
David Lacey and Paul Vogel
February 12, 2008 — February 13, 2008
thisisnotashop is pleased to announce the launch of our 2008 Programme on Wednesday February 13th with a sound installation & performance by David Lacey & Paul Vogel.
Improvising musicians David Lacey and Paul Vogel will give performances on two consecutive nights (February 13 & 14) at thisisnotashop. Utilizing traditional acoustic instruments, electronic processing, faulty objects and the sound both inside and outside the performance space, they combine varying degrees of sound and silence to create work which questions the boundaries of what we perceive as being ‘musical’. Accidental and unplanned elements are woven into the fabric of the music and the failure to perform and deliver is always a possibility.
David Lacey and Paul Vogel have been collaborating since 2003, both as a duo and as part of larger configurations. Alongside their work as improvising musicians, they have also composed music for theatre and sound works for radio. Current collaborators include Martin Kuchen, Erik Carlsson, Angharad Davies, Lee Patterson and Mark Wastell. They have recently completed work on a new duo album, due to be issued in late spring. It will be the third release on their ‘homefront’ imprint. They are the co-curators of the ‘i-and-e’ festival of improvised music and sound art, which takes place this year on the weekend of March 28-30.
Gordon Matta-Clark / Food
November 30, 2007 — December 19, 2007
The first ever exhibition in Ireland of New York conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark takes place 1st-19th December at thisisnotashop.
Jane Crawford, artist widow and director of the Gordon Matta-Clark Estate, will give a talk about the life and work of Gordon Matta-Clark on Tuesday December 4th at 10am at NCAD, room Go4-Go5 on the ground floor of the design block.
Now internationally recognized as one of the most important American artists of the 1970’s, Gordon Matta-Clark was a central figure in the birth of the artistic community in Soho, NYC, which included such luminaries as Robert Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim, Mary Heilmann, and Robert Rauschenberg.
His first Irish exhibition will focus on the restaurant opened by Matta-Clark in Soho, NYC, in 1971 called Food. Food was at once a good/cheap place to eat, an employer for any struggling artist, a meeting place for the burgeoning artistic community, a performance space, and a work of art. Consisting of documentary photographs and film, the exhibition will explore Food in the context of Matta-Clark’s artistic work and the role it played in the art community of 1970’s New York.
Major recent exhibitions of Matta-Clark’s work include a retrospective that opened at the Whitney Museum in NYC in February and is now at LA MOCA in Los Angeles, CA, and is heading to the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art early next year. In 2006 there was an award winning exhibition of his work at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain, and he was a central featured artist at the San Paolo Biennial in Brazil.
Matta-Clark’s work took art out of the traditional museum context and into the streets where he deconstructed disused spaces to highlight the social problems and possibilities of the decaying urban landscape in which his community lived in worked. As a sculptor takes a chisel to marble, Matta-Clark took a chainsaw to abandoned buildings cutting through walls and floors, exposing layers of the past to light and air, taking the viewer out of the safety of the museum/gallery and directly into the art work. He evolved obsolete architecture into stunning works of art that challenge us to question our notions of security and safety both socially and psychologically.
Gordon Matta-Clark left behind a body of work that is now celebrated world wide and has inspired subsequent generations of artists and architects because of its courage, passion, and genius.
Original documentary photographs and limited edition reprints will be offered for sale.
Opening, Friday November 30th, 7pm-9pm.
Exhibition Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 2pm-7pm.
Robert Carr / New work
November 16, 2007 — November 25, 2007
Robert Carr’s work involves experimenting with and manipulation of materials and a search for interesting ways to use them. It involves the making of simple structures like latices, spines, struts or stacks which are expanded into more complex forms using a geometric or ruled based logic. It focuses on the use of visual rhythms, patterns and symmetries, on the effects of scale on perception, and on methods of deconstruction and reconstruction.
Opening: Friday November 16th, 7 - 9pm.
Exhibition Hours: Sat Nov 17th - Sun Nov 25th / 2 - 7pm.
Sarah Lincoln / Inconsistent Machine
November 8, 2007 — November 11, 2007
Function: Unknown
Mechanical Advantage: none
Input: human effort
Output: two works on paper @ thisisnotashop
Opening Reception, Wednesday 7th November, 6 - 8pm
The Exhibition will open 12 - 5pm, Sat and Sun and by appointment only Thursday and Friday.
Chequerboard / Penny Black Exhibition
October 31, 2007 — November 4, 2007
Dublin musician and graphic artist John Lambert presents the Penny Black installation piece. A series of textured and intricate montages themed on the sound of his new album which can be previewed this week at thisisnotashop before its release in February 2008.
The pieces which are assembled on top of old vinyl record jackets convert into wall hangings and feature antique collectibles, military curios, old postcard details and various quotidian debris that John has singled out for their unique qualities. The music video for the Chequerboard song ‘Konichiwa’ will be on view as well and a limited edition sampler cd of Penny Black will also be available.
John is performing live in the gallery space at 7.30pm on Thursday Nov 1st. Chequerboard music is emotive subtle guitar music intercut with found sound and textured samples. His debut album Gothica was released in 2002 through Reverb Records (US) and the follow up E.P. Dictaphone Showreels in 2005 through Lazybird. John received the 2007 Model Music Fellowship in Sligo where he spent the year in Sligo recording and producing his new album Penny Black.
Esperanza Collado / Zero Degree
October 18, 2007 — October 20, 2007
Zero Degree: The New Image of Thought is a three-night event consisting of a film projection series and a presentation of Spectrum fanzine 4th issue, both focused on the question of the interval - as radical difference, irrational cut, and as a last resort, as a means toward a more active role for the spectator - in avant-garde cinema. Zero Degree is curated by Esperanza Collado.
If cinema is about neuro-physiological vibrations, the image must produce a collision, a nervous wave in order to make thought emerge. The absence of images (the sole presence of a black or white screen) has a decisive importance in contemporary cinema, positing a dialectical relationship between image and its absence.
Film Screenings are listed below.
Irrational Interval / 18th October
- William S. Burroughs, Cut-Ups Films (UK)
- Peter Kubelka, Schwechater (Austria)
- Peter Kubelka, Arnulf Rainer (Austria)
- Paul Sharits, Epileptic Seizure Comparison, (EEUU)
- Paul Sharits, T,O,U,C, H, I, N, G, (USA)
- Paul Sharits, N:O:T:H:I:N:G:, (USA)
Dialectic Interval / 19th October
- David Lynch Lumiere: Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (USA)
- Stan Brakhage, Riddle of Lumen, (USA)
- Stan Brakhage, Boulder Blues and Pearls and…, (USA)
- Dziga Vertov, The Man with the Movie Camera (Russia)
MA Intervals / 20th October
- Takahiko iimura, MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji (Japan)
- Takahiko iimura, MA: The Stones Have Moved (Japan)
- Takahiko iimura, MA: (Intervals) (Japan)
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