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Tag Archives: Performance Art
Marilyn Arsem at Transactions, Belfast, 3 May, 2018.
Sitting on a bench in front of the Castle Court shopping centre in Belfast, Arsem did some hand sewing. At her feet two bags – one with bodies and heads of soft toys she bought whole but dismembered, the other … Continue reading
Bob Raymond, this moment:missives from another world, 2015
“This book came about because we felt compelled to share Bob Raymond‘s work with a wider audience after he died unexpectedly in 2012″ – so Jed Speare starts his Preface to the volume of 192 pages printed on square 25 … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston USA, Jed Speare, Jeffery Byrd, Julie Rochlin, Marilyn Arsem, Mobius artists, On Kawara, Performance Art, Victor Shklovsky
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Alastair MacLennan,Lie to Lay, 2017
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Air A Lair,organised by Summerhall, Edinburgh ( 2nd August -24 September 2017) the catalogue contains brief tributes by Richard Demarco, Dominic Thorpe, Paula Blair, Roddy Hunter and Brian Patterson. and a substantial, insightful, erudite … Continue reading
Anka Lesniak, Invisible inVisible, 2017
With a subtitle “Women disconnected from the history” the paperback was published by Stowarzyszenie Sztuka i Dokumentacja (ISBN 978-83-931176-6-6). I have added ISBN so that you may identify the book, missing little signs and accents in writing Polish names on this … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative history, Anka Lesniak, Art in Poland, art., found objects, installations, Performance Art, site specific art, texts
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Jordan Hutchings, Body of Work, GTG, Belfast, 4-25 June 2015
Curated by the artist Mary Morgan, the exhibition as a whole induced an aesthetic experience by the chosen rhythmical display. I read a wall like a sheet music – imagined intonating it in a- minor after repeating five times the … Continue reading
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Tagged Al MacLennan, Bbeyond, Caroline McCusker, Caroline Pugh, Christoff Gillen, Ciara McKeon, Claudia Kappenberg, Felipe Faundec Fuentes, Fergus Byrne, James King, Jennifer Hanley, Jordan Hutchings, Julie Fiala, Karine Talec, Keike Twisselmann, Kurt Johannessen, Laura Graham, mary morgan, Olivia Hassett, Pavana Reid, Performance Art, photography, Sandra Corrigan Breathnach, Sandra Johnston
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paintfor.me and a cauliflower
My aim in What Do Pictures Want? is thus not to project personhood onto pictures, but to engage with what I call “the lives and loves” of images. (W.J.T Mitchell) That both “projection of personhood” and “engagement with the image”” … Continue reading
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Tagged Conceptual art, Duncan Ross, Elena Duff, Pablo Picasso, Performance Art, Peter FitzGerald, Quido Reni, Rembrandt, V Stwosz, Willem Kalf
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MOMENTUM at Catalyst Arts Belfast, 24 – 31 January 2014
Ten postgraduate students of the MFA at the University of Ulster presented interim exhibition in the both exhibition spaces of the CA gallery. The image on this poster is a screen grab of a video by Jonny McEwen (b 1966).Nothing moves … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Glenn, animals, Aoife Brady, blue hue, Catalyst Arts Belfast, Cathy Drooney, computer code, Elizabeth-Anne Curistan, Erin Hagan, forest, installation, Jonny McEwen, Katrina Sheena Smyth, landscape, light, Master of Fine Art. University of Ulster, myth, Pamela Byrne, Performance Art, Rosanna McKenna, sculpture, textile, video
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An afternoon at MAC, Saturday, 11 January, 2014.
At three o’clock, in front of approximately fifty viewers, Hugh O’Donnell started his performance in front of the projected video. Its subject was the weeping face of a Dutch artist who disappeared, later, in 1975, attempting to cross the Atlantic … Continue reading
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Tagged Bas Jan Ader, dance, ephemeral, Hugh O'Donnell, MAC Belfast, Maeve McGreavy, Performance Art, Sandra Johnston, The Mystery of Tears
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Hugh O’Donnell, A Passing Thought, ADF, Belfast, October 11 – November 22 2013
The Arts Disability Forum keeps developing its exhibition program along the criteria prevalent in the contemporary art practices, while making use of social links, in this case, the 7th Outburst Queer Arts Festival. As if reading Lessing’s Laokoon, they avoid … Continue reading
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Tagged blue paint, disability, drawing, found objects, found photography, installation, Jasper Johns, Performance Art, sculpture, table, W Kandinsky, Yves Klein
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Mineki Murata
Mineki Murata: No Comments, performance at PS Squared, Belfast, 13 April 2013 Rarely, a performance has a clean beginning and end. By clean, I mean not polluted by hesitancy of theatrical or political statement. On a table a pristine hard … Continue reading
It’s Performance at PS squared, Belfast, 13 April 2013
Hugh O’Donnell presented Erratic Memory, a one hour performance as a discursive platform for a variety of conundrums signalled by the selection of objects, tools. In the company of a table, a hammer, a hand saw, a white fat packet, a vacuum cleaner, … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, Hugh O'Donnell, Performance Art, PS Squared, Shiro Masuyama
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