Arrivals and Jack Doherty Events
29th July/ 8.30pm/ Opening Performance by Keith Winter ‘Battle Drums Galactica’
31st July/2pm/ Walk Around Tour with Jack Doherty
31st July/ 3pm/ Performance by Clodagh Lavelle: ‘At Least Try’
5th August/ 2pm/ VAI Information Session and Help Desk
Representatives from VAI will respond to the most frequently asked questions from artists which arrive in the helpdesk section of their website www.visualartists.ie. If you have any questions you would like to include in this session relating to a career in the visual arts please email VAI on info@visualartists.ie
7th August/ 2pm/ £5/ Ceramics Workshop with John McKeag
12th August/ 5pm/ Creating Alternative Spaces
An opportunity to hear about alternative approaches to exhibiting and curating in Belfast and beyond. This informal discussion will include short presentations by representatives of Brown&Bri (Belfast), The Good Hatchery (Offaly) Guesthouse (Cork), Joinery (Dublin), Shac Residence (Belfast), and Space Delawab (Belfast) For a review of this event please click here
14th August/ 2pm/ £5/ Willow Workshop Adult with Jim Russell
14th August/ 11pm/ Performance by Phil Hession: ‘Blood Drops in Snow’
28th August/ 2pm/ Performance by Anne Quail: “ volve ”
10th September/8pm/ Film Premiere of ‘Endless Life’
OBG is delighted to show the premiere of feature length film ‘Endless Life’ which was scripted, shot and edited over Spring and Summer 2010 by Michael MacBroom
11th September/ 2pm/ Performance by Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell: ‘Who Moved my Cheese?’
11th September/ 8pm/ C13 Closing Event
Belfast based collective C-13 are an ensemble of sound artists, musicians, programmers, animators, architects, visual artists, photographers and film makers. Their collaborative practice challenges traditional media archetypes and explores the tensions between site, medium, artist and audience. Within the OBG, C-13 will deliver a site specific installation event responding to ‘Arrivals’.
Artist Talks at OBG
These talks in collaboration with Visual Artists Ireland offer an opportunity to hear from artists who have experience of exhibiting and pursuing opportunities internationally. The invited artists have been selected for; their innovative approaches to making work within a variety of media; their professional track records to date and their ability to articulate their interests and ideas as artists. This series promises to be inspiring and informative for recent graduates and public alike. www.visualartists.ie
4/8/2010/ 2pm: Aoife Collins
Aoife Collins’ interdisciplinary practice is shaped by recurrent themes of permutation, multiplicity, cultural paraphernalia and mass identification. She is currently undertaking a residency at the IMMA Artists Residency Programme, Dublin. www.imma.ie/en/page_212203.htm
18/8/2010: 2pm Aideen Barry
Aideen Barry is a Visual Artist, working in the mediums of performance, installation, film, sculpture, lens based media, musical composition, drawing and animation. Barry has shown work in Ireland and internationally and has recently showed in Futures at the Royal Hibernian Academy( IRL), a solo at The Butler Gallery in Kilkenny(IRL), and recently showed work at Delawab in Belfast. www.aideenbarry.com
1/9/2010/ 2pm: Niamh McDonnell
Niamh McDonnell is a researcher of digital media, investigating the aesthetics and epistemology of practices around computer based technologies. Her approach draws upon an interdisciplinary background, combining an undergraduate degree in fine art with experience in multi-media arts practice and more recently, an academic education in cultural studies and philosophy. A recent resident at the Digital Arts Studios, Belfast, she is associate researcher with the Centre for Applied Virtuality, at the University of Technology in Zurich. www.on-off-states.co.uk
