July 2011 Blog Posts (12)

MAKE DO AND MEND by Patricia Kelly & Tara Moran-Woods

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For all you Beat-nikkers, left-fielders, double-dippers, flow-makers, brain-juicers, soul-grippers & those of uncharted waters we are very proud to announce the new Vimeo Channel for our comedy puppet show 'The Beat Hotel'.



A channel inspired by the coolest hotel this side of bohemia. Be part…

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Nearing completion is a new landmark for Belfast City, 'Rise' sits on the broadway Roundabout - a main 



thoroughfare into the city - what are your thoughts on the new addition to the belfast skyline?…

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cvlt nation

 

metal band art

 

a couple of recent interviews I've done, with pictures and everything....

My work features in 'The Chain Project' http://t.co/XgwK2AA which has been highlighted on Conscientious http://t.co/8x14YwD

See our event page for full listings, in full set up mode now!

 

Preview on Thursday 14th July 7-10pm



This exhibition will explore ways in which artists today continue to challenge, subvert, or deconstruct hegemonic notions of heteronormative identity in contemporary visual culture.…

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http://www.digitalbelfast.com/index.php/2011/07/08/belfast-stories-digital-media-digitalbelfast

 

Enjoy ;)

I have just laboured over  previews of several upcoming exhibitions around Ireland. Without doubt, they were the most overblown, uneccessary and drivel laden pieces of text I have encountered for some time. I am sure the events which were being promoted are very worthy projects but I fear that the authors of these texts did not have enough confidence in their events  to describe them simply , effectively and without the need to hide behind a curtain of over used artspeak.

Of course we…

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I have just started the fun bit of the PhD - interviewing practitioners and professionals involved in textile art. This took me to Dublin this week to interview the Head of Fashion and Textiles at NCAD, Helen McAllister, and the Head of Embroidery Nigel Cheney. I then dropped in at IMMA to see what was on, and was interested to find that in the exhibition 'Twenty' two of the artists had used textile techniques and materials as part of their artworks.

Katie Holten '137.5 degrees (it…

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Things need to happen in order for us to talk:

we must have subject.

 

So button up your shirtsleeves and subject yourself

to the exterior world;

become that desired object of sociability,

that lost answer to your whispered prayer.

 

Jesus, my laptop is on mains supply,

and I will no longer by interrupted in my writing

by a draining battery sucking up my time.

 

Jesus, I have heated the hot water…

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REVIEW: COMPULSIVE, OBSESSIVE, REPETITIVE: Curated by Sanna Moore at TOWNER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, EASTBOURNE



By Ciaran Magill 



5 years in the making, internationally-renowned Northern-Irish born curator Sanna Moore presents her largest and most ambitious project to date with a six person exhibition of UK sculptors who obsessively use small scale repetitive processes to create large scale sculptural installations. The research and development phase of this exhibition… Continue