PUBLIC TALK

Of All Places
Presented by RUA RED

Of All Places is a project curated by Hilary Murray and developed in conjunction with Brian Duggan’s Three Lives installation at RUA RED. Of All Places will take the format of a talk session and discussion panel taking place over one day at the theatre space in RUA RED. This project aims to further elucidate the notion of geographical space as opposed to the cued, interactive (or relational) aspect to place. Why is the artwork often situated within a space (the gallery space), rather than a place? Does this lack of relational intent in the display of art create an irrevocable break in the artwork-viewer dynamic or does it simply provide a neutral situation for the objective contemplation and display of art?

The session will loosely cover ideas involved in how artists negotiate the gallery space, the relational (or cognitive) aspect to place and how the propensity of the white cube effects the creation and display of art today.

Six invited speakers will present their ideas on the thematic in the morning and a discussion panel will take place in the afternoon/post lunch where we will open questions to the floor.

Speakers:
Fiona Woods (Artist, Curator and Writer)
Brian Duggan (Artist)
Kate Strain (Independent Curator)
Emma Lucy O’Brien (Shinnors Curatorial fellow, Carlow Visual)
Ronan McCrea (Artist)
Ruth E. Lyons (Artist, Curator and Director of The Good Hatchery studio)

Chair:
Hilary Murray (RUA RED Curator in Residence)

For more information or to book contact RUA RED on 01 451 5860 or email boxoffice@ruared.ie

Dates: 19th April
Time: 10am – 4pm
Admission: FREE

More information at RUA RED

New Ecologies of Practice: A short season of projects by
Catalyst Arts [Belfast] / Occupy Space [Limerick] / The Good Hatchery [Offaly] / Basic Space [Dublin]

The National College of Art and Design Gallery is presenting a series of new projects which will represent the work of a number of artist led initiatives, working throughout Ireland, which embodies a new approach and a challenge to institutional visual arts programming. In this programme NCAD Gallery would also like to highlight the National Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) housed at NCAD Library.

In recent years, and pre-dating recession in some cases, Catalyst Arts [Belfast]; Occupy Space [Limerick]; The Good Hatchery [Offaly] and Basic Space [Dublin] have established strong, coherent and critically significant presences in the Irish visual arts context and, in their strategic ideologies, argue for a reconfiguration of inherited thinking about the nature and purpose of art and the nature and purpose of art institutional practice. This aligns with other transnational artist led initiatives and ideologies which respond to ‘situations’.

Opening view Monday 12th March 6-8pm.

A new installation, Good Hatchery, will be presented at NCAD Gallery. Exhibition continues until 21st March 2012.

* The Good Hatchery directors Carl Giffney and Ruth E.Lyons will host a seminar on Thursday 29th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.

More information on the NCAD WEBSITE and THE GOOD HATCHERY

Studio Seminar: Ruth E Lyons

Studio 14
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Wednesday 25^th January, 2pm.
All Welcome

TBG+S Studio artist Ruth Lyons invites visitors into her studio to hear about recent developments in her practice, specifically the new artistic group that Ruth has co founded, TERRAFORM.

The word ‘Terraform’ refers to a hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of an environment (EG, a planet) to be similar to those of Earth, in order to make it habitable by terrestrial organisms.

Ruth will chart the development of her practice and its relation to TERRAFORM, a working group of artists, engineers and architects. TERRAFORM are interested in structures, from buildings and environments to social structures and the structure of the Art world itself. Living in Dublin and the situation in Ireland now also informs and feeds into their collaborative process. TERRAFORM are also specifically interested in working with the building of TBG+S, and Ruth and curator Rayne Booth will lead an open discussion on the project and possibilities for collaborations and developments.

All welcome refreshments provided

Sky is the Limit public art commission for Scoil Naomh Eoin, Navan Co. Meath. Work in progress. To be launch in February 2012.

Artists Readings:

Friday 2nd  December:
12.00: Padraic E.Moore
1. 00: Lee Welch
2.00: Ruth E.Lyons
5.00: Judy Kravis (Road Books) followed by launch of Road’s new book ‘21 proposals for the Turbine Hall’

Saturday 3rd December
12.00: Ciaran Walsh: The Reading Room
1.30pm: Matt Packer: Wake Amusements
3.00pm: The Stinging Fly: Literature and magazine publishing.
4.30pm: Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts with Medb Ruane

Sunday 4th December
1.30pm: Discussion on Book Design with David Joyce
3.00pm: Discussion on art book distribution with Shane Hallinan
4.30pm: Fiona Fullam; Imaging the Word: A talk on art-writing

check www.templebargallery.com for updates

SKY IS THE LIMIT

A public art commission through the percent per art scheme for Scoil Naomh Eoin, Navan, Co. Meath. The project is curated by Cliodhna Shaffrey and Sarah Searson.

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To mark the opening of Scoil Naomh Eoin’s new school building a very special event will be taking place, weather permitting, on the morning of Wednesday the 26^th October 2011. An airplane towing a banner reading ‘SKY IS THE LIMIT’ in 7ft high letters will fly from the local airfield to circle over the roof of the school at midday.

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Keep watch overhead as en route from Weston airfield to Scoil Naomh Eoin ‘SKY IS THE LIMIT’ will be seen circling above Navan town.

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During the take off at Weston live footage will be relayed to the school and projected in the hall where the children will watch the airplane’s progress on a large projection. The school will then gather outside to greet the plane with a colorful display as the banner flies overhead.

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SKY IS THE LIMIT is a celebration of education and an embrace of the limitless potential of children’s minds. The event sets out to foster this sense of creativity in the daily running of the school. In a time when society is facing many problems and challenges this artwork strikes a positive stance and outlook for the future. It offers the children a light-hearted point of departure for their personal explorations of the world.

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Large photographs of SKY IS THE LIMIT and the day’s events will be installed throughout the school soon after the event. In addition two SKY IS THE LIMIT flags can now be seen flying from the school’s flagpoles.

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No. 200 is being repossessed and the inhabitants find themselves obliged to vacate the premises. For the past few years this large rambling eccentric Victorian house has been home to a group of friends. These friends have lived in No. 200, made it a home, and formed an oddball nuclear family. In the face of all the uncertainty and doubt that exists outside in the real world, this home offered a respite, and a field of expanded vision and positivity. Like many, this group found that in this time of uncertainty there is also a pervasive energy of potential - complacency now seems redundant. Perhaps this is the silver lining of our contemporary existence that can inspire creativity and change.

To celebrate the house and their home before eviction, the inhabitants have invited some new and old friends to participate in a weekend of artistry and creativity. This is more than a group show. Firstly it has been deliberately non-curated, rather the artists were invited to visit the house and let it inform their project for the weekend. For example Dominic Thorpe will be undertaking a durational performance based on an ongoing conversation with the house and its inhabitants. Ruth E. Lyons will be hosting a discussion on structures in society over Sunday lunch. Donal MacEarlaine wll be joined by Niall O Healaithe  in an epic poetry performance in the bathroom. Each room in the house has been given over to artists, and an eclectic mix of performance, installation, painting, music, poetry and discussion is on offer for the duration of the weekend. Pop in over the weekend to explore and participate in this event.

Programme of Events:

Wed 191011 10-17hrs
Performance Art – Dominic Thorpe (to attend email 200clonliffe@gmail.com)

Fri 211011 19-21:30hrs
Opening Reception (limited wine on offer – BYOB advised)

Sat 221011 11-19hrs
Exhibition/ House Open

Sun 231011 11-19hrs
Exhibition/ House Open

Sun 231011 14-17hrs
Sunday Lunch & discussion ‘The Architecture of the Hedge’ with Ruth E Lyons

Sun 231011 19:30-22:30
An Evening of Experimental music featuring Shane Latimer/Seán MacErlaine, Shane Holly, Donal MacErlaine, Raven & Pedigree Cha, Ghosties and more… BYOB

http://into-a-limbo.posterous.com/

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Islanded in a Sea of Stars Solo Exhibition of new work by Ruth E Lyons at The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1.
Preview 6-8pm Thursday 1st September runs until 8th October 2011

Today is science reality.
The universe is getting bigger, the further we look the more of it there is.
Scientists have detected the largest body of water in the universe some 12 billion light years away from earth.
We can know this but not experience it, much like the distant future or past.
It is the world beyond experience.

Islanded in a sea of stars

Or somewhere in between;
Nature/ Technology
Experience/ Knowledge

Tuesday 23rd August, 6.30pm
Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
Free entry, All welcome

This is the first in a series of monthly screenings of films selected by the artist studio members at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios. Each month, TBG+S will invite a different studio artist to choose a film that has a special significance for them in relation to their artistic practice.The first artist to be invited to take part in the series is Ruth E. Lyons, who is currently occupying a six-month Project studio at TBG+S

Ruth has selected the film ‘Stalker’ by Tarkovsky. The film and its particular relationship to landscape has been a source of inspiration to her in the formation of new sculptural works for her upcoming solo show ‘Islanded in a sea of stars’ which opens in The Lab this September. She will begin the screening with a short introduction to the film and its context within her work.

About ‘Stalker:’
Deep within the Zone, a bleak and devastated forbidden landscape, lies a mysterious room with the power to grant the deepest wishes of those strong enough to make the hazardous journey there.

Desperate to reach it, a scientist and a writer approach the Stalker, one of the few able to navi-gate the Zone’s menacing terrain, and begin a dangerous trek into the unknown.

Tarkovsky’ssecond foray into science fiction after ‘Solaris’ is a surreal and disturbing vision of the future. Hauntingly exploring man’s dreams and desires, and the consequences of realising them, STALKER, adapted from Arkady & Boris Strugatsky’s novel ‘Roadside Picnic’, has been described as one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.

ARTISTS’ INTRODUCTION

Stalker was shot in Russia1979, 7 years before the disaster at Chernobyl.

Some people say that Tarkovsky Foresaw the disaster with this film.

In the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster a concrete structure was built to house reactor 4 in a panicked rush to contain the spread of radioactive material.

Inside the concrete sarchophagus is a 200 tonne mound of nuclear material melted into the floor that has become known as the Elephant’s foot because of its shape.

Today 25 years on cracks are forming in the sarchophagus.

It is the daily task of the few workers still employed at the plant to pump water out of the reactor and away from the thing. Original estimates set the radioactive life of this material at 10,000 years. Today, scientists estimate it to be more like 1million.

Chernobyl was the biggest nuclear disaster in the world. The only other level 7 radioactive disaster happened at Fukoshima earlier this year.

Presently there is something like 200,000 tonnes of spent fuel in the world, the problem that governments responsible for this waste are now facing is: where to and how to store this material?

Longterm radioactive waste isolation systems are currently in early stages of development throughout the Northern hemisphere. Most European countries including Finland, Sweden, France and Switzerland are planning deep storage, mining cavernous tunnels below the water table.  The nuclear respository planned for the UK is at Sellafield.

The US are developing Yukka mountain.

These stores have to be secure an impenetrable for a least 1 million years…

This time scale poses the question that I am most interested in. How to communicate to a society in the distant future that these are dangerous sites which should not be interfered with?

In 1981 the US government set up a team of semioticians, engineers, anthropologists, nuclear physicists, behavior scientists and others under the title ‘ Human Interference Task Force’ to come up with solutions to this problem, particularly in regard to the repository at Yucca Mountain.

Thomas Sebeok a semiotician and member of the Human Interference Task Force wrote a book “communication to span ten millenia’ in which he advocated the development of an Atomic priesthood who would be charged with relaying through myth and rituals the danger surrounding nuclear material and guarding the sites.

When all the proposed long term radio-active waste isolation units are completed there will be a nice scattering of these sites throughout the northern hemisphere.

Imagine then, some small inroads into the life time of these structures, something like 5000 years from now, a people begin to explore these sites, Local lore might say that these are sacred sites that should not be interfered with for fear of repercussions but the archaeologist or whoever it might be with his new logic believes that he knows better.

Perhaps then the fabled ‘Mummies curse’ that surrounded the pyramids and tombs of ancient Egypt is the cancerous growth that will befall the intrepid explorer.

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Aerial Blue

International Summer School

28- 31st July 2011

Aerial Blue is a themed summer school for contemporary artists. This year’s focus is on islandism and the notion of insularity as a gateway to radical difference. Aerial Blue invites artists from across the world to come to Ireland for four days workshops, collective experimentation and island survivalism.

In evolutionary terms, islands are breeding grounds for hyper-differentiation. Fantasy creatures thrive and multiply that would otherwise perish on the mainland. The margin of an island is also analogous to the position of the artist, at once feasting off the glut of influences and opportunities that wash ashore, and at the same time, wilfully standing in opposition to them. In the context of Ireland, a western sea-surrounded outpost of Europe that has recently endured a dramatic economic collapse, the condition of becoming islanded has become symbolic, and a rallying point for action, questioning ‘what is the land beneath our feet?’. The participants of Aerial Blue are asked, through collective experimentation, to construct ‘an island state of mind’ during an invited residency on a deserted island.

Details

The summer school will take place on Dorinish, an uninhabited rocky outcrop on the West Coast of Ireland that was formerly owned by John Lennon. After seeing this remote doldrum advertised in a transatlantic in-flight magazine, the iconic singer purchased the island, which soon became home to a commune of music lovers and spiritual experimentalists. The fellows for Aerial Blue will be the sole habitants and caretakers of this island during their residency and will be invited to present workshops, collective actions or propose ideas and concepts for investigation.

Aerial Blue is the second edition of a mobile collective co-directed by Ruth E Lyons and Claire Feeley that began with Mercedes Fire in 2010.

Follow this LINK for more information