17th Decmeber 1999
Catalyst Arts annual members show and our millenial Funeral Feast. We asked our members to bring an edible artwork, and to come to the bouffe dressed as an over rated figure from the twentieth century. A figure who they would personally like to see the back of and an object they feel the need to put to rest.A rerene procession and Food Feast with petite bourgouise tendencies.
4th November – 3rd December 1999
Art from the Rucksack was the second chance to see the work of an exchange project between Ireland and Slovenia.
Artists: Ireland, Brian Connolly, Amanda Dunsmore, Emma Johnston, Dougal McKenzie, Aisling O’Beirn and Sean Taylor. Artists: Slovenia, Marko A Kovacic, Damijan Kracina, Natasa Krhen, Marija Mojca Pungercar, Franc Purg, Janja Zvergeli.
30th October 1999
A Quick Fux, a day of live performance and live art at Catalyst Arts. The day included durational performance and video booth, an invitation to watch fireworks and a Catalyst Arts Dance Off Party.
Artists: Leah Hilliard, Larry Lynch, Julie MacGowan, Jordan McKenzie, Howard Matthews, Max Factory, Tracey Murray, James Ryan, Lisa Wesley and Blair Martin.
02nd – 31st October 1999
Reiko Aoyagi and David Nechak are artists invited by Catalyst to create new site integrated work. David Nechak was participant on the Flax International Artists Residency Programme. Both artists are concerned with the specics of space and the relationships between internal, personal space and outer physical space. The installation created focussed on the fluid relationship and tension between the two. Reiko Aoyagi’s work was made on site at Templecourt buildings on North Street, Belfast and in the Exchange Place Alleyway, adjacent to Catalyst Arts. David Nechak made a sculpture, placed in the Catalyst gallery back yard and presented a performance complementing the sculpture.
A slide talk by both artists was held at the Golden Thread Theatre, Monday 4th October 99.
21 September – 23rd September 1999
Chakraphonics was a three day durational perfomance by Linda Montano, during the performance she got in touch with her Irish Ancestors through keening, a funereal lament – for three and a half hours every day. Viewers were given on the spot tarot readings.
25th September 1999
Two performance groups from Kingston, Upstate New York presentesd an evening of spoken word, performance poetry and music. Part of an Ulster to Ulster exchange project, i.e.between Kingston, in New York State and Belfast, in County Antrim/Down.
24 – 31 August 1999
Will Bradley from The Modern Institute reinvented the gallery space into a music studio for local unsigned bands to come and cut their first CD’s. The event closed with a gig featuring all the bands.
Bands: The Dreggs, Desert Hearts, Dave Swain, Hostile Environment, Caruso, Imprint, Cecil’s Flea Circus, Modern Day Heroes, Colin Campbell
Preview. Sunday People 22/08/99 Colin Murray. Review. Belfast Telegraph 1/9/99
Featured: BBC Choice.
13/05/99 – 04/06/99
Lengua de Trapo is the first part of an exchange between Catalyst Arts and LAE Sferazul, Valencia. The project focuses upon language and the extent to which it defines or confines within culture.
Artists: Ima Pico, Rosendo Vila, Ester Ferrandiz, Aurelio Ayela, David Delgado, Monique Bastiaans, Luis Armand, Marisa Casalduero.
Review. Omnibus Magazine. Spring 1999. Ian Hill.
26/03/99 – 11/04/99
For the production and promotion of the prototype. Artists, designers and musicians were asked to create material which is formulated to be reproducible. The exhibition simulated a shop and was housed in the upstairs space in the clothes shop Diesel@Ltd in Queen Street, Belfast. Catalyst collaborated with Manchester based artist/curator Joanne McGonigle.
The exhibition travelled to The Art Fiend Foundation in New York 24/11-8/12 1999.
Artists: Tamas Saint Auby, Badly Drawn Boy, Johanna Billing/Make It Happen, Cohen/Johnson, Des Doyle, Bill Drummond,Chris Evans,, Sergei Gerasimenko, Charlotte Enstrom, Duncan Hamilton, Sara Heywood, Paul Higham, Martina Hoogland-Ivanow, Matthew Houlding, Trevor Johnson, Jonani, Regina Moller, Jessica Ogden, The Organisation for Returning Fashion Interest, Walter Pichler, Michael Robinson, Patrik Soderstam, Olivier Theyskens, Tomato, Beata Veszely. Demo Library: The Pastels, Sugarpussy, Muse Mob, Bob Hund, Polish Queen, Ingy, planningtorock, zap_papa, Badly Drawn Boy, Die Kunst, Duncan Hamilton, Citezen, Electric Boy, MM, Noid.
Preview. ID Magazine, April 1999, Lena Corner.Review. S.S.I., July 1999, Roger McKinley
UTV News 4 April 1999
17th June – 9th July 1999
Two artists, both of whom work in response to space. Laurie Halsey Brown and Jean West are creating works specifically for Catalyst Arts gallery. In considering the gallery space, these works offer suggestions for discovering and unravelling experience of place.
Review. Guardian 2 22/06/99, Jonathan Jones.
15/04/99 – 06/05/99
Systems/systems of belief – The land of Milk and Honey questioned and explores the fragile belief systems sought by individuals or groups in order to exist in the 20th Century.
Artists: Paul Carter, Simon Faithfull, Andrea Stanislav, Ian Breakwell and Grace Murdoch.
Review. Newsletter, 28/0499, Ian Hill.
04/02/99 – 26/02/99
‘Emily loved Him’ a group show of young artists currently living and working in Belfast. The show presented artists working in varoius media, the project consciously emphasises the unusual and curious. Artists: Tony Maas, Karen Mitchel, Phil Collins, Andrew Vickery, Graham Flood, Stephen kelly, Dianne Wilson, Allan Hughes, Elina Medley, Lisa Malone, Ciaran O’Doherty and Jamie Lemon.
