Category: 2007
FIX 07
FIX 07- 7th International Performance Art Festival
14 November 2007 00:00 – 07 December
FIX07 presents a programme of performances, interventions, discussions and workshops illustrating creative strategies for a dynamic engagement with the praxis of live art.
Established since 1994 FIX has an international reputation for presenting emerging and established national and international artists. The seventh edition of this festival has evolved its programme to over three weeks with focus on expanding collaborative, investigative artworks that engages with the notions of what is public and live.
FIX07 seeks to engage audiences with challenging performances and interventions to explore new approaches and open dialogues.
Or for photos and coverage from the events as they happened, check out the Blog or the FIX07 Flickr gallery.
Art/Not Art, Bbeyond, Malgosia Butterwick, Jeffery Byrd, Marta Ciappina, Alex Conway, Legitimate Bodies Dance Company, Angel Pastor, Perfopuerto, Peter Richards, Helen Sharp, Skint but Articulate, Barbara Sturm, Angie Taggart, Aaron Williamson, Daniel Vais-The Lovespotters, Jacques Van Poppel
Perfopuerto Artists In Residence
30 November 2007 00:00 – 11 December
PERFOPUERTO is a Chilean based performance art organization, since 2001. Responsible for producing many international theme based festivals and events including the 1st performance art congress in 2005 & Ensemble of Women in 2007.
As part of the FIX International Performance Art Biennial, Perfopuerto are invited guest artists in residence at the Catalyst Arts Gallery. From the 30th of November to the 11th of December.
The project will highlight new innovative visual, sound, installation, illustration and performance that will approach collective and independent artistic identities when working within umbrella organisations and Chilean art.
The project will highlight new innovative visual, sound, installation, illustration and performance that will approach collective and independent artistic identities when working within umbrella organisations and Chilean art.
For more photos from the event, check out the FIX07 Flickr gallery.
Student Show
Annual Student Show 2007
Kathy Graham – Dawn Hannah – Johanna Leech – Seamus Sullivan – Ben Craig – Thomas Walker – Peter Spiers – Ethna O’Regan – Elizabeth Sweetin – Tracy Hanna – Rebecca Ann Tess – Nicky Larkin
Rag and Bone
Rag and Bone
feat Martin Carter
A passion for recycling is evident in Martin’s artistic practise and his community work. Providing practical, creative and entertaining solutions to problems, physical or social, is the basis of Martin’s work. The ‘Rag-and-Bone’ man is an old term for a junk dealer. The phrase referred to an individual who would travel the streets with a horse drawn cart calling for household’s waste and scrap to be turned into reusable or resalable items. Before automotive transport they were an impor- tant part of society since householders had limit- ed ability to travel to collection points. They would use a distinctive call to alert householders to their presence and often tied balloons to their cart to give to the neighbourhood children in exchange for the unwanted items. The rag and bone men were recycling long before the act became a government initiative. They were last seen in Belfast around 40 years ago. This project combines the 2 main elements of Martin’s practise, creative recycling and community development. The project is aimed at specific areas of Belfast, the older communities, places where the artist grew up and which have become increasingly rundown. Martin constructed a cart from recycled wood and metal. This was teamed with Dandy the horse and Martin himself as the Rag and Bone man. For 3 weeks in September, the communities involved were witness to the spectacle of the rag and bone man doing his rounds. For the older members of the community, reviving memories while for the children it was an entirely new and unexpected intervention into their familiar surroundings.
The rag and bone man’s travels were documented and edited in to a short film by artist Seamus Harahan and screened at Catalyst Arts at the end of the project. Members of the communities involved were invited to attend along with the wider Belfast community. The items collected by the rag and bone man were displayed in a temporary charity shop in the gallery space, available for visitors to swap or take away.
Members Show
Art in Public summer school
Mai Takahashi, Textil Show
Mai Takahashi
2 August 2007 00:00 – 25 August
Mai Takahashi is a Japanese textile artist who specialises in the traditional Japanese textile technique Bingata. After completing her degree in Japan, she moved to Okinawa, which is located on the southern edge of Japan, where she learned the technique in a local workshop. After that she moved back to her hometown and started her practice.
Bingata is a dyeing technique that is unique to the Ryukyu Island and continues to be practiced as a traditional artform on the Island of Okinawa today. This exhibition presents her art works and introduces the history and the process of the technique.
The installation will present some of her work whose theme surrounds environmental and biological issues. Therefore, in contrast to traditional Bingata, the images she uses are more focused on details of contemporary society. The works are dyed on materials today used in the fashion industry, as opposed to Ryukyu cloths which the technique would have traditionally been used on.
Bingata, its history and its technique will be introduced in the workshops, as well as some actual tools and traditional materials which will be on show in the gallery as part of the exhibition.
It is the first time Mai Takahashi will showcase her work in Northern Ireland, and also the first time for Bingata to be introduced here.
The project is supported by: Arts Council of Northern Ireland,
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Ginger Tree Restrunt,
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation,
Tanakanao Senryouten.
Urban Marketplace at St George’s Market
Urban Marketplace at St George’s Market
Date: 28 July 2007
Catalyst Arts hosted a stall at St George’s Marketplace as part of Belfast City Council’s Urban Marketplace, featuring material from the Catalyst archive.
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Jason Oddy ‘Turning Things Round’
Jason Oddy ‘Turning Things Round’
1 June 2007 00:00 – 01 July
Jason Oddy’s exhibition Turning things round is an oblique look at idealism. Taking the circle and its 3-D counterpart, the sphere, as the absolute geometrical forms, the show suggests how both historically and in an everyday context they have come to represent a way out and a transformation of the mundane, man-made world. The title piece – a video installation in which films of four exemplary spherical buildings are projected onto a cube – suggests how they might adumbrate a Utopia.
Equally Turning things round addresses the matter of rotation and inversion, and how such acts institute a contemplative attitude that can lead to a new way of looking at things. Symbol sees a gold swastika spun at high speed to the point where it becomes a glowing disc. Varanasi 2007 is a large-scale photographic work in which the Ganges – that most redemptive of rivers – is seen upside down over a 24-hour cycle.
Other works in various media also ask us to think about change, and the way that the twin laws of impermanence and cyclicality dissolve oppositions, offering us a means of stepping outside the usual framework of our lives.
‘Es (the above I)’
‘Es (the above I)’
5 May 2007 19:00 – 31 May
Preview: Sat 5th May 7-9 pm.
Exhibition runs from:
8th – 30th May 2007
Tue – Sat 11am – 5pm.
This exhibition is showcasing new commissions from four international artists who are both gaining recognition for, and are in the practice of fully realising artworks of a highly substantive, qualitative and contemporaneous nature. Albeit the outcomes are very diverse, the four artists chosen share a common thread in their practice. The departure point for them all is drawing which underscores their methodologies, but the show Es presents a prismatic range of end results, from drawings on paper or directly onto the gallery walls, through to painting, sculpture, installation and film. It offers an opportunity to compare and contrast the ways in which the exhibiting artists combine these different media within their practises.
A delicate web of connections, spanning three vibrant artistic communities unites these works. The title for the show reflects this element of connectivity and translation. The image has the word ES written in the sky; the German for IT. The Freudian term for the division of the psyche is Es, Ich, Ãœberich (id, ego, superego), yet its direct translation is “It, I, over I”. However, if one does a search for a translation online, one gets “The Above I”. This also serves as a suitable metaphor for the act of drawing itself as gaining understanding of the world through the eye of the artist; processed in the psyche and expressed by the artist’s hand, it consequently translates the world into moments of resolved meaning. This form of translation also hints at man’s metaphysical conundrum of trying to gain understanding of our position in the universe: the IT (everything) above I (the individual).
These subtly evolving semantic links furthermore serve as a metaphor for the interconnectivity of the artists’ practice, highlighting the similarities and differences informed by their cultural surroundings.
Lucy Skaer:
Glasgow, New York
Skaer’s practice incorporates many artistic techniques, from drawing, to interventions in the street, to scientific collaboration. Lucy’s drawings utilise found imagery reinterpreted through known compositional structures such as Venn and Rorschach inkblots.
Lucy has been nominated as one of the representatives of Scotland in this years’ Venice biennial.
Club Curious
Spectrum city was the name
The Bath is Hot
Felt Experience Project
Felt Experience Project
02/01/2007 – 27/01/2007
An exhibition of video works
Siobhan Mullen – Anthony Kelly and David Stalling – Yaron Lapid – Cynthia Greig and Richard H. Smith – Hugh O’ Donnell – Yoshiko Shimada- Miriam De Burca – The children of C.R.I.B.S.
