Category: 2009

Student Show 2009

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Student Show 2009

21 October 2009 00:00 – 06 November

Catalyst Arts, Belfast

Call for submissions for the Annual Student Show, December 2009.

Catalyst Arts believes in supporting artists at all stages in their careers, and the student show is our main showcase for newly emerging visual artists, providing gallery support and fresh networking opportunities.

We are interested in presenting a broad range of innovative, exciting new work in any and all mediums.

This call is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students, including those who have graduated during 2009.

Those wishing their work to be considered for exhibition should submit a written proposal with artist statement and no more than 5 images of work to:studentshowcatalyst@gmail.com

Closing date for submissions is Friday 6th November no later than 4pm.

Capitalyst Arts

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Capitalyst Arts: First Thursday, 2nd July 2009

 

Date: 2 July 2009

Capitalyst Arts:One night, three events.

2nd July 2009

Evelyne LeBlanc Rouberge

Chinese Welfare Centre, 7.00pm

Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge- Wet Markets

How do we occupy or define our personal space? What is the relationship we have with our city, our home and the architecture that defines that space? Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge’s photography is an exploration of urban geography, the tension between public and private space and its impact on the individual narrative. Through the media of digital colour photography, collage and online media, Canadian artist Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge explores the impact of urban landscapes on identity, and invites viewers to observe each mise-en-scene and recreate their own narratives.

In 2008, she spent 7 months in China where she continued working along these lines. In her exhibition Wet Markets Evelyne presents a personal journey, underlining the small details that caught her eye over there. This is a collection of observations in and on China in construction, in transformation, with all the tensions between tradition and modernity, wealth and poverty, urban/rural, the ephemeral and the perpetual.

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Exhibition continues through to July 30th

Raster Noton

Black Box Cafe, 7.00pm

“raster-noton . archiv für ton und nichtton” is meant to be a platform — a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art and science. Emerging from the fusion of the two labels rastermusic and noton (in 1999) they realize music projects, publications and installation works. The common idea behind all releases is an experimental approach — an amalgamation of sound, art and design.

So far the catalogue of the label consists of about 70 releases. Most of the projects follow the concept of a series with contributions by very different artists such as, william basinski, alva noto, ivan pavlov aka coh, ryoji ikeda, ryuichi sakamoto or carl michael von hausswolff.

Olaf bender and carsten nicolai run raster-noton. the label is based in chemnitz / germany.
Catalyst will be showing thier CD designs, print and audio visual works.
Exhibition continues through to July 30th

Aisling O’Beirn

Boom or Bust Pub Quiz

Rose and Crown Bar, Ormeau Road

Quiz Starts 9.00pm

Aisling will host a pub quiz with a local feel relating to Belfast. Entrants will get a free poster and there will be a prize for the winning team.

In Bed with McKenna

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In Bed with McKenna

Date: 18 June 2009

IN BED WITH MCKENNA,  SINEAD O’DONNELL AND DEIRDER MCKENNA –
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In bed with McKenna gives you a chance to ponder the real meaning of Capitalism though thought provoking and playful interactions.  Together they produce a series of performances relating to Capitalism, the first installment being the capitalism spelling test.

Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak – Absolutely Fabulous 2

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Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak – Absolutely Fabulous 2

29 May – 4 July

Special Preview Event 28th May 6 – 8 pm

Catalyst Arts presents the first solo show in the UK or Ireland for the internationally exhibited Slovenian artist cooperative of Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak.

Oblak and Novak’s practise spans film, photographic manipulations and installations and their pastiches of popular films like Pulp Fiction and Taxi Driver and the feats shown in the Guinness Book of World Records are characteristic of their light hearted approach.

Their work investigates the influence of mass media on the individual living in a consumerist, gobalised society. Using the idiosyncracities of social interaction Oblak and Novak explore the issues with sensitivity and humour.

For Absolutely Fabulous, Oblak and Novak will be presenting their photographic and video series We Did This And That, reconstructing absurd Guinness World Records. They aim to examine the obsession with success and fame in contemporary society, influenced by the mass communication media. In carefully constructed photographs and videos they appear to be record holders and confront the viewer with constructed categories of fiction and reality.

Alongside this will be Shund and Cab Driver, frame by frame recreations of the trailers for Pulp Fiction and Taxi Driver, with all parts played by the artists. In this way they subject themselves to the influence of mass media, exploring the position of an individual as a passive consumer of monopolized, one way communicated media content, and materialize a common fascination with celebrities.

Helen Sharp ‘The Hero and Now’

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Helen Sharp ‘The Hero and Now’

7 May 2009 18:00 – 14 May
Helen Sharp ‘The Hero and Now’
Opening Night 7th May 6-8pm
Exhibition running 7th-14th May 2009

The Hero and Now is a major solo show of new work by Belfast-Hebridean artist Helen Sharp.

The show presents a collection of prints, video, photographs and a live radio broadcast all developed over the past three years during her time as a PhD candidate at the University of Ulster.

Sharp’s PhD subject is ‘Illusions of Autobiography in Contemporary Art’ and maintains her thesis incentive is to prove the possibility of erasing oneself through autobiography…

Sharp’s practice has its foundations in an on-going project of ‘memory-journeys’ in which she travels to locations of ‘drug, time or experience – induced hazy memory’ and documents what she finds.

The show runs in Catalyst Arts, Belfast and runs for just a week. At the artists request the show will be flanked by wine and music on either end, opening on the Thursday 7th of May and closing on Thursday 14th of May with dj sets by Sharp herself and by David Holmes.

Shambles

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Shambles

Opening: Friday 1st May 6.30 – 9 pm
Continues – Saturday 2nd May 1 – 4 pm

An exhibition of recent work by 2nd year BA (Hons) Students of Sculpture, Photo, Time and Video from the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster.

Ursula Burke: State of Grace

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Ursula Burke: State of Grace

5 March 2009 18:00 – 04 April

Special Preview Event: Thursday 5th March 6 – 8pm

5th March – 4th April

Catalyst Arts presents State of Grace, the first major solo show of 2009 showcasing new work by Belfast based artist, Ursula Burke.

For State of Grace, Burke has produced a body of sculptural and photographic work that is tactile, witty, and engages with a wide audience in a debate about the nature of ‘Irishness’ in contemporary terms. For this exhibition, Burke explores the collision of heritage and modernity in contemporary Ireland. As Irish citizens, visitors or members or the global Irish community, we share a conceptual map that allows us instant access to images of Ireland. Round Towers, Heritage sites, Celtic Crosses, Guinness, Riverdance, pastoral landscapes filled with an abundance of cows and sheep and so fourth are all routinely deployed as emblematic of an Irish experience, an Irish image. Contemporary images of Ireland, however are characterized by rising immigration levels, a floundering economy and the realization of the self, no longer through Catholicism, but through consumer choices. Ireland has become global.
In an era where Ireland is witness to a variety of racial confections and national borders are increasingly made more fluid, does this make Irish cultural characteristics and heritage seem more or less important?
Ursula Burke, born in Ireland, was educated at the University of Ulster where she is undertaking a PhD. Burke has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and Europe. She has been involved in a myriad of roles within the visual arts in Northern Ireland, including being an ex-director of Catalyst Arts.

The Performance Collective

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The Performance Collective

20 February 2009 18:00 – 26 February

Artists:
Alex Conway, Amanda Coogan, Dominic Thorpe, Francis Mezzetti, Michelle Browne and Pauline Cummins.

Friday 20th Feb         Living Installation     – 6-8pm
Saturday 21st Feb    Big Jam             – 6-8pm (at Catalyst)
Walking in the Way     – 1-2pm
(located on Church Lane between Victoria Street and High Street)
Sunday 22nd Feb     Discussion         – 3-4.30pm
Monday 23rd – Thursday 26th  Detritus of Performance and projected 11-5pm

‘Notes and Volcanoes’ Lyndsey McDougall and Hannah Casey

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‘Notes and Volcanoes’ Lyndsey McDougall and Hannah Casey

15 January 2009 19:00 – 24 January

‘Notes and Volcanoes’

Lyndsey McDougall and Hannah Casey show the accumulation of work made for their Masters in Textiles. The work includes paintings, drawings, textiles and mini sculptures. The work will be displayed until Saturday 24th of January.

Opening event Thursday 15th January at 7pm.