Category: 2011

Featherweight Portable Museum

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Catalyst Arts presents The Featherweight Portable Museum, a joint venture between Catalyst Arts (Belfast) and Media Pyhat (Finland), bringing together an eclectic body of work made by selected UK, Irish and Finnish artists in a travelling multi-media exhibition. The first showcase of the exhibition will take place at Catalyst Arts on Thursday 1st of December, with screenings, installations and performance art running from 6pm to 9pm. The work (a combination of the independent selections made by both organisations) will travel to Finland this year.

David Callan, Aideen Doran, Nicola Godman, Laura Jarvelainson, Lisa Marie Johnson, Hyun Joo Min, Nicky Larkin, Henrik Malmstrom, Bita Razavi, Jaakko Karunen, Bennie Reilly, Dominic Thorpe

‘Digital Arts in the Gallery: New Media Showcase’

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Hourglass (2011)
Micheal Hanna

‘Digital Arts in the Gallery: New Media Showcase’

In 2003, in response to the increase in artists working with new media technology, Queen Street Studios set up a Digital Studio within their premises. With increasing demand, came an expansion of premises, the development of the programme and facilities. Then in 2008 the Digital Studios became an independent not-for-profit organisation and The Digital Arts Studios (DAS) was born. DAS promotes the convergence of art and technology and recognises the importance of providing facilities, resources and training in this rapidly advancing field. DAS continues to develop and expand, and its residency programme is now well established. The programme aims to encourage and support new and established artists in the creation of innovative, challenging and experimental new work. The programme offers four international residencies and twelve UK & Ireland residencies each year. This exhibition has provided DAS with a timely opportunity to showcase the work of some of these artists. The works on show here represent a diversity of strategy in terms of each artist’s engagement with the digital, whilst providing an exemplary demonstration of how new media technologies intersect with visual art.

Exhibiting  Artists

Michael Hanna, Ciaran Hussey, David Clark & Marina Roy, Susan Thomson, Richard Davis

‘Notice’

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‘Notice’

18 August 2011 07:00 – 08 September

Curfew Tower Residency Exhibition

19th August – 8th September
preview Thursday 18th August, 7-9pm
Artist Talk with Bill Drummond, Thursday 1st September, 7:30pm
Catalyst Arts Gallery

“The Curfew Tower is a fortified building built in the early years of the nineteenth century in Cushendall. It has five floors, one room on each floor. From the ground up: dungeon, bathroom, living room, bedroom, bedroom. There is a kitchen adjoining the back of the tower. The accommodation allows for no more than two artists in residence at any one time.“

‘NOTICE’ is a multi-disciplinary exhibition showcasing the work of the artists who took part in the Catalyst Arts curated Curfew Tower residency program of 2010.

Exhibiting Artists: Bill Drummond, Nathan Crothers, Sinead Conlon, Stephen Anderson, Anne-Marie Dillon, Aoife Desmond, Florian Hollerweger, Angela Halliday, FIELD.

(dis)playing the other

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(dis)playing the other

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

Through video, photography, drawing, painting, and installation, the work on display will offer an eclectic and dynamic representation of ‘other’ in today’s society.

Exhibiting artists:

Breda Lynch (Limerick)

Gavin Devine (Belfast)

Ins A Kromminga (Berlin)

Jenny Keane (Belfast)

Quinnford + Scout (Manchester)

There will also be a series of glorious accompanying events running alongside the show. Please email the gallery at catalystarts@gmail.com to reserve a place for any of the following:

Ins A Kromminga – Intersex Identities and Politics

Saturday 16th July 6pm Catalyst Arts

An informal lecture followed by a Q&A session with critically acclaimed international artist Ins A Kromminga, which will address a significant gap in public knowledge on the subject of Intersexuality as well as offer fascinating insights into the artist’s life and work.

(dis)playing the Other Film Night

Thursday 21st July 8pm Catalyst Arts

A selection of cinematic delights selected by artists Quinnford & Scout. Details of which will be announced nearer the time.

Breda Lynch and Jenny Keane in conversation

Wednesday 27th July 7pm Catalyst Arts

 As part of (dis)playing the Other, artists Breda Lynch and Jenny Keane will host an evening of engaging discussion, offering insights into their respective artistic practices and their work on show as part of the exhibition.

Pride Week tour of (dis)playing the Other at Catalyst Arts

Thursday 28th July 2pm

An afternoon introduction and tour of the show with Catalyst curators Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese.

Artist talk: Gavin Devine

Friday 29th July 2pm Catalyst Arts

Following on from the success of his recent degree show at the University of Ulster, Devine will be discussing his intimate portraits of an older generation of LGBTQ individuals in Northern Ireland.

Catalyst Critical Mass as part of Belfast Pride Parade

Saturday 30th July

Get your wheels out and come join the Catalyst Bike Gang as part of Ireland’s largest LGBT parade. Further details to be announced in the coming weeks.

Sterile Environment

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Sterile Environment

2nd June – 23rd June.  Preview Thursday 2nd June, 7pm-10pm

This art and architecture crossover exhibition explores the city of the past, present and future.  Local Artists explore the vitality, heritage and character of old and new Belfast. What is the city becoming? Are we protecting heritage adequately? And international artist wouder if cities are just becoming clones of one another, creating an endless high street existence…

There will be a series of events/talks/debates running throughout the duration of the exhibition to keep things interesting and hopefully answering some of the above questions. Details of which can be found below

Exhibiting Artists

Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell / Aideen Doran / Andrew Dodds

Sharone Lifschitz (speaker) / Eoin McGinn / Michael Pinsky

Keith Winter / Forum for Alternative Belfast

Events/Talks-

Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell- Builder Bowling

7pm-10pm, 2nd June, Catalyst Arts Gallery

Playfully making visible the threat of extinction of real buildings in Belfast.

Keith Winter and Forum for Alternative Belfast.

6:30pm, 9th June, Catalyst Arts Gallery

A talk based on the work shown the gallery space, relating to the constant changing face of Belfast.

Sharone Lifschitz- The Traffic Light and Monument.

6:30pm, 16th June, Catalyst Art Gallery.

Sharone Lifschitzs talk will centre on actions and projects created in cities such as London, Munich, Belfast and Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Lifschitz’s work unfolds as a progression of actions and interactions for which she is both choreographer and participant and through which the city becomes a ground for an encounter and the encounter becomes a tool for a reading of the city and creating interventions in its urban fabric. The talk traces several projects both completed and in progress.

Margaret Dragu

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Margaret Dragu aka  Verb WomanThe Adjectives

Saturday 14th May

12:00 – 1:00pm CHAIR YOGA CLASS(If you are in town this is a gentle yoga class to start your Saturday)

5:00 – 6:00pm BINGO, CROSSWORDS & TEA(With Mad Dog McKenna Bingo calling)

7:00 – 8:00pm Performance “VERB WOMAN: a discreet dictionary” with the ‘Adjectives’.

La Dragu’s performance is ‘about forgetting and disintegration, dusoyted gustiruesm conflicting eye witness accounts, Alzheimer’s memory loss; like sand slipping through an open hand…the disintegration of memory, history and technology using verbs from daily life and verbs collected from Alzheimer’s patients’…

8.00pm onwards – VERB WOMAN: mending and LIVE Eurovision Screening (BYO) Bring your droopy hems, torn shirts and clothes with missing buttons [but no blue jeans] for Verb Woman to mend for you

You can also join us LIVE from 5pm in Catalyst Arts by logging onto http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ladragu

¿@#!*$ (Comics Show)

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 ¿@#!*$ (Comic Show)

List of artists: Simone Lia / Phil Barrett / Fionnuala Dorn / Malcy Duff / Chris Ware / Travis Millard / Tom Gauld Audience numbers:

Absence Launch Party Thursday 21t April – Local artists andy Luke and Stephen Downey (Cancertown, Slaughterman’s creed) launch their latest work ‘Absence’

Secret Cinema

Comic Zine Fair 23rd April

 

Pretty Circus presents ‘Live music and Live drawing’ Sunday 1st May

Members Show, Divine Creation

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Divine Creation

Catalyst Arts’ Annual Members Show

Catalyst Arts would like to invite all members to submit work for the 2011 members exhibition, scheduled to open on 17th February and centred upon the notion of ‘Divine Creation’.

Each member is eligible to submit one piece of work in any medium, but we would ask that members take into consideration the large amount of submissions annually received, all to be displayed in the gallery, and to tailor the scale of the work accordingly.

Annual membership for 2011 is £20 waged / £10 unwaged, and new members may pay this when submitting their work or through Paypal on our website (www.oldcatalystarts.hilken.co.uk).

Deadline for submission: 5p.m. Thursday 10th February.

Work may be submitted in person from 8th-10th February from 11am-5pm or via post or email (catalystarts@gmail.com).