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Brian J Morrison Artist Talk

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Artist Talk: 4pm Thursday  Dec 6
Catalyst Arts Gallery
Free Admission

Sublimation – modification of natural expression of an instinctual impulse or desire into a personally and socially acceptable activity.

Catalyst arts presents Sublimation, a one hour lecture by Brian J Morrison exploring artists whose work has involved constructed identities as an alternate method to engage with the world.

Brian will also discuss the work he has produced for WE and his own experiences dealing with X, a constructed persona for an amateur Pro-Wrestler,

WE

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WE

WE

16 November – 7 December

WE

16 November – 7 December

Opening Thursday November 15th
7 -10pm

Featuring: Craig Cox | Kevin Gaffney | Cecilia Giménez ® | Anthony Luvera | Brian J Morrison | Artur Zmijewski

WE is a group exhibition featuring selected works by local, national and international artists that explore issues surrounding identity through various mediums.

Anthony Luvera will give an artist talk at 1pm on Friday the 17th of November. This is a free event and all are welcome.

Fata Morgana

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FATA MORGANA.

October 19 – November 09, 2012

Opening: October 18, 7pm – 9pm

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Persijn Broersen | Stuart Calvin | Phil Collins | Martin Healy | Margit Lukács | Tim Millen

What is reality and how is it defined?

Catalyst Arts presents Fata Morgana, a group show featuring selected
works by local, national and international artists engaging with
aspects of ‘reality’. The exhibition reflects on how artists question,
negotiate, examine, (de-) construct and manipulate our perception and
experience of reality by exploring the cinematic, the artificial,
fantasy and the mythical in a variety of different mediums.

Fata Morgana will include a number of artist talks and screenings in the gallery.

Saturday 20 October

2pm – 3pm

Artist talk by Dublin-based film maker and photographer Martin Healy

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8pm – 10pm.

Film Screening with popcorn

Fellini’s masterpiece, ‘8 1/2’

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Saturday 27 October

Film Screening with popcorn

Disney epic, ‘Fantasia’

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Saturday 03 November

Film Screening with popcorn

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SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION Part 2

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SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION Part 2

Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
from 9th to 21st of September
Opening 8th of September at 7pm.

In May 2012, Catalyst Arts exhibited a selection of our members work in ‘La Station’, nice.
Now the tables have turned, we are pleased to present La Stations’ selected artists here in Catalyst Arts. The 9 artists from Nice are : Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Alexandra Guillot, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Vivien Roubaud, Ugo Schiavi, Cédric Teisseire, Tatiana Wolska and Gérald Panighi

Necrospective

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Preview Opening
Thursday 9th August
6pm – 9pm

Exhibition
10th August – 31st August

Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm

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Motohiko Odani
Takeshi Murata
Thomas Johnson
Alexis Milne
Craig Fisher

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The show explores the relationship between violence and acting out. Freud’s death drive has been described by Jean Baudrillard as a “nostalgia for a state before the appearance of individuality and sexual differentiation, a state in which we lived before we became mortal and distinct from one another”. Baudrillard discusses this subconscious desire in relation to the project of science and technology, which he suggests, is driven by a quest for immortality, exemplified through cloning and cryogenics. Science and technology also have the effect of manifesting homogenous and uniform objects and experiences, which embody the formal qualities of the death drive. In this sense he suggests that the project of science is “to reconstruct a homogenous and uniformly consistent Universe.” This clone of the real world, in a technological form, embodies the formal qualities that satisfy the death drive; repetition and homogeneity.

The show will explore the relationship between Baudrillard’s notion that science and technology produce objects and experiences that embody the death drive and Freud’s notion that the death drive leads people to re-enact (act out) and repeat traumatic experiences. This relationship can be realized by viewing technology as a form of performance or acting. The resultant technological object / experience is a kind of travesty, a fake or re-enactment of nature. The works in the show will explore the new sanitised invention of the world, our technologically mediated environment, the environment in which abject and mucky nature has been eradicated. This environment is presented as a world in which the death drive is satisfied, where violence and the abject have been displaced through a technological, man made infrastructure, suggesting that, through our engagement in a technologically mediated world, we have suppressed our fear of mortality and absolved ourselves of responsibility, distorting our relationship with the origins of all our actions; “real,” unmediated nature.

∆ C U R S E D ∆

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∆CURSED∆

22nd June – 13th July
Opens Thursday 21st 7pm

Flora Moscovici, Craig Donald, Karin Hagen, Emma Boyd, Helen
McDonnell Deirdre McKenna & Miguel Martin (workshop)

An exhibition of works by contemporary painters, maybe.

∆CURSED∆ provides a platform for these artists to display works that exist on
the periphery of the medium. Their practices all challenge the formal
qualities and explore or bridge boundaries between painting and everything
else. This a painting show in the loosest possible sense.

Workshop with Miguel Martin, Saturday 23rd June 12pm – 4pm (Free of
charge)
For bookings please contact catalystarts@gmail.com

Fifteenovereight

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fifteenovereight

24th May – 7th June

fifteenovereight is a collection of works from a group of thirteen
emerging artists in Belfast. These artists work in various media
forms, from painting and drawing to film, installation, photography
and sculpture with themes such as space, light, human and industrial
expression, and atmosphere.

Whilst the painters focus on bleak urban scenes and melancholic figure
work, the sculptors use ceramics and metal, combining modern
industrial aesthetics with traditional craft. An illustrator applies
dark humour and shrewd satire, and print and film-makers explore
innovative sculptural forms and dark atmospheric environments.

The uniting vision of these thirteen artists is to visually express a
current stance on our modern economic and social climate, and to
reflect on the influences this has on both a personal and communal
level.

Steven Pollock
Marc Dunlop
Megan Gibson
Tsui
Colm Wray
Hayley Patrick
Alison Steers
Paul Murphy
Rob Hilken
Allan McKeown
Sam Megaw
Adeva McGuinness
Tomaz Andreson

Richard Forrest and Emanuel Rohss

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Catalyst Arts Belfast – The Joinery Dublin

Exchange Programme.
3rd May – 17 May

New work by Richard Forrest and Emanuel Rohss.

After the success of the first collaboration Switched in September 2010, The Joinery Dublin
will once again collaborate with Catalyst Arts Belfast to present a selection of work by two
recent graduates selected by the Joinery, from the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork
and NCAD in Dublin. This work will be re-exhibited in Catalyst Arts, providing the artists with
an opportunity to show in another gallery context and to a new audience. In March the recent
graduate works selected by Catalyst were exhibited at The Joinery in Dublin. This exchange
provides an opportunity for recent graduate artists to showcase their work to new and broader
audiences.

Richard Forrest was chosen by the Joinery as part of the 2011 graduate programme.
In his current practice Forrest explores a relationship with technology by making, hacking,
glitching and subverting assumed uses of digital media.
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Richard Forrest graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2011 with first class
honours in his studio practice. Forrest is a founding member of Sample Studios. He also works
as a gallery facilitator in the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. In 2011, he was awarded the Tyndell
Purchase prize, the CIT Registrars Prize: Research Bursary, the Ciaran Langford Memorial
Bursary Award (6 month residency at Backwater studios), the Cork Printmakers Studio Bursary
Award and the Joinery Graduate Selection Prize for his work at last year’s Crawford degree show
exhibition,

Emanuel Rohss was chosen by the Joinery as part of the 2011 graduate programme.
His work takes the dialectics of materiality and form as its point of departure. In his recent work
Rohss investigates the physical characteristics of painting and sculpture – the limitations and
potential of the mediums – as well as the relationship between objects.
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Emanuel Rohss was born in Göteborg, Sweden. He studied at Valand School of fine Art and
graduated from the National College of Art & Design with a 1st class Hons degree in Painting in
2011. He has shown work in galleries, museums and art centres in Sweden, Germany, the UK,
Ireland, China, the Czech republic and the United States. He has worked in collaboration with the
Dublin based art group MART, and the Swedish fanzine collaborative Jarko.
Rohss is currently living in London undertaking an MA in the Royal College of Art.

The Joinery is a not for profit contemporary art and project space set up in Dublin in 2008 which
has become known for its challenging and energetic programme of visual art and experimental
live music.

www.thejoinery.org

SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION / DE LA PLUIE & DU BEAU TEMPS

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SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION / DE LA PLUIE & DU BEAU TEMPS

Catalyst Arts, Nice Exchange in partnership with ”La Station”, Nice, France.

This year we are very excited to organize a new partnership with La Station as an exchange between both organisation and gallery space.

SUNSHINE & PRECIPITATION / DE LA PLUIE & DU BEAU TEMPS

12th – 19th may 2012.

Opens on 12th at 6pm/18h,

Sarah Maison & Little d Big B will perform at 8pm/20h

The show will be presented a selection of Catalyst Arts members ‘s curiosities.

La Station is an Organisation that promotes the most contemporary artistic creations through its artists’ studios and its exhibition space. The collective has occupied many different spaces since 1996 and is now situated in a disused slaughterhouse.
La Station has participated in several projects and exchanges with other organisations around France and Europe.
more information on La Station can be found at www.lastation.org or via facebook:
www.facebook.com/LaStation.nice

V I C I N I T Y

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Catalyst Arts presents VICINITY, a group exhibition investigating temporary, adaptable and transitory methods for exploring Belfast city. Artists work in an engaged manner using the mile radius of the gallery as a starting point to make new work in the gallery and at offsite locations.  Artists:

Bbeyond ‘fare’
fare utilised the transient communal site of the back of a black taxi inviting the audience to share an intimate experience with the artists as their taxi makes it way through the city.  Ten taxis queued in Squeeze Gut Alley at the galleries entrance and begun their journey at 7pm sharp.  Artists – Anne Quail, Fergus Byrne, Pavana Reid, Rainer Pagel, James King, Tina Hopp, Felipe Faundez, Chrissie Cadman, Sinead O’Donnell & Charlotte Bosanquet, Phillip McCrilly & Kim McAleese, each made live performances in the taxis

Jean-pierre Bertrand
Brussels based artist, Jean Pierre Bertrand,  travelled to Belfast to make new work for Vicinity, his hexagonal concrete blocks can be found at six locations on the outskirts of Belfast

Fiona Larkin ‘Wolfs Den’
Larkin invited participants to borrow a custom embroidered ‘Wolfs Den’ jacket from the gallery, in return she asked that participants allowed her to follow and video them.  The documentation of which was incorporated into the installation.

Shiro Masuyama ‘Legal Parking’
Masuyami has worked nomadically all over the world, recently moved out of Berlin and now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  For Vicinity Masuyami exhibited ‘Legal Parking’ for information on the project please follow the link.  Legal Parking 

Jim McCracken
McCracken is a belfast based print and street artist who created a site specific flyposted work in the gallery for Vicinity.

Seamus Nolan
Nolan created a site specific installtion ‘pantone’ within the gallery by painting the back wall a mixture of  the three colours of the Irish flag, mixed in equal quantities.

MA art in public
Students on the University of Ulster MA Art in Public course used Catalyst as a research hub and installation area where they worked on projects which engaged with the are,  using a range of media.  On the last day of Vicinity Pauline Hadaway, director of Belfast Exposed Gallery chaired a discussion on their project entitled ‘walking as research’

zones of response
zones of response developed an interactive project,  participants were invited to explore the area on foot,  then; using their mobile phones, text words they would like to see removed form the city to a designated phone number.  The words were then projected onto the gallery walls revealing a textual narrative of Belfast city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joinery Exchange part 1

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Catalyst Arts / The Joinery

Exchange Program

The Joinery

22nd – 31st March

In collaboration with The Joinery, Catalyst Arts presents a selection of work by recent graduates chosen from the University of Ulster Degree Show 2011 (Belfast), highlighting the variety of output by local emerging practitioners. Graduates chosen are Amy Brooks, Stuart Calvin and Ruaidhri Lennon.
This work will be re-exhibited in the Joinery, and provides the selected artists with an opportunity to show alongside their peers in a new, curated context.
Afterwards, the recent graduate works selected by The Joinery will be exhibited in Catalyst Arts. Through this exchange both galleries hope that the work made by artists from both cities will reach new, and broader, audiences.

Catalyst Arts was founded to support and exhibit the work of students, local, emerging and more established artists, often exhibiting them alongside international names. The organization provides a training ground for future artistic, curatorial and arts administrative talent, and is committed to providing services and opportunities for its large members’ base. As a result, the gallery continues to present cutting edge and challenging contemporary art on a modest budget, showcased in an accessible and dynamic art space in the heart of Belfast. Over the years, Catalyst has worked and collaborated with a diverse range of organisations, groups and institutions in Northern Ireland, the Republic and abroad.

The gallery is run by a board of voluntary directors, each serving for a maximum of two years, and has implemented this model since its constitution. The gallery programme is co-ordinated by the committee and consists of both budgeted and unfunded projects, including an annual student and members show. Catalysts members pay an annual fee and in return can borrow equipment, contribute to the Annual general meeting, enter calls for open submissions and exhibit in the annual members show programmed by the gallery.

Sean Lynch Solo Show

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Sean Lynch

24 February – 16 March

Opening to the public on Thursday 23 February, 7–9pm.

Catalyst Arts presents the first solo show in Belfast by Irish artist Sean Lynch, showcasing an expanded version of the artist’s ongoing DeLorean Progress Report. Based around the bankruptcy and subsequent aftermath of the DeLorean car factory, which operated in Dunmurry from 1981-2, a series of photographs trace a path taken by the artist to find the location of the tooling once used to make the body of the car. Furthering this investigation of the materiality of DeLorean, the gallery will feature ongoing work by Lynch to produce sections of a DMC-12 car by handmade rather than industrial means. New developments in the project are detailed in a free booklet accompanying the exhibition

In addition, a collection of photographs, sculptures and archival material are displayed in Catalyst’s Project Space, all collected through Lynch’s investigations into the contexts and histories of public art in Ireland.

Sean Lynch (b. 1978, Kerry. Lives and works in Berlin and Co. Limerick) has exhibited at IMMA, Dublin; Camden Arts Centre, London; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; neugerriemschneider, Berlin, and the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.  He is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.

Sean Lynch will give a talk in the gallery on Friday 24 February at 1pm. All are welcome to attend.

Sean Lynch Website

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.

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).

Switched

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Switched

Date: 2 September 2010

Adrian Duncan & Fiona Marron

Of Process

Both artists’ current work takes, as its shared root, physical, speculative and necessary human activities, which are used as tools for investigating other, less tactile, human activities and processes. These physical activities reveal a process that is used to view the less tactile processes from a different angle. Duncan and Marron share an interest in addressing the complications inherent in attempting to define such an abstract topic. In the manifestation of these ideas, metaphors are introduced that provoke thought and enquiry into our claims to knowledge.
Duncan’s work overlays everyday empirical investigative activities upon less obvious processes of measurement. His work at first illustrates the flaws in this scientific method (the problem with induction, statics, etc.), particularly when applied to dynamic systems. The work attempts to marry one method of measurement with another seemingly incomapatible system, and from this, investigating how institutional structures are formed and changed. This is done with reference to Popper’s Objective Knowledge.
In her sculpture and video installation Marron pursues her interests in the relationships between labour, knowledge and value, using the mining industry as a model. Combining appropriated text from sociologist Alvin Gouldner’s 1954 field report of an American gypsum plant and footage from the realms of production at a present-day Irish mine, Marron examines the ‘many standpoints in terms of which the raw data of factory life can be ordered and made meaningful.’ (Gouldner 1954)
Adrian Duncan studied and worked as a structural engineer in the UK and Ireland for over a decade before returning to study fine art at IADT. His practice is based in sculpture/installation, video, writing and drawing. He has exhibited at Pallas Contemporary Projects, The Joinery and The Lewis Glucksman, UCC. He is assistant editor of Paper Visual Art to which he also contributes. Fiona Marron was born in Co. Monaghan in 1987 and graduated from Fine Art at Dublin Institute of Technology last year. She has had solo exhibitions at The Joinery, Dublin (2010) & FOUR gallery, Dublin (2009). She has participated in many group shows including Reverse Pedagogy III, a residency and exhibition hosted by The Model, Sligo (2009).

Until the Light Takes Us

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Until the Light Takes Us [2008ce]

1 August 2010 18:00 –

Vinyl Reclamation

A Lughnasa reaping for Danse Macabre

Catalyst Arts, Sunday 1st August 2010ce, 6pm

Until the Light Takes Us [2008ce]

Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans worldwide.

Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of “Satanists

running amok in Europe” to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.

To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement. The result is a poignant, moving story that’s as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of what’s actually true,

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Vinyl Consummation

Vinyl Consummation documents an event held on the first of May 2010ce, celebrating the sacramental dimension of the vinyl record; a ritual rendition and subsequent immolation of Buzum’s album ‘Belus’, executed high in the hills of South Armagh.

Marking Burzum’s inaugural artwork following Varg Vikernes’ emergence from the darkness of prison, Vinyl Consummation called forth Burzum’s hymn to the God of Light Belus on the feast-day of his Celtic equivalent Belenus, in the ritual landscape of Ulster’s Mythic Heart.

Vinyl Consummation brings to light folkish and pop-cultural mythologies in a contemporary rite, blending Norwegian Black Metal and Iron-Age Ulster in a rebirth of subcultural desire.

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Event scored by Jordan Hutchings

An Ichor Inc. event in association with Catalyst Arts

Catalyst Arts, 5 College Court, Belfast, BT1 6BX.

T: 02890 313303  E: catalystarts@gmail.com  W: www.oldcatalystarts.hilken.co.uk