Bbeyond presents:
Operation Ambassadors
Bbeyond wishes to develop closer links between local and International Artists/curators. We aim to collaborate with Catalyst Arts in the promotion of performance artists based in Northern Ireland within an International context. Over the next three years, we aim to create opportunities for local artists to travel to other international centers of excellence within a developing Performance Art network.
For ‘Operation Ambassadors', we propose that four leading International performance artists/curators each visit Belfast for one week to ten days during which they will participate in discussions, performances and individual mentoring on performance art. Bbeyond will act as host and facilitator for these artist/curators by introducing local artists and their work to the curators with the aim of establishing formal links and future reciprocal international exchange projects.
Bbeyond host the following artists/curators (tbc):
Richard Martel , (Quebecoise) October 2006
Boris Nieslony , (German) tbc
We aim that ‘Operation Ambassadors' be documented with an annual publication. This is intended as an immediate benefit for all the members of Bbeyond as it will act as promotional material including work that they have generated locally and internationally. In publishing these events and artists work, Bbeyond will initiate and develop a performance art archive and database.
Operation Ambassadors - Richard Martel
October 2006
A 2 day performance art workshops taken by Richard Martel.
Location: The Black Box, 18-22 Hill St, Belfast BT1 2LA
Dates: 23 rd October, from 10.30am – 4.00pm and 24 th October, from 11.00am – 5.30pm
Richard Martel is a multi-disciplinary Quebecois artist living in Quebec City for more that 20 years. Appearing regularly at events there and internationally, he is active in many domains. His practice includes visual art, installation, performance, video, radio, writing, publishing and producing and organizing events. A founding member of Editions Intervention, Richard Martel established the review Inter, Art Actuel and is the director of Le Lieu, centre en Art Actual, where he organizes the biennial Recontres Internationale d'Art Performance de Quebec. He is very much engaged in the practice and theory of art and is interested in art as a means of experimentation and transgression, art as a poetic behavior.
Talk by Richard Martel in the University of Ulster in Belfast on Thursday 26 th October at 1.30pm in the lecture theatre. All Welcome
For further information please contact Brian Patterson at:
Bbeyond, c/o Flaxart Studios, 44-46 Corporation St, Belfast BT1 3DE. Email: beyond@europe.com , Tel: (028) 90234300, Mobile 079680 43871