APPROACH

Approach is a Project which is part of the “I Confess” Season” of Art Research Activity. In it Bbeyond have invited six artists whose performance practice has an affinity with discourses of place, location and site, to visit during a period of 1st. – 13th. December 2006. The artists are invited to make short visits (between 3 and 7 days) to Belfast for a “gathering” and an initial personal investigation into the local contemporary context of Belfast and its surrounding areas. “How can an artists’ approach in practice test and examine the physical and conceptual perimeters of space in relation to the individual, social or political In what ways could an artists’ approach offer unique and new forms of “thinking”, research and knowledge to issues within art in context and location.” The starting point for the project is open-ended with the view that potential artworks, outcomes, presentations will evolve or be generated from their Approach in the present or in the future. The form of Approach is to enable a contextualized experience of place and to inter-relate that experience through practice with the fabric and textures of people and locations here. Artists and dates: Marilyn Arsem 7 – 12 Dec Paul Couillard 4 – 10 Dec Roddy Hunter 22 – 28 Nov and 7 – 10 Dec Kevin Henderson 6 – 10 Dec Boris Nieslony 7 – 13 Dec Maurice O Connell 5 – 8 Dec There will be a presentation “round table” session as part of I confess season at the Switch Room on the 8th Dec 12 – 4pm and spontaneous events developed throughout the artists’ visits. This page will be updated as Approaches manifest. Approach is a Bbeyond project in association with the Interface “I Confess” season of performative events and supported by the University of Ulster. www.bbeyondperformance.org