Exchange Places
A 4-day performance art event hosting 6 Quebec artists* and 23 locally based artists.
Wed 25th
Mark Ward start Royal Ave - Library. 1pm
Julie Bacon Ormeau Park band stand 5pm.
Will Pollard wed/thu/fri/sat - ongoing during events
Black Box, Hill Street 7pm+
Anne Seagrave
Brian Patterson
Hugh O'Donnell
Rainer Pagel
Justin McKeown
Leo Devlin
Thur 26th.
Dan Shipsides York Street bus shelter. 1pm.
Richard Martel talk in lecture theatre Art College.
1.30pm.
Black Box, Hill Street 7pm+
Richard Martel*
Julie Andree T *
Christian Messier*
Francis O'Shaughnessy*
Francis Arguin*
Annie Brunette*
Fri 28th.
Aileen Lambert Buoy Park outside UU. 1pm.
Black Box, Hill Street 7pm+
James King / Ellen Factor
Peter Richards
Birgit Hansen
Colm Clarke
Maebh McDonnell
Sinead O'Donnell
Alejandra Herrera ongoing
Mick Fortune ongoing - Black Box cafe area
Sat 28th
BX King Street 7pm+
Elina Hartzell & Mark Ward
Hilary Gilligan
Siobhan Mullen
Poppy Jackson
After party BX
As the title suggests this project is primarily about an exchange between artists living here and artists from Québec. The title comes from the address of the alleyway at the corner of Hill St where the Black Box venue for the performances is located. Also, the title contains an element or aspect of ‘other', if we can exchange place (emotionally and mentally) with the ‘other' then we become one with the ‘other' and the ‘other' ceases to exist as a distinctly separate entity.
Dates: 25 th -28 th October 2006
Locations: The Black Box 18- 22 Hill St , BT1 2LA , Belfast
And other Belfast locations tbc later (check website nearer date for details).
Black Box Performance Times: Wed –Fri , 7pm-11pm
Also, a secret location/venue for Sat 28 th Oct, also 7pm-11.30pm
Artist info: * indicates Quebecoise artist
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.
Julie Andrée T's installations and performance works have been shown in Canada, U.S., South America, Asia and Europe. She was part of PME, and experimental theater company directed by Jacob Wren. She has collaborated with various people like the group PONI, the choreographers Benoit Lachambre and Xavier Le Roy, and the film maker Dominic Gagnon. Since 2002 she meets with Black Market International. Her last projects has been shown at the FTA (Festival de Theatre des Amériques) and at the 8th Biennal of havana, Cuba. In the last year she also has been present in collaboration with Dominic Gagnon a performance series called "Silent Logitics". For Julie Andrée T. ,practicing art should be a reflection of daily life and the dark ages we are presently in. She tries to reach a place where personal identity is lost. Although this is a utopia, it might be the only way to find a common abstract language to understand what we do and who we are.
Christian Messier is a performance artist whose work follows in the rich tradition of Body Art, to which he adds his own distinctive contribution. His purposefully risk-taking actions place his body in situations in which it is pushed to the limits, limits which Messier persists in transgressing. He has performed many actions in a wide range of contexts, including performance festivals and gatherings in Québec, including ‘Jeune Performance' (2001), ‘Arts d'attitude' (2001), and ‘Rencontre internationale d'art performance' (2000,2002), as well as, more recently, events in Zagreb, Paris and Australia.
In my performances, the architecture and my gestures are put in relation with various objects that I place and relocate in a various moments. The composition of objects changes and interchanges constantly, to create a chain of meaning, thereby creating a nomadic openness in my performances to allow the viewer in. A resultant installation/ intervention of form brightens the activities by this spatial ornamentation. These placed objects become beacons command and allow a living space. I have the impression to present a theater of objects and of humans where each become, like an advertisement and a temporal alternation of their principal roles.
Since 2000, he presented performative activities on several occasions, in various cities of Québec state (Canada): Rouyn-Noranda (L'Écart… lieu d'art actuel), Québec (Université Laval, Galerie Rouje, Le Lieu, centre en art actuel), Montréal (Université du Québec à Montréal, Parc Saint-Aloysius), Rimouski (Caravansérail), Trois-Rivières (Atelier Silex) and in Boston (School of the Museum of Fine Arts), in USA. Francis Arguin persists to question human behaviors by manipulating codes and symbols in a very aesthetic way. Working with more or less restrictive systems, he's elaborating lines of actions which enable him to deliver a hybrid performance, rigorous and delirious at the same time. Through his actions, he's actively seeking to produce meaning possibilities that are not necessarily defined with precision.
Annie Brunette is an artist based in Quebec.
No performance for 26 years, just old photos of older events when the world was
still black and white under Napoleon's nose.
Rainer is a member of Bbeyond and the Director of Phab NI Inclusion Matters,
Northern Ireland's principal youth work organisation working for social
inclusion of young people with and without disabilities in our society.
In a former life he made performance art.
Anna Seagrave is an artist/perfromer. Over the last 15 years she has presented her work throughout Ireland, Europe and USA. Seagrave specialises in live art performance, video, sound and time-based practise.
Artists Statement
I hate artists statements: most of them are boring texts written in unnecessarily complex language. I do not wear the same pair of socks everyday of my life so why would I make art about the same subject or concerns everytime I make it. What misery that would be. Anyway, I'm not really an artist, I'm a SPARTIST. So pay attention and enjoy the revolution.
(For more info on spart visit: www.spartaction.com )
Artists Statement
I think everything has a mind of its own. The pigeons are artists and the lampposts have feelings. Vacuum cleaners are not just useful household objects but in their own world they are kings and we are merely pawns. I have many soft friends that work with me they are very obedient and in my world I am their leader.
In my current works I have become interested in the poetics and poetry of documentation. On the one hand the issues surrounding and feeding my work, and the on the other, the process, production and pleasure of the aesthetic “object”. In the actual working process I am interested in bringing fragments of memories together within the moment of happening or in other words exploring the dialectic of an historical self (memory), and a self always under construction
(the projection of possible selves into the future through making). Small details, a piece of some/thing, sound or movement, unspoken and only sometimes seen. My art oscillates between the enjoyment of unveiling and the mystery of concealment.
Based in Belfast, born in Denmark 1969. The foundation for Birgit Salling Hansen's work is presently texts which she transforms into performance..utilising her own or other voice(s), paint, writing/drawing materials and often playing with clothes, light and darkness. Lately an audio/video book with 8 different people from Belfast reading her poetic texts was produced.
Hugh O'Donnel has recently completed a M.F.A Masters in Fine art at the University of Ulster Belfast. He makes performance art and installations/Drawings. He has recently presented work in Quebec City and Romania. His work is of a sculptural nature and organic in its development. He is interested in objects the found object, especially buckets and chairs.
Sinead's Soldier Song
My mama told me
If I was goody
that she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My aunite told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won't by me a rubber dolly
Our positioning within the cultural map of time is the result of humanity's constant search for identity and meaning. My working practice is concerned with the poetics of being in relation to place (the present/environment) and intellectually how we have arrived here (through our past/histories), and the potentially to navigate our future/s.
My specific interest in art has evolved into the metaphysical aspects of being and the dualism that arises, between our transient ephemeral realms and different natures of our physical bodies in relation to being constant spiritual embodiments. The relationship between being and the world we experience around us, informs the world/s we live in, from the private to the community.
Art through its creative process is an integrated and alchemical transformation of the self and consciousness. It has a vital role for the well being of the individual in todays' society.
James King is an artist based in Derry.
Ellen Factor statement: October 2006 I have been involved in the arts since the 1980's using a variety of platforms including theatre,dance, improvisation,and performance poetry. The combination of art forms is of particular interest to me. Originally from the U.S., I have lived in N.Ireland for 14 years and much of my work explores sharing the experience of living in and calling my home a place I am not originally from. I'm curious to express this 'outside-inside' voice in my work.
At the moment I am working with James King on a regular basis. We improvise openly for up to two hours. The purpose of our work is to explore genuine movement,speech and sounds and relationship with our environment, ourselves, our audience, and each other.
Recent work responds to the body as a constructed site of dwelling in
examining identity in terms of movement. Questioning the instability and
authenticity of "I" as social subject/construct, interactive
performance/video works search to where the impurity of identity may become
visible through indeterminate states.
Artist Statement.
The nature of representation, and its relation to knowledge, present interesting questions about the kind of habitat we call history, identity and the contestations that may radicalise our notions of how we belong in/to that 'dwelling' place. Or put another way, essentially art may be a radical question at the heart of how we 'know' things look.
Peter richards is an artist based in Belfast since 1994, working principaly in performance and pinhole photography / documentation.
Julie Bacon has presented performances and installations, at home and overseas, since 1994, and throughout this time has played an active role in a number of artist-run centres, including Hull Time Based Arts, England, and Espace Virtuel Chicoutimi, Canada. In 2003-2004 her work was shown in sites including Full Nelson 5 Los Angeles, Coalition, Santiago/Valparaiso Chile and Bone 6 Berne Switzlerand, Grunt gallery Vancouver and OPen Space, Victoria.
She is currently based in Belfast, where she has just completed a Phd at the University of Ulster entitled: "Re-collecting the poetry and politics of archival spaces: An exploration of performance and installation art in the museum". She publishes texts about art and is currently collating an anthology of her poetry entitled 'A Signal-noise mix'.
Artist based in Belfast.
This is a burning question
compressing fleeing feel
emotional communism
exploitable suspension
attention problems
rather touching
bone shattering
rounds pierce
devastation
softened
skin
kin
in
invalid
not alone
tragic slugs
satisfied seep
snap judgments
missile deployment
individual victimised
brands off engagement
price all too reasonable...
great potential for fraudulent
claims often require huge anons
this is an unanswered cry for many
I was born in New York, raised in Rousky, living and working in Belfast.
I am an artist based in Belfast. My practice creatively and conceptually explores urban and rural environments through physical, poetic, and socially aware (I use this phrase because it's how thrash band Nuclear Assault described their music in the late 80's...) responses. I've received some awards and shown some work locally and abroad.
www.danshipsides.com
Biography
Will Pollard is an artist and writer based in Belfast . He has recently shown work at Bryant College, Rhode Island, and The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow. He was awarded an Artsadmin bursary in 2004 and in 2005 was given a bursary from the Live Art Development Agency, London, to host a series of workshops centering on the notion of risk in relation to performance practice.
Aileen Lambert's video, sound and performance art practise is concerned with the relationship which the body has with it's environment, and often represents a claiming of space. Using simple processes and interventions, she traces her body's presence on the landscape, or engages with environmental processes, as a means of expressing the body's presence in a particular place and time. Many works are concerned with a vain attempt to preserve a certain material or process.
Aileen has presented work in EV+A ( Ireland ), Castle of Imagination ( Poland ), ANTI Festival ( Finland ) and Tract ( England ), and has recently completed public art commissions in County Wexford and County Clare . A native of county Wexford , Aileen is currently studying for an MA in Visual Art Practises in Dun Laoghaire IADT.
My Grandfather was taken by the Fairies is the title of a six-channel video installation and performance which centres on recordings of the artist's mother along with a different member of his family, relating accounts concerning local folklore, people and places from a village in County Wexford. The work examines the role which stories, accounts and anecdotes play in people's lives, and how these stories both shape and express their spiritual, political and social thinking. In this work the audience is invited to familiarise themselves with the anecdotal material and to engage in a live telephone conversation, regarding the stories, with his mother in Co. Wexford.
Hilary Gilligan was born, reared, lives and works in the north-west of Ireland.
Educated in Ireland, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada and in 1997 awarded a Master's Degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast.
Art practice varies from live/performance to public, permanent / temporary, intervention, community, collaboration, installation, site-specific, photography, projection, video, audio and multimedia.
Hilary is a winner of several public art commissions and awards from the Irish Arts Council and Belfast City Council. She has exhibited, performed or lectured in Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Estonia, Canada, Australia and Japan. Since 1989, she has been lecturing at third level and voluntarily promoting the arts.
Poppy Jackson - Artists Statement
Action based work made using sticks, blood, earth, tv aerials and other substances that can combine with and transform the body. Home and embodiment are explored through painting, drawing and performances which have a restlessness and physicality, always basic, vital and unresolved.
Alejandra Herrera lives and works in Santiago, Chile. She has been
active in
performance art since 1999, presenting her work in America, Europe and
Asia.
She is co-founder of PerfoPuerto, and independent performance art
organization
in Chile, producing festivals since 2002.
Her work addresses the main issues of living as a woman in the 21st
century,
both in material and conceptual terms, often analyzing her own
relationship to
the social environment where she performs.
www.unit-0.com
www.perfopuerto.net
Alejandra Herrera
Artista Visual y de Performance
www.unit-0.com
Directora Ejecutiva, PerfoPuerto
www.perfopuerto.net
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