Rachel Whiteread: Ghost (Cv/Visual Arts Research Book 126)

Rachel Whiteread: Ghost: Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 126 (Unabridged)

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Catalyst presents a new call out that focuses on the world of sound art.

This is an opportunity to have your sounds presented and heard in new contexts and by new audiences. Each successfully submitted work: The submitter will choose to diffuse or simply play their work on the Channel system that the Sonic Laboratory offers. Being a member is a great way to support Catalyst and have access to exclusive membership opportunities throughout the year. Join by donating to Catalyst on our website: She lives and works in Peckham. Recent exhibitions include a range of solo and group exhibitions including: Repetitive Strain , multi-channel video with stereo sound, Thinkpads.

Catalyst Arts has been one of the most important and innovative artist-led spaces for contemporary art in Belfast since it began in The driving force behind the organisation has always been the determined and enthusiastic committee of directors who have worked over the years to ensure the gallery remains at the forefront of the visual art scene in Northern Ireland — improving, producing and promoting art and culture and the advancement of education and training in the arts.

Catalyst Arts directorship programme has a local and international reputation of providing a unique training ground for artistic, curatorial and cultural production. Applicants who are seeking to advance their experience within an artist-led model of gallery programming and operations are encouraged, with successful candidates gaining valuable skills in installation, production, funding applications, commissioning, outreach, education, archiving and administration work.

Although previous experience in all areas is not essential, interested candidates are encouraged to review and consider the director criteria when making their applications. The role of co-director is a voluntary position carried out over a two years, on a rolling basis. To apply for this position please download the Co-Director Application Form. Curated by Catalyst Arts, Belfast. The passing body of the spectator is dissolved into the darkened space, witness and participant in conversation between objects. Technologies quietly murmur to one another, a disembodied eye floats over coasts familiar and foreign, screens appear to dream and silent light makes its presence heard.

The title Between us and suggests an incomplete thought, inviting the viewer to reimagine the connection between eye and image, space and sound, object and person. The opening event will take place on Friday 15th June , 7 — 10PM. Helena Hamilton is a Belfast based artist. Helena is represented by The Agency Gallery, London. Recent solo exhibitions include: Recent artist residencies include: Kate Fahey works across the boundaries of various mediums including moving images, sound, stills, sculpture, and installation, her practice explores our relationship with images through contemporary screen based perspectives, aerial, satellite and elevated drones eye views, particularly through the technological hard and softwares of encounter.

Interzone brings together a group of internationally prominent and emergent artists whose approaches to their individual art practices embrace sound, installation and visual components. The project is a six week conversation, the gallery re-imagined as liminal land between borders, playing host to a sustained exploration of the multi-faceted, complex, mutually invigorating relationships possible across visual and sonic art practices and rejecting outmoded separation between disciplines within contemporary art.

Codes, glitches and loops permeate the assembled constituents of the exhibition, instigating a shifting inter-connection between what is seen and heard. Interzone will be complemented by a series of live Sonic Art performances on the opening night and to coincide with June and July Late Night Art Belfast. His practice involves working with traditional and modern tools. The work usually includes delivering DIY electronics, audio technology and motion graphics workshops, interactive AV installation works, performance DJing, VJing and live instrumentation and creative technical support.

Performance projects use a mix of: Born in Enniskillen in , Jonny McEwen began painting in and first exhibited in In McEwen completed his Masters in fine Art at the University of Ulster, where his work developed to include a digital practice using Video and computer code. His new work includes painting and digital installation, with aesthetics crossing over between the digital and analogue works. Her recent work has combined traditional music with bronze sculpture, sound art and movement sensors.

Her research examines the intersections between Irish traditional music, experimental music practices, improvisation and interactive technologies. He also worked for mastering and archiving studio, Ideal Mastering. Saul has experimented with extending his sounds in both performance and recording, with computer environments, Supercollider and Pure Data.

In recent years, he has been building hardware, in the form of a Eurorack systems. This exploration has involved the extension and adaptation of drums with the use of contact mics and addition of material through the drum membrane and various developments in the ways to excite the drums, using drums as both a sound and control source.

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During this time, his use of improvisation has impacted greatly on his composition and performance work. Saul is a lecturer at South Eastern Regional College where he teaches music performance and production. Susannah Stark graduated from Grays School of Art in Aberdeen and Royal College of Art in London where she studied printmaking, and primarily works with music, voice, sound and print-based installation. This work was then shown as a solo presentation Searchlights at bb15, Linz, Austria The various works explore concepts ranging from politics and belief systems to notions of identity and belonging, and express a contemporary view of current affairs through media such as installation, drawing, video and sound.

The artists focus on bringing together their individual practices in a collaborative setting to reflect on their work to date, as well as their potential for the future. Regret is a way of relating to objects and actions of the past, connecting our desires and wills to what we do and what we make. E ven without meaning, a retroactive wish might carry something — the ghost of an intention, a persistent illusion. Catalyst members are all invited to show a piece of work in any medium — work that they have made recently, that they have willed into existence, suspending or embracing the possibility of retroactive wishes.

To take part applicants must be a members of Catalyst Arts. To find out more about membership visit http: Due to the large amount of submissions annually received applicants must consider the following specifications: Please provide your name, title, medium and date included with your work. All work must be collected on these days.

How we interpret numbers depends on our perception. Saturday 10th March 3 — 5pm. The work has been selected from a varied pool of emerging practitioners connected to Catalyst, Seamus and Belfast. LUX works with a large number of major institutions including museums, galleries, festivals and educational establishments, as well as directly with the public and artists. Screenings and exhibitions include: He is the winner of the Film London Jarman Award These systems contain political and aesthetic implications that address the subjectivity of popular visual formats and enable reflection of our contemporary relationship with images.

The works of these artists probe the overlap, slippage and disconnect between reality and representation. They recycle souls using triangles inscribed on their arms as a tripartite that leads to creative action. Marl Jackson and Alllan Hughes, paranormal investigators from the s cast in an Anthony Gormley studio. They have wings instead of arms like the Angel of the North but their bodies are small, like miniatures, and they have phocomelia: Gail Pickering works with moving image, performance and installation.

A key aspect is her use of historical material as staged through voice, mimicry and through the various accomplices and protagonists with whom she has collaborated in her videos and performances. The tension between the moving image and live presence offers an instability that recurs throughout her work in a desire to position it and us within a temporal and spatial present. Pickering graduated with an MFA from Goldsmiths in Nikki Katrina Carroll b. Artistically they collaborate through their third identity, Jawbone Jawbone. As habitual re-users of imagery they aim to generate visual motifs that appear in various mediums and forms.

Expanding from a simplistic image or conventional belief, they channel a daydream-like aesthetic to influence their decision making. Through this approach their multidisciplinary works become elements attempting to understand 3D life; whilst playfully reflecting on common sense. MFA Belfast present the hard core, soft centred, minimalist, maximalist, critical, complimentary, painterly, pixelated, gendered, genderless, placed, displaced, decadent, sparse, remembered, forgotten, historic and imaginary through a constellation of concepts, conceived as image, object and video. This raucous, rip roaring appraisal of the possibilities within contemporary art examines the development of highly individual artistic practices within collaborative studio and gallery environments.

We want to have the broadest range of opinions possible and so would greatly appreciate your attendance. This event is for Catalyst Arts members only. Matters arising from the minutes. Presentation of annual report Chair. Presentation of accounts Treasurer.

To confirm your attendance, or for any other information, email catalystarts gmail. There will be some refreshments provided. The Hours Courses were an educational experiment implemented in Italy beginning in , available to factory workers and farmers initially, and expanded to include women a couple of years later. The courses sought to help workers reflect not only upon their working conditions but also on their lives.

Scuola Senza Fine literally School without end shows how the experiment extended into the lives of women taking the course, most of whom were housewives. Walk-Through explores the site, design and philosophy of the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, as a starting point for posing wider questions about contemporary pedagogical models and their relationship to new forms of social, political and economic exchange that have emerged since the s.

On one level we are presented with a tour of the CalArts campus, analysing the history of the building and the origins of its democratic ethos. A studied voiceover articulates the rhetoric of CalArts founding mission which, when read through the current moment, pinpoints an early form of cultural capital. Slowly the tour starts to shift to a second series of vignettes in which students gather in a classroom to attend a fictional recreation of Michael Ashers Post-Studio class.

Whispered lines are fed to the principal speakers, and first person speech is interrupted with the reading of bureaucratic documents, detailing the literal financial and infrastructural underpinnings of the institution. As the discussion progresses we begin to understand that what is being staged is an exercise in assessing the parameters of the institutions legitimacy and the legitimacy of the class as a space within which to speak, as well as individual speech itself as a principal tool of democracy.

She has been making independent feminist films since the late s, in the context of a the feminist movement in that happened in Italy in the same years. Much of her filmmaking is collaborative. She began her career in the context of a larger feminist movement in Italy of the In she realized Scuola senza fine School without End , where she film a group of amateur women involved in the education project Hours.

In , Monti made a documentary called Filo a catena about the conditions of female textile workers. Tickets for both events are free, however space is limited — Book here.

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The last two decades have seen the flourishing of reflections and projects related to forms of education alternative to the academia. The fast and apparently inescapable implementation of the Bologna Agreement fuelled the urgency to think about strategies for the survival of the production of knowledge under the conditions of its standardisation, corporatisation and general flattening on quantifiable standards.

In which terms can it still be relevant to talk about alternative education in the arts? What are the most long-lived arguments and concepts emerged in recent years, and how can they be inhabited to evolve our strategic behaviour in the future? She will be the curator of the main project of Moscow Biennale for Young Art in and she completed the curatorial programme by De Appel, Amsterdam, in She writes for contemporary art and culture journals and her latest projects include: We look forward to working with him over the next two years. His research concerns the borders, bridges and practices of experimental electronic music.

In regards to his practice, it consists of composition, sound art and design that explores the concepts of genre deconstruction and sonic history. This work has been presented in concert halls, clubs, galleries, specialist-acoustic spaces, theatres, fashion shows, and contemporary music festivals. Applications should be submitted by email to. If successful, candidates will be notified by the 9th January to attend an interview on 30th January. Successful candidates would be starting a trial period of one month between February and March Please feel free to email or call us with any queries at catalystarts gmail.

Perhaps By Fate, Perhaps By Choice is an ongoing project that brings together photographs, family archive material, printmaking and drawing. During this talk, Cecilia will present her research about this body of work and its development during the last couple of years. Hot infusion will be prepared for the participants. Reproducing the inverse process of printmaking through the dissolution of monochromes in water, the artist-in-residence Cecilia will experiment along with our little participants with different materials, pigments and colours.

The workshop is for children of all ages and parents are welcome to take part as well. Come to the gallery between 3 and 5pm and stay as long as you like. Cecilia Borettaz is an artist based in Brussels. Tickets are free, however space is limited — Book here. How do we prepare ourselves for an unknown future?

What if we spend two days preparing for something that is unknown and that never comes? In concrete terms there are four three-hour sessions. In each we will spend some time following preparations and then devising preparations for the next session. We will document each of these as we go in writing and photographs and make a manual.

You can come for some or all of the sessions. The more you attend the more interesting I think it will be.

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Something mundane, something fun, something scary, something unlikely, something impossible. A dance class, a night out, a speech, a meal, a performance, a fight, a retirement, a birth, a metamorphosis, an exam, a death. Bring any essential materials. Any questions about the workshop contact Hamish hamishmacpherson. Hamish MacPherson is a London-based artist who uses ideas and methods from choreography and dance to think about politics.

He makes workshops, non-digital games, performances, writings, images and other things in dance, visual arts, academic and community contexts. We Build a Framework is a project which requires collaboration. The basic tasks necessary for the work are maintaining the fire and rebuilding the structure. The workshop on Saturday the 11th will be part action and part discussion.

Starting with a discussion and open critique of the work the participants will then decide on the new arrangement for the framework and work together to reassemble it. For sustenance there will be warm vegetable broth and toast. Andreas Kindler von Knobloch is a visual artist based in Dublin. He works solo and collaboratively with a focus on ideas of collectivity and participation through the creation of structures, objects and spaces that question our material and social relations. Redmond Entwistle Adriana Monti.

Black Mountain is a six-week project that uses the gallery space as a platform to bring together artists, researchers, curators and the general public. The title refers to Black Mountain College, one of the most well known experimental art schools of post-war America, based in a remote area of North Carolina. The faculty of professors were all highly regarded practitioners in the fields of art, music and architecture such as Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller and John Cage among others.

In this framework, is it possible to turn a gallery space into a living, metamorphic exhibition that allows artistic processes to be visible and open to changes and engagement? What can we learn from a collective experience of sharing knowledge? In our current environment of instability, inequality and misrecognition of the role of the arts, education and critical thinking — this project aims to be a starting point for a further reflection about the importance of artists initiatives and their impact in the local community.

Overturning the notion of the traditional exhibition, invited collaborators will work in Catalyst Arts using this period as a micro-residency, developing site-specific commissions that will generate a series of publicly engaged workshops, talks and screenings.

Download the full public programme here. Andreas Kindler Von Knobloch will be the first to take residency in the space. Andreas is a Dublin-based artist whose practice embraces collectivity and participation through the creation of structures, objects and spaces that question material and social relations. Though a public, hands-on-event Andreas will explain and demonstrate with the participants the working principles of the structure and its potentials combinations. Cecilia Borettaz is an artist based in Brussel working with painting, printmaking, installation and storytelling.

The studio is meant to be a place of exchange for the audience, who are invited to take part in the artistic process.

Lucrezia is an independent curator and co-founder of the research-driven, non-profit space CLOG, based in Turin, Italy. Her current focus of research is the recent overflow of alternative education systems in visual arts, questioning its relevance and meaning in the contemporary art context. Through a series of public discussions, screenings and collective readings Lucrezia will deepen and expand the themes of attention, anarchist epistemology, metanoia, speculative poetics, and fugitive studies.

The Student and Recent Graduate Show is a showcase of the very best of work from UK and Ireland based graduates and final year students. This year four of our recent graduates will be performing as part of the FIX17 programme on Friday 6th October from pm. Fix is an internationally renowned and distinctly Belfast biennial, established by Catalyst Arts in The legacy of Fix has been to create opportunities locally for emerging and established practitioners, providing work for artists, photographers, videographers, writers, curators and arts administrators.

In different ways each artist and film-maker explores the transformation and mis interpretations of domestic routines, objects, images and narratives, translated whilst simultaneously subverting their symbolic meaning and reconfiguring female representation. Her video-performances and multimedia installations deal with ideas around radical feminism, media culture, anarchism and the occult. However, the great majority of people have been tricked into believing in the efficacy of imprisonment, even though the historical record clearly demonstrates that prisons do not work.

Kevin Doyle on his childrens book with a radical message. Based on the very real campaign for public access to the Old Head of Kinsale. History, Memory and the Moral Economy of Loyalty;.

And what impact did class politics, labour and antisectarianism have on the regime constructed in the province? Our panel looks at the anti- and non parliamentary alternative offered by syndicalism. Panel with Jason Brannigan Organise! Apply for membership here: Dancing on Borrowed Ground reclaims a little bit of land for those who seek to resist the dogma and dictats of hegemonic orders. It asserts a love of plurality and disavowal of the hubristic cruelty of normative non-think, seeking freedom in solidarity and respect. The exhibition celebrates a bridging of the theoretical divide between self-creation and communal harmony by producing a site for radical discourse and contemplation.

Their work — performative, documentary, academic and activist — illuminating contemporary political practice and rendering the world anew by fostering unity through dialogue and spurring on transformation through positive action. Catalyst Arts will also host the 10th Belfast Anarchist Bookfair, organised by the Just Books Solidarity Centre , encouraging visitors to cast off the pernicious shackles of repressive regimes by liberating their critical consciousness in this celebratory gathering of activists.

She co-leads a sex re-education research project called Bedfellows with Phoebe Davies and Jenny Moore and works with groups of people to respond to what the hell is going on. Miner is also adjunct curator of Indigenous art at the MSU Museum and a founding member of the Justseeds artists collective. He has published approximately sixty journal articles, book chapters, critical essays, and encyclopedia entries. Miner is currently completing a book on Indigenous Aesthetics: Her interests focus on the ways in which technologies from plant breeding techniques, to hand-drawn maps produce patterns in our experiences and behaviours.

William Raban is an artist filmmaker who has exhibited worldwide in both art and film contexts. New media have radically democratized the distribution of information, but at the expense of traditional media gatekeeping and consensus. This new chaos opens up some frightening possibilities; for instance, isolated people with racist and authoritarian views can now unite in an online community and acquire confidence and strength in numbers.

If you have old work, new work, work-in-progress or anything that is ready for a public moment we would like to see it! After the screening programme there will be an opportunity to discuss your work with other members and Catalyst Co-Directors. Each member is eligible to submit one proposal in MP4 format.

If your proposal meets the terms and conditions below it will be included in the event. Files must be in MP4 format. Works must be a maximum of 6 minutes long. Please send works via WeTransfer to catalystarts gmail. A short description of the work max words could also be included. Apply for membership here. The Radical Film Archive started when founder, Michael Dunn , was given a hard-drive that was supposed to be thrown out. Instead of disposing of it he decided to use it as the basis of a self-educational resource.

Dunn holds events for people to discuss what they think should be in or out of the archive, gives access to the films and encourages screenings. In the recent past, more time has been devoted to ideas around militant curation, that is to say, getting ideas to the places where they are most useful, with screenings happening in the camps in Calais, Ventimiglia and Belgrade. By creating this archive together, all have the chance to share in preserving rare and under-told stories that could be easily lost.

These films alongside the full archive is available to browse, watch and download in our resource room for the duration of the exhibition. If successful, candidates will be notified by the 2nd of August to attend an interview on 9th of August. Successful candidates would be starting trial period of one month between the second half of August to the end of October.

The project considers the physicality of the screen and materiality of video formats as a framing device for autobiographical content, brought into focus as a measure and mediation of subjectivity, with the potential for generating alternative representations and a shared cultural, collective memory. Irish artist Vivienne Dick b. Donegal, is an internationally-celebrated film-maker and artist. Dick returned to Ireland in , where she was a member of The London Filmmakers Co-op for many years and produced a number of films in 16mm, and in video.

Dublin, is an Irish artist currently based in Berlin. His work incorporates moving image, installation, text, sculpture and performance, It looks to biological inheritances, personal anxieties, afflictions and affiliations as proposals for alternate forms of intimacy, renewal and collapse within the pre-ordained hierarchies that we occupy. She is the author of TV Museum: She is currently researching the relationship between infrastructural change and contemporary art. Thursday 01 June pm. This exhibition is the culmination of a research and development period for both artists with new lens based works presented in the gallery.

In his practice Belfast based artist Ryan Moffett explores the topics of representation, authenticity and fiction. After finishing a photographic project in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Catalyst Arts approached Moffett to propose undertaking a residency with an organisation that does not offer residency programmes. For the residency Moffett wanted to develop a photographic process inspired by the dioramas he had studied in New York. In order to do this he required free access to a large, wild estate where he could photograph landscapes and collect material, as well as access to a space to set up a photographic studio on site.

After exploring several avenues we discovered Benburb Priory, currently a priory and conference centre run by the Servite Order, which proved ideal and very accommodating, and we would like to warmly thank the staff at Benburb Priory for being such hospitable and enthusiastic hosts. This beautiful, rambling estate is populated by an unusual array of characters, spaces and animals: This output from the residency Artist Abroad marks the beginning of a process which was developed in Benburb.

The work is composed using photographs and materials collected from the landscape, and the visual approach collages both document and imagination. Bettelheim theorised that not only were neurological conditions such as autism were caused by inattentive, uncaring parents Refrigerator Moms but also that the unique sensory and affective characteristics of autism-spectrum disorders could be cured with Freudian psychoanalytic techniques, a theory that caused untold damage to the lives of autistic children and their families.

Bettelheim attempts to coax the little boy out of his fantasy by reinvigorating his empathetic responses to the world of humans. This highly problematic case study becomes a point from which to explore the uncanny, unsettling — yet also potentially emancipatory — new possibilities for mind and body in a world of vibrant matter. Officially the unofficial representation for Northern Ireland in Venice. Imagine a bit-piece, post-openings carousel orgy of soul purification, where the languid beauty of serra lawn is caressed by the savage melodies of a distant shore. The event is hosted by Microclima and supported by the British Council.

Shipsides and Beggs Projects ; Dan Shipsides based Belfast and Neal Beggs based Nantes are individual artists who have worked together on regular basis since — sharing a love of art, mountains, music and creative madness. Ireland lives and works in London. His recent exhibitions include: Without testing new ideas we run the chance of getting too comfortable and of missing that which could possibly lead to a more creative outcome. Each member is eligible to submit one proposal of work in any medium that you feel tests and explores the boundaries of your practice.

Due to the large amount of submission annually received applicants must consider the following specifications:. Maximum dimensions for canvas and photographic prints are 2. Sculptures and installations must be no larger than 3 meters cubed. If you wish to submit a video work all technical equipment must be provided. The submitted work must be delivered or posted to the gallery on the 2nd and 3rd of May between 11am — 5pm. Dates for de-install and the collection of work are the 12th and 13th of May between 11am — 5pm.

Catalyst Arts is proud to present Re: Nouveau , the end of year exhibition by 2nd year Lens and Sculpture students of the Belfast School of Art. The exhibition opens this Thursday the 27th of April from 6 to 9pm, and will be available to view from 11am to 5pm on Friday the 28th and Saturday the 29th. Students will present a professional body of work reflecting understanding and knowledge of contemporary art practice within sculpture , video, photography, installation and performance. The Exhibition will run for two days only, therefore we are hoping to see you at the opening night supporting and celebrating this emerging new talent in the heart of Belfast.

Flatpack Film Festival website: For this iteration artist Chloe Cooper will be riffing off the themes in our current exhibition As the Story was Told. Catalyst Arts is pleased to present As the story was told , which commences on the 9th of March and runs for a period of three weeks. The text is concerned with the nature of the creative act, the struggle between the dissociation of storytelling, the split within the creative artist as embodied in the narration and the difficulty of uniting these two dwellings.

In contrast to this, other more precise and nuanced strategies are employed, building to an overall sense of embraced incoherence. Throughout the month of March, Catalyst Arts will host a Screening Room Series which will present a one day programme of curated screenings by Artist Moving Image Northern Ireland in response to themes within the exhibition.

Each of the artists involved in the exhibition have practices which oscillate between the self and the collective, individual practices and artist-led initiatives. This duality, transition and exchange between positions has the potential to carve out a space in which to cultivate collaboration, test methods of sustainability and generate a radical collective consciousness.

In she co-founded Neoterismoi Toumazou Neo Toum , an artist-led space and a collective in Nicosia. Editions based in Nicosia and New York. Glasgow-based Adam Lewis-Jacob primarily works in video, animation and installation. Through the development of collaborative methodologies, Lewis-Jacob sets up situations of shared authorship and an exploration of filmmaking as a space for relinquishing total control; incorporating traces of process and performance, amidst a surplus of objects, information and images.

He is the co-founder of the artist run exhibition space Celine and a current committee member at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow. Investigating new models of art education within the existing primary school curriculum this partnership aimed to empower students to use new skills and knowledge to co-develop, organise and maintain their own collective studio. Over two months, students were introduced to aspects of best practice in material fabrication, object-making as a collaborative process and studio design through the guidance of a diverse range of artists.

Emphasising the importance of involving students throughout the decision making and production process. Inviting contemporary practitioners to explore new ways of working with the community and education sector, through a sustained relationship this programme aimed to support a school to instigate creativity and allow that creativity to take form in ways that are authentic to the school.

Through planting, budgeting, sourcing materials to casting concrete this collaborative workshop practice became a creative platform for the group and opened up the possibility for off-site production where experimentation from these studio labs will be displayed. Strongly linked to Conceptual and post-Conceptual discourse, Liliane Puthod is a multidisciplinary artist who works in the field of installation, sculpture and digital media.

Her work leads to surprising connections between commodity, production and organism. Andreas Kindler Von Knobloch is a pragmatic utopian. His multidisciplinary practice is focused on ideas of collectivity and participation through the creation of structures and situations that question our material and social relations.

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That time of year has come around again where Catalyst Arts asks you to come and have your say at the Catalyst Arts Annual General Meeting. In order to gain the broadest range of opinions on all matters under discussion, we would request and very much appreciate your attendance at this event. This event is for members only. Forms of Resistance explores and calls into question the idea of resistance, meant as a reaction against different established powers driven by artists, collectives or even a whole community. In this open playground, these various approaches coexist and overlap into a fluid itinerary that will expand over the course of the exhibition through various talks and discussions with the artists involved.

Opening 6PM, Thursday 1st December. The trickster is a mythological entity or archetype, indicative of absurd or destabilising re-evaluations of perception and its limitations. The work of both artists explore ideas of rearranging perceptual modes to break down and ultimately reassemble conceptions of self and objective reality respectively. Thank you to all the Catalyst members who applied. Aideen Doran is a visual artist working across moving image, installation and writing. Aideen has exhibited across the UK, Europe and further afield.

Opens Thursday 3rd November pm. Exhibition continues until Wednesday 23 November. John Wild will be performing at 7. We continually feed into and are moulded by an interminable flux of co-creative relationships and cycles, reflexive actors who fall in and out of sync with innumerable collectives and circumstances. How we perceive these complex ecologies and the meanings we derive from what we do within them, frames our worldview, subtly affecting how we are subsumed by social fields and evolutionary flows. In this time of accelerating change and spiritual transformation can we come to terms with our uncertain predicament?

How to navigate the indescribable, manifold environments in which we are embedded? Catalyst Arts is pleased to present a group show of recent work from locally-based artists in conjunction with Belfast Open Studios, Catalyst Arts is seeking proposals for its gallery programme to be exhibited from the 1st to the 17th of December This opportunity is open to artists, collectives and cultural producers to propose a project for the gallery space.

Catalyst Arts will also cover publicity costs for the promotion of the project. There is no theme for this selection and experimental and alternative forms of contemporary art practice are encouraged, however we cannot accept submissions for solo shows through this call. Proposals may be submitted in any of the following formats: We encourage applicants to visit the gallery space to get a sense of what is possible and for those who are not able to travel to Belfast, our gallery specifications are available on our website at http: Exhibition dates in Belfast will be between 1st to 17th December Gallery opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday 11am — 5pm each week, invigilated by the committee.

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Applicants must submit and email to catalystarts gmail. Catalyst Arts is seeking proposals for a new artist moving image commission that will be launched as part of 11th Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham Experimental and ambitious projects as well as alternative visions about contemporary moving images are encouraged. The final work should be a single-channel video of under 20 minutes in length, and must be completed by 1st March Flatpack is a film festival which takes over venues across Birmingham every spring. Since , the festival has been exploring the territory where film bumps up against other artforms.

This commission is the first collaboration between Catalyst Arts and Flatpack Projects. Catalyst Arts would like to invite all members to submit proposals of work for exhibition in the gallery. The exhibition will take place on 1st — 17th Dec. All submissions by email to catalystarts gmail. Catalyst Arts is looking for proposals for a new artist moving image commission that will be launched as part of 11th Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham Applications can be accepted from Catalyst Arts members only. The driving force behind the organisation has always been the dedicated committee of directors who have worked tirelessly over the years to ensure the gallery remains at the forefront of the visual art scene in Northern Ireland.

The role of co-director is a part-time, voluntary position carried out over two years, on a rolling structure. Flexible working hours, including evenings and weekend will be required. Please note we can only consider fully completed application forms in word or pdf format. This project is driven by the act of witness and the encounter in contested spaces whether municipal or ideological. It looks at how artists approach research and the dissemination of thought and how the knowledge structures they access, personally, politically and philosophically are forming a channel for public practice.

A series of multi-format texts form the basis of this project, examining the instrumentalisation of modes of broadcast and publishing, how narratives are constructed within contemporary communication and education systems and how these narratives may be authored by artists. Thursday 1st September 6: Wednesday 31st August 7: It aims to look at the relationships between subjectivity and authoritarian politics in critical, theoretical and literary writing. Faced with authority, subjectivity is at stake.

Michel Foucault described subjectivity like the atom — the most basic form of matter we can access — as a three-tiered structure. Subjectivity that categorises, distributes and manipulates; subjectivity through which we have come to understand ourselves scientifically, and subjectivity that forms ourselves as meaning. The aim of the reading group is to look at structural, theoretic and poetic thinking around the appeal of authoritarianism and its mechanisms of disguise and deploy, and specifically its relationship to subjectivity and subjectivisation.

This group is open to all interested and you can email catalystarts gmail. Reading material for wednesday sessions can be found below:. Minima Moralia; Reflections from Damaged Life. New Left Books, The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh University Press, He slit my tongue into ribbons. My head is hanging off the table, blood falling on the floor. I could be dead because I feel nothing but this happened before. Minutes without pain until it surged back through me like a river.

Eyes full of water. A blurred insect slips out from behind a table leg and begins to feed on the pooling blood. The ongoing destabilisation of institutional power structures globally has given rise to a more acute attempt to enforce social hierarchy and meritocracy socially, politically and economically. Yet traditional methods of exerting social dominance have become ineffective at maintaining stability in the current age of personal broadcast and visual agency.

Increasingly, previously under-represented groups are affecting these narratives and gaining agency on their own representation in media through the proliferation of digital, visual footage, frequently charged with a dominant narrative of personal perception rather than that of an objective document of observation. Artists have been drawn into the vacuum by gravitational force and are controlling the distribution of capabilities and the exercise of influence disseminating thought and action through new channels as the voice of authority.

The gallery becomes a public square where thinking may be felt, a station for subjectivity, disembodied voices and notions of the unseen, a platform for hidden acts to be received by a new audience and a space for thought. This project is kindly supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland. We are very much looking forward to working with Rebecca and wish her every future success. The exhibition is open to submissions from all current undergraduate and postgraduate students. For this first instalment of a series of peripatetic performances we have invited Daniel Jewesbury to take us out and about in south Belfast.

Proofing for possibilities of fitted cooperation an expanded utility for public archival actions was drafted. Unfolding a progressively combined approach to building regulations and sculpture while upholding the poise and warm precision of the unqualified handyman, a skilfully manufactured architectural intervention is presented. A structural elixir it reflects how it is we approach cached information and the objects we associate with it. Williams works with philosophically engaged objects, dialogues and texts. This work has being kindly made possible through the support of The Elephant Trust.

The project has been made possible through the support of Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council and the generous collaboration of the staff at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium. Come join us for some retina-rattling audio-visual experiences. The Catalyst Walks programme aims to offer the very best of contemporary art on the move, getting our audiences out in the open for a bit of fresh air and self-care. So, if you are feeling the worse for wear or just in need of some perambulatory entertainment, come along and experience a stimulating stroll.

Please book a place using Eventbrite here or phone us at Catalyst Arts is pleased to continue to provide opportunities for students, facilitating new and emerging artists and maintaining its relationship with Fine Arts universities. Sephour is an anagram of Orpheus. We now welcome everyone to view an exhibition of our current work. Always fascinated by the alchemical moment in which stone turns into gold, our aim is to present a whole exhibition compiled of unfinished artworks: In short, take the raw from your dusty studio and bring it here.

On 14th April all exhibiting artists will be invited for an open dialogue within the gallery, in order to present, discuss and explore the possibilities and metamorphosis of their raw works. For more information on our membership see here: Each member is eligible to submit one piece of unfinished work in any medium. This must be brought or posted to the gallery. If posted, each artist has to cover shipping costs, included the expenses to post the work back. Because of the large amount of submissions annually received, the applicants must consider the following specifications: If you wish to show a video, you must provide all the technical equipment required.

The drop-off for install will take place on the 5th and 6th of April, 11am- 5pm, and the 7th of April, 11am-3pm. We will be unable to accept works outside of these times. The dates for de-install are the 14th of April, after 5pm, and the 15th and 16th of April, 11am-5pm. All work must be collected on those days. If you have any questions or queries please send an e-mail to catalystarts gmail.

The event will be pocketed within Barewoods, a longstanding architectural salvage company, secluded within the historic Smithfield and Union. A percept is the mental product of perceiving. The composition will attempt to represent this cognitive experience through a live sampling of live music. Only a distorted and subjective reading of the separated relationships in the room is initially filtered and finally relayed back to the audience. It seeks to explore to what extent the visual noise of a city effects its occupants.

The event is free to attend however booking is essential due to limited capacity. To book a place rsvp at catalystarts gmail.

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Welcomes applications of expressions of interest for new Co-Directors The role of co-director is a voluntary position carried out over two years, on a rolling structure. At a time when artists are experiencing a decline in accessible resources and facilities in the pursuit of their work and research, Catalyst Arts is committed to the mediation of new approaches to facilitating unique research opportunities for artists tailored to their specific practice and field of research. Lucy McKenna makes work that is concerned with belief systems and seemingly divergent ideologies relating to reality and existence.

The documented interpretation of anomalies, mysteries or unexplained phenomena in the world is very present in her work, along with semblances of the tools and equipment used in perceiving these events. Focusing on commonalities in different philosophical theories her works seek to unfold the information hidden in those spaces where the analytic and the intuitive concur. The residency will offer the rare opportunity to access first hand the processes carried out at the Observatory and Planetarium in Armagh, engaging with astronomers for discussion and research, diffusing the boundaries between artist and researcher and supporting the mutable position of the artist as observer.

Burton, whom she has been researching as part of an ongoing project. For updates on public events please see our website and social media as the project develops. The exhibition takes its title from This Is Water: The text brings forward notions of the everyday, the banal and the outright frustrating nature of day-to-day life, something Foster Wallace was trying to describe to the crowd of new graduates.

For Catalyst Arts the artists have put together works that will attempt to both stand on their own and also be part of one overall installation encapsulating the gallery. Intermission presents an interim exhibition at Catalyst Arts before their final show in May There will also be a number of extremely important issues discussed including a possible change of premises for Catalyst in FIX is an internationally renowned and distinctly Belfast biennial, established by Catalyst Arts in The legacy of FIX over the last twenty-two years has been to create opportunities locally for emerging and established practitioners, providing work for artists, photographers, videographers, writers, curators and arts administrators.

The eleventh instalment of FIX will take place over eight days with events, performances, art, music, talks, screenings and a whole plethora of events in between. Thursday 3rd December the opening night will encompass various events and activities taking place around the cultural block that surrounds Catalyst. This celebratory evening emphasises the importance of collaboration in the arts community in Belfast, particularly the need to work together to achieve something great for everyone.

FIX15 has been made possible through the support, collaboration and partnerships with local artists, arts organisations, businesses and communities providing an international programme of events within Belfast. Catalyst Arts are on the lookout for 3 individuals under 25 to become Hot Glue for a total PR takeover starting 30 th November. Are you physically Hot Glue? Welded to your phone and wanting an excuse to justify it? Send us a showcase of your social media skills and let us know if you really are hotglue. Joey joins us after recently completing a research associateship in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins while Anthony a recent graduate from University of Brighton arrives after spending six months on residency in Rotterdam.

We look forward to working with them both over the coming years. Boyle and Sutherland will open the exhibition with an artist talk at 6pm on 5 th November. This exchange opportunity will extend to benefit artists from Belfast showing in Edinburgh with Interview Room 11 in the new year. Interview Room 11 is a newly emerged space that has opened in Edinburgh within the last two years. In this short time they have already begun to carve out a fantastic reputation for showing cutting edge emerging artists in imaginative and experimental ways.

The evidence of the riot in Sutherlands is overwhelming. However the title suggests that something has been missed, only debris remains, a sort of chaos, the reason for which, we as viewers are unaware. Long Division showcases these two artists talent in Northern Ireland together at Catalyst Arts for the first time. Thursday 8th October, 6pm Catalyst Arts, Belfast. This oceanographic research vessel undertakes a diverse programme of marine research throughout the Irish Sea, enabling AFBI to examine the impact of climate change for environmental policies in the future.

Clark was on board for two research cruises this summer. Artist — At — Sea was the first in a series of residencies facilitated by Catalyst Arts, allowing artists to develop work within a site and context specifically tailored to their individual practice. Intentionally composing memories — creating self-made experience. James — started the project in August, Laura — 5 years ago, Jackie — over 10 years ago. I videoed the super 8 as it was projected onto a wall with a camera I was unfamiliar with, struggling to focus.

I wanted to make a film piece that incorporated both videos. This single screen film bridges these two pieces with footage taken over the last year in Belfast. The collection of nearly four hundred 35mm slides and a few polaroids spans over three decades of their lives. They have been a part of my life since After acknowledging my attempts to depict my subjectivity were futile, I instead began conjuring manifestations of this paradox.

After documenting a visit to Belfast in August using a cassette recorder, digital sound sampling, analogue photography and video, I endeavoured to create an abstracted re-presentation of my time in the city, but one that highlights boundaries through the implementation of ambiguity, humour, distortion and melody.

The piece contains a palimpsest of information, both from my own documentation and that of archival news footage that affected me back in She describes her training at Kingston University and at The Pratt Institute New York; with the development of an intricate play between figure, ground and light in an intimate process of accumulation and elision of elements. She describes her travels in Nepal and Thailand, and the works produced from a fellowship in Barcelona, Spain.

She focuses on "The Envelope Series", votive objects made with wax and encaustic, and works made with Nepalese bark paper. She considers their source and her excursions in London and elsewhere, and their bearing on her work. An interview recorded with the leading ceramic designer and studio potter Janice Tchalenko explores her development, from training with Mick Casson at Harrow Schoolo of Art to growing her own practice, leading to a major commission of supply to the Next retail chain. Tchalenko describes her appointment to renew China's ceramic industry and her activity as the chief designer of the Dartington pottery.

She describes her interest in souvenirs and votive settings found in the Catholic Church, and acknowledges an influence from the art of Velazquez and Zurbaran in her refined and ethereal paintings. The conversation revolves around a recent set of still life studies; tableaux of nature morte, that carry implications of transient existence in their subtle conception.

Morag Ballard describers her studio in Penzance, Cornwall, and the strategies of her work; paintings which create perspectives and settings referring to certain interiors. She describes the making of Harbour , in alabaster and pvc moulding, and Echo , a stainless steel sculpture exhibited at Karsten Schubert. Sourcing materials, the levels of the work; assistant Adam Kershaw; and its relation to other contemporary works. The artist discusses her methods and approach, with sources of inspiration for her work. Interviewed during the installation of "Ghost" at Chisenhale Gallery East London in , sculptor Rachel Whiteread describes her initial experience as an assistant to Alison Wilding and employment as a theatrical props maker.

She reveals the development of "Ghost", cast from a room at Archway, and gives details discovered in her first major project of replication. Sharon Kivland describes strands of influence in her work, which draws on French and Russian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, in particular concerning the changing roles of women in domestic, social, and political life. Presents a collection of essays by Nicholas James on classic and contemporary art: What did 19th-century cities smell like?

And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the 19th-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection, and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled on, and social media erupted.

Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends.

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