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Trajector
Art Fair, April 2011 Trajector
Art Fair is an
initiative by Hotel Bloom! and Centrifugal
Projects that
will take place from 23 April until 25 April 2010, coinciding with Art
Brussels. Trajector Art Fair is an initiative that follows on from Projector
Art Fair, presented by MAMA, that took place, to great
critical and public approval in Rotterdam in 2008. CentrifugalÕs
Ken Pratt, one of the key developers of the original concept, has worked with
Hotel Bloom! to realise a new manifestation.
Building on the
success of the Projector Art Fair , Trajector takes the core concept on the road for
2010. It will take place in Brussels, in April 2010 coinciding and
collaborating with Art Brussels.
In Brussels –as
in Rotterdam- the focus is not on the commercial gallery sector, but on the
project spaces, artistsÕ initiatives and independent curatorial projects that
provide important platforms and experimentation grounds for emerging contemporary
artists in the international arena. In part a celebration and playful game
with the role of non-profit organisations, project spaces and independent
curators within the art commerce systems, Trajector takes the original
concept and re-realises it as a hotel art fair in Brussels' most recent
boutique hotel. Tongue-in-cheek, critique or hardcore commercial? That's
largely up to the participants to determine.
Trajector Art Fair
will transform Hotel Bloom! into a vibrant Ôboutique hotel art fairÕ with eighteen
rooms and a wide range of conference rooms and public spaces providing a
platform for a range of international art spaces and curators to present some
of the best emerging contemporary art to a Brussels audience.
The range of
international exhibitors – coming from Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland,
France, Finland and the UK, amongst other locations- range from the very
young to those already established on the international art circuit. Each
will present a curatorial project within a hotel room, at once referencing
the tradition of the Ôhotel art fairÕ (For example, the Gramercy International Art Fair in New York which grew into The Armory
Show).
In addition to these core presentations, Trajector Art
Fair will deliver two thematic programmes of interest to not only an
art-specialist audience but also a broad public.
The first and
most substantial of these is ÔTaut – That Certain Tension Between Fashion & ArtÕ. Consisting of an exhibition element
and events such as panel discussions, lectures and presentations, Taut engages directly with some of the key
issues of creativity at the intersections of art and fashion. http://www.trajectorartfair.org/ |
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Freefun
Dublin home page, March 2010 www.freefun.ie was set up in July 2009 to
highlight the incredible amount of free things to do and see in Dublin. Each month,
a visual artist is invited to design the home page. This March Kelly OÕConnor
has created a landscape based photographic collage for the page. Past home page
artists have included: Sheena Dempsey, Hannah Doyle, Anne Ryder, Julia
MacConville, Terence Erraught and Vera Klute. |
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ÔShunt PT2Õ,
June 2009 MART returns to
Shunt for a larger show this year, featuring video, installation and
performances from some of our finest Irish artists. Artists
include: Adam Gibney, Natalie Zervou, John Healy, Kelly OÕConnor, Matthew Nevin,
Ciara Scanlan, Ivan Twohig, Katherine Nolan and Lisa Marie Johnson. |
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ÔLearned
Pigs and Fireproof WomenÕ, June 2009 Kelly
OÕConnor shows video piece Ôno alarms and no surprisesÕ in a group show, The
Bear Bar, Camberwell, London. Learned Pigs
and Fireproof Women is an eclectic but brief group show upstairs at The Bear
and comprising a selection of seventeen artists who currently practice in
London. Including
other artists: Mark Bell,
Sarah Bowker-Jones, Colin Clark, George Cutts, Luke Drozd, Peter Forde,
Jonathan Gildersleeves, Si‰n Hislop, Michael Lawton, Claire McArdle, Paul
McCann, Michael Murphy, Elaine Parry, Mike Ryder, Marianne Shorten and David
A Smith |
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IGVFest -
19-20 February 2009 The
International Guerrilla Video Festival Dublin will be held 19-20 February
2009 in 3 unique areas of the city: Parnell Street, Rathmines and Talbot
Street. Navigating the areas over the course of two days, the IGVFest will
project works relating to the social conditions of the site on building
facades, monuments and temporary structures. Artists who are active in the
areas and artists elsewhere addressing similar situations are invited to
apply with single channel videos. Artists can work directly on site where the
festival will be shown or in areas of other cities with similar conditions.
Themes to be addressed on the sites include: Parnell Street (immigration,
demographic shifts, cultural hybrids); Rathmines (urban planning,
gentrification, periphery); Talbot Street (maintaining of traditional
culture, potemkin village). The
International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival
integrating video art with the urban and social environment. Removing the
technologically complex medium of video out of the institutional situation,
it is re-positioned as an approachable medium in the public domain. The works
included engage and reflect the unique architectural, historical, and
interpersonal context of each site in the festival. The ubiquitous
billboards and advertising with the same campaigns attempt to transform the
urban setting into a homogeneous landscape in every city around the globe.
The festival aims to re-occupy that space infusing it with a reflexive
locality showing work created in concert with the community and focusing on
issues related to the site. A self-contained, transportable GPU (Guerrilla
Projector Unit) facilitates the incursions into the public realm, projecting
the videos onto the facades of buildings, monuments, and temporary
structures. Transforming public space into a fertile ground for
experimentation toward new possibilities in the relationship between art and
society. |
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ÔHeavier-than-air
flying machines are impossibleÕ, 2008 This show
returns from Thailand for its first screening on home ground at The Red
Stables, St. AnneÕs Park, D. 3 In association
with Pallas Contemporary Projects and Project 304. Kindly funded by Dublin City Council. |
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Galway Arts
Festival, 23-28 July 2008 MART Video,
Installation and Performance Exhibition The Thatch
Cottage, Henry St. & Silkes, Munster Ave. Featuring new
work by artists from the MART website, including Kelly OÕConnor and Vera
Klute. |
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ÔHeavier-than-air flying machines are impossibleÕ New video works by Irish artists selected by Pallas Contemporary
Projects for Project 304, Bangkok: Aideen Barry, Anne Maree Barry, Daren Bolger,
Cliona Harmey, Gavin Murphy, Kelly O'Connor, Fiona Whitty. Taking
as its premise a sideways gaze at the truths of the world, Pallas
Contemporary Projects presents an exhibition of probing video by contemporary
artists working in Ireland. In partnership with Project 304,
'Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible' will present these artworks
for the first time to a new audience in Bangkok. The exhibition will connect
a circle that started with 'Head or Tail' contemporary video work from
Thailand, curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong and Michael Shoawanasai, that
recently was exhibited in Pallas Contemporary Projects' gallery in Dublin (19
October - 4 November 2007). Questioning accepted patterns in society and physical day-to-day experience, these artists unpack and rework reality. Always in transit, moving and questioning our assumptions, the artists ask how tenable the rules are and what indeed these rules are? Do we make proposals that cannot be proved? Where are the facts? And is it possible to look again clearly at our reality? 'Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible' measures and checks this different shifting world, and brings together indefinite results. |