National
Sculpture Factory
Phase I Development,
2007 – 2009
Invitation to NSF Meeting
Friday December 7th, 4.00pm (Venue: National Sculpture Factory) followed by Christmas party at 7.00pm
The National Sculpture Factory is undertaking a major building development over the next two years and we want your input.
This development is essentially intended to improve working facilities for artists, by providing more social, communal and meeting space, as well as increased library, research and IT facilities. As part of this, we will create new working spaces for a wider range of sculptors than we currently cater for (mixed and new media).
We also intend to move our offices back into the new facility, thus bringing staff back into the creative centre of NSF and helping us to support artists more.
Finally, we want our building and presence to make a greater impression on the city, by creating a new and welcoming, public front. This will allow us to communicate better with our neighbours, but also the city and wider world.
Because of this, we would like to consult with you, by inviting you to a meeting on Friday December 7th 2007, in the National Sculpture Factory (but we will need to know how many of you are coming so please let us know!). The meeting will be facilitated by Annette Clancy of Interactions.
We are proposing the following simple statement as an agenda:
On the basis of the vision we have outlined – how can NSF become a better artists’ working space, collectively and individually?
RSVP by
Friday 30 November
Autumn Sonata
(Swedish:
Höstsonaten) is a
1978
Swedish
language film written and directed by
Ingmar Bergman.
The film stars
Ingrid Bergman,
Liv Ullmann
and
Lena Nyman.
It tells the story of a famous
pianist
who is confronted by her neglected daughter.
The film won the 1979 Golden Globe Award for
Best Forign Language Film. It was also nominated for
Academy Awards for
Best
Actress in a Leading Role (Ingrid Bergman)
and
Best
Original Screenplay.
Ger Staunton, writer and artist, will introduce the film, which will be screened with English subtitles.
It's one of Bergman's 4 major minimalist works, the
others being The Silence, Persona, and Cries And Whispers. In terms of
plot, it's his most minimal; and this aspect together with its focus on the
conflict between art and life directly inspired Louis Malle's influential
(and even sparer) My Dinner With Andre.
Autumn Sonata is closely related to, and complementary to Bergman's earlier
film Persona. Plotwise, both are complexly based around the Elektra
complex. Conceptually, Persona, as the title suggests, presents a world of
appearances (related directly to film itself) that remains mask-like,
objective and remote; in Autumn Sonata, again the title is significant - the
difficulty is the reverse; all has the subjectivity of music, it's as though
we're too much eyewitnesses to achieve objectivity. (Deleuze noted the
significance of Bergman's close-ups in these two films. Perplexed we seek
to read facial cues but these remain, - for different reasons, - ambiguous).
Autumn Sonata is structured like music in other ways; particularly in that
it creates an illusion of natural flow. Though it continually subverts the
naturalistic illusion (e.g. through overt theatrical conventions), the
illusion continually re-asserts itself. The temptation is to interpret
romantically rather than classically, to accept the broad sweeps of visual
narrative and overlook the significance of sudden but slight camera
movements and subtle changes of tempo, point of view in flashback sequences,
time gaps smoothly elided in the editing etc. But it's carefully structured
so as to be read on both levels; seeing at once how ambiguous everything is
in essence and how compulsive the process of meaning-making is.
- Gerard Staunton
Films in the Mezz
This is the last monthly film screening of 2007 hosted by the NSF, after starting the initiative in March this year. The overall programming is a random series in that individuals with a particular interest in film come forward or are invited to choose the film and introduce it on the night, and the audience participates in informal discussion afterwards.
Films shown this year include features, shorts and documentaries, contemporary and older, classics and rarities, with film-makers from India to Galway. Thanks are especially due to the 2007 introducers who have given their time and enthusiasm voluntarily (and had to bring along the film as well!): Max le Cain, Rory Mullins, Lisa Fingleton, Catherine Harty, Christopher O’ Neill, Isabelle Meerstein, Ken Wardrop, Peter Murray, Dobz O’Brien, Patricia Baker and Gerard Staunton.
For more information on Films in the Mezz or other NSF projects and events, contact the Programme Manager:
Treasa O'Brien
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Sarah Browne will present the next stage of her NSF commission Home Improvement
in the National Sculpture Factory on 22 November, where the public will have a
chance to meet the winners of the competition, Jessica Mason and Peter Little,
and see their new home – a renovated horsebox. Their entry was chosen from a
shortlist of three videos that were on exhibition earlier this year, in
conjunction with the des/IRE conference at the Webworks building, Eglinton St.,
and online on You Tube, both of which were venues for public voting. In total,
almost three hundred votes were cast. Keep an eye out for announcements on the
outside of the factory building.
Shortlisted videos can still be viewed on You-Tube.com (search for homeimpcork).
A transcript of the judges’ shortlisting process will be published in the
forthcoming des/IRE book, to be published by Gandon Editions in the autumn.
Do you speak art? (or where are you coming from?)
Globalisation and the ‘International’ Language of Art
Venue: Stack Theatre, Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Cork
Date: Saturday 3 November
Time: 10.30 am – 5.30 pm and 7.00 pm (see below), €20/€15 (NSF member)
Today, globalisation affects almost all art practice on some level. This is
evident through travel, research, exchange, residencies, economics,
institutional relationships, and of course, the phenomenon of international
showcase event-culture.
This discursive event will explore how culture, and specifically visual art, is
being impacted and mediated in the context of globalisation. Issues to be
explored include the idea of an ‘international style', cultural exchange and
diversity v homogenisation, biennial culture and a look at the Irish context.
Speakers include Dr. Brigitte Franzen (curator for skulptur projekte münster
07), Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith (writer/critic/curator) John Byrne (John Moore
University and Static, Liverpool), Lucy Cotter (writer and critic) and Katie
Holten (artist) More speakers to be announced in September.
Salon du Chat
Do you speak art? Will be followed by Salon du Chat, a social event involving
discussion topics in the form of menus, set up to encourage focussed
conversations and exchange. No chit-chat allowed!
Time: 7.00 pm
Presented in conjunction with CIT Cork School of Music & Hochtief.
Slum Cinema
National
Sculpture Factory / Films in the Mezz presents:
Slum Cinema
Thursday 1 November, 7pm
- Outlawed: Extraordinary Renditions, Torture And Disappearances In The "War On Terror"
- Mission Against Terror, written and directed by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz Rebo (2006)
- The McDonagh Pictures, by Irish filmmaker, Ian Palmer
The three
documentaries will be introduced by Dobz O’Brien and Patricia Baker
(curators of Radio ON)
Venue: The Mezzanine, National Sculpture Factory
Admission Free. All Welcome.
Introduced by Dobz O’Brien and Patricia Baker
Thursday 1 November, 7pm
NSF/Art Trail Collaborations: Holly Asaa, Belinda Guidi
The National Sculpture Factory are supporting projects by their 2007
Artists-in-Residence Holly Asaa and Belinda Guidi for Art Trail 2007, which
takes place in Shandon this year.
Holly Asaa
tap into sound for a prime mate
Venue: St. Anne’s Church, Shandon
Date: 5, 6 & 7 October
awaiting image(s)
Holly Asaa will present an interactive piece at the top of St. Anne’s Church
in Shandon from 5-7 October, as part of Art Trail 2007. Instead of the popular
sounds of bells that visitors can create in the church steeple, the public will
have the opportunity to make a song or random noise out of pre-recorded animal
sounds. The sounds will be recorded from the calls of the gibbons and other
monkeys that live on and around the islands in Fota Wildlife Park, east of Cork
City Centre. This work is being supported by the NSF and has been developed from
research Holly made while on residency in the NSF from Feb-April 2007.
Belinda Guidi
L’Eclisse
Venue: Shandon
Date: 28 September – 7 October 2007
2 Images in word doc ‘l’Eclisse on CD
Former NSF Artist-in-Residence, Belinda Guidi will develop a large-scale public
art intervention in Shandon as part of Art Trail 2007. She will wrap a building
with a sentence or phrase consisting of large-scale letters made from black
plastic sheeting – the material used to wrap a building when in process of
regenerating/re-structuring it. The plastic sheeting will work like a
large-scale letter chain. The phrase will be taken from a conversation in the
film L’Eclisse, meaning The Eclipse in English. The text is taken from the
title sequence of the film, and the piece is a development from ‘L’Avventura’
commissioned for Radiance 2005 - Glasgow light festival. Belinda is interested
in creating a cover for the regeneration of a building – covering it up while
revealing something intimate and personal, through the text used.
Belinda Guidi’s project L’Eclisse is supported by the National Sculpture
Factory and is being programmed in collaboration with Art Trail 2007 as part of
Slow Pace Fast Pace, curated by Rana Ozturk. The film L’Eclisse will be
screened and introduced by Belinda Guidi in the NSF on 4 October as part of the
NSF Films in the Mezz. For more information see www.arttrail.ie and
www.nationalsculpturefactory.com/program_current
L’Eclisse (dir.
Michelangelo Antonioni)
Introduced by Belinda Guidi
Thursday 4 October, 7pm
Undressing My Mother (dir. Ken Wardrop)
Films from a Dark Room (dir. Peter Tscherkassky)
Introduced by Isabelle Meerstein with special guest Ken Wardrop
Wednesday 12 September, 7pm
Soyoung Chung, Anna Konik, Tobias Sternberg
Exhibition of work by NSF
Pépinières Artists 2006
Crawford Gallery of Art
September 7 - October 27, 2007
An exhibition of selected works created during a residency at the National
Sculpture Factory during the spring and early summer 2006, as part of the
Pépinières programme for young artists.
Opening of exhibition is Thursday 6 September at 6pm.
des/IRE Related projects
Artist’s Commission
The National Sculpture Factory is delighted
to announce a new art commission being developed by Irish artist Sarah
Browne in tandem with our major conference des/IRE: designing houses
for contemporary Ireland. The artwork will be made in response to a brief
from the NSF to explore the Irish psyche in relation to housing design. It is
envisaged that the artwork will be exhibited as part of the des/IRE conference
event on 24th and 25th May in City Hall, Cork.
The National Sculpture Factory is delighted
to announce a new art commission being developed by Irish artist Sarah
Browne in tandem with our major conference des/IRE: designing houses
for contemporary Ireland. The artwork will be made in response to a brief
from the NSF to explore the Irish psyche in relation to housing design. It is
envisaged that the artwork will be exhibited as part of the des/IRE conference
event on 24th and 25th May in City Hall, Cork.
For more Information on the conference and related events please see www.nationalsculpturefactory.com/desire
Sarah Brown Biography
Sarah Browne
graduated from Sculpture at the National
College of Art and Design in 2003. Her practice includes public projects,
exhibitions, and collaborations with Gareth Kennedy, publishing, education and
critical writing.
Her work
addresses ecologies and economies of place through the circulation of people,
products and social behaviours. This process is often carried out with the
participation of a community where it is based, or creates a fictional or
temporary ‘community’ for itself.
Residencies include the apexart international residency, New York (2006), Bolwick Arts, Norfolk, UK (2004), and Site-ations: Sense in Place, Iceland (a network of artist exchanges and exhibitions across Europe, 2006). Recent exhibitions and projects include: EV+A, Limerick, (2006, 2004); Dallas Belfast (with Gareth Kennedy as part of the Space Shuttle project, Belfast, 2006); and Sampler Stitch at Dam Stuhltrager, New York. Forthcoming projects in 2007 include a temporary public commission for Visualise Carlow; solo exhibition at the LAB, Dublin, and Art from the Rucksack 3, an artist exchange with Kobe, Japan. She has received a number of awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, including a Travel and Mobility Award in 2005 to facilitate work and research in Thailand. She is based in Co. Leitrim and lectures part-time at IADT.
www.apexart.org/residency/browne.htm
www.spaceshuttle.org.uk/mission2.htm
www.site-ations.org/senseinplace
Student collaboration
Students from the Crawford College of Art and Design and students from the new
UCC/CIT
School of Architecture are collaborating on an interdisciplinary project The Space In-Between exploring housing design and public space. Facilitated by the NSF, students will present their projects in an exhibition to coincide with the des/IRE conference. Venue: TBC
SubUrban to SuperRural: Ireland at Venice in Cork
NSF is bringing the Irish exhibition from the 2006 Venice Architecture
Biennale to Cork.
Commissioned by Shane O'Toole of the Irish Architecture Foundation and curated
by FKL
Architects, the exhibition SubUrban to SuperRural explores the
potential future of housing in Ireland. Exhibitors are Boyd Cody,
heneghan.peng, Henchion & Reuter, Bucholz/McEvoy, de Paor, FKL, MacGabhann,
ODOS and Dominic Stevens.
Opening Reception: 6pm,
Wednesday May 23
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, The National College of Art & Design,
Dublin,
&
the
National Sculpture Factory, Cork
BEYOND THE STUDIO
8/9
February 2007
A symposium on the role of the studio in creative
production today.
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Organised by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in
association with the National College of Art & Design, Dublin and the National Sculpture Factory, Cork. Daniel Buren 3 Colours for a Façade in Dublin, work in situ 2006 Courtesy the artist |
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The concept of the studio has long captivated
audiences with its associations of unbridled creativity, freedom from convention, bohemian lifestyle and struggle for success. BEYOND THE STUDIO will examine the relevance, role and function of the studio today. Speakers include internationally active artists, curators and critics: Iwona Blazwick, Daniel Buren, Gerard Byrne, Thomas Demand, Claire Doherty, Andrew Grassie, Jens Hoffmann, Christina Kennedy, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, John Miller and Karen Wright. |
9 February 9.30am - 5.30pm - Symposium Venue: National College of Art & Design, 100 Thomas St, D 1
