National Sculpture Factory in association with Sirius Arts Centre presents: Easparta/Evensong
A concert by Charlotte Hug
Featuring the Quiet Club

Hug will use the industrial nature of the space and its acoustics for this unique and innovative performance on the Factory floor.

Fri 3rd Sept. 8:00pm

Charlotte Hug, born in Zurich, is a musician (viola & voice) composer, media artist and visual artist. She is known for her solo performances in distinctive locations such as an ice tunnel in the Rhone glacier or a half demolished bunker in Berlin. Hug has developed a soft bow technique which means she can play up to eight voices on her instrument and she also combines sounds of viola and voice with electronica.

Paul Hegarty – Lecturer, Sound Artist, Writer

Lecture Title: Why Like Noise?
Noise is slowly filtering into sound art and across many different styles of experimental music. Why noise? What noise? How exactly do noise and music interact in noise music? Why do people like noise? Should they? Why do people make noise?

Short Bio
Paul Hegarty is the author of Noise/Music (Continuum, 2007). He teaches cultural studies and philosophy in the department of French, UCC, and performs in the bands Safe and La Société des Amis du Crime. He also runs the label dotdotdotmusic, and helps run Black Sun with its curator, Vicky Langan.

Nigel Rolfe – Artist
Lecture Title: Sculptures In Motion.

In 1972 when I embarked on making live works as sculptures, I used the phrase first "Sculptures In Motion" to describe them, this was before ever the term ‘Performance’ was used and for that matter ‘Video’ or ‘Installation’ and the many media that subsequently passed through the gate. How can we revisit this term nearly 4 decades later?

Short Bio:
Born in the Isle of Wight in 1950, Nigel Rolfe lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He works with many media - video and photography and sound, and for the past thirty years he has made performances throughout Europe, and the former Eastern Block, North America and Japan. Retrospectives of his work have been held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

He is Senior Course Tutor in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in London and Senior Visiting Critic at the Royal Academy Schools, London, and the University of Pennsylvania in the USA. For the past three years he is making a continuing series of works in the landscape on civil war sites in the South in the USA .
Retrospectives of his work have been held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Dennis McNulty – Artist
Lecture Title: The View From Now.
Dennis McNulty's practice is concerned with the construction of space, both in the sense of the processes that physically bring spaces into being and the relationship between our experience and our understanding of the built environment.

Short Bio
Recent shows include Nothing is impossible at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, 2010; Our need for consolation is impossible to satiate, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, 2009; framework/rupture, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, (solo); The sound I'm looking for, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver; Landscape 08, The Dock, Carrick On Shannon, all 2008. In 2004, McNulty represented Ireland at the São Paulo Bienal.

Jason O Shaughnessy - Architect
Lecture Title: SLIPPAGE (in, out of and beyond) architecture

What does it mean to be involved with the inquiry of architecture? Are we to assume that there are fixed “positions” that in some way make our task more simple and forgiving, or can we leave ourselves open to the vagaries of intuitive speculation, probing, counter-positions and (re)readings of dead-ends. Our world seems to be made up of increasingly complex systems, and maybe we need a new linguistic mechanism (SLIPPAGE) in order to uncover appropriate forms of occupation that deal with this reality.

Short Bio:
Jason O’Shaughnessy was born in Ireland in 1974. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with Distinction in 1999 and from the Queens University of Belfast with First Class Honours in 1996 and founded Architecture 53seven on 2000.
He was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2009. His practice has been widely published and received several awards, including a Special Commendation at the inaugural World Architecture Festival in Barcelona 2008, an AAI Special Award in 2008. His practice formed part of a select longlist for BD Young Architect of the Year in 2009 & 2008.
He has been shortlisted and exhibited for a number of architecture competitions, and presented a Showcase Lecture at the European Architecture Student Assembly (EASA) in 2008 and was exhibited at the Defining Space International Symposium in 2007. He currently sits on the Editorial Board of Architecture Ireland, and is a Lecturer at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE).

Gemma Carroll – Art Historian.
Lecture Title: Fact and Fiction in the Construction/Reconstruction of Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau

In Kurt Schwitters’ home, amid the piles of refuse, material and work, an exceptional process took place in 1920s Germany by which the Merzbau, an environmental assemblage, was created. Destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in 1943 it has now become a composite of fact and
fiction. This talk will investigate what the Merzbau does, what it was, and what it has become.

Short Bio
Gemma Carroll is an Art Historian and Writer from Cork who will begin her PhD at University College London next September exploring Kurt Schwitters’ relationship to the wider European avant-garde