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Contact Mic and Dirty Amp Workshop V3
Saturday, June 23 at 2:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Catalyst Arts presents a free workshop with Barry Cullen, in conjunction with our current exhibition, Interzone.
Please e-mail catalystarts@gmail.com if you’d like to attend. Places are strictly limited to 10 participants. All components will be provided by Catalyst Arts.
INTERZONE @ Catalyst Arts, Belfast
24th May – 5th July 2018
Barry Cullen | Jonny McEwen | Una Monaghan | Saul Rayson | Susannah Stark
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. The title references both the International Zone setting of William S Burroughs taboo breaking 1959 novel Naked Lunch and the mysterious, dreamlike “Zone” in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker.
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.
My proposal for work was exhibited as part of the ‘open call’ of ‘Linear Belongings’ series of soiree sonique.
Sound design for Introducing Brian, A Film by Nicholas Keogh Based on Stories by Brian Brown
Millenium Court, William St, Portadown
May 2015
The text below is taken from the event page on FB. I’ve added a few links for more info.
Ericka Beckman | Vivienne Dick | Seamus Harahan (with Cashier No.9 and BEW)
11 December 2014 – 16 January 2015
Opening: 11 December, 6-9pm
Considering the overlapping tensions inherent within music culture and contemporary art practice, ‘NOISE FEST’ brings together the work of Ericka Beckman, Vivienne Dick, and Seamus Harahan. Collectively harnessing a vocabulary and sensibility that oscillates and slips between clear categories of distinction, the works incorporate the disparate tropes of experimental filmmaking with the aesthetic rhetoric of pseudo music documentary and video.
Taking its name from an influential festival of No Wave performances in 1981 at New York based arts organisation White Columns, the exhibition is punctuated with texts by Kim Gordon and Dan Graham, in addition to the Brian Eno produced LP ‘No New York‘, (1978).
Framed by and paying homage to the New York based underground movement No Wave, ‘NOISE FEST’ reflects on a time when the two distinct fields were reciprocally influenced and encouraged by one another.
Special thanks to: Artist Space, New York; Art Metropole, Toronto; Barry Cullen; Cashier No.9; Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; LUX, London; Printed Matter, New York.
GLEAM (GLasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media) FESTIVAL – OCTOBER 30th and 31st 2014
“To honour the centenary of Scottish-Canadian filmmaker and artist Norman McLaren (1914-1987), the first annual GLEAM (GLasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media) Festival will celebrate his lasting influence, situating contemporary works of ‘visual music’ within the current context of audiovisual practice and providing opportunities for cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration. ”
My short AV piece “Generative AV1” is to be screened as part of the programme for GLEAM 2014.
It was premiered at the mini-festival Round Buttons Square Tones at PS2 in Belfast, 2014.
Round Buttons Square Tones. A week long series of events curated by Barry Cullen and Min Kim showcasing a range of sound culture practice: “…from musical composition to conceptual noise…” at PS2 / Paragon Studios, Belfast.
The programme featured the following artists:
Lisa Conway + Marty Byrne + Meabh Meir
Aonghus Mcevoy + Stuart Geelon
Daimhin Kavanagh
Jose Manuel Paez
Ian Kubra
Solo exhibition. Interactive, environmentally reactive installation.
PS2 / Paragon Studios, Belfast. April / May 2014.
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