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Artist initiated projects -
Pallas Contemporary Projects Summer Programme

During the summer the PCP curated programme takes a break, and
the gallery is made available to external artists' projects,
providing a much-needed platform for experimental work. These
projects were selected from a pool of proposals that were made
to the gallery following an open submission call out.

 

20 - 22 August 2009

Play - Group exhibition organised by
Pallas Contemporary Projects Intern Programme
Emer Bermingham, Aoife Doolin, Niamh Dunphy, Fiona O'Keefe,
Moya Revins, Emma Rowe, Neil Ryan

The theme 'Play' is used to draw together the diverse works
and practices of a group of young and emerging artists, writers
and curators all brought together by their internship at Pallas
Contemporary Projects.

'Play' seeks to open up the gallery as a 'playground of ideas',
in which each participant has interpreted the theme in their own
way. Either evoking childhood memories and experiences to transport
us back to a time of imagination and escapism, or interpreting 'Play'
in a more sinister way - seeing the journey from youth to adulthood
as leaving behind optimism and unlimited possibility for a more
'realistic' perspective thus raising issues of the futility of
childish idealism and the loss of innocence.

This was the second yearly exhibition of work resulting from the
Pallas Contemporary Projects Intern Programme, and was presented
alongside the independent summer programme of exhibitions.

4th - 6th June 2009

Latent Connections
Sinéad Curran, Elaine Hurley, Suzannah Vaughan

"Latent Connections" was an exhibition of work by three artists,
Sinéad Curran, Elaine Hurley and Suzannah Vaughan, addressing the
tensions between possibility and non action, presented by means of
light, video and temporary fragile structures.

The Artists in this exhibition reconstruct and re-present social
situations and unrealised spaces as a means of re-addressing these
concerns or making visible that which has become invisible through
a lack of implementation, an impossibility or an over-familiarity.

11th - 13th June
Seep
Áine Macken

The culmination of a year-long project, this exhibition of Áine Macken's
work presented hundreds of small paintings of faces, each contorted,
experiencing extremes of emotion - ecstasy, pleasure, torture, grief,
terror and joy. Her practice is strongly informed by theoretical
considerations of beauty, jouissance and the ethical implications of
the pursuit of narcissism (heavily influenced by Rococo portraitures
of ecstasy).

Áine invited a number of artists including Michelle Considine,
Catherine Harty and Gráinne Galvin, theoretician/philosopher
Carolyne Quinn, creative writer/curator Emma Dwan O'Reilly and
burlesque performer Miss Bella A Go Go to respond to this ideas of
fluidity, femininity, sexuality and terror. These will include
collaborative works, independent pieces taking theories of Áine's
work as points of departure, and a subversive burlesque performance
by Miss Bella A Go Go on the opening night.

18th- 20th June 2009

Trace
Presented by 10to12Artists

Trace was the inaugural show of a new artists' collective called
'10to12artists', formed by graduates of IADT in 2008. The show featured
new works in a variety of media including drawing, painting, photography,
video and installation. The works for Trace were selected by Niall Flaherty,
who is a practicing artist and educator, a founder member of Blackletter
Artists Group and currently a member of Monster Truck Gallery's curatorial team.

10to12artists are: Lorraine Byrne, Gráinne Brady, Pamela de Brí,
Charles Henihan, Jacinta Hughes, Denise Kevany, John Murray, Joe Nagle,
Roma Przedpelska, Ann Turpin and Mary Quinn.

26th - 28th June 2009

Say 'ello to your Uncle Chop-Chop
Dan Atkins

Say 'ello to your Uncle Chop Chop was a series of absurd pictures by Dan Atkins.
Stuck somewhere between the Far Side and Francis Bacon, the art is a look at
contemporary life and the knock-on effect of our consumerism and greed.

9th - 11th July

in/elegant formalism (continuing...)
Colm Desmond

Colm Desmond continues his investigation into the intersecting, and
often conflicting, discourses around formalist, post-minimal and object-based
art. Assemblages of randomly found, recycled forms are displayed in mirrored
vitrines to create tensions between the elegant, the formal and the degraded.
This adaptable, collaged aesthetic points to a baroque-like anxiety of form.
A degraded aesthetic alludes to the awkward position of the autonomous self
in making art. The artist invites you to consider the contradiction of
in/elegant formalism.

23rd-25th July 2009

Gooseberries
Adrian Duncan

Gooseberries is a visual investigation into the nature of meaning. The idea
stems from the eponymous Anton Chekhov short story.

By reducing the notion of meaning to simple geometric shapes the artist is
able to make a general comment on its nature. This objective proposal is
presented in tandem with a more subjective thread, thus addressing the
artist's question above; Does it matter?
The work comprised of plate sculptures, planar solid sculptures,
technical drawings and a textural drawing.

27th - 29th August 2009

In pursuit of a state of uncertainty
Barbara Knezevic
This new series of work by Barbara Knezevic In pursuit of a state of
uncertainty, marks a departure from performance based temporal practice.
The new work is an examination of the potential of materiality and
object-hood, utilising fabric, stone, magnets, weather balloons and
wax. The objects display the tensions between physical forces of gravity,
mass, air and magnetism. Failure or the potential to fail is present in
the temporary nature of the materials used. Often they have a limited
'life' where the objects evolve and change as they lose their buoyancy
and mass over time, taking on an element of kinesis. Crucially these
objects describe psychological or emotional states, mercurial and fleeting.

3rd - 5th September 2009

Cannon Fodder*
Caroline Doolin, Nora Duggan, Gerard Erraught, Fiona Marron and Serena Teehan

Cannon Fodder*, a collective of five emerging Dublin based artists, was
marshalled out of shared interests in 2007 and has continued to evolve
by means of regular discussions and debate. In the past, conversations
have interrogated issues of current art/curatorial practice and how/why
art engages in a wider social context. The support network this collective
provides serves to foster individual and collaborative art practises as
hetrogeneous as the individuals themselves.

 

 

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