poylp is an electronic interfaced body that is expressed as a performance colony. It will display at the Guesthouse on the 20th July for an evening performance that will be dark, loud, close and vivid. There will be drink and food at the Guesthouse and the event is free though space is limited. Continue reading »
On July 25th (7pm at the Guesthouse)….. LET US BE ANGRY TOGETHER! You care about art. You care enough to be angry. There are certain things you feel very strongly about. Sometimes you get all het up and rant at your friends and scare people. No one listens anymore, but you know you’re right. … Continue reading »
Ruin Machine: Progressive Catastrophe and Unforeseeable Renewal in Arendt and Her Literary Sources. On July 4th, the Avant opens with an Exploded Lecture at 8pm in the Amphiteatre at Sample Studios. Words by Professor Susannah Young-Ah Gottlieb, Projections by Tom Dalton, Sound by Dan Guiney, with Trevor Joyce, Sheila Mannix and Fergal Gaynor. All are … Continue reading »
This reading group will meet at the Guesthouse on Wednesdays (7-9pm) throughout the Avant: July 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st. Each week, the session will focus on a major essay on conceptual art by Rosalind Krauss, Joseph Kosuth, Benjamin Buchloh and Thierry de Duve. To sign up, and to receive copies of the texts under discussion, email … Continue reading »
As part of this year’s Avant, a series of seminars will be held focusing on episodes from the history of art over the last one hundred years. Beginning with Cubist Collage and ending with the art from the 21st Century, these sessions will offer the chance to engage in the close reading of specific artworks … Continue reading »
On Thursday July 4th, the poet and philosopher Denise Riley will deliver a guest lecture at 5.30pm in the Geography and Geology Building at UCC. Professor Riley is currently A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, USA, and Sessional Lecturer in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck University of London. Her books include: War in … Continue reading »
SoundEye 17 will run from July 5th-7th 2013. Generously supported by the Cork City Council, The School of English, UCC and The Guesthouse, this years festival will host twelve poets over three days. Readers for 2013 will include Lila Matsumoto, Sophie Robinson, Joel Scott, Denise Riley, David Lloyd, Ulf Stolterfoht, Andrea Brady, Redell Olsen, Trevor Joyce and Catherine Walsh All events will be … Continue reading »
