Angela Fulcher : Sculptural Backdrop

This piece was commissioned from Angela Fulcher by the Avant 2014 and installed at the Guesthouse for SoundEye, which ran from July 11th-13th. Using techniques of collage and assemblage, Angela reconfigures found objects so that something of their history, use or material nature may be revealed. Poets featured in action are Trevor Joyce and Doireann ní Ghríofa.   See more of Angela’s work at: http://www.angela-fulcher.com Photo … Continue reading →

Strike the Air presents…

Thursday 24th July. 8pm. The Guesthouse, 10 Chapel St, Shandon, Cork. €5. Strike the Air presents Clang Sayne & James O Sullivan with special guest, Karen Power, and a delicious vegetarian meal! Formed in London in 2008 by songwriter and musician, Laura Hyland, Clang Sayne draws on a wide range of influences from sound improvisation to folksong to jazz … Continue reading →

SoundEye Poetry Festival

July 11th-13th at The Guest House, Chapel Street, Shandon, Cork. Free.       SoundEye, Ireland’s pre-eminent festival of innovative poetry, is now in its 18th year. Every summer, the festival brings an array of experimental, avant-garde and modernist poets to Cork and 2014 is no exception. This year’s SoundEye, generously supported by Cork City Council, UCC School of English, … Continue reading →

Haiku House

6.30pm, July 29th, The Guesthouse, Shandon, Free. A multi-disciplinary collaborative group has been working on pieces inspired by haiku.  They will share there work in the form of an event on Tuesday the 29th of July at 6.30, admission free. The haiku is a traditional form of short japanese poetry that can, amongst other definitions, be interpreted … Continue reading →

Self-made: An exhibition of live performance

26 July 2014. From 2pm. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Free.   Curated by Unit 1 (Ciara McKeon & Dominic Thorpe) Self-made is an exhibition of live performance focusing on physicality, looking at the body as form sculpted through daily life practices. The artists Anne Seagrave, Fergus Byrne and Debbie Guinnane will each perform amongst Greco-Roman sculpture casts made circa 1816 by Canova from originals in the … Continue reading →

SAFE + Siorai Geimhreadh + Luxury Mollusc

July 19th, Triskel TDC, 8.30pm. €5 Siorai Geimhreadh: Experimental Noise Rock band Siorai Geimhreadh will work collaboratively with a number of musicians for a semi-improvised performance, working with the intention of creating an intense one-off piece, this performance will expand on their usual musical style, utilising the extended line up to move out of the … Continue reading →

Word Into Image Exhibition

  Where does language meet image? What happens when poets create objects? Word into Image explores the intersection of art and language from the poet’s point of view. Drawing on contemporary practices, this exhibition displays visual poetry from Ireland, Britain, Europe and America. Considering how poets use non-linguistic elements in their work, Word into Image … Continue reading →

[Paris] Cork [Spleen] Thing…

CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery. Opens 6pm Wednesday 23rd July until Saturday 2nd July. Free “Happy of heart I climbed the hill To contemplate the town in its enormity, Brothel and hospital, prison, purgatory, hell……………….Infamous City, I adore you!” –Charles Baudelaire-“Epilogue”–Paris Spleen Cork Thing presents new work by ten artists invited to adapt prose from Paris Spleen in … Continue reading →

automaton/grunt/academia

July 16th,1pm, Tactic Auditorium. Free Artists Máire O’ Mahony and Cassandra Eustace present new work as a performative lecture. (An open enquiry and live dissemination of the conceptual/propositional versus the tacit/situated/embodied epistemological position in contemporary art practice and pedagogy.) “ If you start by assuming a radical difference in kind between the higher and lower … Continue reading →

Fusiform Gyrus

July 10th-31st. Tom Barry’s Pub, Barrack St., Cork. Free Light Box Exhibition by Collette Nolan A series of 14 appropriated and reworked vintage ‘tobacco cards’ are deployed by Collette Nolan to explore the gesturing image. Continue reading →