Thursday, 12 December 2013
TULCA response video
Nailing Down Vision Exhibition
25/11/2013
Our Nailing Down Visions exhibition went well. My piece was called Pareidolia. It was a 10 minute video installation. I will add in my artist statement, mind maps and write up of the exhibition; but at the moment I've attracted yet another gremlim that will not allow me to copy and paste! I wrote about two artists works Tim Kelly and Mary Lally.
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
TULCA curator Valerie Connor
15/11/13
She was very forthcoming about all aspects of being a curator, so it was very helpful and interesting. I'd love to curate an exhibition!
She spoke about how she felt it was important to spend time visiting the city first (she lives and works in Dublin) before coming to any decisions on the direction and theme of the festival.
Friendships and 'getting on' with people, building kind,careful and respectful relationships are very important. This is needed in the whole multi-venue, press, volunteers and of course artists contacts.
Valerie has lots of experience, connections and ideas so she seems ideal for the job which started it's process in April and gathered speed and large input of energy by September.
As she teaches photography I thought she'd be horrified by these photo's I took after the talk; but she just smiled and said 'misty!'...very kind!
Saturday, 30 November 2013
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry, sometimes it just has to be voiced! (I'm sure I'll be fine now)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!
sorry, sometimes it just has to be voiced! (I'm sure I'll be fine now)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
GOLDEN MOUNTAINS
11/11/13
Trip to the TULCA festival gallery (Fairgreen)
I love going round galleries; but it definitely has some negatives and positives for me as doing it as part of a 'trip'. I may as well explore them here....who knows maybe my views will change over the course?
In relation to going as a group instead of singularly....
My current negatives:
The waiting for everyone (to arrive and leave)
The crowd..it didn't effect the viewing of all the works; but definitely some of them
Noise
My current positives:
We were the first tour, that was pretty cool!
The tour and inside information
The artists talks- first hand accounts
A shared experience-different viewpoints and discussion
Joanna met us and gave us an introductory talk and explained about not taking photo's. She introduced us to the first exhibit, The Speedy Telstar, by Neal White and Tina O'Connell. It was inspired by the computer museum in Galway...I took the kids there a few years ago and we all really enjoyed it including the lively talk by Brendan Smith whose baby it is!
All photo's therefore are from the official TULCA photo's.
Quoted from TULCA website, artist information
"Emma Finn currently lives and works in Edinburgh, UK but was born in Galway, Ireland. She recently graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Intermedia. Finn also holds a BA (Hons) in Psychological Studies and Classical Civilisation from the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. She has exhibited in the UK and Ireland and has been selected for The Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries 2014. Recently, Finn was awarded the RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence."
"Nuala Ní Fhlathúin is from the Gaeltacht area in the West of Ireland. She received a BFA in Ceramics from GMIT, Galway and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland, the USA, Portugal and Georgia. She also edits Nua-Ealaín, an Irish language website for the contemporary visual arts."
I loved hearing from Emma Finn and Nuala Ní Fhlathúin about their work. Emma's was a video piece called More or Less. It was HD DVD on a 10 minute loop. As there were so many of us it was impossible to watch it properly at the time; but I will be visiting all the venues myself anyway. She seems to work very quickly in her chosen area from what she said, that suprised me. I also found it very interesting to hear both artist talk about what inspired them.
Nuala's installation was called ...agus thuig mé ansin/...and then I knew. She explained how it was very site specific, so again the installation had been constructed in a relatively short amount of time ( afew weeks). It was great to walk around the pieces and see how they related, or didn't relate, to those around them. The lack of emotion aspect struck a chord with me as my own family showed very little emotion and I think if the events of an Agatha Christie book had occured there would have been a similar atmosphere!
Trip to the TULCA festival gallery (Fairgreen)
I love going round galleries; but it definitely has some negatives and positives for me as doing it as part of a 'trip'. I may as well explore them here....who knows maybe my views will change over the course?
In relation to going as a group instead of singularly....
My current negatives:
The waiting for everyone (to arrive and leave)
The crowd..it didn't effect the viewing of all the works; but definitely some of them
Noise
My current positives:
We were the first tour, that was pretty cool!
The tour and inside information
The artists talks- first hand accounts
A shared experience-different viewpoints and discussion
Joanna met us and gave us an introductory talk and explained about not taking photo's. She introduced us to the first exhibit, The Speedy Telstar, by Neal White and Tina O'Connell. It was inspired by the computer museum in Galway...I took the kids there a few years ago and we all really enjoyed it including the lively talk by Brendan Smith whose baby it is!All photo's therefore are from the official TULCA photo's.
Quoted from TULCA website, artist information
"Emma Finn currently lives and works in Edinburgh, UK but was born in Galway, Ireland. She recently graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Intermedia. Finn also holds a BA (Hons) in Psychological Studies and Classical Civilisation from the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. She has exhibited in the UK and Ireland and has been selected for The Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries 2014. Recently, Finn was awarded the RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence."
"Nuala Ní Fhlathúin is from the Gaeltacht area in the West of Ireland. She received a BFA in Ceramics from GMIT, Galway and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland, the USA, Portugal and Georgia. She also edits Nua-Ealaín, an Irish language website for the contemporary visual arts."
I loved hearing from Emma Finn and Nuala Ní Fhlathúin about their work. Emma's was a video piece called More or Less. It was HD DVD on a 10 minute loop. As there were so many of us it was impossible to watch it properly at the time; but I will be visiting all the venues myself anyway. She seems to work very quickly in her chosen area from what she said, that suprised me. I also found it very interesting to hear both artist talk about what inspired them.
Nuala's installation was called ...agus thuig mé ansin/...and then I knew. She explained how it was very site specific, so again the installation had been constructed in a relatively short amount of time ( afew weeks). It was great to walk around the pieces and see how they related, or didn't relate, to those around them. The lack of emotion aspect struck a chord with me as my own family showed very little emotion and I think if the events of an Agatha Christie book had occured there would have been a similar atmosphere!
I really enjoyed most of this experiece...thank you!
Nailing Down Visions and Tulca
4/11/2013
We didn't have a lesson last week as it was a bank holiday; but we've had loads to do...of course!
The mind maps for the concepts for the Nailing down visions project. I took loads of notes and have come up with a few different ideas to explore. What to look at is the visual concepts that interest me and explore them with the view to having a piece and a statement at the outcome. I will put up the photo's asap; but I can't get them to load at the moment.
We have an extended deadline due to Tulca and due to the bank holiday...phew
This was the good news (extended deadline) the bad news was...another project! (surely there aren't enough hours in the day! -the workload is huge at the moment )
We had a talk from Joanna McGlynn who is the education coordinator with TULCA, she is an intern with them. TULCA is an art festival in Galway, running this year from 8-24 November.
I have volunteered to be an invigilator during TULCA, this basically just means keep an eye on the art installations in a particular venue, answer any questions if possible, report any problems and keep a tally of who visits. Joanna explained that it's the 11th year of the multi-venue festival. There are 47 artists taking part, there will be exhibitions, seminars, age related tours and talks.
For artists there is an open call for submissions in approx. August, the board and the curator choose the artists. The curator can also personally ask artists who haven't put in submissions.
The curator this year is Valerie Connor who is a photographer, the theme is 'Golden Mountain'.
The idea of the Golden Mountain is the idea of those imaginary mountains of gold, conjoured up during the 'gold rush'. There are no mountains of gold; but because we've imajined them they do exist and there lies a paradox.
There is a competition open to students to do a video response to TULCA.
So that was all very interesting and Joanne went off, lovely to hear from her...but then John broke the news of another project to do with TULCA...aaaah! more details to follow. We will all be visiting TULCA main gallery next Monday and Joanna will be meeting us and giving us a tour which will be great, I'm looking forward to that-one of my favourite things is viewing art in situ.
We didn't have a lesson last week as it was a bank holiday; but we've had loads to do...of course!
The mind maps for the concepts for the Nailing down visions project. I took loads of notes and have come up with a few different ideas to explore. What to look at is the visual concepts that interest me and explore them with the view to having a piece and a statement at the outcome. I will put up the photo's asap; but I can't get them to load at the moment.
We have an extended deadline due to Tulca and due to the bank holiday...phew
This was the good news (extended deadline) the bad news was...another project! (surely there aren't enough hours in the day! -the workload is huge at the moment )
We had a talk from Joanna McGlynn who is the education coordinator with TULCA, she is an intern with them. TULCA is an art festival in Galway, running this year from 8-24 November.
I have volunteered to be an invigilator during TULCA, this basically just means keep an eye on the art installations in a particular venue, answer any questions if possible, report any problems and keep a tally of who visits. Joanna explained that it's the 11th year of the multi-venue festival. There are 47 artists taking part, there will be exhibitions, seminars, age related tours and talks.
For artists there is an open call for submissions in approx. August, the board and the curator choose the artists. The curator can also personally ask artists who haven't put in submissions.
The curator this year is Valerie Connor who is a photographer, the theme is 'Golden Mountain'.
The idea of the Golden Mountain is the idea of those imaginary mountains of gold, conjoured up during the 'gold rush'. There are no mountains of gold; but because we've imajined them they do exist and there lies a paradox.
There is a competition open to students to do a video response to TULCA.
So that was all very interesting and Joanne went off, lovely to hear from her...but then John broke the news of another project to do with TULCA...aaaah! more details to follow. We will all be visiting TULCA main gallery next Monday and Joanna will be meeting us and giving us a tour which will be great, I'm looking forward to that-one of my favourite things is viewing art in situ.
Statements and Practicalities and a new Project!
21/10/2013
I did read my statement out- I had imagined that I had an exhibition rather than just the one piece:
In this exhibition the artist has taken a thorough exploration of the question 'who do you listen to?'
We are submerged in a powerful stream of media, sometimes distracting, insidious, misleading, creative, insightful and surprising.
The exhibition at times redolent of 1984 and more extreme conspiracy theories seems to push, tease, lead and soften; merging and diverging in the rhythm only present in the human sub culture and connected world we now find ourselves in.
!!
There were varying views on the validity and purpose of artists statements. There are of course many examples of all sides to this discussion in practise today- artists vehemently opposed and speaking out against them, artists embracing them and writing lengthy statements and those just going along with it.
John was saying it is a valid thing to learn as we will have to write statements in a number of different situations, including:-
funding
talks
exhibitions
course applications ie masters
job applications
workshops etc
they may have to be written differently depending on who they are aimed at i.e. different ages, government body, general public etc they should usually be approx. 300 words long (mine is only 75 words!).
We then talked about the ins and outs and ups and downs of displaying work- the practicalities.....great picture above showing a 'suspension' method!
There are ways of working with glass, perspex, magnets, thread, latex compound, wires...
It is worth considering this as part of the making process.
We then met up with the other 2 groups in the main room and watched an episode of How Art Made The World. We had to take a lot of notes as this was the starting point (the initial inspiration) for a new project entitled 'Nailing Down Visions'. The episode that we watched was called 'The Day Pictures Were Born'. There were plenty of the beautiful cave painting to look at, which was a real treat. I'm not keen on the series in general; but I do really appreciate the access to the footage of the artworks...made me really want to see them first hand.
So now we need to start an investigative process...ideas, mindmaps etc to produce a body of work. More details will follow.
I did read my statement out- I had imagined that I had an exhibition rather than just the one piece:
In this exhibition the artist has taken a thorough exploration of the question 'who do you listen to?'
We are submerged in a powerful stream of media, sometimes distracting, insidious, misleading, creative, insightful and surprising.
The exhibition at times redolent of 1984 and more extreme conspiracy theories seems to push, tease, lead and soften; merging and diverging in the rhythm only present in the human sub culture and connected world we now find ourselves in.
!!
There were varying views on the validity and purpose of artists statements. There are of course many examples of all sides to this discussion in practise today- artists vehemently opposed and speaking out against them, artists embracing them and writing lengthy statements and those just going along with it.
John was saying it is a valid thing to learn as we will have to write statements in a number of different situations, including:-
funding
talks
exhibitions
course applications ie masters
job applications
workshops etc
they may have to be written differently depending on who they are aimed at i.e. different ages, government body, general public etc they should usually be approx. 300 words long (mine is only 75 words!).
We then talked about the ins and outs and ups and downs of displaying work- the practicalities.....great picture above showing a 'suspension' method!
There are ways of working with glass, perspex, magnets, thread, latex compound, wires...
It is worth considering this as part of the making process.
We then met up with the other 2 groups in the main room and watched an episode of How Art Made The World. We had to take a lot of notes as this was the starting point (the initial inspiration) for a new project entitled 'Nailing Down Visions'. The episode that we watched was called 'The Day Pictures Were Born'. There were plenty of the beautiful cave painting to look at, which was a real treat. I'm not keen on the series in general; but I do really appreciate the access to the footage of the artworks...made me really want to see them first hand.
So now we need to start an investigative process...ideas, mindmaps etc to produce a body of work. More details will follow.
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