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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are moving! Please look for new new articles <a href="http://showerofkunst.com/sok/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17043071431606694181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830226252293521369.post-19299677808982374742015-05-12T06:18:00.003-07:002015-10-29T06:30:49.968-07:00The Parallax View<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>The Parallax View<br>
</b></i><b>Alan Butler</b>, curated by Niamh Brown</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">12 December 2014 – 31 January 2015 </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Review by Jim Ricks</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the end of Alan Butler's solo exhibition, <i>The Parallax View,</i> loomed, on impulse I bought a same-day return ticket from Dublin to Limerick. Up far earlier than usual to catch a 10 o'clock, and in a half sleep, half caffeinated delirium, I decided to perform. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The performance took place on Twitter. I declared a very self-reflexive, so much meta, self-aware, double irony Live Tweeting of my v important trip that day. A few tweets in I declared the need for a hashtag. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Curated by Niamh Brown, the show pairs Butler and the University of Limerick Art Collections (ULAC). Ormston House's press clearly describes the overall approach:</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In this exhibition, the artist interweaves pieces from the collections with new works that have been produced through the outsourcing of labour to individuals and apps online, at various stages of the creative process.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The artist OR curator has used other artworks by other artists (University of Limerick Collection) in this exhibition. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/triptoparallaxview?src=hash">#triptoparallaxview</a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">— Jim Ricks (@therealjimricks) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealjimricks/status/557843947691982849">January 21, 2015</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From what I understand Brown constructed the plan and got both parties on board, then worked closely with Butler in the selection and production process. Srsly exciting stuff really. ULAC isn't something I previously knew anything about, although I'm not surprised at their existence. Butler's work is something I know a bit about. Old meets new, in actual fact.</span></span><br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2I9Nt1F5K4xMWAuF9oHmJWVIKe7YDPjnynNRBvK49Ff0tydJLnhu8Q9kthJ5l2_QFrNSkYE_bqVdv0ue6Tdi9KQhbwoVxD-hBR5zfBs5h_FRhv91pOms59_Tv4FTrbks9_VdqGN99dc8/s1600/alan-butler-2012-internet-uber-alles-rua-red-installation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2I9Nt1F5K4xMWAuF9oHmJWVIKe7YDPjnynNRBvK49Ff0tydJLnhu8Q9kthJ5l2_QFrNSkYE_bqVdv0ue6Tdi9KQhbwoVxD-hBR5zfBs5h_FRhv91pOms59_Tv4FTrbks9_VdqGN99dc8/s640/alan-butler-2012-internet-uber-alles-rua-red-installation.jpg" width="640"></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From the installation, <i>Internet </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Über Alles</i>, 2012 at Rua Red. Photo: Davey Moor.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But Alan Butler's work isn't something I'd find terribly easy to describe either. It is loud, colourful, borderline obnoxious, usually has some type of massive wall sticker installation, topical, current, often something is spinning, almost exclusively uses the internet to source information and often to produce results, is preoccupied with the cyber-political, and, I'd add, it is all done with a slightly jaded anarcho-comic bent to it all.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On <a href="http://www.alanbutler.info/" target="_blank">Butler's website</a> there is a single text which towards the end says this about his work:</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">작가의 작품들에서 인터넷이 가진 편재성은 그것이 개발국들에서 사는 우리의 삶 속에 편재함을 나타내고 있다. 인터넷 접속은 이제 전기나 흐르는 물처럼 산업과 일상 생활 모두에 필수적인 것으로 인식되고 있는데, 이에 대해 버틀러는 우리는 과연 실제로 우리가 생각하는 만큼 정보를 자유롭게 얻고 있는가를 묻고, 우리로 하여금 스스로 ‘그래서 이 많은 정보는 다 가져서 무얼 한단 말인가?’는 의문을 갖게 한다.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After several attempts to track down the English version (Butler suggested I <a href="http://www.sandfordlanguages.ie/courses/Evening/Korean" target="_blank">enroll in evening Korean classes</a>) Google told me Lane Booth [sic] of Temple Bar Gallery & Studios wrote the piece and that the above approximately means:</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“With the ubiquity of the Internet in the work of the author shows that it also omnipresent in our lives living in developed countries are. The internet is now recognized as essential to both industry and daily life, like electricity or running water, so for Butler is actually asking whether we really free to use information gained as much as we think, makes us ourselves, so a lot of information You mean one gajyeoseo is doing? "is wondering.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aside from gajyeoseo, I get the gist. His work isn't about the internet, but an incidentally practical product of it.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The title of <a href="https://twitter.com/alan_butler">@alan_butler</a>'s show, Parallax View, is borrowed from a Slovaj Žižek book. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/triptoparallaxview?src=hash">#triptoparallaxview</a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">— Jim Ricks (@therealjimricks) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealjimricks/status/557850355611226112">January 21, 2015</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A book Frederic Jameson describes as a "theoretical variety show.". <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/triptoparallaxview?src=hash">#triptoparallaxview</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Parallax View </i>is also the title of a 2006 Slavoj Žižek book. Žižek ambitiously tries to update dialectical materialism or at least lend it to contemporary politics theoretically. Both Butler and Žižek are referring to the effect that occurs when an object is viewed from different positions. Most commonly this term is used in photography, usually with a viewfinder camera at close range, to describe the gap between what the viewfinder sees and what the lens is capturing. Or with film/video, as the viewpoint moves from side to side, the objects in the distance appear to move more slowly than the objects close to the camera. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are other examples: in astronomy stars have different relationships to each other as the Earth moves in its orbit, but in general parallax is a difference in the apparent position of an object. It is this gap, this different perspective, that Butler is ultimately describing with his show. I think it can be further interpreted as a gap in time, highlighted through technology, with which the artist is playing.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the gallery entrance we are greeted by a desk and body behind it. A temporary wall has been built, partitioning the normally open and capacious space. It leads us through a short, narrow entrance passage. We know we are in an Alan Butler show because in this passage there is an inexplicably large wall mural sticker featuring piles of iPhone 4s. Only the backsides are revealed, perhaps hinting at the camera functionality of this ubiquitous device. A more traditionally sized digital print is hung on top (a Martin Parr remake it turns out). Much is happening in it, I am curious, so walk on into the main space.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He selected works from the ULAC I'm guessing for the anticipated political, visual, and, occasionally, personal potential in making his knock-offs. Thin banners drop from the ceiling. Historical paintings hang. Videos play. Sculptures spin. In the back corner, the curators curate next to a large space heater.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pairing the dusty collection with new solutions available from sites like fiverr.com or by emailing a painting factory in China, Butler is making comparisons. A video collage based symbolically on a very Socialist Realism style painting, complete with glorified industry and presumable 'leaders' plays centrally. There is another video with tweets about Damien Hirst, a work he couldn't borrow. An Adobe Illustrator 'how to' YouTube video is placed aside its inspiration: a Hokusai print. Old Japanese Kimonos hang side-by-side 'all over' digitally printed t-shirts, rainbow covered in emojis. These clothing 'resemblances' are the biggest stretch in the show, and I don't think they work as artwork (although pretty damn cool just as t-shirts). </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Siobhán Hapaska is one of the few contemporary pieces selected from ULAC. Its mixed materiality lends to interesting interpretations. The original has a stuffed bear(?) on the back of a clay reindeer, which bears a fuzzy puff-ball hat and a red nose. Butler 3D scanned it twice, once through a display case, and 3D printed it in a synthetic bronze plastic. He positions Hapaska's high on plinth some distance from the new versions. These spin, placed below eye level, and we are free to observe all sides easily. It is a study in distortion. Soft materials reconstructed as solids. Limitations in how the 3D scanner 'knew' the original are revealed in both takes.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But Butler's corner installation steals the show. Working from the same methodological premise, but with an encompassing exactitude. This piece <i>TF;DG (Too Far; Didn't Go)</i> summarises the entirety of the show's concept perfectly. Butler has installed one of his signature vinyl wall sticker pieces. Broad stripes of the Google colours of red, yellow, blue, and green ascend to the ceiling, the iconic Google Maps pin is placed in a rhythmic pattern forming a lurid wallpaper that wraps around the corner of the recessed gallery nook. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">— Jim Ricks (@therealjimricks) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealjimricks/status/557885609537458176">January 21, 2015</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Scattered across the Google field are a number of pairings, 13 to be exact or a total of 26 works. A painting of, almost exclusively, Dublin is paired with a watercolour, made in China, of a Google Maps screen grab of the same location. Taking landscape works of unknown historic or economic value and filtering them through Google's literal lens and then again through the hands and eyes of an anonymous factory worker (artisan?). The layers add up. The title has sarcastic bite (especially considering the fact that many of Butler's Dublin peers would have not made it to this Limerick exhibition). And it is an apt portrait of today, at least in the Developed/Post-Modern/First World: technology's screens provide a surrogate reality to the global privileged, and actual production of goods has moved to, and created a new reality for, the former/semi-colonial world.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The show is essentially an exploration of divergence through market exchange. And while through the constant comparisons and translations new contemporary 'accents' come through, it should be said, and just to be kinda critical, the selections of works in ULAC and the imitative responses Butler created seem repetitive and arbitrary at times.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Early indications point to the show being "a successful" and "good" one. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/triptoparallaxview?src=hash">#triptoparallaxview</a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">— Jim Ricks (@therealjimricks) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealjimricks/status/557905512839516160">January 21, 2015</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Parallax View</i> was diverse and utilised heterogenous strategies for outsourcing and producing imitations from an interesting, under-resourced University collection. The overall visual style was immersive and invigorating. It was accessible in its use of popular references. <i>The Parallax View</i> conquers the unwieldy, glassy, and high ceiling-ed space of Ormston House. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And significantly,</span></span> it was fun, covering a range of mediums and solutions to the 'problem' Niamh Brown and Alan Butler set forth. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The varied strategies to reproducing the collection knowingly yield flawed and foibled knock-offs, all filtered through the lens of Butler's outsourcing and political knowledge. It is cheap, crass, and cheeky, and I mean that in a good way. It is also the kind of idea that has legs and could go on forever, but I also hope it doesn't. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Definitely not TF; and I Did Go. And I did very much enjoy my <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23triptoparallaxview&src=typd" target="_blank">#triptoparallaxview</a>.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looks like another on time <a href="https://twitter.com/IrishRail">@IrishRail</a> train. The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/triptoparallaxview?src=hash">#triptoparallaxview</a> was a-OK. Its a wrap everyone. Thanks.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">— Jim Ricks (@therealjimricks) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealjimricks/status/557925800260153344">January 21, 2015</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Artist unknown<br />Limerick</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">April 2015</span></span><br />
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<br />Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17043071431606694181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830226252293521369.post-43064650594613414142015-01-20T15:33:00.001-08:002020-08-05T13:13:29.813-07:00Lacuna in Parallax<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lucy
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A train journey south towards Limerick
on an overcast day brought me to Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Rising out
of a wholly typical Irish place (and its pubs, takeaways, banks,
butchers, Norman tower house, slow moving river, etc.) was the
completely unexpected, substantial zinc-clad trapezoid edifice of The
Source. Minus the apparently unsustainable cafe, it appears to be a
rare exception to the prevalently mediocre Tiger-era county art
centres.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Behind a massive sliding door lies a
blacked out gallery. The lighting takes immediate significance. The
artist, Lucy McKenna, created an atmospheric installation by way of a
pragmatic stellar microcosm; tiny luminous points hovering
individually in front of, or over each of her works.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The exception to this is the large
sculptural piece titled <i>Bridge</i>. Light emanates from within the
descending cylinder of golden metallic beads, installed centre stage.
Perhaps it is a nod to Hollywood science fiction, a Star Trek
transporter or even a stargate. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A golden disc projected through space
and time, individual atoms of light held together through glimmering
strings, it becomes the metaphorical sun. McKenna's show becomes
heliocentric. And while I'm sure this is actually a symbolic
reference to metaphysics or the Einstein-Rosen-bridge, I can't help
but think this piece is largely decorative.</span></span></div>
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Hadron Collider-like, if you will. Some are wall mounted discs. Other
sculptural ones are positioned on the floor. Collectively this visual
presentation points to an underlying fascination with symmetric
patterns occurring in nature, physics. The human intervention,
repetition of these celestial 'shards', creates a sense of order and
pattern, and, in particular the curved-bottom grounded constructions,
recall baskets and bead work. The interstellar strung together.</span></span></div>
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projected high on the gallery's long wall. The footage of trees and
flowers is filmed at Montpelier Hill in Dublin, a site of apparent
frequent UFO sightings. A mirror effect is applied, and a layered,
echoey voice-over recounts a story of a nocturnal invader. Although
my first reaction was to cringe at a tale of real human abuse, no
doubt the product of a post-Murphy-Report Ireland, the repeating
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drawings have this same shape, only removed like a missing piece of a
puzzle. These, in contrast, are static. They are <i>NGC 346</i> and <i>LH 95</i>,
drawn from photos of of gaseous nebula from 'neighbouring' galaxies
recorded from light traveling hundreds of thousands of years. The
sense of time is heightened with McKenna's own investment of time.
The dark matter of graphite is capable of holding the viewer. [Insert
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This same shape is repeated thrice in a
triptych, this time photographs clearly digitally stitched together
from Google Maps imagery. These earthward looking images are local,
coming from a period of research in the immediate area before the
exhibition. All feature ring forts within a patchwork of towns,
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Parallax</i> become distinct. One is with the artists research in Thurles
around early Middle Age structures and looking downward on them
through satellite photography. The other deals with looking upward,
outward to the skies above. Both are connected by considering the
passage of time. Distant star's light takes thousands, millions of
years to arrive to Earth, emanating before our worldly ruins were
even begun and visible only to us today. And how little we know about
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belted to the wall serve as the accompanying gallery text, <i>Notes on
Perception, Reality and Ringforts</i>, while functioning also as
installation. The (slightly difficult to read) text expounds a number
of the artist's teleological musings and citations ranging from
string theory, 'fairy forts', symmetry, kaleidoscopes, perception,
time... It is essential to the exhibition, adding value to the works
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of The Source, the shape of McKenna's show is well rounded. She
explores a number of themes within, from the local to the
intergalactic, presenting them with polish, and handling the space
adeptly through this multidisciplinary installation. Unfortunately, I
feel the earthbound works on their own explore previously trodden
territory. And those kaleidoscopic, from 'out of this world', are
somewhat... distant. Both become background to the series of
drawings, so deftly executed and gorgeous, manifested through a rare
moment of collaborative focus between artist and scientist. </span></span></div>
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</span></span>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17043071431606694181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830226252293521369.post-80510299378606263352014-06-24T12:07:00.000-07:002014-10-28T08:20:02.775-07:00What the devil is the Dublin Biennial?<style type="text/css">P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }</style>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>What
the devil is the Dublin Biennial?</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by
Jim Ricks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">24
June 2014</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
second Dublin Biennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Art
closed its 12 day showing on Sunday. Seemingly coming from ‘nowhere’
(i.e. not from the expected channels of arts production and
dissemination) in 2012, it was met by many members of the Visual Arts
community almost universally with condemnation. “It’s a scam”
was the most common reaction. But why? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Actually,
the answer is very simple. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's
not a Biennial.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Installation view with Guggi's <i>Pots</i> to the left and Andrew Duggan's <i>NAMA Bear</i> to the right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes,
of course it is happening every 2 years, with plans for one in 2016.
And in the literal meaning of the word biennial, like the variety of
plants, it does just that. But Biennial or Biennale (WITH CAPITAL
B’s) is a broader phenomenon in the art world, particularly in the
last 20 (give or take a few) years. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Venice Biennale was the first and continues to set the standard and,
to some extent, the definition of a Biennial. Although it is more of
an Olympics format, with individual artists or groups selected for
national representation, ‘competing’ for awards and prestige.
However, the likes of the Berlin Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Glasgow
International, Manifesta, etc., etc. and now EVA in Limerick are
probably good examples of what the Visual Arts community thinks of
when they hear Biennial: a single, non-commercial, large–scale,
themed, and curated exhibition taking place over multiple venues with
both selected artists and those chosen from an open submission. Other
variations exist: those taking place less or more frequently, or
those in a single venue, like the Whitney Biennial. The other key
aspect of these events is regional and even national cultural cachet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Chocolate</i> by Conor Walton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Dublin Biennial was founded by its now Director/Curator Maggie Magee.
Using the names ‘The Dublin Biennial 2014’ and the ‘Dublin
Biennial Pop-Up’, this year it was housed in “a 15,000 ft space”
in a few disused shops, ‘slack spaces’ in a shopping centre hit
hard by the recession. Boasting its international credentials, the
website states that “55 Artists were selected to exhibit
representing 21 countries: Australia, Armenia, Brazil, Bolivia,
China, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Iran,
India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, UK, and the
USA.” While the Dublin Biennial did manage a surprising number of
‘big names’ (Nigel Rolfe, Sonia Falcone, Gavin Turk, Rachel
Joynt, Stephen Loughman, Guggi, Meadhbh O’Connor, etc.), it is
doubtless the scale of the exhibition vis-a-vis its showy title
remains problematic. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What
really struck a chord with the Visual Arts community were the entry
and exhibition costs required of participating artists. Keep in mind
that both Dublin City Council and the Department of Arts, Heritage and
the Gaeltacht allocated public funds to around the tune of €10,000
total for this exhibition. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
application form reads: “Submission fee of €25/$33 is applicable
per artwork entered. Entrance fee of €980/$1350 is applicable per
artist selected to exhibit.” A submission fee is really quite
common practice and is asked regularly of artists, but the “entrance
fee” is quite out of the ordinary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"It
really was startling to hear the minister celebrate what had been
achieved ‘on a shoestring budget’ when the bulk of the costs had
been passed on to the participating artists.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">i
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– <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Declan
Long, Lecturer at NCAD and Critic</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There
are of course rental fees to exhibit in stalls at commercial art
fairs, many charging into the 10’s of thousands. But these are what
they say on the tin: commercial fairs for galleries to sell their
artists' work. The fairs in exchange provide the display space, but
importantly attract the buyers, and press; the footfall. Rental fees
vary dependent on the status and location of the fair. It appears
that in a way, Dublin Biennial is challenging the prevalent market
model by offering its service directly to producers and bypassing the
middle man. I can only conclude that the Dublin Biennial is a small
art fair. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And
that it's not a Biennial.</span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The
[Entrance fee] money is obviously a stinker, but what leveraged those
fees was the notion of an international biennial. It exploited the
self-interests of certain artists and it hoodwinked a few
politicians. The real shock for me was in seeing just how
superficially the notion of a biennial was able to be appropriated,
and just how quickly its symbolic capital was rolled-out, revealed as
a turd, and then exhausted.<br><br>My fear is that the Dublin
Biennial creates a scorched earth for other attempts to develop
ambitious projects in Dublin with a similar vocabulary (but with a
wish list of being critically-minded, well-budgeted,
internationally-enabling, institutionally-mischievous). There needs
to be another language for all of this. Perhaps that’s where it
starts?” </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gavin
Turk's <i>Refuse</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
had the chance to ask Maggie Magee a few questions about the Dublin
Biennial last week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What
got you personally interested in this project? And in
contemporary art?</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br>I’ll
just dive in with a bit of background: BFA - Painting and Multimedia
at NCAD (a long time ago!); MFA - School of the Art Institute in
Chicago; Film/Video/Performance. I worked in the Film/Video/Motion
Graphic industry in Chicago for many years. Producing a number of
short films and documentaries (including Brian's
Wilson's Smile and Pet Sounds documentaries).
Throughout the ‘film period’ I always painted and exhibited my
works.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Can
you tell us some background on the project? When did you start
working on it? where did the idea come from?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over
the years I had met numerous international artists who were
interested in exhibiting works in Ireland (as I was myself!) However
there didn't seem to be any venue for ‘unknown’ artists to
exhibit here and gallery rosters were already at capacity. That's
where the idea of a pop-up came from. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
proceeded to look for funding, unsuccessfully, and then decided to go
ahead on my own. Putting a ‘small group show together’ and
divvying up the cost of participation, the ‘small group show’
soon became 55 artists and that's when the inaugural happened in
2012.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Do
you have relationships or partnerships with other arts organisations
or galleries in Dublin? </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately
at this point we don't have relationships with other galleries
or organizations in Ireland, it's something that we would like to
foster – and hopeful will after this exhibit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Where
do you see the Biennial going in the future? Is this something that
you see getting much bigger?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'd
really like to see the 'Biennial' evolve and become a multi-venue art
festival in Dublin and fostering relationships with other
organizations is key to that growth. And, I believe it will
grow because there is so much enthusiasm and support for the show -
both by the artists and the public. It's encouraging to see so
many people engage with the art – Sonia Falcone's Campo de
Color is the most photographed work in Ireland! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Biennial works I believe for a number of reasons... because of the
wide range of works on exhibit, how accessible those works are,
and because the show exists outside the confines of the
'Gallery/Museum' walls. Exhibiting outside the traditional
'art-space' is also something that appealed to a lot
of the participating artists. For instance for Andrew
Duggan, Meadhbh O’Connor, Belinda Loftus, and Sonia Falcone the
opportunity to engage with an audience that wouldn't normally visit a
gallery or museum. Also, the Conversations Series attracts interest,
this year's the conversations are geared to environmental issues. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How
do you see the Biennale in relation to other arts organisations,
festivals, and fairs (Vue at the RHA, Kilkenny Arts Festival,
Eva in Limerick, Tulca in Galway, etc.) in Ireland?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Biennial is a 'start-up'/'one-woman' organization so it's difficult
to compare it to more seasoned and funded organizations like the RHA,
EVA, Kilkenny, Tulca – all of which I greatly admire and would
aspire to learn from and perhaps even partner with in the future. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How
is the art collecting scene in Dublin? Do you think that it is
changing? Is the Biennale consciously taking part in this
conversation?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes,
I think it is changing. The Biennial doesn't charge a commission and
there's been a lot of interest in works. We've sold some work and
hope to sell more at the Closing/Silent Art Auction this
weekend. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What
about the name itself? It seems to be a sore spot for some
in the art world here. With EVA billing itself now as 'Ireland's
Biennial' and the general assumption that a biennial is something
that is less commercial and more looking towards the international,
curated by a 'big name' across a number of venues or in a massive
space (like Dublin Contemporary), with artists fees and new
commissions, etc... do you see the name Dublin Biennial as a problem?
Is it misleading? Or is it an ambition?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In
terms of the name 'Dublin Biennial', yes I agree it's both
problematic and an ambition with the hope that it will develop
into a multi-venue exhibition or be in a huge space like the
Contemporary. Consider though again what the costs would be
related to that scale of show, and the addition of a ‘big
name’ international curator. As I've said, the basic
concept of the Dublin Biennial was to create a sustainable
international show – one that could become a mainstay in the visual
arts calendar, and a support for art and artists in Ireland. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
am really hopeful that with the issues raised by the Dublin Biennial
we can move forward with an open dialogue on how to best develop and
present DB16.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also,
Irish artists and artists resident in Ireland have never paid any
[Entrance] fees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Hurting </i>by Zhi Xinxin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So,
it's not a Biennial. At least not yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>It's
good for Ireland to have new voices coming in... There's space in
Ireland for new ways of doing things, and voices from outside the
systems. Is the Dublin Biennial headline over ambitious? Not if it
grows into it. But can the event keep that position as a new voice
within the conversation if it continues, expands and becomes an
institution itself? I don't know.”</i></span></span></div>
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– <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gemma
Tipton, Critic</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fair
play to Magee, this is a ‘one-(wo)man band’. It is enterprising
and ambitious, and definitely bold and cheeky. But I think if the
Dublin Biennial is to grow and live up to its aspirations, it should
not remain static. Of course it could stay a small art fair with an
eclectic combination of artists representing themselves. And it can
legally retain its name while it does so. The very real risk here is
that it becomes increasingly marginalised from the Irish and
international contemporary art scenes. And that an unpleasant and
unproductive stand-off takes place. I’d predict also further outcry
and protest by the Visual Arts community and its institutions in this
scenario. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alternatively,
and what I would love to see, is an earnest effort to grow this dream
of a Dublin Biennial. Connecting into the existing arts
infrastructure in Dublin; a little joined up thinking! I’ve always
wondered why events like EVA and Tulca, events that connect our
existing resources and show them off (also like Visit and Culture
Night on a different scale) couldn’t be grown into a month, or more,
long city-wide Biennial? An exhibition that could potentially be
shown in, and in conjunction with everyone. Combining resources.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
IMMA’s, The Hugh Lane’s, The National Galleries; and the Temple
Bar Galleries, Project Arts’s, The Douglas Hyde’s; to the Block
T’s, Pallas’s, Basic Space’s, the IMOCA's. A single, non-commercial,
large–scale, themed, and curated exhibition taking place over
multiple venues with both selected artists and those chosen from an
open submission. In Dublin. Every 2 years. Adding up existing
resources and skills. The pay-off is potentially huge for everyone,
without the huge payout. A united Dublin artworld. “Can you count,
suckers? I say, the future is ours... if you can count! Can you dig
it?”<span style="font-size: x-small;">**</span> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">An
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Be sure to listen to the rest of Declan Long’s June 13th “Dublin
Biennial review” on RTÉ’s The Arena:
<a href="http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arena/podcasts/">http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arena/podcasts/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**
From Cyrus’s speech in <i>The Warriors</i>, (Walter Hill, 1979)</span></span></div>
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