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Belfast Exposed Photography: 2MOVE: Ireland : Curated by Si�n Hanrahan and Niamh Ann Kelly - 3 May 2008 to 2 June 2008 Current Exhibition |
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stills from Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (#17 & 31) (English version), 2001 |
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2MOVE: Ireland Curated by Mieke Bal and Miguel Hern�ndez-Navarro EXHIBITION OPENING: Saturday 3 May 2008 Belfast Exposed Photography from 1 - 3pm and Solstice Arts Centre, Navan from 6.30 - 8.30pm A free bus will travel from Belfast to Navan (return) for the evening event, please contact Sarah Thorn before 30 April to book a place. Contact details below. 2MOVE: Ireland presents an exciting range of video work by international artists exploring the connections between video, mobility, migratory culture and our contemporary world. 2MOVE: Ireland is part of a wider international touring project 2MOVE curated by internationally renowned cultural theorist and critic Mieke Bal and art historian Miguel Hern�ndez-Navarro. 2MOVE: Ireland will be exhibited across two venues in Ireland (North and South): the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan and Belfast Exposed Photography. For details of additional events (screenings and discussions) taking place in Belfast, please scroll to the bottom of this page. WHY Ireland has seen dramatic changes in the last decade, unprecedented economic growth and a reversal of the direction of migration � from emigration to immigration. We celebrate our diaspora and have begun to make sense of and respond to the complex social issues it can involve. As a society we now have a new phenomenon to make sense of, our increasing diversity. The international touring exhibition 2MOVE is timely in this regard and has the potential to make an important contribution to our changing self-understanding as a nation. Across Ireland, North and South, cities, towns and villages have become more heterogeneous. For example, music, cinema and news media have been enriched through variety. Meanwhile, migrants also change. Their double relationship to host and home country produces an aesthetic, which, in turn, further contributes to changes in the host countries and their cultural expressions. HOW This exhibition captures this contemporary multiple sense of movement � in the media and the art it makes, and in the social movement and the cultural �look� it brings with it. Taking video to be inherently connected to the migratory, the exhibition brings together a number of significant international video works. Connections between video and the culture of migration are explored � the sense of accessibility, experiment, novelty, and community. As Ireland and Northern Ireland are newly experiencing significant levels of inward migration, we hope the outcome of this exciting exhibition will be multi-layered. We hope that as well as enriching the Irish art scene, 2MOVE: Ireland will generate discussions within and beyond the art world about the significance of the cultural changes and opportunities our new experience of migration has to offer, and the kinds of response that it demands. WHAT The exhibition consists of 29 video works, the core of which is curated by Mieke Bal and Miguel Hern�ndez-Navarro. Most of these works are previously unseen in Ireland and explore a contemporary multiple sense of movement, both through the use of the moving image and the exploration of impacts of social movement and migration. We have included 3 works by Irish artists working on these subjects for the 2MOVE: Ireland exhibition. Critically, a series of events � gallery talks, workshops and documentary film screenings on migration � will take place alongside the exhibition. This will facilitate greater understanding of migration and the significance of Ireland�s new experience of cultural change and the kinds of responses that it demands. ARTISTS The ATLAS GROUP: Walid RAAD Gonzalo BALLESTER Ursula BIEMANN C�lio BRAGA CINEMA SUITCASE: Mieke BAL/Gary WARD/Michelle WILLIAMS Anne CLEARY and Denis CONNOLLY Conce CODINA Keren CYTTER Wojtek DOROSZUK Mona HATOUM Anthony HAUGHEY Samira JAMOUCHI Liza JOHNSON Farhad KALANTARY William KENTRIDGE Daniel LUPI�N Zen MARIE Michael MCLOUGHLIN Melvin MOTI Pedro ORTU�O Javier PIVIDAL Jes�s SEGURA Thomas SYKORA Roos THEUWS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2MOVE: Ireland is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Department of Social Development, Esm�e Fairbairn, Belfast City Council, Navan Town Council and Meath County Council and Limerick City Gallery of Art. Belfast Exposed would like to thank Belfast Film Festival and Northern Visions for use of the back space at 23 Donegall Street. 2MOVE is curated by Mieke Bal and Miguel Hern�ndez-Navarro. 2MOVE: Ireland is curated by Niamh Ann Kelly and Si�n Hanrahan. 2MOVE has been exhibited in Murcia Cultural in Murcia, Spain; Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands and Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway. Website: www.doublemovement.org. 2MOVE is co-produced by Zuiderzeemuseum and Murcia Cultural (Murcia Cultural S.A. and Consejer�a de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes). TEXT by: Si�n Hanrahan and Niamh Ann Kelly. FURTHER INFORMATION Sarah Thorn or Karen Downey, Belfast Exposed Photography, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast, BT1 2FF, Northern Ireland | [email protected] | T. +44 028 90230965 Solstice Arts Centre, Navan � T. +353 046 9092300 Niamh Ann Kelly � T. +353 086 3957680 ADDITIONAL EVENTS FILM SCREENINGS 14 MAY, 6PM, Studio Cinema, Waterfront Hall, Belfast Admission free Seaview Directed by Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley and produced by Maya Derrington (Ireland, 2007, 96mins) Premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in January, this long awaited film about asylum seekers living in a former Butlin's holiday camp at Mosney, Ireland, brings us intimate stories of trauma, fear of deportation and hope for the future. For more details visit: http://www.stillfilms.org/pages/ff_seaview.html 21 MAY, 6PM, Black Box Cafe, 18-22 Hill Street, Belfast Admission free 3 film screenings with introductions by the directors 12 Angry Films by Jesse Jones (Ireland, 2006, 36mins) A comment on issues of class, migration and labour in contemporary Ireland, produced by workshop participants contacted through trade unions and community networks. Silent Song by Alan Grossman and Aine O�Brien (Ireland, 2000, 15mins) A film about the Edinburgh-based exiled Kurdish composer Mohamed Abbas Bharam � one of many prominent Kurdish musicians residing in western Europe since the mid-1970s. For more information about this project please visit http://ctmp.dit.ie/ Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Excerpts of films by Anthony Haughey, Suzanne Bosch and Kevin Duffy, Aska Tarach and Jakub Widerek (2007, 18mins) Excerpts from a media participatory project produced in Belfast, Dublin and Cracow. PUBLIC DISCUSSION EVENTS 17 MAY, 2PM, Grosvenor House, 5 Glengall Street, Belfast (opposite the Europa Bus Station). A panel discussion in response to 2MOVE: Ireland Among the invited speakers will be the curators of 2move, Mieke Bal and Miguel Hern�ndez-Navarro. The discussion will extend the context and possibility for exchange in relation to the issues addressed within the exhibition, with contibutions from practitioners in the Arts, Law and Journalism. We hope this will contribute to developing a greater understanding of migration and the significance of Ireland�s new experience of cultural change and the kinds of responses that it demands both within and beyond the art world. - Niamh Ann Kelly and Siun Hanrahan, Curators, 2MOVE:Ireland. 2MOVE:Ireland is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. 27 MAY, 6PM, Black Box Cafe, 18-22 Hill Street, Belfast Belfast 2008: Protesting Deportations � What Next? In collaboration with the Refugee Action Group, Belfast Exposed has organised a panel discussion around the issue of UK deportation. The government has set out its agenda of strengthening the border and boasts that someone is deported from the UK every eight minutes. Belfast has recently witnessed and protested the unjust reality of the deportation of asylum-seekers which have a devastating effect on individual lives and communities alike. SPEAKERS Jane Pennington and Andy Kouzoukis, Unity Centre, Glasgow Paul Kazadi, asylum-seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo Anna Morvern, Refugee Action Group, Belfast John Zekry, former asylum-seeker and ex-detainee from Egypt Cassie McKeever, Refugee Action Group, Belfast Fionola Meredith, writer and broadcaster, Belfast Richie MacRitchie, P Drinan solicitors, Belfast Open to all, this discussion event will bring together participants from refugee support and anti-deportation campaigns in Belfast, Dublin and the Unity Centre in Glasgow. |
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