Performing the Moving Image: Artists, Critics and Curators in Conversation

Project Arts Centre; Gallery for One; Studio 6 @ Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
December 8-9, 2006.

Critical Voices 3 in association with MA in Visual Arts Practices (IADT), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and Project Arts Centre, presents screenings and panel discussions focussing on visual artists who direct, script and choreograph others in live action performed for the camera.

Friday, 8 December, 6.30pm
Venue: Gallery for One, 5 Scarlet Row, West Essex St, Dublin 8.
Launch screening of Intermittent – a programme of artists’ videos dealing with performance. Intermittent is a series of screenings curated by Vaari Claffey and Paul O'Neill for Gallery For One, where works are screened on a single channel monitor to be viewed by one person at a time. The series is being launched tonight with Oriana Fox's work Consciousness Understanding 'N Trust where the artist performs a number of roles and, using lip-synching and ventriloquism, puts the words of 1970s feminist artists (amongst others) into the mouths of a series of characters including 'Betty Crocker brunettes, soap-opera blondes, and airhead redheads'. As curator Risa Pulao writes 'These sources span four decades of feminist art making and thinking and are vastly different in intent, tone and attitude. Fox integrates them into a seamless conversation that is thoughtful, humorous and engaging.

8.30pm Dinner for all symposium participants and invited guests at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.

Saturday, 9 December, 11.00am
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Iwona Blazwick, curator, critic, art historian and Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London will be guest speaker at Performing the Moving Image: Artists, Critics and Curators in Conversation.
Her talk will centre on the Short History of Performance seasons, initiated in 2002. The most recent season, A Short History of Performance Part IV (1-14 April 2006) included daily screenings and talks by artists such as Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Judith Barry, Gerard Byrne, James Coleman, Isaac Julien, Barbara Kruger, Aernout Mik and Francesco Vezzoli.

The seminar continues until 6pm with contributions from Vaari Claffey and Paul O'Neill, the curators of Intermittent; Gerard Byrne, one of the artists featured in A Short History of Performance, Part IV; and a panel discussion chaired by Maeve Connolly, Head of the Dept of Film and Media, IADT.

Saturday, 9 December, 3.00 - 4.30 pm
Venue: Studio 6 at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Screening Programme
A selection of screenings that reflect and expand on the theme of the weekend, co-curated by MA Visual Arts Practices and Temple Bar Gallery and featuring work by (amongst others) Vivienne Dick, Peter O'Kennedy, Bea McMahon and Mark Wallinger.