Some exhibition openings this week. Jeremiah Day and Simone Forti exhibition News Animations / No Words For You Springfield at the Project on Thursday 27th at 6pm.
On Friday 28th at Pallas Contemporary Projects a solo exhibition by Paris-based Irish artist John Lalor opens at 6pm. Lalor’s work contains video, installation, poster/text, maquette building, and painting in multiples (the democratic paintings series), which reveal a linear landscape to the expense of the singular image. These include three new works, two of which are based on the Pallas gallery space. The artist’s texts are written in English and in French; his concerns are about making marks in an inexplicable universe, the significance of words and also journeys through painting, film and text.
The exhibition opening is preceded by a discussion between Jonanthan Lahey Dronsfield (Reader of philosophy-art Reading University London) and John Lalor at 5 pm in the gallery.
Nico, Lou Reed and John Cale in the Bataclan Club, Paris 1972.
What’s the connection between Calvin and Hobbes and Noam Chomsky? According to an Amazon email
We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: v. 1, 2, 3 (Calvin & Hobbes) by Bill Watterson have also purchased Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy: Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice by Noam Chomsky.
hmmm really?
O2 get into “guerilla” projection to promote the iphone, looks like they were illegally parked too why is there never a cop when you want one?
Spare a thought for the people of Longyearbyen in Norway, the northernmost town in the world who had their first sunrise since October recently. Looks like a cheery place if a bit reminiscent of Nói albínói.
D.A.T.A. No. 28 takes place this Thursday 13th March, 7.30-9.00, in it’s great new venue at The Science Gallery, Pearse Street.
Dublin. D.A.T.A. No. 28 will be, as usual, an informal gathering of interested parties, open to the public, where a group of invited speakers will present their art/technology practice and work-in
progress. This month we are delighted to have with us Michael Szpakowski, Charlie von Metzradt, Joan Healy and Sven Anderson. Admission is free and all are welcome
In some personal news I have started as a research scholar in the newly formed Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media ( GRADCAM ) working toward a PhD, my research interests are locative media, mapping and participatory art practice. Gradcam itself is an interesting collaborative initiative of national and all-island significance which builds on the expertise of the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), the National College of Art & Design (NCAD), the University of Ulster (UU), and the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire (IADT). Click here for more information.
This will undoubtedly mean some changes here at Stunned, I haven’t yet decided whether this will become a defacto research blog or whether I’ll set up another one for that. In the meantime I’ve added a research category and I’ll see how that goes.
Based in the New Theatre in East Essex St in Dublin The Progressive Film Club is a voluntary organisation dedicated to showing progressive films from all over the world. Focused on themes of struggles for people’s rights and social justice the initial line up includes some modern classics many of them never shown before in Ireland including I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2004), Fast Food Nation (2006), Days of Glory (2006), Venezuela Bolivariana (2004), West Beyrouth (1998) and Water (2005). Full details and screening times here
New proposals for the Dun Laoghaire Baths site have been revealed by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. On first look they look interesting, there are no apartments and no privatisation of the seafront and they will add considerable extra amenity to the area between the east pier ans Sandycove. As always the devil is in the detail and the detail in this case will include the cost, the land reclamation and the funding options. There will be public consultation so I’ll reserve judgement ’till then but it is good to see something happen.
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
