Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture

CORK FILM CENTRE

presents

PERIPHERAL VISIONS - 39 younger artists from 20 countries

Cork Film Centre invited curators Nigel Rolfe and Cliodhna Shaffrey to select 28 single-screen, projectable works from emerging video artists from across Europe and its periphery.
A further 11 emerging Irish artists were also be selected and mentored by Nigel Rolfe in the creation of new works. (see full list of participating artists below)

Exhibition:
The 39 works were screened at Cork Film Centre, with one artist featured per week.
All screened works are available for viewing on monitor in the Centre by arrangement.

Symposium:
Cork Film Centre's Peripheral Visions video art symposium took place at the Granary Theatre, Cork, between November 18th-20th. Held as part of the Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture events, it was the culmination of the Peripheral Visions exhibition, which consisted of thirty-nine one-week screenings of works by video artists from across Europe and the Middle East, including thirteen Irish video artists. Peripheral Visions was initiated by Cork Film Centre manager Chris Hurley and curated by Nigel Rolfe and Cliodhna Shaffrey.

The symposium brought together most of the artists involved, as well as providing the rare occasion for several prominent figures in video art curation and criticism to visit Cork and, more importantly, view work by a number of emerging Irish artists.

The first talk, entitled I Want to Smell Paint - the Life and Death of Video Art, was delivered by critic and curator Rob Perree. It was an autobiographically inflected consideration of the current state of video art, and its history. In between outlining the medium's transition from a marginalised, specialist discipline to its current art-world ubiquity, he showed interesting works from video's past.

This was followed by a round table discussion featuring master of ceremonies Nigel Rolfe and the Irish artists mentored by the Peripheral Visions project.

The second day began with a panel discussion titled Landscape and the Politics of Place, chaired by Mary McCarthy. Artists Ailbhe Ni Bhriain and Heike Baranowski discussed the thinking behind their videos and their practice. Christine Van Assche, chief curator of new media at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, discussed exhibition and archiving strategies for video art, detailing the impressive access that visitors have to the Pompidou Centre's collection. Critic Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith outlined the history of video practice in the Irish context. Artist Willie Doherty gave a presentation drawn from his distinguished body of video and photographic work dealing with politcial tensions in Northern Ireland.

The second day ended with a panel discussion on portraiture and personal space entitled Up Close and Personal and chaired by artist Eamon Colman. This involved curator and critic Sacha Craddock who discussed some of the problems of curation, artist Harold Offeh, who talked about the portrait in relation to his own work, and Rob Perree.

The final day opened with a round table featuring the Peripeheral Visions curators, Nigel Rolfe and Cliodhna Shaffrey, and the attending European Peripheral Visions artists. The symposium then closed with the keynote speech, Widening the Lens: New Transactions and Negotiations, delivered by Declan McGonagle. This was a wide ranging call for the (re)socialisation of art.

It is evident from reactions of those attending that the symposium was a memorably rich, intense and generally successful event.

LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

4 - 8th April: Jaume Simo Sabater I Garau (Spain) - "Cantaferro"
11-15th April: Anu Pennanen (Finland) - "A Monument for the Invisible"
18 - 22nd April: Tobias Ingles (Sweden) -"The Pier"
25 - 29th April: Ian John Coughlan (Ireland) - "Inheritance IV"

2nd - 6th May: Jaan Toomik (Estonia) - "Father and Son"
9th - 13th May: Zoe Brown (UK) - "Dad"
16th - 20th May: Niamh Lawlor - "Blind Man's Bluff"
23rd - 27th May: Deimantas Narkevicius (Lithuania) - "Energy Lithuania"

30th May - 3rd June: Marcus Vater (Germany) - "Modern Sculpture"
6th - 10th June: Michael Sheppard (Northern Ireland) - "Lineup"
13th - 17th June: Sharif Waked (Palestine) - "Chic Point"
20th - 24th June: Paulina Egle Pukyte (Lithuania) - "Assurement"
27th June - 1st July: Ciara Moore (Ireland) - "Bound"

4th - 8th July: Institute of Ape Culture (UK) - "Caveman"
11th - 15th July: Harold Offeh (UK) - "Smile"
18th - 22nd July: John O'Connell (Ireland) - "And In The End"
25th - 29th July: Irit Garty & Isaac Layish (Israel) - "Barrier"

1st - 5th August: Kjersti Sundland (Norway) - "A Dual of Giants"
8th - 12th August: Ben Reilly (Ireland) - "Familiar"
15th - 19th August: Kulli K. Kaats (Estonia) - "Avifauna"
22nd - 26th August: Barbara Brugola (Italy) - "Glowing Blue"
29th Aug - 2nd Sept: Martina Mullaney (Ireland) - TBA

5th - 9th September: Jespar Nerdhal (Latvia/Sweden) - "Crazy Girls"
12th - 16th September: Tom Price (UK) - "Man 5"
19th - 23rd September: Aissa Lopez (Ireland) - TBA
26th - 30th September: Haris Epaminonda (Cyprus) - "Nemesis 52"

3rd - 7th October: J. Tobias Anderson (Sweden) - "879 B&W" and "879 Colour"
10th - 14th October: Sandra Minchin (Ireland) - "In the end ..."
17th - 21st October: Heike Baranowsky (Germany) - "Out of the Blue)
24th - 28th October: Egle Rakauskaite (Estonia) - "In Honey" and "Another Breathing"

31st Oct - 4th Nov: Aine Phillips (Ireland) - TBA
7th - 11th November: Rose Eken (Denmark) - "Inner Speed"
14th - 18th November: Jananne Al-Ani (Iraq) - "Untitled"
21st - 25th November: Ailbhe Ni Bhriain (Ireland) - "Immergence"
28th Nov - 2nd Dec: Augustine O'Donoghue (Ireland) - "I am not afraid to speak out"

5th - 9th December: Renata Kudlacek (Czech Republic) - "I Wonder If You Wonder"
12th - 16th December: Mathieu Kudlacek (France) - "Burn the Heretics"
19th - 23rd December: DOBZ (Ireland) - TBA
26th - 30th December: Tellervo Kalleinen (Finland) - "White Spot"

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