Broadcast is a public gallery situated in the Fine Art department of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Portland Row, Dublin 1.
The gallery supports the production, interpretation and dissemination of a broad range of activities within contemporary art practice, and creates a situation in which criticality can be integrated into the pedagogical development of fine art education. Programmed workshops and lectures run in correspondence with the concerns of the artist chosen to present work in the gallery, with a particular focus upon conceptual articulation of that work and the broader question of how artists occupy the space of research.
Broadcast provides a discursive space within its academic location and within the wider contemporary art community .
Established in November 2007, Broadcast has presented exhibitions, performances and developed projects with a diverse range of Irish and international practices and practisioners, such as Patrick Graham, Anja Kirschner, Slavek Kwi, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Michael Murphy, Chris Neumann, Sarah O’Brien, Garrett Phelan and Louisa Sloan.
Broadcast Gallery invites you to a "playtest" or open rehearsal using the "Body Response System", a multimedia tool that responds to movement.
The BRS is being developed by Maria Coleman (Ph.D. Researcher, School of Art, Design and Printing, DIT- http://vimeo.com/mariacoleman)
Freeplay will feature Saxophone/processing improvisations by Seán Óg (Ph.D. Researcher, School of Music, DIT- http://www.sean-og.com/) and dance improvisations by Niamh Condron (www.thistorsion.com)
MOVING DUBLIN is the premiere of a major new work; at once a filmic essay about contemporary Dublin, and a collection of photographs, essays and video works beautifully produced in a new hard cover edition.
For two years Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly moved around Dublin in every way possible : by car, taxi, bus, train, tram, bicycle and on foot. They met scores of Dubliners, and recorded dozens of personal accounts of moving through the city. They amassed a treasure trove of documents: video, photographs, interviews, sounds, stories. The result is Moving Dublin; a road movie, a picture book, and many other things. Above all Moving Dublin is a homage to the city that Lady Morgan once called her dear dirty Dublin.”
“A million everyday journeys course through the veins of Dublin, giving it life (or poisoning it?). These journeys range in scale and rhythm from the incessant flow of motorway traffic through the familiar trundling of a local bus journey right down to an early morning stroll around the block with the dog. This profusion of intersecting paths gives the place its form, carving roads, highways and public spaces. The impact of these journeys transforms lives, changes the face of the city, and resonates on a planetary level." Cleary/Connolly April 2009
Still from Moving Dublin
Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly both studied architecture in Dublin in the 1980s, before moving to Paris in 1990. After a lengthy collaboration with the French urban theorist Bernard Huet in the early 1990s, they developed a long-lasting interest in the filmed city. From 1999 to 2005 they produced a large-scale multimedia project, The Boulevard, inspired by the urban environment in which they live. Their work has been exhibited worldwide and has received several international awards. In 2006 they created a series of interactive video works, for Limerick City Gallery of Art. This project evolved into Pourquoi pas Toi?, a major solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2008. They were awarded a two year residency by South Dublin County in December 2006, through which Moving Dublin was produced.
Still from Moving Dublin
For further information go to Cleary Connolly Website or visit Broadcast's Website
In Limbo Mariusz Soltysik’s first solo show in Dublin is composed of three elements: drawings, sculpture and video. While each of these elements offer an individual reading they also convey a single thematic unity.
The drawings entitled A Theory of Inflatable Universes, or What Can Be Seen in Bubble Bath… have a dual function. On the one hand they reference the theory, formulated by Alan Guth and developed by Andriey Linde, of an early model of the universe, one that leads to the formation of what we understand today. On the other hand, they can be seen as an event one can observe in the bath tub. Through their elaborate form they constitute a kind of meditation on the course of creation, the multiplicity of theories and their inherent weaknesses. The series is both a tribute to great creators and geniuses and to their inability to fully explain phenomena.
The sculpture titled Vague Astronaut, or How to Get Lost (In Outer Space) is a tragic figure, alone and looking out to the sky, anxiously considering his sense of being lost. This is a reference to the state of affairs in our civilization acknowledging the current global crisis and aspects of faith and science. Like contemporary man, the figure is semi-transparent, indistinct, vague.
The video element places a focus on time. Broken-up pictures in slow motion suggest a direction of time that we basically do not know. Time is highlighted as an element we can only virtually control.
Through the work’s theme and name all three elements indirectly allude to the fact that the gallery space was once a convent building. In a nuanced reading Soltysik draws on Immanuel Kant’s statement: “I have to deny knowledge to make room for faith”.
Mariusz Soltysik lives and works in Lodz, Poland. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Lodz and Mons, Belgium. He exhibits regularly in Poland and has shown in Germany, Ireland, Italy, USA, India and Australia. Soltysik lectures at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz and was curator of the CamouFlash events in Lodz, Poland 2007, Dresden, Germany and in Poznan during the Mediation Biennale 2008.
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Broadcast is a public gallery situated in the Fine Art department of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Portland Row, Dublin 1.
The gallery supports the production, interpretation and dissemination of a broad range of activities within contemporary art practice, and creates a situation in which criticality can be integrated into the pedagogical development of fine art education. Programmed workshops and lectures run in correspondence with the concerns of the artist chosen to present work in the gallery, with a particular focus upon conceptual articulation of that work and the broader question of how artists occupy the space of research.
Broadcast provides a discursive space within its academic location and within the wider contemporary art community .
Established in November 2007, Broadcast has presented exhibitions, performances and developed projects with a diverse range of Irish and international practices and practisioners, such as Patrick Graham, Anja Kirschner, Slavek Kwi, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Michael Murphy, Chris Neumann, Sarah O’Brien, Garrett Phelan and Louisa Sloan.
The Broadcast Steering Group consists of:
Brian Fay, head of fine art department (Chair), Andrew Carson, student year 3 BA Fine Art, Mark Garry, lecturer fine art practice Anita Groener, lecturer/Programme Chair BA Fine Art Joe Hanly, lecturer fine art practice Jesse Jones, lecturer fine art practice Ronan MacCrea, lecturer fine art practice Anna MacLeod, lecturer fine art practice Linda Quinlan, lecturer fine art practice Liam Sharkey, technician sculpture workshop
Preview: 9 June 2008 18.00 – 20.00 (opens concurrently with D.I.T. FineGraduate exhibition)
Exhibition:10 - 14 June 2008, 10 am – 5pm and 16 – 19 June by appointment. Tel – 00 353 1 4024188
Patrick Graham: CRIT is an exhibition of rarely seen works on paper by Patrick Graham and an audio recording of a conversation between Graham and Ronan McCrea.
The works on paper are selected by McCrea and consist of sketches, notes, schemata and plans which Graham makes on a continual basis, constituting a massive reservoir of ideas and images from which Graham develops his paintings.
Counter-pointing this visual material, headphones in the gallery make available a recording of a conversation between the two artists in Graham’s Dublin studio conducted over two weeks in April 2008. Topics discussed include style, knowledge, art education, feminism and Graham’s artistic process. The title of the show CRIT will be familiar to anyone attending art school, an abbreviation for ‘critique’– and a pointer to a basic methodology of art education; talking about art.
The impetus for this exhibition was the meeting of Ronan McCrea and Patrick Graham while both were teaching on the Fine Art Course at D.I.T. in addition to the unique situation of Broadcast gallery with an educational context. It also marks the retirement this year of Graham from over twenty years teaching at D.I.T.
The artists have very different artistic sensibilities and cultural and generational references. The multidisciplinary structure of the course at D.I.T. brought them into contact and when discussing art in general or a student’s work in particular they disagreed on just about everything.
Patrick Graham, born in 1943 in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath currently lives and works in Dublin. He studied at N.C.A.D. between 1959-63. He has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally since the 1970s and was one of the most prominent Irish artists identified with the rise of Neo- Expressionism in the 1980s. Forthcoming exhibitions include Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin in October 2008. He is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles http://www.jackrutbergfinearts.com
Ronan McCrea, born 1969 lives and works in Dublin and studied at N.C.A.D between 1988-91. Recent projects include Medium (Corporate Entities) currently on show at IMMA and Medium (Upsidedown) at Gallery for One, Dublin. He is currently working on a project at Castleknock Educate Together School, Dublin and a PhD at University of Ulster, Belfast.
