Perdember 2nd Weekend

 

DEC 12-14

Friday Dec 12th 

8 pm

Creative Spaces

Organized by Aisling Ryan.

As part of an ongoing series that moves throughout Dublin, Creative Spaces presents spaces for creative experimentation for artists of all genres. The working concept of “no stage, no set list, no (traditional) audience” allows performers freedom from the constraints of scheduled performances. This event is not programmed and is open to musicians and performing artists. Email Aisling for more information - aislingcryan@gmail.com

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Saturday Dec 13th and Sunday Dec 14th 

Live Performance Sat Dec 13 at 7pm sharp

Sound Installation Open Sat and Sun, 2-7pm

Claire-Louise Bennett

The Surrounding

“Even on a hot day, even from a distance, you could see, as the handle of a wooden spoon lowered into a fresh tin, how cool it was. How cool the paint was, going across the walls.” 

The Surrounding is a story of place, it’s the story of the boundary that confines, conceals and protects place, it’s about being here and those walls there, it’s about psychical reach and the skin’s despair. It’s about brilliant white and French doors, it’s about the sudden appearance of ducks and emulsion paint drying on a cardigan sleeve, it’s about creosoting the fence and drawing the wind. It’s a constellation of consciousness, a network of sensory output, it’s about coming into a room and coming into being, it’s about you, it’s about you, it’s all about you, it’s everywhere and it’s moving in.     

The Surrounding is living text, vivified and transmitted by Claire-Louise Bennett. From the comfort of an armchair. In a room somewhere.

Come Back To Ireland

SATURDAY DEC 6

Perdember 1st Weekend

Thursday December 4th 

Doors open at 7pm- performance begins 7.30 pm sharp

Michelle Browne

Site-Specific Performance for thisisnotashop

Dublin artist Michelle Browne’s practice is fundamentally performance based. Her more recent work focuses on issues intrinsic to performance itself: the body, duration and the relationship between the viewer and the performer. She is interested in how social structures and the design of our environment impact on the way we live.  

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Saturday December 6th 

6pm – 10pm    /   9pm sharp for main event

Come Back to Ireland

An Evening of Silent Film With Live Irish Traditional Music

Presented by Davis Watson of Junto Rímur Films Featuring a live traditional music trio with Banba Fitzgerald on the Uilleann pipes At sundown the show will begin with a short silent film on loop from the 1930’s titled “Come Back to Ireland”.  Promptly at 9pm, a live trio of young Irish musicians will accompany a final projection of the film with an original arrangement of traditional tunes. A brief session will follow the performance.  To end the night, Davis Watson will screen a short presentation from his documentary work-in-progress on Uilleann pipers.  Banba Fitzgerald, one of the stars of the film, will close the event with a solo tune or two.

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Sunday December 7th 

5 – 7pm

Sunday Supper

The Urban Fires

Beating those December blues with winter coddle & a live music session with artists Neil Conlan (guitar/vocals), Aidan O’Donovan (percussion), Rory Conlan (saxophone), Neil McAvinia (electric guitar).  In an attempt to warm up a winters evening, the culinary talents of Paula Dempsey have been summoned to stir a little of Old Dublin’s flavors into a mix showcasing tracks from Neil Conlan’s debut album, Know This(www.neilconlan.com), with hints of laid back Blues, Folk & Reggae from the band. Neil’s philosophy is that “through music we can elevate consciousness, reconnect to the Gaian mind, draw more energy to humanity’s heart chakra, and take our place in the grand march to our destiny in the stars.” Space is limited, so come early to secure some hearty fare & tasty tunes.

Folka Polka

NOV 16-30

Helene Hortlund & Veronica Forsgren

Folka Polka

Preview Saturday Nov 15, 4:30-8 pm
Exhibition will be opened by the Swedish Ambassador Mr Claes Ljungdahl

Artist talk and open discussion
Sunday Nov 16, 2-4 pm
refreshments provided- please arrive early as space is limited

Opening Hours Wed-Sun 2-7 pm
Mon-Tue by appointment contact 086 8855645

Curated by Veronica Forsgren

This group exhibition sponsored by Swedish Women’s Education Association (SWEA) brings together the work of Swedish artists Helene Hortlund (Stockholm) and Veronica Forsgren (Dublin). The exhibition draws on the heritage of Swedish Folk Art in an exploration of the innate human need to decorate and beautify our close surroundings. Pushing the traditionally private work of adornment into the public sphere both artists use the creative process to mark out and become part of a territory. The imprinting of the intimate in the public space is a way to construct a place for oneself in existence.

Helene Hortlund graduated from the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 2001 with a Master of Arts Degree in Fine Art. Since then she has exhibited extensively throughout Sweden and received several scholarships as well as public and private commissions. Veronica Forsgren graduated from NCAD in 2007, where she obtained a joint Bachelors of Arts Degree in Fine Art and Art History. She was awarded SWEA’s culture grant in 2008 and recently had two solo exhibitions in St Margarets, Roundstone and the Bookcube Gallery, Dublin.

Folka Polka is an exhibition documenting public and performance art through the medium of photography and installation at thisisnotashop

Mark Grehan

OCT 31 – NOV 9

Occurrences (in the expanse between areas without variation)

Opening Thursday Oct 30th, 6pm-9pm
Exhibition Continues through Sunday Nov 9th
Open Wed-Sun, 2-7pm

To view exhibition outside of opening hours please contact Aideen at 086 0858779 or email thisisnotashop@gmail.com

Thisisnotashop is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by Dublin based artist Mark Grehan. Colours and lines are layered to form images where several spaces coexist within a singular picture plain. For the viewer an image that has an apparent balance reveals composition variations on further investigation.

Photography and image analysis are fundamental to Grehans practice. Gathering visual material on a daily basis Grehan explores this research using several computer programs. The results are then brought to the studio where they are introduced onto surfaces with paint and drawing materials. Without working towards a predetermined resolution the artist includes creative development within the artworks execution and in so doing opens the work up to alternative decisions and unforeseen outcomes.

Auralog

OCT 21-27

As part of DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) 2008:

Auralog

Anthony Kelly – Slavek Kwi – Seán McCrum – David Stalling
First Draft: Audio Postcards

Tue 21st – Mon 27th October
Open 4.00-8.00pm each day

Reception Thursday 23rd October
7.00-9.00pm

Auralog is a collaborative project by Anthony Kelly (Ireland), Slavek Kwi (Czech Rep), Seán McCrum (Ireland) and David Stalling (Ireland). This project is a collection of sound postcards, aural objects framed by silence, which seek to relate the sounds and timeframe of Newfoundland to the specific place of thisisnotashop and redefine the experience of space and time through electronic and actual sound.

During the investigation of a long-term project entitled Shorelines, Auralog travelled to Newfoundland in June 2008 to collaborate with a group of Canadian artists in the creation of numerous sound recordings. The Canadian artists, Angela Antle, Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Troake, will be sending their audio postcards as part of this event.

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Kate Minnock

OCT 3-12

Kate Minnock
in collaboration with Vera Klute
‘karkinoma’

Opening Thursday Oct 2nd, 6pm-9pm

Opening Hours Wed-Sun, 2-7pm
Other days/times by appointment, contact 086 8609831

thisisnotashop presents ‘Karkinoma’, an exhibition of new works by Kate Minnock in collaboration with Vera Klute. The title refers to the term first used by the Greek physician Hippocrates twenty-five hundred years ago to depict a tumor as a ‘muddled irritable cavity with spindly legs flaring out of control in all directions’. Fascinated with its evil animal-like appearance, he called it karkinoma, cancer, the Greek word for crab.

Minnock graduated from NCAD in 2003. Her current practice spans site-specific installation, digital & Fine Art print & drawing, focusing on the interdisciplinary area of art and science. This research-based exhibition was influenced by the work of Dr. Angel H. Roffo. His groundbreaking research was presented at the 2nd International Congress of Scientific and Social Campaign Against Cancer in 1936 to over 200 eminent cancer research specialists.

For this exhibition the artist has produced a limited edition artists book, using the format of a timeline, to highlight significant events relating to Roffo’s research. The book was created using original letterpress techniques at the National Print Museum. Printed as a blind deboss the deliberate, laborious yet meditative process of letterpress printing becomes an intrinsic element within the work.

The exhibition includes a collaboration by Minnock and Klute. Klutes work merges drawing, video, stills, and photography into collage like animations. The animation is based on the detailed drawings A.H Roffo used to accompany his pioneering research into the carcinogenicity of solar radiation. The animation will be back-projected onto the window of the gallery.

Dublin Culture Night 2008

Friday Sep 19
5pm-11pm

After the success last year, thisisnotashop is proud to again participate in Dublin Culture Night. Come down and enjoy the festivities with live music, refreshments, and workshops led by Wheels Beneath Toys artists Jessica Foley and Elva Carri.

For Culture Night Canabrism presents a screening of ‘uberglobule’ in the intimate setting of Thisisnotashop. The screening event features a variety of video, animation and custom imagery accompanied by a live mix soundtrack of Canabrism music. Running time is approx. 45 minutes and will commence at 9 pm.

For more information about Dublin Culture Night visit www.culturenight.ie

Jessica Foley and Elva Carri

The Dublin Fringe Festival 2008
SEPTEMBER 8-21

Wheels Beneath Toys

Opening Wed Sep 10, 7pm-9pm

Gallery Open Everyday 2-7pm from SEP 8-21

Two artists present an eclectic ensemble of paraphernalia generating a space to explore diverse aspects of childhood play. Foley’s work is a development of research, investigating playgrounds & play histories within the north Dublin Inner city, which manifests in a kind of pseudo-historical narrative through objects, drawings & audio tape recordings. Carri’s work explores the childhood activity of building huts as hiding places, the transformation of the object that occurs within children’s play and the benefits of being childlike as an adult.

August Off

We’re closing for the month of August to lay some brand new (beautiful!) floors in the gallery (many thanks- in fact all thanks to Robert Carr). We’ll open again in September for The Dublin Fringe Festival so be sure to come down then check out the improved space and our new SEP/OCT/NOV programme…

See you in September!