A Malin Head to Mizen Head Approach; Susan Lynch MA AIP opening 6pm 24th May 2012. PS2, Belfast

In February and March 2012, Belfast based artist Susan Lynch, walked from Malin Head, Co. Donegal to Mizen Head, Co. Cork over the course of a month. The walks were undertaken with her ambition to create an opening for encounter, connecting with people, context and site while passing through and sharing the experience with a wider audience by blogging, sms and through the media. No archaic mud- or stone circles here or contemplated imagery, but everyday communication means.

 This installation uses visual media to reflect and translate different aspects of the work from the physical experiential nature of the walking and places to the visceral relationships developed during the process. An installation which uses light as a medium to convey feelings of home coming, shelter, rest and the structure of a tower as a distant object of the destination. Within these silent markers, the text messages, printed out and pinned to the wall, function as lifelines of support, connections and voices in the isolation of the walker.

This is the third of Lynch’s long-distance walks, having walked from Belfast to Newry and Belfast to Galway in 2011. Her interest in encounter and public art practices have developed over the last two years on the MA course ‘Art in Public’ at the University of Ulster

http://susanlynchwalks.wordpress.com/

 

AIP Julie Miller; Making Something Small Happen. TRACT 4; A love of Baking – Baking for the bus.

Art in Public: Julie Miller

Making Something Small Happen.

TRACT 4;  A love of Baking

This is the 4th in a series of tracts and events exploring the artist as evangelist.

http://makingsomethingsmallhappen.wordpress.com/

 

Art In Public cohort present at VICINITY, Catalyst Arts, Belfast: 23rd March 2012

VICINITY: MA Art in Public

MA Art in Public, University of Ulster

Employing a strategy of “walking as research”, with Catalyst Arts as the hub of a circle of one mile radius, participants from the MA Art in Public course at the University of Ulster have charted a route through the streets of Belfast.  This circumferential journey intersects a wide variety of city neighbourhoods, ranging from Queens University quarter in the south, west via Donegal Rd. to the Falls and Shankill, intersecting the Crumlin and Antrim Roads in the north of the city, through the docklands and the Short Strand before completing the circuit by way of Ravenhill Road and Ormeau Park.

Along the way, the artists have used a wide variety of methods to document their experiences and encounters, including visual documentation, found objects, collected sound tracks and recorded interviews.  The outcomes of this exploratory journey will be presented at the Art in Public Lab in the Catalyst Gallery.  During the exhibition, members of the public are invited to join artists Marie Flaherty and Rob Ireson on a painting/drawing or guerrilla sculpture walk, retracing sections of the route.  As the name suggests, the Lab will be the site of on going action research, and visitors to the gallery will have the opportunity to add their own impressions to this multi-media montage.

MA Art in Public 2011 cohort is:

Astrid Bin, Séamus Dunbar, Marie Flaherty, Suzan Inan, Rob Ireson, Clara Kane, Sarah MacKeever

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Scholarship potential for MFA Art In Public (Belfast) for applicants from R.O.I.

Scholarship potential for MFA Art In Public (University of Ulster) for applicants from ROI.

Universities Ireland, which promotes collaboration between universities in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), the largest energy company on the island of Ireland, are offering five scholarships to students undertaking a recognised Master’s or the first year of a PhD programme (taught or research) in the other Irish jurisdiction.  One of which may be in the subject area of arts.

The closing date for applications for this scholarship scheme will be Friday 25th May 2012 (5 pm).

The closing date for MFA Art in Public application is 1^st May 2012 however to be able to timely apply for this scholarship it is recommended you apply sooner.

The winning applicants will be selected by a high level panel comprising two university presidents (one from the North, one from the South) and a senior executive from ESB. Shortlisting will take place in early-mid June.

More info: http://www.crossborder.ie/news/energy-engineering-arts-and-other-subjects-2012-northsouth-postgraduate-scholarships-scheme-opens/

 

MFA AIP student Susan Lynch walks Malin Head to Mizen Head. 20 Feb – 20 Mar: ‘art as encounter’ follow her blog:

Susan Lynch : A Malin Head to Mizen Head Approach
20th Feb – 20th of March | Public artist Susan Lynch is walking from Malin Head Co. Donegal to Mizen Head Co. Cork in five sections over a 30 day period. The work explores walking as an art practice and develops through chance encounters that occur along the way. She is undertaking it as part of her masters project for the MA Art in Public, University of Ulster Belfast. The walk is live via Lynch’s blog | www.susanlynchwalks.wordpress.com [1] | [1] http://www.susanlynchwalks.wordpress.com

Cahal McLaughlin will be guest artist on the MFA Art in Public: 27th Feb.

Cahal McLaughlin : MA Art in Public : 27th Feb

Cahal McLaughlin will be guest artist on the MA Art in Public on the 27th Feb.

 Room 82D27 – please be there for 10.10am

MFA FINE ART students also very welcome – useful to anyone broadly working with film and video and anyone whose practice relates to working with people, recording stories, dealing with contested situations - representations and histories. 

Cahal is a documentary filmmaker and lecturer. He has directed and prduced documentaries for broadcast and community groups and began his academic career in 1997 at Royal Holloway University of London. His recent research includes the Prisons Memory Archive

He has just published a book ‘Recording Memories from Conflict: a filmmaker’s journey’ which offers fantastic insight into the ways of working he develops for this area of practice.

Some of his publications / films:

McLaughlin, Cahal (2010) Recording Memories from Political Conflict: A Film-makers Journey. Intellect, Bristol. ISBN 9781841503011

McLaughlin, Cahal (2009) Cold, Hungry and Scared: Prison Films from the Troubles. In: Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture. Syracuse University Press, pp. 35-53. ISBN 13-978-0-8156-3203-0

McLaughlin, Dr. Cahal (2009) Unheard Voices: Stories from the Troubles (DVD). [Digital or visual media]

McLaughlin, Cahal (2007) Under the Same Roof. In: Contested Spaces: Sites, Representations and Histories of Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 233-247. ISBN 978-0-230-01336-0

McLaughlin, Cahal (2005) Inside Stories: Memories of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison. [Digital or visual media]

McLaughlin, Cahal (2004) Filmic representations of the British-Irish conflict since the ceasefires of 1994. In: Relocating Britishness:. Manchester University Press, pp. 237-251. ISBN 0 7190 7026 0

McLaughlin, Cahal (2004) Telling Our Story: Recording audio visual stories from political conflict. In: Keeping it Real: Irish Film and Television. Wallflower Press, pp. 100-110. ISBN 1-903364-94-9

McLaughlin, Cahal (2002) We Never Give Up. [Digital or visual media]

MFA AIP – Radius of Art

MA Art in Public Participating in “Radius of Art” Conference, Berlin
On 8th-9th February 2012, the MA Art in Public students, staff and alumni Alice Burns, Ciara O’Malley, Julie Miller, Susanne Bosch and Fiona Whelan will attend the conference “radius of art” at the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Berlin.

The MA Art in Public (Belfast) is invited to do two creative interventions and host a presentation session. Susanne Bosch will facilitate a workshop on ‘Evaluation criteria – How to measure art and culture projects’ and initiate a knowledge-sharing workshop with artists Alia Rayyan PALESTINE and Fiona Whelan DUBLIN on ‘Practice as Way to experience life: Artists engage in critical discussion about the primary issues that face their socially engaged practices’.

The conference will further launch the book ‘Comparison of Public Art’ with contributions from Rainer W. Ernst KIEL (ed), Mirene Arsanios BEIRUT, Susanne Bosch BELFAST, Elfriede Mueller and Martin Schönfeld BERLIN, Marcus Graf ISTANBUL, Jürgen Bock LISBON, Tina Sherwell RAMALLAH |

Further information: www.radius-of-art.de/conference/index-e.php | www.masterartinpublic.wordpress.com