"Stay up late. Strange things happen when you've gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world"
(Bruce Mau, The Incomplete Manifesto for Growth)
Ormond Studios is pleased to present its annual member exhibition 'Thinking About Blue Almonds', featured as part of a short series of events that also involves a film screening, artist dialogues, and a musical performance that revolve around different meanings and interpretations of the colour blue; melancholy, water, infinity, distance, night time etc. The title is taken from the Polish phrase for day dreaming, 'myśleć o niebieskich migdałach', which translates as 'think of blue almonds'.
The exhibition takes the idea of the ‘blue hour’ (l'heure bleue), the twilight between night and day. It responds to this transitional phase - the mundane shift from collectivised industrialised time to private domestic time. This temporal passage tends to serve as a period of activity for artists, who often find themselves taking up the role of night shift worker. The studio space becomes activated as a location where unorthodox temporalities can be carved out from the diurnal rhythms that pattern daily life.
The singular nature of studio space becomes a point of departure; a private physical space that paradoxically acts as a porous boundary between the artist and the world, where ideas and relations are free to cross pollinate and extend beyond their conventional parameters.
Transitional states, ephemerality, non-duality and fluidity are explored on a conceptual and material level throughout the exhibition.
Featuring: Dorota Borowa, Chloe Brenan, Deirdre Brennan, Niamh Coffey, Sarah Edmondson, Hazel Egan, Aideen Farrell and Sarah Wren Wilson.
Exhibition Times:
|Opening|
Thursday, April 12th: 6-8pm
|Open|
April 13th-19th: 12-4pm
|Closing Event|
The Bonk | Blues performance
Thursday, April 19th, 8pm
Doors 7.30pm
PWYC
'Present Tense' at 'Soul Noir: Festival of the Dark Arts', Dublin, 31st of October - 2nd of November 2017 /
'Soul Noir: Festival of the Dark Arts' is a three day independent festival of art and music opening this Halloween at 13 North Great George's Street, Dublin.
The festival is initiated by former Ormond Studio Project Residency recipient Sinead Keogh and runs from October 31st until November 2nd.
Culture Night at Ormond Studios, 22nd of September 2017 /
Please join us for Culture Night at Ormond Studios this Friday. Ormond Studios will be open from 5pm till 10pm and you will have a chance to peek behind the curtains and see our working studio space, chat to the artists and gain an insight into their practice.
Professional Development Masterclass for Art Technicians /
I was delighted to have the opportunity to participate in the Professional Development Masterclass for Art Technicians provided by EVA International and CCA Derry~Londonderry. The first of two sessions took place at Ormston House in Limerick City from 15th of September till 17th of September 2017.
"Performing A Translation" at the Project Space in Ormond Studios, Dublin, 25th - 28th May 2017 /
AsWeMaySink, Dorota Borowa, Chloe Brenan, Claire Burke, Niamh Coffey, Sarah Edmondson, Hazel Egan, Kieran Gallagher
Performing a Translation is the first exhibition of work by current members of Ormond Studios since its relocation. ‘Translation’ is a term used in geometry to describe a function that moves an object a certain distance. The object is not altered in any other way. It is not rotated, reflected or re-sized. In a translation, every point of the object must be moved in the same direction and for the same distance.
In moving from No. 6 to No. 4 Ormond Quay, Ormond Studios have performed this translation, preserving the studio as a nucleus of art-making, a place to translate, test and transform ideas. Works reflect on this geometric term in an expanded sense, interpreting translation more broadly as a paradigm of mediation that includes aesthetic, political, topographical and intertextual transformations.
This exhibition is held in conjunction with Bealtaine Festival 2017.
Documentation courtesy of Kate-Bowe O'Brien.
