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PERIPHERIES 201 6PERIPHERIES CENTRE FOR CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT | GOREY SCHOOL OF ART
29th July - 1 st August
Curated by Richard Carr
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would l ike to take the opportunity to thank our key
funder, Wexford County Council without whom this
event would not be possible. We would also l ike to
say a 'massive' thank you to all the Artists, Directors,
Production Companies and Workshop Facil itators
involved in PERIPHERIES 201 6 and last but not least
the PERIPHERIES 201 6 production team as well as
to al l our new friends and supporters.
PERIPHERIES 201 6 TEAM
Director:
Paul Carter
Curator:
Richard Carr
Research:
Emma Roche
Education:
Natal ie Doyle
Programme Assistant:
Attracta Hempenstal l
ARTISTS
Elaine Byrne
Oisin Byrne & Patrick Hough
Ulrich Vogl
WORKSHOP FACILITATORS
Damien Flood
James Merrigan
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Make Productions
Danish Documentary
Bang Bang Teo
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The ordinary practitioners of the city live 'down below', belowthe thresholds at which visibility begins. They walk – anelementary form of this experience of the city; they arewalkers, Wandersmanner, whose bodies follow the thicksand thins of an urban 'text' they write without being able toread it. These practitioners make use of spaces that cannotbe seen; their knowledge of them is as blind as that of loversin each other's arms. (De Certeau, 1984)
PERIPHERIES Centre for Creative Development is pleased
to host PERIPHERIES 201 6, an exciting exhibition bringing
the work of Elaine Byrne, Ulrich Vogl as well as Oisin Byrne
and Patrick Hough together. In 2005, Cork was the
European City of Culture and during this time 'Gatherings'
hosted a talk by Sarat Maharaj from the RCA London who
spoke at length about the production of culture on the
periphery and how it resulted in unique centres of excellence
that evolved outside of the accepted cultural capitals.
Reverting back to this notion, PERIPHERIES 201 6 builds
upon this while taking it as a point of departure, presenting a
re-enquiry into notions of the centre | periphery binary.
Michel De Certeau in his seminal chapter Walking in the Citydescribes the creation of space as more than a geographical
plan strategical ly designed and implemented by planning
authorities and urban designers. Rather it’s an invisible
system containing its own internal logic(s), bui lt below the
thresholds at which visibi l i ty begins and constructed through
the temporal subjectivities of pedestrians as they move from
one place to the next. Working on this premise,
PERIPHERIES 201 6 showcases 3 existing works by 4
artists: Endless Resistance; a large scale instal lation byElaine Byrne, Film 40 Minutes by Ulrich Vogl and a videopiece entitled SEEK ZERO's by Oisin Byrne and PatrickHough.
While each of the works deal with subtleties specific to their own
concerns they have been imaginatively brought together centered
around notions of the peripheral. Not however from the perspective of
visual phenomenology but rather through the internal systems and
lives of these marked out or delineated spaces. Whether it’s through
the spatial investigations of Elaine Byrne’s Endless Resistance,proposing a reconcil iation of nature and architecture while seeking
alternative starting points from which to build. Points that look at the
built environment as an extension of the human psyche, a l ived rather
than observed space. Ulrich Vogl’s instal lation Film 40 Minutes,underpinned by strong conceptual concerns, has at its core an
elementary investigation of internal systems, both human and
technological. Uti l ising a precise economy of materials Vogl focusses
on drawing amalgamations of various temporal l ine segments that
transcends both spatial and territorial boundaries through the
combination of both the physical and phenomenological.
The unsheltered buildings of the Ball Al ley in Oisin Byrne’s and Patrick
Hough’s video piece; SEEK ZERO’s; a home away from home,
occupied by various transient famil ies, a home of various ‘texts’; a
playground, a forbidden space, a nocturnal loci of teenage
transgression. An internal system regulated primari ly by time, al l
furthered by Oisin and Patrick through their subtle, cycl ical performer-
less performance. Combining these three works has generated its own
internal logic, a suggestion of the l ived rather than observed peripheral,
inviting you to enter its space, become its walker and write your ‘text’ .
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The PERIPHERIES 201 6 exhibition is a group show
including the work of Elaine Byrne and Ulrich Vogl as well as
a collaborative work from Oisin Byrne and Patrick Hough.
The exhibition is the central spine of PERIPHERIES 201 6
upon which a series of educational workshops and fi lm
screenings are facil itated.
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY 29th JULY 7:30pm
Gallery opening times 11 am-6pm - Sat. 30th July - Mon. 1 st Aug.
ARTISTS
ELAINE BYRNE
ULRICH VOGL
OISIN BYRNE & PATRICK HOUGH
Elaine Byrne, Endless Resistance, 201 4
Ulrich Vogl, Film 40 Minutes, 201 2/1 4(Top)
Oisin Byrne & Patrick Hough,SEEK ZERO's, 201 2(Bottom)
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The PERIPHERIES 201 6 educational programme is a unique
programme of workshops that focuses on looking at,
interpreting and responding to visual art. I t is about reaching
out and engaging with arts audiences and the wider
community to create increased accessibi l ity, participation,
awareness of and a shared understanding of the Visual Arts.
All our workshops are led by professionals in their field .
WORKSHOP FACILITATORS
Damien Flood
James Merrigan
DATES AND TIMES
Saturday 30th July | 11 :30 - 1 7:30 | Gorey School of Art
TECHNIQUES & APPROACHES TO ABSTRACT PAINTING(Part 1 )
Facil itated by Damien Flood
Sunday 31 st July | 11 :30 - 1 7:30 | Gorey School of Art
TECHNIQUES & APPROACHES TO ABSTRACT PAINTING(Part 2)
Facil itated by Damien Flood
Monday 1 st August | 11 :30 - 1 7:30 | Gorey School of Art
Critical Writing
Facil itated by James Merrigan
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The PERIPHERIES 201 6 screening programme screens
a series of cultural documentaries from around the world.
This series is a curated selection of documentaries from
the South East Cultural Centre's SOCIAL CINEMA
programme specifical ly for the context of PERIPHERIES
201 6. Responding to the notion of PERIPHERIES, eachof the documentaries here gives us a unique view into
socio-cultural contexts and people, that are today being
pushed to the periphery within their own societies and
countries.
SCREENING PROGRAMME
DATES AND TIMES
Saturday 30th July @ 6pm | Gorey School of Art
THIS IS EXILE: DIARIES OF CHILD REFUGEESMAKE PRODUCTIONS
Sunday 31 st July @ 6pm | Gorey School of Art
AI WEIWEI: THE FAKE CASEDANISH DOCUMENTARY
Monday 1 st August @ 6pm | Gorey School of Art
BLOOD RISING: DAUGHTERS OF MEXICOBANG BANG TEO
Brought to you in association with the
South East Cultural Centre
www.southeastculturalcentre.com
Ciudad Juarez is now the most dangerous city
in the world. 438 young women were
murdered there in 201 0 and only 2 percent of
the cases have been properly investigated.
Their mothers have been ignored by the
police, government, judiciary and the media.
The mothers have chosen to work with
renowned artist, Brian Maguire, to
communicate their stories to the outside world
in the hope that the international pressure
may bring some justice to their loss.
This is Exile is an extraordinary intimate portrait of child
refugees forced to flee from the violence of Syria’s civi l
war to neighbouring Lebanon. Filmed over a year, the
documentary tel ls the stories of the childrens’ l ives in
their own words and captures the moving truth of how
they deal with loss, hardship and the poignancy of
dashed hopes. Their testimony in this fi lm is a beautiful ly
crafted microcosm of the human cost of the ongoing civi l
war in Syria that has forced over 4 mil l ion people to flee;
half of whom are children.
After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese
artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest. He suffers
from sleeping disorder and memory loss. 1 8 cameras
are monitoring his studio and his home. Police agents
fol low his every move. Journalists, the art world, his
family, al l want a piece of him and on top of that he is
met with a gigantic lawsuit from the Chinese
government, soon to be named ‘The Fake Case’.
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PERIPHERIES CENTRE FOR CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT, GOREY SCHOOL
OF ART, MARYWARD LANE, ST. MICHAELS ROAD, GOREY, CO, WEXFORD