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Golden Thread Gallery: Kevin Atherton, In Two Minds x 3 | Allan Hughes, Nagraphobia | Glisten - 20 Nov 2009 to 9 Jan 2010 Current Exhibition |
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simultaneous Solo Shows 20th November - 9th January 2010 Kevin Atherton, In Two Minds x 3, Gallery 1 Kevin Atherton�s exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery Belfast brings together, for the first time in the same space, all three versions of his video journey In Two Minds. The work, which was originally presented as a two monitor video installation at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1978, was re-entered by Atherton in 2006 when he produced two additional versions of the work. Additional Information Part of a generation that pioneered video and performance art in Britain in the 1970s and early 1980s, Atherton (Manx, b. 1950) has performed a number of pieces that adapt the structure of the press interview or the Q&A; session of the artist talk. The work, In Two Minds�Past Version (1978/2006), updates a piece done in 1978 by substituting a new set of answers. In this 2006 version, Atherton responds to the amusingly antagonistic questions posed to him by his twenty-seven-year-old self. The questions are about the work itself and concern the effectiveness of his idea�as well as the effectiveness of idea-based art in general. Frustrated, present-day Atherton not only justifies his intentions in creating a piece based on an internal dialogue, but also explains how the terms of the debate have changed, and how the piece has become more about life than just art. The work reveals not only how video art has technically changed in the interim, but also how the perception of video art has changed over the years, as it has become ubiquitous in contemporary art. simultaneous Solo Shows 20th November - 9th January 2010 Allan Hughes, Nagraphobia, Gallery 2 This new audio/visual work, Nagraphobia, was developed from a series of investigations that map the process and effects of recording and dubbing dialogue in cinema and its duplicitous relationship with the image. The work takes references from Alan J. Pakula�s Klute (1971), Jane Fonda�s Radio Hanoi broadcasts and Jean Luc Godard�s Letter To Jane (1972) and examines the authority of the voice through a sequence of disrupted re-mediations of the material. Additional Information Allan Hughes is an artist based in Belfast and working out of Orchid Studios. His practice explores psychological relationships and responses to the recorded voice. In particular the voice synchronised to image and its predisposition to conditions of deceit and duplicity. Practicing primarily in video installation, Hughes' works continually renegotiate the extant hegemony within the audio/visual binary, focusing on the role of synchronization and its function as the imaginary object of our desire for a mediated homogeneity, when there is only the inevitable, heterogeneous production of meaning between image and sound. His work makes frequent reference to this heterogeneity in a range of thematic contexts and ultimately examines its impact on a wider vernacular of representation in audio/visual production. Recent exhibitions of work have been shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art where he has just completed the Artist�s Residency Programme, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland; UNOACTU, Dresden; Novisibirsk State Art Museum, Russia and the Context Gallery, Derry. His works have also been shown in the London Art Fair; La Sala Naranja Valencia; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast and the Beursschouwburg in Brussels amongst others. Hughes is currently in the final stages of completing his PhD in Fine Art at the University of Ulster. Further information can be found at www.allanhughes.com. Opening in the Project Space on Thursday 3rd December between 6.00 - 9.00pm Glisten Curated by Sarah McAvera Thursday 3rd December from 6pm � 9pm Glisten at the Golden Thread Gallery, the 2009 Christmas show. Come start the festivities with us on Thursday 3rd December from 6pm � 9pm with an exhibition including work by Sinead Breathnach-Cashell, Victoria J Dean, Sara Greavu, Sam McKee, Helen O�Hare, Mary Mc Caffrey, Feargal O�Malley & Brendan O�Neill. So come join us for a wee Christmas drink and a one night only performance by Sinead Breathnach-Cashell & her Festive Flashers. The exhibition runs until December 22nd 2009. Coming soon to the Gallery Golden Thread Gallery, Art Projects @ the London Art Fair, Stand P2 13th - 17th January 2010 Lisa Malone, Metronome, the Project Space 14th - 29th January 2010 Gallery 1 & 2 Andre Stitt, Substance: Residue, Drawings & Partial Objects 1976 - 2008 29th January - 6th March 2010 |
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