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NEWS
UPCOMING DEADLINES
Graduate Residency Programme for year 1st October 2010 to 30 September 2011: Deadline: 15th May 2010
UPCOMING EVENTS
CENTRIFUGAL: BELFAST MARCH 2010
'Some Actions Around the Centrifugal Book of Europe'
Monday 22nd March: 11am - 4pm
Minna L Henriksson
Workshop: ‘Making a Network Map’
Free all day workshop in Flax Art Studio 7
To book a place please contact Erika Reid at flaxartstudios@gmail.com
CENTRIFUGAL: SEQUENCE VI
The Centrifugal Book of Europe
The members of Centrifugal are artists, educators, architects and theorists who have come together to investigate the spatial, political and economic forces producing contemporary ideas of Europe. Centrifugal arises from the peripheries, from sites that have often been formed through their colonial relations with the ‘old Europe’, and which are now structured through complex webs of desire, resistance and adaptation. The project is concerned with†finding resonances and affinities across†the diverse spaces, histories and political imaginaries inhabiting these†edges of Europe.
The Centrifugal Book of Europe is a 'map' of the social, cultural and political space of contemporary Europe, and of the phantasmic Europes that may yet be called into being. Join us to launch the book and for a weekend of events in Belfast.
PAST NEWS ARTICLES:
JANUARY 2010
INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY: Sarawut Chutiwongpeti
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FLAX RESIDENCY PROJECT: Sarawut plans to create a large scale mixed media installation. He will be collecting found objects and is seeking artists to kindly donate unused materials - such as: Animal Bones Animal Toys Religious Items Parts from an Engine/Car, Artifical Flowers Diamonds/Jewelry He is also seeking help from volunteers to clean and paint the object using air sprays. |
Bangkok, Thailand |
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17 January to 16 March 2010 |
NOVEMBER 2009:
Tricia Wasney & Richard Dyck (Canada)
International Residency Programme
Richard Dyck is an artist who proposes to engage Belfast through scanning processes and technologies. Sensitive to urban and interior environments, in the past Richard has scanned entire homes, art galleries, library interiors/exteriors and their contents, farm animals, others' artwork, and bees within agricultural hives. Dyck finds the flatbed scanner as a mythologizing tool with subjects. He explores how it represents light as volume, fog, a haze, or obliteration. Dyck's proposal in Belfast is to address citizenry in Northern Ireland, with his scanner he will scan people themselves like previous projects before where he has scanned a human-sized bronze sculpture in excess of 100 scans.
Tricia Wasney's work explores notions of home, history and loss. She is especially interested in place in how human experience is embedded in the physical landscape and how sometimes that experience is a combination of reality, desire and cultural construction. She is essentially a non-fiction writer and she often combines narrative with images that she creates (through photographs and drawings) or that she finds through archival or other sources. Wasney is interested in others and their life stories as well as landscape as a starting point for where she grew up, and the city she now inhabits. She is excited about Belfast and the possibilities it represents to her, to create new narrative and image works that explore the layers of the physical and cultural environment. Wasney has already identified arts and writing organisations and groups she would like to engage with in Belfast. She proposes to create new narrative and image works that explore the layers of the physical and cultural environment as experienced by a visitor whose own city has a much briefer documentation of recorded human history and built form.