Atsushi Kaga
Worshop: Draw animals in your own way
Date: Friday 11th October, 3pm
Number of participants: 12
Duration: 1 hour
Cost €5 Materials provided
booking link: http://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8585907681
Atsushi Kaga lives and works in Dublin. Atsushi Kaga’s work depicts a fictionalized world inhabited
by a cast of invented characters. Through his alternative reality, Kaga explores personal and cultural
identity, as well as complex social issues. He plays with the tension between integrity and
corruptibility, nature and nurture, innocence and experience, and freedom and constriction.
Atsushi Kaga graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2005. He participated in artist's
residencies Location One, New York (2011-2012) at ISCP, New York (2011); IMMA, Dublin (2010);
Fountainhead, Miami, and Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo (2009). Recent solo shows include Miami Basel 2012, Art
Future at Art HK 11, Kantor Art, Los Angeles; FIAC, Paris; Mother's Tankstation, Dublin; Galeria Leme, Sao
Paulo; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; and Nicholas Krupp in Basel. Group shows include Sandra and David Bakalar
Gallery, MassArt, Boston; Pallas Contemporary Project, Dublin; NADA, Miami with Mother's Tankstation; and
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. He is a recipient of Mont Blanc Young Artist World Patronage in 2011. Kaga is
represented by Mother's Tankstation.
Ed Devane
Workshop: Instrument building and performance workshop (build your own cardboard mountain
dulcimer)
Date: Saturday 12th October, 3pm
Number of participants: up to 10
Duration: one hour
Cost: €5. Materials provided
No prior musical experience is required or expected.
Booking link: http://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8585999957
In this hands-on one hour workshop participants will take a crash course in stringed acoustic
instrument design through the construction of a 2 stringed mountain dulcimer made from
cardboard, plywood and metals. See how a sheet of cardboard can be transformed into a
soundboard and resonator, and how to turn cocktail sticks into frets. At the end of the workshop
participants will walk away with an instrument capable of playing a tune on, and have a good
understanding of the mechanics of a musical instrument.
La Cosa Preziosa (Susanna Caprara)
Artists Talk: Immaterial Labour: An Introduction to Field Recording Practice'.
Date: Tuesday 15th October, 3pm
Number of Participants: 20
Duration: The talk will last approximately 45 minutes + 15 minutes for questions and discussion.
Cost: Free
booking link: http://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8586154419
This talk introduces the discipline of field recording as arts practice within the wider realm of sound
art. The talk will be supported by a slideshow presentation and audio excerpts
Originally a documentary adjunct to research work in the field (1940s- Alan Lomax, Ludwig Koch),
then a key tool for the acoustic ecology and research practice in the 1970s (Murray Schaefer, World
Soundscape Project), field recording's rich and varied history will be traced until the present day- the
point when technological developments have ensured its steady infiltration into the wider art world.
The talk will touch on the basic tenets of the discipline, illustrated through a selection of audio
excerpts from some of the world's key international field recordists. Challenges such as gender bias
will be discussed, as well as current trends within the discipline, with examples from La Cosa
Preziosa’s own professional field recording practice in Ireland and abroad.
La Cosa Preziosa is a professional sound artist and field recordist originally from Italy but based in
Dublin
IDA MITRANI
Workshop: ‘Wall of Leaves’- botanical drawing
Date: Wednesday 16th October, 3pm
Number of Participants: 20
Duration: 1 hour
Number of participants: up to 12
Cost: €5. Materials provided
booking link: http://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8586272773
Ida Mitrani is an artist with experience in botanical illustration. She has designed this workshop to
further the idea of traditional drawing as representation. The workshop will encourage participants
to express a specific thought while drawing. The aim of this exercise is to combine the process of
creation with the process of thinking. How can a reflection be translated into lines or colours?
Participants are asked to collect a leaf on their way to the workshop and hold on to a thought.
Cats Byrne
Workshop: Blogging – The uses of a digital notebook
Date: Thursday October 17th at 3pm
Duration: 1 hour
Number of participants: 12
Please bring a laptop
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8586367055
This workshop will focus on the relevance of blogging today, accessibility, types of blogs, social
networking and self publishing. Participants are invited to bring along their laptops and set up a blog
within the duration of the workshop as this workshop will cover the basics in setting up your own
blog for the purposes of visual art, photography and new media. Cats Byrne is an artist currently
based in Dublin. She studied at the Dublin Institute of Technology graduating with a BA in Fine Art in
June 2013. Her interests lie in the devices of remembrance that we produce. Combining sculpture,
video making and photography to create a mixed media practice.
Catherine Harty
Performance: Art Worker.
Date: Friday 18th October, 3pm
Duration: 25 mins with 30 mins discussion time
Number of participants: Max 20
Cost: free
Booking link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8586569661
Catherine Harty will give a performance using an edited version of a speech, delivered by Gregory
Battock in 1969 at an Art Workers’ Coalition open hearing. In this polemic Battock opens fire on the
heavy weight New York art institutions. The performance oscillates between a sincere passionate
diatribe and a preening concern with self-image and documentation. The performance is intended
to stimulate conversations around the following topics:
. The notion of the artist as an implicated figure.
. Little entrepreneurs?
. Why work?
. The good artist – Just say no? (Or I’d prefer not to).
Following this, Catherine will present a talk on The Art Workers Coalition, an open group of artists,
film makers, writers, critics and museum staff that formed in New York in 1969.
Michelle Browne
Workshop: Finding the performative in your other job.
Date: Saturday 19th October, 3pm
Duration: 1 hour
Number of participants: 8
Cost: €5
Booking link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8586623823
In this workshop, Michelle Browne will examine each participant’s alternative source of income to
explore the performance potential within those jobs. Working through habitual actions and task
based roles the workshop will encourage an alternative view on employment that can often feel very
far from art.
Participants are asked to email Michelle in advance with a one paragraph description of their day
job.
Michelle Browne
Workshop: Life coaching for the Non-Believers
Dates: Tuesday 22nd + Thursday 24th October at 1pm and 2pm
Number of participants: 4 individual sessions
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Booking strictly necessary. Email michellembrowne(@)gmail.com to book a place
Could life coaching help you find your passion for art again? or help you transition to another
career? Artists who are considering giving up art are invited to sign up for a free session with a
trained life coach. Participants will also commit to meeting with Michelle Browne before and after
the session to discuss how the life coaching session influenced their attitude towards their career as
an artist. Those interested are asked to submit a 150 word (max) text that outlines what drew them
to this call.
Mothership Project
Date: 11am Tuesday 22 October
Number of participants: Open
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Booking: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8069693671
Artist parents are invited to a discussion that will be facilitated by Lynda Devenney and Seoidín
O'Sullivan of The Mothership Project. This discussion will focus on the issue of balancing an art
practice and childcare as an artist parent. We will look at possible alternative co-operative models of
childcare that artists and art institutions/studios could adopt. Bring your ideas. Children welcome.
Play and art materials will be provided.
Joanne Laws
Talk/presentation: Artistic Producation and the Contemporary Labour Landscape: A National
Consideration
Date: Tuesday 22nd October, 3pm
Duration: 20 mins + Q&A
Cost: Free
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8586934753
Arts Writer and educator Joanne Laws will present an overview of the nationwide, labour-themed
visual arts programme currently taking place in venues north and south of the border in response to
the 1913 Lockout centenary.
The presentation will examine recurrent themes, and aims to understand the relevance of marking
the 1913 Lockout with an examination of the contemporary labour landscape across Irish and global
contexts.
Alan James Burns
Performance : A one-hour performative lecture on the working of the mind.
Date: Thursday 24th October, 3pm
Number of participants: 20
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: free
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8586974873
For the workers café, Alan James Burns has devised a performance in the style of a lecture, with
appropriated facts and experiments to discuss. The lecture navigates though many schools of the
human sciences contemplating how we experience and understand the world around us. During the
production of recent artistic projects, Alan has collected a large amount of information on the brain
and cognitive process and has now accumulated this research into a performance lecture that plays
on the traditional aesthetics of both mediums, using audio and visual elements to build a narrative.
Think a performative TED talk.
Colm Mac Athlaoich
Workshop: Etching and printing
Date: Saturday 26th October, 3pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
Number of participants: 10
Cost: €5
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8587025023
Illustrator, artist and print maker Colm Mac Athlaoich will lead this workshop, which will give
participants basic skills in intaglio etching on a metal plate. The plates will be printed with a small
printing press on the night. The process will use the recently discovered greener method of
printinmaking, using a non toxic method which is becoming more preferable and popular among
printmakers.
Shane Finan
Artists Talk: Place, Gentrification and Artist-led Initiatives
Date: Tuesday 29th October, 3pm
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Number of participants: 20
Cost: Free
Booking link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8587071161
Artist-led spaces and interventions encourage a different perception of places, particularly urban
places. Since the economic crash in 2008, artist-led spaces have developed throughout Ireland as
part of a naturally unfolding process. Artists interventions can change people's perceptions of places.
This has been seen in developments in Temple Bar in Dublin, and more recently in north Dublin City
in areas such as Stoneybatter and Smithfield.
This one-hour talk on the topic of artist-led spaces and their influence will be split into four sections:
The theory of place; the history of urbanisation and gentrification and the influence of artist-led
initiatives on this history; recent artist-led initiatives in Ireland and internationally and Shane Finan’s
own experience with artist-led initiatives.
Visual Arts Workers Forum
Discussion: Gear-up: towards Visual Arts Workers Forum 2014
Date: Wednesday 30th October, 3pm
Number of participants: 20 max
Cost: Free
Duration: 1 hour
Booking link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8587111281
VAWF Gear-up is a think tank for interested participants to debate what is most critical and urgent
for visual arts workers now. The issues and content raised in this session will be used to programme
Visual Arts Workers Forum 2014, which will take place next Spring at Project Arts Centre, Dublin. The
session is open but has limited capacity. VAWF is your forum – it should work for you. Please get in
touch if you feel an urgency and passion for current visual arts practice, be it artmaking, curatorial,
management, or other activities – contact@vawf.ie.
SITEation
Discussion/presentation: The game ?
Date: Thursday 31st October, 3pm
Duration: 1 hour
Number of participants: 20
Cost: Free
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8587161431
For The Workers Cafe, SITEATION proposes to initiate, oversee and analyze the results of a publicparticipation 'game' that will take place through a social media website. This game (which in essence
is an experiment) will model itself on a company that produces a cultural product. The game will be
played a number of weeks before the event at the Workers Café takes place. The game is an
experiment, and its intention is to mimic the conditions that exist within a solely profit-based
system.
At the event in The Workers Café, Sitation will invite a selection of the participants of the game and
some members of the public in to discuss some of the issues that arose.
SITEATION is an eclectic and multidisciplinary non-profit collective of art practitioners, curators,
directors and writers based at the current SITEATION space at 12 Little Britain St, Dublin 7. Its
mandate is to explore common artistic interests through a collaborative framework, ultimately
producing artworks, projects, events and writings that reflect and examine the position of
contemporary art within a wider urban and social context.
Kate Clark
Workshop: Dublin Rubbings
Date: Friday 1st November. , 3 pm
Duration: 1 hour
Number of participants: 12
Cost: €5
Booking link: http://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8587674967
How does our social, environmental and political inheritance express itself through everyday texture
and surface? In this workshop, Kate Clark will lead particpants as they collect graphite and
parchment rubbings of any vertical or horizontal plane they are attracted to in the surrounding
neighborhood of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Adopting the notion of reverse anthropology,
participants will use the simple gestures of graphite rubbings to inspire collaborative written prose
to uncover and re-imagine the patterning of our environment.
Bring your journal
Kate Clark is a US-based artist and educator that overlaps, documents and abstracts folk histories
and humanist geographies through collaborative projects. Working with public performance,
sculpture, video and writing, Kate has developed projects with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden ArtLab, Elsewhere Living Museum (North Carolina), Gallery See Beyond (Tokyo), and the San
Diego Contemporary Art Fair. Kate Clark is co-founder of Knowledge Commons DC, a free,
interdisciplinary floating school in Washington DC. She has studied at the The Art Institute of
Chicago's Ox-Bow School of Art, Universite IUAV di Venezia, Bauhaus Universitat-Weimar, Evergreen
State College and is currently pursuing her MFA at UC San Diego. www.kateclarkprojects.com
Fiona Hallinan, Kate Clark & Come Here to Me
Event: A parcel of butter, a packet of tea, a pot of jam, a bag of sugar
The 1913 Lockout and International Solidarity
Date: Saturday 2nd November. , 3 pm
Duration: 1 hour
Number of participants: 12
Cost: Free
Booking link: http://www.eventbrite.ie/event/8587723111
In September 1913 a provisions ship, the S.S. Hare, came from Salford in Britain carrying food
supplies for the families of striking workers in Dublin.
"The Co-operative Wholesale Society in Britain celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in September 1913,
and it was thanks to the sizeable financial backing of the Trade Union Congress, to the tune of
£5,000, that it began the task of making up thirty thousand food parcels for the Dublin poor."
(source: Come Here To Me)
For this event artists Fiona Hallinan and Kate Clark invite Come Here to Me, a Dublin historical blog,
to address issues of international solidarity during the 1913 Lockout. Discussion will take place over
tea and snacks responding to the ship's provisions. This gathering will be the closing event for The
Hare: a cafe set up by Fiona Hallinan and Katie Sanderson for the exhibition.