• GoGo Penguin: Koyaanisqatsi – A New Score Performed Live

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    35 year on from its initial release, GoGo Penguin will perform a new score to Godfrey’s seminal 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi at Dublin’s Sugar Club on October 19. With the original production featuring a perfectly transformative, career-defining score from the masterful Philip Glass, this is an unmissable opportunity to witness the Manchester quartet put a new slant put on a cinematic masterpiece that brilliantly blurs the lines between documentary and hypnotic time-lapse photography. According to promoters, originally commissioned by HOME in Manchester as part of the Music and Film Project, promoters said od the performance: “GoGo Penguin’s richly emotional music offers…

  • Oh Yeah Summer Zine 2017

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    When we launched our free physical magazine back in October of 2014 we did so with the boundless conviction that there’s still very much a market and audience for print music magazines. That uniquely fuzzy feeling one gets picking up a lovingly-compiled magazine upon entering a coffee shop or leaving a record store, eager to delve in and get discovering: that’s exactly – and purely – what drove us to produce our own zine, month in, month out, and what will compel to do so again when we re-launch later this year. Working alongside Belfast freelance photographer Carrie Davenport –…

  • Guys, There’s a Hybrid Theory Singalong Fundraiser For Pieta House Happening in Dublin

    July 23, 2017 - By 

    In troubling times, it’s to great, and kind minds such as Glenn Fitzpatrick to whom we should turn. Following the tragic passing of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington on Thursday, Fitzpatrick (with help from Dublin musician and former Overhead The Albratross member Joe Panama) will host a Hybrid Theory singalong to raise money for suicide and self-harm charity Pieta House at Dublin’s Fibber Magees on Thursday, August 3. Over at the fundraiser’s Facebook event page, the organisers said: “Linkin Park are a band that meant so much to so many of us during our formative years. Hybrid Theory in particular had…

  • Void Derry: Workshops, New Director and Exhibition

    July 25, 2017 - By 

    Void Derry have announced the appointment of Mary Cremin as their new Director. Cremin, who’s CV includes Festival Director for 2015’s TULCA Arts Festival, Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios as well as Project Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, will assume the role with immediate effect and has advised: “It is a privilege to be joining the team at Void. I look forward to building on the extraordinary programme that Maolíosa Boyle and the team have developed during her time as Director, and to articulate the next chapter. I look forward to working with the…

  • IN CONTEXT 4: Work Songs

    July 21, 2017 - By 

    Visual Artist Fiona Dowling and Composer George Higgs are currently seeking five South County Dublin business to part-take in their project Work Songs. The project sees the pair look to create a musical portrait of South County Dublin’s economic profile. The initiative is part of the wider IN CONTEXT 4: In Our Time programme which is part of the South Dublin County Council’s Public Art Programme for 2016-2019. The tradition of work place songs is a long and rooted one, but this practice has wained in recent years. Work Songs  is very much viewed as a collaborative effort with Dowling and Higgs consulting the…

  • Exhibition: When Walking @ Butler Gallery

    July 20, 2017 - By 

    When Walking is the latest exhibition in Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery and features the work of Irish artist Eithne Jordan RHA. Jordan is currently undertaking a year long residency in Kilkenny’s Tony O’Malley Studio – established by the RHA in 2010, the studio is in the former home of influential local painter. When Walking continues Jordan’s exploration of local architecture, incorporating scenes and building styles not usually eulogised in artworks, and incorporating a gaucho technique for some pieces. Though a common vernacular exists within the local landscape, idiosyncratic features have evolved over time with each owner stamping their individuality on each building. Jordan…

  • Townlands Carnival 2017

    July 17, 2017 - By 

    Following a stellar outing last year, one of Cork’s very finest summer festival propositions, Townlands Carnival, returns across to Leades House in Macroom across the weekend of July 21-23. Amongst the nicely varied bill of acts playing this year are Rubberbandits (pictured), bona fide Irish festival heroes King Kong Company, Cork’s Ellen King ELLLL, Dublin electronic indie act Le Boom, Om Unit, Hermitage Green, Stomptown Brass, Hvmmingbird, Shookrah and My Fellow Sponges. And taking in a whole host of cross-genre artistry and performance over the three days, this year’s line-up is brilliantly bolstered by spoken word, art trail and installations, a craft village, a children’s play ahead,…

  • Picture This: The Honeymoon Suite @ Golden Thread

    July 15, 2017 - By 

    There comes a point in self-portraiture when you lose focus of the fact the imagery in front depicts the artist themselves. While you don’t truly ‘forget’ this knowledge, it doesn’t become the overriding concern. The work transcends itself from self-portraiture to portraiture, and with this emerges the possibility of the work to speak of societal observations rather than personal musings. The more successful the work is the quicker this process happens, which allows for greater insight. The most obvious case of this, in the history of photography, is the canon of Cindy Sherman. It’s hard not to think of Sherman…

  • Exhibition: It happens to be @ Pallas Projects

    July 13, 2017 - By 

    Following on from their pop-up exhibition last week Traveling without Moving, which featured the work of Colm MacAthlaoich, Pallas Projects + Studios return again with another pop-up exhibition. Painting is also the medium of choice this week, with the works of Japanese duo Atsushi Kaga and Aya Ito, both of whom live and work in Dublin, on display. The exhibition, entitled It happens to be, is predominantly a collaborative show with the majority of pieces being paintings worked on by both artists – some individual pieces by Ito are also shown. The foreword for the show advises: “Kaga developed narrative in the paintings drawn by Ito and Ito added…

  • Arts Funding Information Clinic

    July 12, 2017 - By 

    Later this month a funding information clinic is due to take place in Dublin’s Wood Quay Venue. It is designed to provide assistance and guidance to applying for the Arts Council’s Strategic Funding programme in September this year. In order to attend the session on July 28th you must complete an inquiry form by this Thursday July 14th. The Arts Council have advised that “in the interests of achieving a good geographical and artform spread, places will be allocated amongst those who have expressed interest.” With those who have secured a place at the event being notified next Tuesday 18th July – the…