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