ANALYTICAL CONVERSATIONS : ACTION in FOCUS > 2 of 3
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2023 – 18:00 ARGENTINE TIME (ENGLISH)
VIRTUALvía Zoom + YouTube L IVE
Sinéad O’Donnel (Ireland) – Yingmei Duan (China/Germany) – Noel Molloy (Ireland) – John G. Boehme (Canada)
Group conversations with artists who participated in the immediate previous edition, to deepen conceptual approaches and personal methodologies at the time of composing an action. Discursive interweaving of exhibitions, review of clips and other visual documents.
She works with performance, installation and time-based art. A resident of Belfast, Sinéad studied sculpture at the University of Ulster, textiles in Dublin and visual performance and time-based practices at Dartington College of Arts. She was the lead artist and curator of an “Unlimited” commission entitled CAUTION as part of the London 2012 Festival. She is currently an artist at Flax Arts Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and received the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Major award in 2017.
Her work explores identity, borders and barriers through encounters with territory and the territorial. She establishes actions or situations that demonstrate the complexities, contradictions or commonalities between medium and discipline, time and spontaneity, intuition and methodology, artist and audience. She uses photography, video, text and collage to record his performances.
She often uses her body to investigate both her own and cultural limits, especially in relation to the restrictions imposed on women. Despite deliberately avoiding sensationalizing the body, her works often provoke strong reactions and emotions.
Sinéad’s practice is nomadic and travel has broadened her cultural perceptions and influenced her artistic sensitivity to time and space. She is actively involved in the Belfast arts scene, collaborating with local organizations to promote the performing arts and supporting emerging artists in her community.
contact:
www.sineadodonnell.com
Project page:
https://facebook.com/events/s/closer-distancing/450607076229182/
Born in 1969 in China. She currently resides in Braunschweig, Germany.
Yingmei Duan is part of the Chinese avant-garde and has been working creatively in Beijing’s legendary East Village art district for many years. In 1995 she participated in the performance “To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain”, considered one of the classics of contemporary Chinese art. Her stay in the East Village between 1993 and 1995 aroused her curiosity, which led to her interest in performance art. The definitive turning point came when she began studying in Germany, at the Braunschweig University of the Arts (HBK) in 2000, where she met her performance teacher Marina Abramović. Since then, Yingmei has dedicated herself to performance as a form of artistic expression.
For the past 22 years she has concentrated her energy and creativity on creating performances and researching the medium. In her performances she crosses media and often incorporates sound, video and installation.
“Interaction” and “collaboration” have been very important themes in Yingmei Duan’s performance art since 2005. In addition to her solo projects, Yingmei Duan loves working with people from different cultures, ages and walks of life, and has performed more than 100 collaborative performances.
Her work has been exhibited, among other places, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Venice Biennale (Italy), the Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea (Wales), the 19th Biennale of Sydney (Australia), the M Plus Museum in Hong Kong (China) and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (Russia).
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contact:
www.yingmei-art.com
NOEL MOLLOY
“TURBINE OR NOT TURBINE THAT IS THE QUESTION”, 2017.
cameraman: Aodha Molloy
Studied Limerick School of Art and Design 1978 – 1982. Degree in Fine Art 1982. Works in sculpture/mixed media and performance art. He has had numerous exhibitions and performances in Ireland, Western and Eastern Europe and the United States. He has received several awards:
Arts Council of Ireland Awards from 1991 to 2006;
Americans for the Arts 1998 residence Banana Factory Bethlehem Pennesylvania;
Cultural Relations Committee Dept. of Foreign Affairs Travel award 1993, 2003;
V.E.C. exhibition awards from 1999 to 2006;
Roscommon County Council/ Arts Office exhibition awards from 1999 to 2016.
Organization of the International Symposium “Crossroads Symposium ’95” 1994-1995, financed by the Arts Council of Ireland and with the support of companies.
Organized “Arts Cabaret”, 14, from 1997 to 2002, publication Faxbox Project Book see website. Founder and administrator of the artists’ group Working Artists Roscommon 1990. Member of Visual Artists Ireland; M2 Time Base Arts Organization. Member Bbeyond performance art group Belfast Northern Ireland. Proposal and application to the Arts Council of Ireland for the Roscommon Arts Center at Edenvale House Studios, in collaboration with the Roscommon County Council Arts Office, resulting in funding, which created a new site at the Roscommon Arts Center at Roscommon Circular Road, Roscommon Town, Roscommon.
Works in national and international private and public collections.
Lives and works in Roscommon, Ireland.
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contact:
https://noelmolloyperformance.weebly.com/
John G. Boehme identifies himself as a white cisgender male of German and Scottish descent from Victoria, BC, Canada, the lək̓wəŋən-speaking homeland of the Esquimalt Songhees peoples. His early artistic practice includes painting, sculpture, video, digital technology, installation and photography.
Boehme describes his recent work as “transdisciplinary,” often employing performance, video, audio and objects simultaneously in various works. Boehme does not limit himself to any particular creative mode, so he uses integrated approaches to realize his works. John continues to exhibit and participate in festivals in Canada, Australia, America, the United Kingdom, Europe and China. John is an artist and educator, and teaches performance art, ceramics and sculpture in the Visual Arts Department. as a permanent professor in the Visual Arts Department at Camosun College.
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contact:
http://johngboehme.weebly.com/
http://vimeo.com/user7683852
http://www.youtube.com/user/johngboehm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2023 – 18:00 ARGENTINE TIME (ENGLISH)
VIRTUALvía Zoom + YouTube L IVE
CONTINGENT conversations: RUTH VIGUERAS BRAVO, Two Looks, Three Records, MEXICO
book presentation by Ruth Vigueras Bravo