ArtTrail Festival 2010 /// Multiple Endings

Cork’s annual festival of contemporary art explores multiple endings in venues across the city

Various Venues, Cork City, IRELAND
www.arttrail.ie

November 19 - December 6 2010

Since it’s inception in 1996 ArtTrail has focused on showcasing the diversity of practice in contemporary art. With a strong tradition of site specific and site related works, the festival is again set to take over various city centre venues this November with the former Sawmills site on Copley St providing its focal point. Supported by the Arts Council, this year’s programme explores the theme Multiple Endings. The selected projects and supporting events feature a wide range of responses, many concerning topical social & economic issues. National and international artists contribute to a variety of events including: projects, exhibitions, open studios, guided walks, talks, performances, screenings, and workshops.

A strong North American contingent provides the festival with many of this year’s highlights. Performance and video artist AA Bronson visits the festival to launch the CIT CCAD/Black Mariah new collection of video art. A work from the group General Idea, of which Bronson was a member, is the collection’s first acquisition. Weekday screenings will conclude with an artist talk on Saturday 4th Dec in the college’s lecture theatre.

Fellow Americans Siobhan Rigg and Carolyn Lambert conduct a guided audio tour of the city. From Solid to Liquid focuses on environmental issues, drawing on research into the melting of the Arctic North West Passage to bring home the realities of global warming.

Investigations into the Super-Physical is the title of a performative lecture
organised by Padraic E.Moore at which an accompanying publication of the same
title will be launched. The one-night event will combine video screenings of
material by several notable notable artists, including Kenneth Anger, Susan Mac
Williams and Shana Moulton, and a live performance by David Turpin. The
publication, which will be made available free of charge at the event, provides
readers with a stimulating insight into a subjective exploration of super-physical
phenomena. This black and white pamphlet includes the work of numerous artists
and thinkers including Arthur Conan Doyle, Martin Healy, Cian McConn,
Gunilla Klingberg, Rudolf Steiner, Garrett Phelan, Rebecca O’Dwyer and Ciaran Walsh.

New York free-improv jazz group Borbetomagus headline a very special Black Sun event on Monday 6th December.

Participative projects by Jonnet Middleton and the artist collective Sociable Science will propose alternative models for development and artistic economies. FutureMenders, Middleton’s project, aims to equip the public with skills that offer an antidote to consumerism. Sociable Science will float a new currency, the Debloom, for the duration of the festival. They launch the project Just Keep Shopping (Everything Will Be Ok) with a Debloom bingo night in Basement Project Space on November 20th.

With much more to look forward to, this is but a taster of what’s to come.

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