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Askeaton Contemporary Arts
Ireland
Приєднався 5 лис 2020
Our new media channel Only in Askeaton continues to offer new videos about artworks and artists embedded in Askeaton Contemporary Arts’ programming. Produced by artist Michael Holly, a wide ranging selection features Askeaton’s famous walking stick impresario Seanie Barron, American artist ethnographers The Jank Archive, public art in Stephen Brandes’ Hellfire Club - A History Continued, a lecture by Aurora Tang of the Centre of Land Use Interpretation from Los Angeles, and more about Berndnaut Smilde’s Until Askeaton Has Streetview.
Only in Askeaton: The Worm
'The Worm' was an exhibition at the Askeaton Civic Trust in the Summer of 2023. Assembled from ACA's archive of seventeen years of artists working with the River Deel. The exhibtion was designed by Dan Scully and Ruža Leko of Studio Suss.
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Lily of the Valley
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Michael Holly’s Lily of the Valley explores the life and creations of Flemish-Irish artist Lily Van Oost (1932-97), who from her studio in Kerry’s Black Valley produced an esoteric body of artworks evoking the intrinsic relationship between sculpture, inhabitation and nature. Reassessing Van Oost’s work today, Holly’s video delves deep into the memories, documents and artworks that today remain...
Only in Askeaton: Adrian Duncan’s Little Republics
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The history of housing in Ireland is a long and complex one. Writer and artist Adrian Duncan has made a long-term investigation into the cultural impact of Bungalow Bliss, a collection of affordable house designs that resulted in thousands of new dwellings appearing in Irish towns and countryside since the 1970s. He grew up in one such house in Longford, and has published Little Republics: The ...
Only in Askeaton: Smiley Wiley
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By Michael Higgins & Juana Robles Now living in Askeaton, experimental filmmakers Michael Higgins and Juana Robles collaborated with pupils of Askeaton National School during 2022. Taking reels of 16mm analogue film, together they scratched, painted and drew patterns directly onto its surface, creating a lyrical approach to film, one that foregrounds mood, atmosphere, visual rhythms and sensory...
Only in Askeaton: Phantom
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By Louise Manifold Tense conversations continue about what forms of infrastructure should get built in Ireland. How about more motorways? Fix up the trains perhaps? Get an electric car? Varied opinion abounds on these subjects, and the decisions to be made will shape life for generations to come. There are, of course, ghosts and anomalies in all of those machines. Not everything runs to schedul...
Only in Askeaton: Losing Track
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During Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty’s many visits to Askeaton, they have adopted the local train station and disused railway line as a starting point in their creative escapades. In what they describe as “an apparent train of thought’, they have explored locomotives in storytelling and film, the Shannon-Foynes Port Company’s VISION 2041 development plan (involving a new rail link to freight ...
Only in Askeaton: Lucy Lippard & Jo Melvin- Imagine Being Here Now
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Lucy Lippard is an American writer, art critic, activist, and curator, and a provocative international figure in the development of conceptual art throughout the world. From her home in New Mexico, as part of a close dialogue spanning years, she joins curator Jo Melvin for a conversation on her life and work, divulging her encounters with Irish art and possibilities of a radical relationship be...
Only in Askeaton: Seanie Barron
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For decades, Seanie Barron has been making walking sticks in a workshop at the back of his house in Askeaton. His creations often appear flamboyantly eccentric, yet all are made with an intuitive practical understanding of nature and the Irish countryside. He roams fields, lanes, bogs and tracks, always looking for a promising branch to shape. His unique vision searches for surreal forms embedd...
Only in Askeaton: Hanni's House
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Elaine Byrne’s 2012 video, Hanni’s House, draws on the emotive complexities surrounding memory and ruin, placing a nuanced spotlight on the allure of lived history and the passage of time. Realised during her residency as part of Askeaton Contemporary Arts’ 'Welcome to the Neighbourhood' programme, her video pieces together a narrative around its’ previous occupant Hanni, a settled Traveller. W...
Only in Askeaton: Janks Archive
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Janks Archive is an ongoing investigation of insult humour from around the world. Stemming from the word “Janks,” a colloquial term from Southern Alabama, this ever-expanding global project, with its members Jessica Langley, Ben Kinsley visited Askeaton to seek out local variations on this theme. Why study insult humor? Janks Archive note that “Insults are an ancient oral tradition embedded wit...
Only in Askeaton: Deirdre O'Mahony
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Artist Deirdre O’Mahony’s decades-long exploration of spatial planning, economic development and environmental awareness in the west of Ireland point to complex and ever-changing processes. Central to her approach is the question of how art can affect understandings of the places we live. Join Michael Holly as he interviews the artist and highlights aspects of her new A.C.A. PUBLIC book, Betwee...
Only in Askeaton: The Expanded Field
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The Center for Land Use Interpretation, founded in 1994, is a nonprofit research and cultural organisation interested in exploring and understanding contemporary landscape issues in the USA, through exhibitions, publications, online resources, tours, and public programs. Based in Los Angeles, CLUI is interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the surface of the ...
Only in Askeaton: Magdalena Jitrik- A Painting in Askeaton
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Argentinian artist Magdalena Jitrik spent time in Askeaton during 2009 making a small painting that, according to prominent curator Adriano Pedrosa, ‘is a splendid abstract geometric composition - one can see the same mosaic of multicoloured slanted rectangles forming a larger, again not so orthogonal square, which in turn is intersected by a trapezoid figure, offering a feast for the formal co...
Only in Askeaton Berndnaut Smilde
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Since 2006, contemporary artworks have been made in Askeaton, with many of them still lurking in unexpected places! Join Michael Holly as he goes in search of Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde’s Until Askeaton Has Streetview, an artwork seemingly found in the deepest reaches of the internet…
Only in Askeaton: Poitín- Steve Maher
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Recording during his 2014 stay in Askeaton, Steve Maher’s video is an investigative insight into the shady world of poitín, an illegal homemade high potency alcohol found in rural Ireland. The interview takes place on a midsummer evening in an undisclosed location, where Maher’s source, an anonymous Askeaton local, bares all. More videos, publications and information can be found at: askeatonar...
Loved the trip down memory lane willie or should I say mussel Lane.
My cousin kindly got me a Seanie Barron walking stick. I love it. It's beautiful and I'm very proud of it. This is a really lovely film and I think I saw my stick in it! Seanie Barron is a very gifted man.
Suddenly turns into a David Lynch film at 7:34
Heart of gold
who was the filmmaker ? They are not listed in the end credits.
The filmmaker is Michael Holly mickholly.ie
@@michelehorrigan1098 thank you
Very interesting 👌👍
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