Creative Activity = Active Creation

http://web.modarteurope.com/news/news/

I bought this arty looking magazine in an airport in somewhere once, and it was full of lovely goodness, so I found the website to show you guys. It's lovely too :)

from claire

Hey i thought tis picture was pretty cool :) :) Linda

Ref the fail better quote today - from the class wishes - Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

whats RSS and how to use it ......

Diana Copperwhite

There's an exhibition on in Drogheda at the mo of Diana Copperwhite's paintings that i really like...she just won the AIB Artist of Promise Award! You should check her out:)

www.dianacopperwhite.com/
gallery... www.highlanes.ie/



Leanne

I have recently become interested in 'Cadavar Art' from helping my friend in NCAD do some research into a project. It is surprising how wide artists interests stretch. Joel Peter Witkin for example travelled to medical schools, morgues and hospitals around the world in order to find corpses and 'freaks' to use in his art. He travelled to Mexico where he smuggled corpses back to the US. He took portraits(photography) of these people, sometimes spending hours with them, finding a good composition. To him, they were far from dead. Sometimes he would cut up the bodies and arrange their parts in different ways, or mix and match parts and sew them together.
In a way this can be compared to the work of Gunther von Hagen. Gunther von Hagen is a controversial anatomist. He appeared on the channel four programme anatomy for beginners, disecting cadavars for learning purposes. Von Hagen invented a way of preserving biological tissue called plastination. This is where the water and fat are replaced by certain plastics. This preserved the body and it will not decay or smell. Von Hagen put these preserved bodies on display in the 'body worlds' exhibition, a travelling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts to reveal inner anatomical structures. This is a learning exercise as each body is displaying a different life style or medical condition.


Anyway, I just thought this was an interesting and different approach to art, hopefully you'll find it interesting too.

Steph

New No Grants Gallery in Temple Bar

On Wednesday November 19th 2008 Temple Bar Cultural Trust launched a new gallery and exhibition space for artists who are currently working without public funding support. This new gallery is curated and managed by Dublin artist Carol Eakins and the system is very simple - artists pay a nominal fifty euro fee for a two-week exhibition slot and also receive promotional support from TBCT.



Carol explains that “No Grants Gallery is a new opportunity for artists to showcase their art. It is a haven for independent artists who want to show Dublin that they can make it on their own. There is strong public demand to give people opportunities to see a broad range of up and coming art in an atmosphere that is also affordable and approachable for artists.”



Ms Eakins described the purpose behind NGG and the way it will work: “The aim of the No Grants Gallery is to encourage and promote Dublin-based artists. For this reason we have decided to redevelop our exhibition space by offering it to a large range of artists for a two week period a price that just covers the maintenance of the gallery wall. Artists working in today’s climate need and deserve some support for their hard work and this is our way to do just that. We hope that with No Grants Gallery we may help every artist’s dream of exhibiting their art come true.”



Suitable For: Exhibitions and Gallery
Contact: Artists interested in showing their work at NGG should contact ngg@templebar.ie or Carol Eakins at 01 677 2255.



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HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!

angel by Katie
photo by natalia

An interesting insight into the concept of Dystopia

http://gelsingers.blogspot.com/2006/11/brain-inside-our-brain.html

Just an interesting write up I found on my travels. I hope this proves helpful to anyone who's currently wrestling with their (city-based) Visual Culture zine assignment.

Good luck to everyone with their current projects,
Aisling.

InContext3 / Alight Exhibition Public Tours Education Screenings

Roll Up Your Sleeves:The DIY Counterculture: Film screening and discussion
Location RED South Dublin Arts Centre: Date Tuesday 2nd December

Time 6.00pm- 7.10pm :(Film 27 mins long)
Post film discussion Chaired by Michael Murphy with Dylan Haskins and Niall McGuirk

Screening of the debut film by 21year old Dylan Haskins and a group of his friends.The film hightlight ʽDo-It-Yourselfʼ counterculture from the starting point of his own group of friends and their local alternative community. The journey of discovery leads Haskins to drive a US folk punk band on their European tour and looks at the relationship between DIY ideology and european autonomous social centres. This is contrasted with the Seomra Spraoi social centre project in Dublin and the problems they face. Independent music features as a thread throughout the film. Interviewees include Ian MacKaye of legendary alternative bands Fugazi and Minor Threat, Ellen Lupton, author of DIY: Design it Yourself and Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, Ellie and Louise Macnamara of young irish band Heathers and members of long running Dutch experimental punk band The Ex.

Produced by Project Arts Centre Dublin for Dublin Community Television.