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Timespace curated by Jerome O Drisceoil & Martina Cleary
Bea McMahon, Tom Hunter, Dennis McNulty, Damien Flood and Kevin Atherton

  • Sunday 01 August 2010

Green On Red Gallery in association with The Burren College of Art are pleased to present Timespace, a group exhibition of work from Bea McMahon, Dennis McNulty, Tom Hunter, Damien Flood and Kevin Atherton.

Five internationally recognised artists are presented in the exhibition Timespace the 7th in the Burren Annual exhibtion series at Burren College of Art. This multi-media show has been made possible by collaboration between the Green On Red Gallery, Dublin and Burren College of Art with the generous support of the Arts Office of Clare County Council. The show is curated by Jerome O Drisceoil director of Green On Red Gallery and Martina Cleary, Head of Photography at Burren College of Art, and the artists are all asociated with the Green On Red Gallery.

The works of art in this exhibition explore how chronological sequence is often at odds with expected sequential or logical patterns within the contemporary cultural “timespace” we now occupy. This common concern is manifest through a range of the artists’ topical interests and a diversity of media that includes photography, video-installation, drawing and sound environments.

The redoubling or reflexive folding of time onto space, mirror onto subject, which many of the exhibits contain, demonstrate what Victor Burgin describes as “the impact of cinematic.” The moving image has become the fluid stream of shared memory, an amorphous timespace of the collective cinematic unconscious.

Artist Kevin Atherton will perform In Two Minds – Past Version at the Burren College of Art at 7pm in the Lecture Hall, during the opening of Timespace.

In Two Minds - Past Version consists of the fifty-five-year-old Kevin Atherton answering questions put to him by his twenty-seven-year-old, pre-recorded self. The resulting performance is a humorous and insightful examination of 1970s video art but as it progresses, becomes a poignant reflection on what has happened in the intervening twenty-eight years.

This well travelled performance was hosted last summer in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and previously at the Tate Britain, London, among other places. As the Tate website states :
"This is a rare opportunity to experience a key work from the early history of performance art that is, uniquely, as contemporary and gripping and witty today as it was 35 years ago. This is a must see."

This is the seventh exhibition in the Burren Annual Series, the intention of which is to showcase nationally and internationally significant artists in the purpose-built BCA Gallery, within the cultural environment of the West of Ireland.

Mary Hawkes-Greene, President of Burren College of Art said, “It is wonderful to bring the work of some of the most important artists in Ireland and the UK to the Burren. This is a location long associated with learning and the arts and it is rewarding to be able to work with one of Ireland’s most prestigious art galleries in maintaining that tradition.”

Burren College of Art is an internationally recognised not-for-profit independent college specialising in undergraduate and graduate fine art education. The college offers artists and art students from around the world time, space and inspiration within the unique environment of the Burren. The PhD in Studio Art, Master of Fine Art and Post Bac programmes are accredited by the National University of Ireland, Galway and operated in association with the Royal College of Art, London and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Burren College of Art is located at Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare.

Opening Reception: Saturday 31 July, 6-8pm
Exhibition Venue: The Burren College of Art, Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
Exhibition Dates: 01 August - 30 September 2010

Image: Bea McMahon, Still from Bond (2008) Digital video, edition of 3, 7mins

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