Noel Kelly
Since 2003
Works in Castleknock Ireland

BIO
Noel Kelly is a Partner in The Art Projects Network, Curator with Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, a member of the Irish branch of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and Board Member of The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. He has worked independently as a curator as well as advising institutions on visual arts programming both in Ireland and internationally. Amongst his recent writing projects he is editor of the newly released "Art & Politics: The Imagination of Opposition in Europe".

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New Works by Fiona Mulholland and The Metropolitan Complex - RIAI Gallery, Dublin, Ireland


Oci an exhibition of new works by Fiona Mulholland and The Metropolitan Complex

Wednesday, June 2nd @ 6pm
The Exhibition will run until July 2nd 2004

Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland
8 Merrion Square, Dublin 2

Oci, Slovenian word for Eyes, is an exhibition by two contemporary artists living in Dublin, Ireland. The exhibition continues a theme of exploring how people perceive and respond to their environment. In March 2004 a group of artists travelled to Slovenia for an exhibition curated by The Art Projects Network. Two of the artists who travelled with the exhibition were Fiona Mulholland and Sarah Pierce of The Metropolitan Complex. During their visit these two artists had individual responses to their first journey to Slovenia. Oci explores these experiences and documents their visual and human response.
Fiona Mulholland's photography are her "visual notebook". Travelling around Ljubljana and Bled, Fiona gives us a glimpse into the abstract fairytale that she discovered in both scenery and architectural features. Fiona's work is about form, shape, and interpretation. Drawing on her sculpture background, Fiona provides us with an opportunity to look into and share a very personal experience of how process and practice are influenced by environment.
Commissioned by The Slovenian Embassy in Dublin

The Metropolitan Complex is a project by Sarah Pierce. It is a social practice that incorporates a range of activities such as exhibitions, talks, and publications. These structures are often opened up to the personal and the incidental. Commissioned by The Art Projects Network, The Metropolitan Complex organised two roundtable discussions: one with artists and curators living in Ireland and one with artists and curators living in Slovenia. These conversations stage an exchange between Ireland and Slovenia, transacted through an artwork that takes the form of printed publications. The papers are in two parts. The first of these, with artists and curators based in Ireland, was based upon a discusion which took place on February 8th 2004. This conversation documented the participants' perceptions of Slovenia’s art scene. On March 8th 2004 a similar conversation took place in Ljubljana with artists and curators based in Slovenia discussing their perceptions of Ireland’s art scene. This information might be indirect or based on personal experience. What is important is how a perception of another country forms through a combination of international and local points of reference. The papers are part of an ongoing series of roundtables by The Metropolitan Complex. Each one circulates as a free publication. Part One was distributed in Slovenia and Part Two forms part of the Oci exhibition.
Commissioned by The Art Projects Network

EVENT

Noordung Cosmocinetical Cabinet bring SUPREMAT to The Helix Theatre - May 3rd - 5th 2004.


Dates:
Mon May 03, 2004 00:00 - Sat Apr 03, 2004

Noordung Cosmocinetical Cabinet, the first theatre company to perform in zero gravity, will open on May 3rd in The Helix Theatre with their performance of Dragan Zivadinov's Supremat.

The Noordung Cosmocinetical Cabinet (previous names: Red Pilot and Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre) is, as the name itself suggests, a drama group that adopts the general provisions of the ideology of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst) and presents them to the spectators in visual form. Their performances are strongly based on popular religious rituals, but without the spiritual context.

Supremat is a new event in the series of the "farewell rituals" performed by the actor Dragan Živadinov over the recent years. This time, his (sub)title references are those of the Neue Slowenische Kunst and the NSK. The title itself naturally alludes to Malevich's suprematism, the original inspiration of Dragan's theatrical work, and, to a slight extent - in connection with several props in the performance - to a "super automaton", and all kinds of "purification" enabled by the notion.

As part of the large-scale NSK events taking place in Dublin during European Union Enlargement, the Noordung Cosmocinetical Cabinet will perform "SUPREMAT" at The Helix Theatre from May 3rd – May 5th 2004

Further information can be found at
http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net
or
by phoning Noel Kelly on +353 (0)86 2471114
email: noel.kelly@artprojectsnetwork.net

Funded by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, and the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with support from The Helix Theatre.


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EAST ART MAP INSTALLATION BY IRWIN ART GROUP IN PROJECT - APRIL 30th 2004


Dates:
Fri Apr 30, 2004 00:00 - Sat Apr 03, 2004

Art & culture have historically possessed a central role within socialist and communist societies. The promoters of socialist and communist ideals considered themselves the descendents of the Enlightenment and Romanticism - therefore they considered art & culture to be central to any authentic socialist or communist society.

The former Yugoslavia occupied a special position within this supposition. Artistic and cultural workers were not restricted in the same way as their Soviet Bloc counterparts. Rather than living a life based upon the often-grey definition of Official and Unofficial artist, they were free to explore not only their own specific regional process, but also travelled internationally to experience the "western" art scene. This was based upon Tito's dictum of self-management.

In keeping with the theories of Marx, the official ideology of self-management praised art as the highest form of creativity. However, against the Marxist ideal, it simultaneously had to conceal the fact that it also claimed that art may have - and indeed must have - political consequence. To speak of society as a whole made up of interrelated social mechanisms that are based upon class antagonisms, then to speak of non-political art, pure science, non-ideological art history, becomes redundant.

After the fall of Tito this concealment came to an end. The resultant regime aligned itself more with the Soviet style structure of prescribed Social Realism, and in doing so caused the beginning of its own demise. Laibach Kunst challenged the regime and clearly claimed that ART IS POLITICS, AND ARTISTS ARE POLITICIANS.

IRWIN, in their current body of work continues to work upon this premise. But, rather than directly addressing the obvious political movements, they instead have chosen to represent a history of art movement that is unevenly and often inaccurately documented in the parts of Eastern and Central Europe that fell under these totalitarian regimes.

In their current body of work, IRWIN are working to draw up a map that will not try to provide detailed explanations of individual works of art and relations among them but will instead represent key events or artefacts that affected art in particular countries and their description. An interactive installation of the Dublin manifestation of EAST ART MAP will open in Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin 1 @ 6pm on April 30th and will run until May 5th.

IRWIN is an artistic project consisting originally of former Slovenian artistic underground figures. The group adopted the ideology of collectivism in its work - all projects are prepared jointly, the artists do not sign the artworks. Their massive use of the motifs, symbols and styles of the great artistic and political ideologies of the 20th century make their work resemble the Soviet avant garde, the Art of the Third Reich, religious iconography etc. IRWIN is a founding member of the NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst).

Further information can be found at
http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net
or
by phoning Noel Kelly on +353 (0)86 2471114
email: noel.kelly@artprojectsnetwork.net
Funded by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, and the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with support from The Project Arts Centre.


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NSK DEPT. OF PURE AND APPLIED PHILOSOPHY Peter Mlakar: Three Forms of the Absolute Evil - Temple Bar Gallery & Studios - May 1st @ 7:30pm.


Dates:
Sat May 01, 2004 00:00 - Sat Apr 03, 2004

The Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy is concerned with classical philosophical issues and their anomalies. The main topics of investigations are the question of God, the essence and meaning of sexuality in relation to the absolute and evil. The Dept. of Pure and Applied Philosophy combines theonthology with psychoanalysis.

The Dublin performance will consist of two separate manifestations. The first is a lecture/sermon on Mlakar’s radical philosophical or theological conception of God. In the performance, Peter Mlakar will confront the audience with some new/old topics of the Absolute in relation to our contemporary world. This is made more interesting because of the Christian roots of the European Union on the day of enlargement of the Union and the associated problems with the new European Constitution.

The second is an artistic/philosophical performance on three forms of the absolute Evil. In the performance Mlakar will explore how this Evil could be manifested in the contemporary and real world. The performance is quite extreme in terms of sexuality, but it also fits the controversial psyche of religious Ireland and the basis of Christianity (Flesh-Pain-Enjoyment-God).

The representative for the philosophical branch of NSK is Peter Mlakar, a philosopher and writer. Peter Mlakar is best known for his speeches concerning religion and his very particular view on the manifestations of evil in our contemporary society.

His early speeches have been collated and published as REDEN AN DIE DEUTSCHE NATION (Speeches to the German Nation; Vienna: Verlag Turia & Kant, 1993). He has also published three philosophical works in the Slovenian language, SPISI O NADNARAVNEM (Essays on the Supernatural; Ljubljana: Analecta, 1992), UVOD V BOGA (An Introduction to God; Ljubljana: Zalozba NSK, 1997, and published in Croatian, Zagreb 2000), and HRIBI IN DOLINE (Hills and Valleys; Zalozba NSK, 1999).

As one might expect, Mlakar's style is declarative and bombastic, but his form of rhetoric also illuminates existential conundrums of the sort that most people prefer not to be confronted with. In response to Essays on the Supernatural, a well-known Slovenian Catholic philosopher remarked that such a work "cannot be opposed with counter-argument, but only with prayer and fasting."

As part of the large-scale NSK events taking place in Dublin during European Union Enlargement, The Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy performance will take place in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios on May 1st @ 7:30pm – Invitation Only.

Further information can be found at
http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net
or
by phoning Noel Kelly on +353 (0)86 2471114
email: noel.kelly@artprojectsnetwork.net
Funded by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, and the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with support from Temple Bar Gallery & Studios.


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NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst) to open Dublin Passport Office - Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland - April 29th 2004


Dates:
Thu Apr 29, 2004 00:00 - Sat Apr 03, 2004

NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst) is the world's first universal state. It is larger than the European Union, more powerful than NATO, more populous than the Vatican. NSK has established a territory without geographical, national or cultural borders.

The NSK State is installed in a real social and political space as a sculpture comprising the body warmth, spirit and work of its members. NSK confers the status of a state not upon territory but upon the mind, whose borders are in a state of flux, in accordance with the movements and changes of its symbolic and physical collective body. The project comments on political developments in ex-Yugoslavia in a specific way, representing an alternative to the political fixations on territories, ethnic groups and borders that gained strength since the beginning of the 1990's.

On April 29th 2004 NSK will establish a passport office for the issue of NSK State Passports. As well as issuing NSK State Passports, the office will display and provide of information concerning NSK and the individual groups that constitute the NSK state. This will take place in Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin 1, Ireland

The opening event will take place on April 29th 2004 @ 6pm

The Passport Office will remain open until May 3rd 2004

Further information can be found at
http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net
or
by phoning Noel Kelly on +353 (0)86 2471114
email: noel.kelly@artprojectsnetwork.net

Funded by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, and the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with support from The Project Arts Centre.