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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Ene-Liis Semper & Mark Raidpere @ Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin


Ene-Liis Semper "Licked Room" & "FF/REW"
Main Gallery Space curated by Noel Kelly

with

Mark Raidpere "Father" & "Shifting Focus"
curated by Ene-Liis Semper for The Atrium

12th March - 16th April 2005

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios presents a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Estonian artist Ene-Liis Semper, 12th March - 16th April. Semper's work is a blend of video and performance that bridges sensual experience and theories of film and theatre. There will be a concurrent exhibition by fellow Estonian artist Mark Raidpere in the International Studio space at TBG&S.

Ene-Liis Semper's work in video records performances specifically undertaken for the camera. Using austere theatricality Semper (b. 1969 Tallinn) focuses on the body and simple iconic movements, embodying a staged dramatic resonance that is seductive and unsettling. The exhibition will feature two video works by Semper, 'Licked Room' and 'FF/REW'.

'Licked Room' and 'FF/REW' provoke questions of anguish and compulsion and reflect classic themes of seduction, self-sacrifice and death, offering moments for potential psychoanalytical discourse.

"Pure original reality stands in front of your eyes unchanged, and you traverse it hundreds of times without noticing it. The moment when it suddenly swims into focus is astonishing. I think I've tried to capture such moments." (Ene-Liis Semper)

'Licked Room', first performed for the Estonian exposition at the 49th Venice Biennial 2001, will be played across three video monitors in a purpose-built room within the gallery. On the morning of the exhibition, Semper will lick the walls and floor of the space, alone in the room apart from her camera man. Once the room has been licked the space will be sealed and there will be no entry until visitors arrive that evening. The audience walks through the space potentially unaware of the voyeuristic event.

In accompaniment to 'Licked Room' is 'FF/REW', a staged suicide story. The viewer is carried on a repetitive journey that progresses from being initially disturbing to an assertion of one of the fundamental aspects of video. The basis of 'FF/REW" is the capability of video to manipulate time, to deconstruct and reassemble the linear and narrative structure of events, to move backwards and forwards from the starting point.

Ene-Liis Semper will curate a simultaneous exhibition of work by fellow Estonian artist Mark Raidpere (b. 1975 Tallinn) in the International Studio space. Raidpere has been selected to represent Estonia at the Venice Biennale 2005. This is the first exhibition by either Ene-Liis Semper or Mark Raidpere in Ireland.

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios acknowledge the support of the Embassy of Estonia in the presentation of both exhibitions.

Hanno Soans, Commissioner for the Estonian exposition at the Venice Biennale 2005, will lead a talk on the work of Ene-Liis Semper and Mark Raidpere and the current direction of Estonian visual art practice on Saturday 12th March, 12pm in the Atrium Space at TBG&S.

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Felons - Gallery III, RHA, Dublin, Ireland, 10 February - 20 March, 2005


Felons
Gallery III, RHA, 10 February - 20 March, 2005

An exhibition curated by Alan Phelan

With work by Hans-Peter Feldmann, Paul Ferman, Yona Friedman, Wolfgang Paalen and Marko Peljhan

A catalogue for the exhibition will be published on 10 March, 2005 with essays by Michel Peillon, Pelin Tan and Alan Phelan.

Opening Reception:
Thursday 10 February, 2005 6pm-8pm

Alan Phelan is an artist & a founding member of
The Art Projects Network.

Felons is the third in a series of artist curated exhibitions at the Academy. The title for the show comes from the spell check prompt of Alan Phelan’s surname in Microsoft Word which returns ‘felon’ as the correct spelling. It is from here that the first selection criteria emerged - all the artists in the show have names that sound like the name Phelan. The show includes work by Hans-Peter Feldmann (Germany), Paul Ferman (Australia), Yona Friedman (Hungary/France), Wolfgang Paalen (Austria/Mexico) and Marko Peljhan (Slovenia). A catalogue will be published on March 10 which will also include texts by Michel Peillon (France/Ireland) and Pelin Tan (Turkey).

As a way of selecting artists for any exhibition this would seem rather arbitrary if not egotistical. The process is intended to question the way a group exhibition is put together and recent developments with the emergence of the ‘creative creating’ and indeed the ‘artist-curator’. In these practices the curator has become more of an author or the central personality surrounding the exhibition, best seen in large international exhibitions like Documenta or various Biennale where the theme dominates individual artist’s work.

Felons brings together a seemingly arbitrary group of artists which mirror the dynamic of these exhibitions (only on a much smaller scale). The show includes utopian architecture, surrealist paintings, conceptual sequences, photography and hi-tech practices.

Yona Friedman (b.1923) presents a cardboard model and print from his 1950’s Spatial City project for a mobile architecture built in the air space above existing cities. Several paintings, catalogues and documentation from Wolfgang Paalen (b.1905 d.1959), show the artist’s involvement with many of the central figures of his day from the surrealist movement, charting visions of the unconsciousness in that social and cultural context. Hans-Peter Feldman (b.1941), a much celebrated German conceptual artist, borrows shoes from RHA employees, ironically engaging moments of displacement and projection. Paul Ferman (b.1948) photographs suburban curb-side rubbish which become a kind of sculptural monument to urbanised living. Finally the video animations of Marko Peljhan (b.1969) are taken from his S-77CCR project which created urban counter-surveillance systems to monitor public space.

What binds the show together is not the organisational conceit but rather the interaction between the artworks which examine representations of social spaces interpreted through architecture, abstract forms, personal structures, documentary and industrial systems. The coherence of the final selection of works reflects instead on the relationships between lived spaces and the individual.

For more info or images please contact Elaine Fallon, Royal Hibernian Academy Press officer at
t: 01 6612558 ext 111, f: 01 6610762 rhagallery1@eircom.net.

Royal Hibernian Academy,
Gallagher Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
T + 353 1 6612558 F + 353 1 6610762

http://www.royalhibernianacademy.com
Opening hours: Tues - Sat 11am to 5pm, Thurs 11am to 8pm, Sun 2pm to 5pm

For more information on the artists please check out the following websites:

Alan Phelan http://www.alanphelan.com

Yona Friedman http://www.naipublishers.nl/architecture/friedman\_e.html
Wolfgang Paalen http://www.paalen-archiv.com
Hans-Peter Feldman http://www.303gallery.com
Paul Ferman http://www.paulferman.com
Marko Peljhan http://s-77ccr.org

DISCUSSION

The Contemporary Arts Review - January 2005


The Contemporary Arts Review has now been launched. The January 2005 edition is available at http://www.contemporaryartsreview.com

Featured in this edition are

THE LAST EAST EUROPEAN SHOW: DEFINING MODES OF MOVEMENT THROUGH A GLOBAL ART SYSTEM - Marko Stamenkovic
THE SHAPE OF THE NEIGHBOUR(HOOD) - Sarah L. Ross
RE-BIRTH OF THE RENAISSANCE MAN/WOMAN - Eva Lewarne
BALKAN MEMOIR 2003 - AN IRREGULAR VIEW OF TRAVELING THROUGH EUROPE -CHAPTER ONE ZAGREB - Ciaran Bennett
SPORADIC NOVEMBER SUNSHINE IN A WINTER CITY - A WALK THROUGH NEW YORK - Noel Kelly

Mentioned in the edition are:

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir
Pyotr Anokhin
Apex art, New York
Lars Arrhenius
John Baldessari,
Bard College, New York
BAZA (Zoran Eric and Stevan Vukovic)
Iara Boubnova
Lousie Bourgeois
Leonardo Da Vinci
Mike Davis
De Appel, Amsterdam,
Guy Debord
Design Out Crime
Roslyn Deutsche
Meister Eckhart
Albert Einstein
Frank Gehry
Goldsmith College, London
Magasin, Grenoble
Marina Grzinic
Lorand Hegyi
Matthew Higgs
Henry Meyric Hughes
Thomas Jefferson
Jesper Just
Sol LeWitt
William Manchester
Michelangelo
Jonathan Monk
Markus Muntean
Erban, Nantes,
Neue Slowenische Kunst
Isaac Newton
Nils Norman
Lucy Orta
Ivan Pavlov
Bojana Pejic
Alan Phelan
Chloe Piene
Guillaume Pinard
Micheal Rakowitz
Lobsang Rampa
Rainer Maria Rilke
Adi Rosenblum
William Shakespeare
Michael Snow
Kazimir Tarmon
The StreetScape Project
Rirkrit Tiravanija
IKW, Vienna
Bill Viola
Banks Violette
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Mark Wrigley
Igor Zabel

Also featuring a special launch competition... People who subscribe to The Review list and answer the following question - "What emerging Irish artist had an exhibition of new work in 2004 entitled 'Gordon Bennett' and opened in a group show in the Whitney in November of the same year?" In the next edition we will reveal the winner who will receive a copy of "Making Contemporary Art - How Today's Artists Think and Work by Linda Weintraub"

More details at http://www.contemporaryartsreview.com

DISCUSSION

New Book: Art & Politics - The Imagination of Opposition in Europe


Pre-Release Offer

Art & Politics - The Imagination of Opposition in Europe
Conference Papers
Authors: Michael Fitzpatrick, Paula Murphy, Stefan Auer, Brenda Moore-McCann, Constance Short, Colin Darke, Bojana Kunst, Marina Grzinic, Misko Suvakovic, Alexei Monroe
With a foreword by H.E. Helena Drnovsek-Zorko
Edited by Noel Kelly

Cover Design: New Collectivism
Produced by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Published by R4 Publishing

ISBN 0-9543079-1-7 (R4)
First Edition

RRP 20 (Sterling)
Pre-release Offer Price E 20 (Euro) plus Post & Packaging

How does "art" intersect "politics" either when all art is politics or when politics forcibly subsumes art to its will? In the modernist tradition, art and politics are autonomous fields. In totalitarian societies, everything is politics, with all differentiation disappearing along with the limits between public and private spheres.

In post-imperial societies it is seen as evident that art was rarely independent, playing as it did its own part in the imperialist politics of cultural hegemony and giving rise to various kinds of post-imperial cultural headaches. In post-socialist societies, it becomes clear that, with everything being political, art can produce a politics of its own, making the invisible aesthetic process that makes the cultural hegemony of the socialist regime visible.

In Slovenia, NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), as a collective project starting from 1980 on, is the most outstanding case of the art of the Eighties. It is an important starting point for analyses of how art and artists react and interact with different political hegemonies - underlying shared and differentiated experiences in both contemporary and historical Europe. An international panel of artists, art historians, critics, academics, and arts professionals gathered in Dublin in April 2004 to compare and contrast European experiences based upon the themes above.

Papers include: The flyover at the crossroads - Art and Politics in the local-global context (Michael Fitzpatrick); Monuments at Risk (Paula Murphy); Art, Politics and the Power of the Powerless (Stefan Auer); Most of all it doesn't come free (Constance Short); The Politics of Identity, Place, and Memory in Contemporary Irish Art (Brenda Moore-McCann); Working-Class Culture and Artistic Autonomy (Colin Darke); Discontents of Resistance: Art and Politics in the Time of Independence (Bojana Kunst); NSK:It's perpetual mobile (Marina Grzinic); NSK Symptom (Misko Suvakovic); How the West Was Won - NSK and The Conquest of Cultural Space (Alexei Monroe).

Proceeds from the sale of this book will be dedicated to the formation of a fund for Slovene artists taking part in Artist Residency programmes in Ireland.

To Order:
As a pre-release offer APN is offering Art & Politics: The Imagination of Opposition in Europe at the special price of E 20 (Euro). The recommended retail price after release will be 20 (Sterling). To order send an International Money Order (payable to Noel Kelly) for the full amount plus shipping costs (outlined below).

International Money Orders (Euros Only) made payable to "Noel Kelly", plus quantity and shipping details to:
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DISCUSSION

New Contemporary Arts Quarterly Review - Call for Submissions


In January 2005 a new online magazine, The Contemporary Arts Review, will be launched. APN will assist in the launch of the magazine. In the meantime CAR have asked us to place a call for submissions based on their broad criteria for inclusion - see below

"The Contemporary Arts Review (www.contemporaryartsreview.com) - A new quarterly ezine of critical writings and comments will be launched in January 2005. The publication is directed to discussion and comment on contemporary art practice and realisation both in Ireland and on an International basis. This is an opportunity for essayists, critics, theoreticians and audience to give voice to topics that they feel strongly about and feel are under-represented in critical writings currently available. To submit for publication contact us at submissions@contemporaryartsreview.com

The Editor
The Contemporary Arts Review
editor@contemporaryartsreview.com