Samizdat

Featuring artists

Ciaran Walsh (IRL/GER)

Aine Ivers (IRL), Chris Fite-Wassilak (USA),
Kate Mc Larnon (IRL/UK)

UNIT H; The Market Studios exhibition & project space

Opens 6-9pm, Fri. 21 Nov

with 8pm live acoustic performance by upcoming band
Readers Wives – www.myspace.com/readerswives

Exhibition continues 22 – 30 Nov, 2008
every Sat & Sun, 2 – 5pm (or by appointment)

Talk at 5pm, Sat. 22 Nov

Ciaran Walsh (Artist) and
Eugene McCartan (Connolly Books)

Samizdat has evolved through artist Ciaran Walsh’s ongoing and developing artistic research and presents three new artworks.  Samizdat (the practice, in the early Soviet era, of distributing banned novels and other texts through hand copying) forms the basis behind Walsh’s research in which he explores notions of replication, shared knowledge, the distribution and circulation of forms, productivity and agency.  Artist Aine Ivers and writers Chris Fite Wassilak and Kate Mc Larnon have responded to these ideas contributing texts for a printed pamphlet which accompanies the exhibition.

In Conjunction with the exhibition we are also delighted to present the first of a series of talks accompanying the Unit H exhibition programme.

On Saturday 22nd Nov, 5pm, Ciaran Walsh will be in conversation about his work and research practice and Eugene McCartan will give a talk on the history of the oldest radical bookshop in Dublin, Connolly Books. Providing a space to examine and discuss historic and contemporary manifestations of literary activism and the dissemination of alternative political ideas.