Butoh Dance Masterclasses

Grigory Glazunov and Natalia Zhestovskaya lead Butoh dance masterclass at The Market Studios.

August 17th – 22nd, 2009

The Market Studios will host a masterclass in Butoh dance, led by guest artists Grigory Glazunov and Natalia Zhestovskaya of OddDance Theatre Company, St. Petersburg, Russia. The masterclass will run from 17.09. – 21.09.09, with a public performance event on the evening of 22.09.09 at The Market Studios. Cost €200.

Inquiries and bookings to Áine Ivers.
E: aineivers@hotmail.com
M:087 067 1009

Gillian Fitzpatrick:

And the stars look very different today

20th July 1969 – 20th July 2009

6-8pm 20/07/09

A one night only exhibition on the 40th Anniversary of the first landing on the moon.

@ Unit H, The Market Studios, Corner of Halston St. & Mary’s Lane

“This is Major Tom to Ground Control

I’m stepping through the door

And I’m floating in a most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today”

David Bowie A Space Oddity 1969

Inspired by Space Age designs and ideas, and sci-fi films, Gillian Fitzpatrick explores the possibilities contained in the promises of the early years of space exploration. The first Moon landing marks the point where science fiction and real events came together, and for a while it seemed that the vision of humans travelling the galaxy, exploring and living on other planets might become more than sci-fi fantasy.

Within Fitzpatrick’s work nostalgia for the unlimited potential of this un-realised future is combined with the complicated realities of the present.  Using waste packaging and found objects, Fitzpatrick creates the appearance of futuristic Space Age technology thus highlighting the 21st century concern for recycling in contrast to the ideal of the new, at the height of space exploration in the 60’s. This reflects a much altered public awareness about our planets resources and invincibility.

Fitzpatrick works in video, sculpture and installation. The exhibition will land for one night only.

For further info:

themarketstudios@gmail.com

http://themarketstudios.wordpress.com

(See blog above for directions to the venue)

The Market Studios exhibition & project space provides a platform for a variety of events from a dynamic network of Irish, visual art practitioners. UNIT H’s curated programme is dedicated to introducing international artists as well as commissioning new work from home grown talent.

The Market Studios is an independent not-for-profit workspace, established in December 2007 by curator/ artists, Claire Behan, Deirdre Morrissey and artist Monica Flynn. The Market Studios is unique as a creative space, which has taken a proactive approach in establishing a locus were visual artists, writers and curators can meet, work and enjoy the benefits of peer and cross disciplinary exchange. Located at the heart of the markets area, just off Capel St, the studios provide workspace for 23 artists.

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Deirdre Morrissey, Claire Behan & Monica Flynn

Curators/Directors

The Market Studios & UNIT H

Corner of Halston St & Mary’s Lane

Dublin 7

Givva He a Sandfella Last Day Wild

3 Days Of Total Pleasure

Curated by Terry Markey & Mark Grehan

Three exhibitions that will run consecutively.
3rd – 5th July 2009

“Givva he a sandfella last day wild” is a consideration of three concepts from the novel Logan’s Run, the concepts being Complete Freedom/Subversion, Society and conspiracy.

DeySed presents SilentCity

[Fragments of the street]

5pm-11pm Friday, 3rd of July

Performance-installation & Film Screening

SilentCity ’tours’ are interactive performances by DeySed creating an intimate experience of the cityscape: Night becoming [DEY].

(Duration: 35 min) starting from the front door of Market Studios @17:30, 19:00, 20:30 & 22:00. ‘tours’ are ticketed on the night. www.deysed.blogspot.com

THE CIRCUIT (Recreational Art)

Saturday 4^th July 9 AM – 9 PM,

Unit H Market Studios

An Exhibition exploring inter-Connectivity and the art space through the transmission of art works.

Artists are invited to submit images, ideas, instructions, anything that you can think of via email. All of which be printed and/or produced during the exhibition and will only exist as art within the context of the show.

Please email your submissions to: givva_he_a_sandfella_last_day_wild@hotmail.com or

Givva he a sandfella last day wild (Facebook)

“I FEED THE SOUL NOT THE BODY. ART BEFORE HUNGER.”

Sun 5^th July from 4 PM – 7 PM,

Unit H Market Studios

Come along and relax in a comfortable environment. Enjoy luxurious foods and drinks while viewing a series of commissioned paintings (based on passages from the book Logan’s run) that have been created on site for the occasion.

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See also: myspace.com/themarketstudios

This is what happens when you are not here

This is what happens when you are not here.
Marta Fernández Calvo
18.6. – 28.6.2009
The Market Studios
Project Space
Corner of Halston Street and Mary’s Lane
Dublin 7

Preview Wednesday, 17.6., 6 – 8pm.
Event with guests Chequerboard and Paco Ramos, Thursday 25.6., 6 – 8pm.
Open Thursday – Sunday 2 – 7pm. Closed Monday – Wednesday.

This exhibition is the third stage of a continuing artistic structure called The Rain Project. Marta Fernández Calvo has developed The Rain Project with Irish musician Chequerboard and Spanish artist Paco Ramos as guest collaborators over 2008 and 2009. The work refers to the eighteen different words used in the japanese language to describe rain: from subtle spring rain to the rain shower, from the rain storm to the hailstorm. The overall project represents the formalization of an itinerant process, based upon the localization and the mapping process of rain in different urban scenarios. The artwork had involved three cities: Milan, Logroño and Dublin.

This is what happens when you are not here starts from an analysis of the exhibition space. Last Sunday,  as I was in the exhibition space, the light there changed within seconds and minutes, in quick fadings in and out. Rather than being stable, everything seemed to move in a frenetic wave of changing intensities. I focused my attention on the traces of light that penetrated through the windows near the ceiling. A large, discontinuous line of light divided the space in two parts with different brightnesses and luminosities. I decided to make things happen in the lightest part. The exhibition is presented as a live organism; a process sensitive to light and time as a way of being in the space.

On Thursday 25th June, there will be an event within the space. The aim is to show installation ‘site specific reactions’ to Paco’s and Chequerboard’s entrance into the space and to celebrate the first time that the three of us will meet in the same space at the same time. The rain will become for us, a way to explore the hybrid descriptions between installation, performance, illustration, sound and the great pleasure of working together.

More info:
www.martafernandezcalvo.com
www.viafarini.org
www.chequerboard.com
www.themarketstudios.wordpress.com
aineivers@hotmail.com
Áine: 087 0671009, Marta: 085 7177026

This is what happens when you are not here

Flux Clinic Dublin

  

Flux Clinic Dublin is a one day event that is an evolution rather than a reenactment of that original Flux Clinic. Catalysed by & derived from notes by Larry Miller on the original Flux Clinic, this event will incorporate ‘experiments in measurement’, some extrapolated from the original Hi Red Group Flux Clinic, and others developed by a team of flux clinicians with contributing experiments & visual research donated by the 1st Class students of Balbriggan Educate Together National School under the guidance of teacher Elaine Gleeson. In the same vein (so-to-speak) as Larry Miller’s philosophy of ‘art-as-experiment’, the public are invited to come and engage with these experiments in measurement at Flux Clinic Dublin.
The Flux Clinic will take place at The Market Studios, Corner of Mary’s Lane & Halstrom St, Dublin 7, Saturday May 9th from 2 – 4pm. Curated by Jessica Foley for thisisnotshop with assistance from Aidan O’Donovan and Nina Sigurd, supported by The Market Studios.

For directions to The Market Studios see our Contact page.  Audience/patients of all ages are welcome.

Further information from: http://thisisnotashop.wordpress.com/