CristÍn Leach previews a quartet of must-see art events at this weekend's Cork Midsummer Festival.
"Pedigree livestock and artworks are very similar, both are the subject of personal opinion and their value is different to anyone who sees them…"
This surprisingly accurate comparison forms part of the thinking that went into artist Orla Barry’s Breaking Rainbows, a live performance and video installation that will take place at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork this Thursday and Friday at 6pm as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival.
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Using a year’s production of sheep’s wool generated on her farm, and featuring two performers - Einat Tuchman and Dick Walsh - Barry’s Breaking Rainbows will explore humankind’s relationship with nature in a series of vignettes. Barry, born in 1969 in Wexford, is a visual artist and shepherd. She lived for 16 years in Brussels and now lives and works in South East Ireland where she runs a flock of pedigree Lleyn sheep.
She has shown work in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and Brussels, and this most recent piece explores the somewhat symbiotic tension in being a farming artist in rural Ireland.
Also taking place on Thursday 22 June as part of the festival, artist Robert Curgenven’ Sculpting the Air - The Sound of The Sky is a live performance featuring site-specific recordings captured in US light artist James Turrell’s Skyspace chambers in nine different countries. Australian sound artist Curgenven recorded the sound of the air in these specifically proportioned chambers, which have an opening for viewing the sky.
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Curgenven is a composer interested in the physicality of sound and the ways in which it can shape our perception of space and the flow of time. The material for the is performance was recorded, one note at a time in 200 recordings across 15 locations. This live performance promises to "sculpt the air" around the audience through use of a quadraphonic surround sound system placed around listeners seated in the centre of the sculpture factory floor.
Orla Barry, Breaking Rainbows, 22 & 23 June, 6pm, Crawford Gallery of Art, Cork. Tickets €10, 70 minutes.
Robert Curgenven’s Sculpting the Air - The Sound of The Sky, 22 June, 8pm & 10pm, National Sculpture Factory, Cork. Tickets €10/€8, 50 minutes
Two more not to miss at Cork Midsummer:
Andrew Folan, FIRST EDITION: Grasping the Untouchable, 21 June - 2 July, Glucksman Gallery, UCC. An exhibition of 3D Printed sculptures using digital animation software by one of Ireland’s most experimental and exciting printmakers.
Carl Cordonnier & Jools Gilson, Unveiled Horizons, 16 June - 25 June, outdoors and in the Bonded Warehouses at Custom House Quay. Flags featuring the faces of women connected to port towns and cities, and audio recordings. The Cork iteration of this project joins portraits and stories of women in Dunkirk, Boulogne sur Mer, Tianjin in China, Tangier in Morocco, Glasgow in Scotland, and the Jungle in Calais.
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