30 OCTOBER - 19 NOVEMBER

RECORD

FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Record consists of three film works from the IMMA Collection by artists Sarah Morris, Phil Collins and Gerardo Suter.  The exhibition focus is on film works, which represent reality in a documentary style.  Sarah Morris reverses the camera onto the screen writer and director Robert Towne and presents what is described as a 'portrait' of a script-doctor whose work includes many classic blockbusters from the 1970s onwards.
 
Also in interview format How To Make a Refugee by Phil Collins portrays a conversation between a news crew, a 15 year old Kosovo boy, and his family.  The film centres mainly on arranging the boy and extended family for a photograph. Insights into their story are gained from the various voices relayed through an interpreter. 
 
Replica by Gerardo Suter relates to the 1985 Earthquake in Mexico City, the most devastating earthquake in the history of the Americas. The text which is relayed across the screen is the initial response from Carlos Monsivais documenting his experience of the tragedy.
 
Record is a collaborative project between The Gallery, Siamsa Tire and The Kerry Film Festival for 2010.
 
27 November 2010 - 14 January 2011
SHORELINES
Ireland Newfoundland Exchange Project
 
Shorelines is an international exchange project, between Ireland and Newfoundland, Canada, with three artists from each place. The exhibition is co-curated by Seán McCrum, Ireland and Charlotte Jones, Newfoundland.
 
Specific shorelines in Newfoundland and Ireland provide creative resources, which relate to place and community, Francophone and Irish speaking. The artists have used these resources to explore metaphor and allusion in the word and place shoreline. One Newfoundland artist, Angela Anthle, worked with a francophone school, L’Ecole Notre Dame du Cap at Port au Port, Newfoundland and with Ghaeilcholaiste Chiarrai in Tralee.
 
Irish-based artists Anthony Kelly, David Stalling and Slavek Kwi work with installations using sound, moving images and objects. Newfoundland-based artists are Angela Antle and Anne Troake, who both work with electronic imaging and sound and Pierre LeBlanc, whose installation involves still photography.