Ireland at Venice

Ireland at Venice, the national representation of Ireland at the Venice Biennale, will present Jesse Jones in 2017. 

Jesse Jones will consider the national pavilion as the site of an alternative Law. With a practice that is grounded in film and performance, Jones will create an artwork she describes as a ‘bewitching’ of the judicial system. 

Tremble Tremble will be presented in the Arsenale of La Biennale di Venezia from May – November 2017, with Commisisoner and Curator, Tessa Giblin. Its title is inspired by the 1970s Italian wages for housework movement, during which women chanted “Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate! (Tremble, tremble, the witches have returned!)”. Jones’ new work emerges from a rising social movement in Ireland which calls for a transformation of the historic relationship between the church and the state. In this time of change, Jones proposes the return of the witch as a feminist archetype and disrupter who has the potential to transform reality. Tremble Tremble imagines a different legal order, one in which the multitude are bought together in a symbolic, gigantic body, to proclaim a new law, that of In Utera Gigantae. 

 Based in Dublin, Jones has been researching the ways in which the law transmits memory between generations and over time. Her research weaves between an archeological dig of a 3.5 million year old female specimen, to the suppressed voices of the witch trials of the 16th century Europe, the symphysiotomy trials, and abortion legislation in Ireland today. The new world order to be found in Tremble Tremble churns testimony, published statements and new lyrics into a towering bodily incantation. Jones is collaborating with theatre artist Olwen Fouéré, and sound artist Susan Stenger, who are together creating an artwork that extends across the pavilion as an expanded form of cinema. 

A book will be published in English and Italian, featuring writing by Silvia Federici, Tina Kinsella, Lisa Godson, and Tessa Giblin. Designed by Åbäke, with photography by Ros Kavanagh, Tremble Tremble / Tremate Tremate is co-published by Mousse Publishing and Project Arts Centre. 

Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council. It is produced and supported by Project Arts Centre, Dublin, proudly sponsored by Dublin Port Company, with international partner – LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and production partner – the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire. 

Exhibition: Jesse Jones: Tremble Tremble, Ireland at Venice 

Venue: Arsenale of La Biennale de Venezia, Venice, Italy 

Dates: May – Nov 2017 (press and professional preview 10, 11, 12 May) 

Opening hours: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 10:00 – 18:00; Friday – Saturday: 10:00 – 20:00  Closed on Monday – with the exception of 15 May 

Admission: Entrance with La Biennale ticket 

International & National Tour: November 2017 – ICA, Singapore; May 2018 - Project Arts Centre, Dublin Artist: Jesse Jones 

Commissioner & Curator: Tessa Giblin, Director of Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh 

La Biennale dates to 1895, when the first International Art Exhibition was organized. It is one of the most important international biennials and cultural institutions in the world, introducing more than half a million visitors to exciting new art every two years. The 57th Biennale di Venezia will open to the public on Saturday, May 13th and extend until November 26th, 2017. The Press and Professional Previews will take place on May 10th, 11th and 12th. It is an unparalleled meeting point for art professionals from around the world, and provides an extraordinary potential for professional encounters – at the Vernissage, and then the following 7 months when over 500,000 visitors pass through its halls. It is a world-wide cultural event that attracts a varied international public throughout a 7-month exhibition period, an average of 2,550 visitors daily. 

 The Pavilion of Ireland will be in le Artiglierie dell’Arsenale, in the heart of La Biennale di Venezia. The ancient warehouses of Venice’s ammunitions holdings will be transformed, and benefit from the large footfall that characterises the main site of the Biennale. 

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Ireland at Venice

Ireland at Venice, the national representation of Ireland at the Venice Biennale, will present Jesse Jones in 2017. Jones will consider the national pavilion as the site of an alternative Law. With a practice that is grounded in film and performance, Jones will create an artwork she describes as a ‘bewitching’ of the judicial system.

Tremble Tremble will be presented in the Arsenale of La Biennale di Venezia from May – November 2017, with Commisisoner and Curator, Tessa Giblin. Its title is inspired by the 1970s Italian wages for housework movement, during which women chanted “Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate! (Tremble, tremble, the witches have returned!)”. Jones’ new work emerges from a rising social movement in Ireland which calls for a transformation of the historic relationship between the church and the state. In this time of change, Jones proposes the return of the witch as a feminist archetype and disrupter who has the potential to transform reality. Tremble Tremble imagines a different legal order, one in which the multitude are bought together in a symbolic, gigantic body, to proclaim a new law, that of In Utera Gigantae.

Based in Dublin, Jones has been researching the ways in which the law transmits memory between generations and over time. Her research weaves between an archeological dig of a 3.5 million year old female specimen, to the suppressed voices of the witch trials of the 16^th century Europe, the symphysiotomy trials, and abortion legislation in Ireland today. The new world order to be found in Tremble Tremble churns testimony, published statements and new lyrics into a towering bodily incantation. Jones is collaborating with theatre artist Olwen Fouéré, and sound artist Susan Stenger, who are together creating an artwork that extends across the pavilion as an expanded form of cinema.

A book will be published in English and Italian, featuring writing by Silvia Federici, Tina Kinsella, Lisa Godson, and Tessa Giblin. Designed by Åbäke, with photography by Ros Kavanagh, Tremble Tremble / Tremate Tremate is co-published by Mousse Publishing and Project Arts Centre.

Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council. It is produced and supported by Project Arts Centre, Dublin, proudly sponsored by Dublin Port Company, with international partner – LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and production partner – the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire.

Join in the conversation with hashtag #irelandatvenice

Visions for Venice – Ireland’s shortlist for 2017 Arts Biennale

Eccovi dal sito dell'Irlanda la shortlist a breve il vincitore

Six unique proposals have been shortlisted to represent Ireland at the 2017 Venice Arts Biennale. The shortlist (below) has been released following Stage I submissions by these teams to Culture Ireland. All teams will now proceed to Stage II interviews to be held shortly. The successful proposal will be announced in March 2016.

Artist	Commissioner	Curator
1. Brian Duggan	Firestation Artists Studios	Helen Carey
2. Eva Rothschild	Mary Cremin	Mary Cremin
3. Jesse Jones	Tessa Giblin	Tessa Giblin
4. John Gerrard	Gavin Delahunty	Gavin Delahunty
5. Niamh O'Malley	Barbara Dawson	Sheena Barrett
6. Sam Keogh	Woodrow Kernohan	Vaari Claffey

Rappresentanza dell'Irlanda con Sean Lynch

installation view (photo: Stuart Whipps) al Modern Art Oxford

Ecco il comunicato stampa che ufficializza il nominativo per l'Irlanda, dal sito http://www.merrionstreet.ie

Ireland’s representation at the Venice Art Biennale 2015 announced: 

Tuesday, 20 May, 2014: The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, TD, today announced the details of the team to represent Ireland at the 56th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2015. Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council.

The Commissioner for 2015 is Mike Fitzpatrick who will work with the Curator Woodrow Kernohan to present the work of artist, Sean Lynch. Both the Commissioner and the Curator have extensive experience of presenting high profile international exhibitions. Mike Fitzpatrick, currently Director of Limerick City of Culture, was Commissioner/Curator for the 52nd Venice Art Biennale which saw a very successful exhibition of the work of Gerard Byrne and Woodrow Kernohan is Director of EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Sean Lynch, who has just opened his first UK museum exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, has already attracted strong international interest and has exhibited in many public galleries and institutions throughout Europe, as well as being known for several high profile public art projects, including O’Connell Street, Dublin.

The selection was made following an open competitive process run by the Culture Ireland Division of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, in partnership with the Arts Council. Minister Deenihan said:

“I am delighted that Sean, who has a growing international reputation, will have this opportunity to present his work at the Venice Biennale which offers an important global platform to showcase the strength of Ireland’s visual arts.”

Orlaith McBride, Director of the Arts Council said: “The Arts Council is delighted to again support Ireland’s representation at the Venice Art Biennale 2015. Sean Lynch’s work is particularly intriguing and unique, finding wonderful pathways for the public into hidden or forgotten histories. Of course, in addition to its commitment to showing Irish artists’ work in Venice, the Arts Council will support the subsequent Irish Tour to ensure that people throughout Ireland get a chance to see the show for themselves.”

Commenting on the selection, Commissioner Mike Fitzpatrick stated: “Sean Lynch will represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2015 with a unique presentation that will gather disparate strands of our history and locate them in a series of interlocking vignettes. A native of North Kerry, a graduate and lecturer at Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT, he lives in Askeaton, Limerick and London. His work combines a narrative strength with an incisive ability to discover, research and translate complex cultural issues. Sean has already gained considerable international recognition and utilises his particular strength to forensically explore trails of forgotten stories and contextualize them within the contemporary context”.

Curator Woodrow Kernohan commented: “This is a very exciting project. I’m delighted to have been selected to work with Sean Lynch and Mike Fitzpatrick to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Sean’s work celebrates unwritten aspects of our social and cultural heritage and the Irish Pavilion in 2015 will also be an opportunity to promote the wider Irish art scene to international audiences”.

The 56th International Art Exhibition will be held in Venice from May 9th to November 22nd 2015. It will then tour in Ireland in early 2016.

Irlanda con Richard Mosse

Confermata la presenza di Richard Mosse per l'Irlanda che troverà spazio presso il Fondaco Marcello, sestiero di San Marco 3415 (Calle dei Garzoni). Qui sarà allestito il progetto multimediale "The Enclave".

Ecco l'ultimo comunicato stampa:

Kilkenny, Ireland, 11 March 2013 – Richard Mosse will represent Ireland with The Enclave, a major new multi-media installation at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The Commissioner and Curator is Anna O’Sullivan, Director of the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland. Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. 

Throughout 2012, Richard Mosse and his collaborators Trevor Tweeten and Ben Frost travelled to Eastern Congo and inserted themselves as journalists within armed rebel groups in a war zone plagued by frequent ambushes, massacres and systematic sexual violence. The resulting installation, The Enclave, is the culmination of Mosse’s project, Infra,which employs a discontinued military reconnaissance film that registers infrared light – an invisible spectrum – and was originally designed for camouflage detection. Mosse uses this film to reveal a cancerous yet unseen humanitarian tragedy with a disturbing psychedelic palette, posing aesthetic questions in a situation of profound human suffering.

Making The Enclave, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, November 2012  Trevor Tweeten operating an Arriflex 16mm camera mounted on  Steadicam in the conflicted pastureland of Masisi Territory Page 1 of 3The resulting imagery, shot on 16mm colour infrared film by Trevor Tweeten, renders the Sub-Saharan jungle

war zone in sickly hues of crimson, purple, teal blue and hot pink. Ben Frost’s ambient audio composition, comprised entirely of organic Congolese sound recordings, hovers bleakly over the unfolding tragedy. At the work’s heart is a series of first hand women’s witness testimonies, calmly recounting horrific massacres. These tragic soliloquies are laid over imagery of posturing rebels.

“I am beginning to perceive this vicious loop,” Mosse writes from Goma, “of subject and object. The camera provokes an involuntary unraveling, a mutual hijack of authorship and autonomy.” Neither scripted nor directed, Congolese rebels return the camera’s gaze in a distinctly confrontational and accusatory manner. The lens seems to  mesmerise and provoke everyone it encounters in The Enclave, including rebels fighting under the command of those sought for trial by the International Criminal Court. This precarious face-off reveals inherent ambiguities of masculinity,defiance,vulnerability, and indictment. 

These narratives defy human comprehension, and push past the boundaries of adequate representation. The

Enclave is an attempt to recoup ethical agency for aesthetics. Disregarding the rules and protocol of journalism, and working independently of humanitarian and UN infrastructures, Mosse, Tweeten and Frost have created a discomfiting and sinister world to penetrate sensibilities and make this ineffable nightmare visible.  

About the Artist 

Richard Mosse’s (b. Kilkenny, Ireland, 1980) practice resides at the intersection between documentary photography and contemporary art. Drawing from the Romantics, Surrealism, psychedelia, punk, and modern military  reconnaissance technologies, he seeks to challenge and transgress traditional conventions of war photography through unmitigated aesthetic strategies in situations of tragedy and conflict. His work has been exhibited at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Bass Museum, Miami; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Kunsthaus Munich; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal;  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Open Eye Liverpool; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

Mosse has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts, and a Visual Arts Bursary from the Irish Arts Council. Mosse holds an MFA in photography from Yale University and a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths College, London. He also holds a first-class BA in English literature from King’s College London and an MA in cultural studies from the London Consortium (ICA, AA, Tate, Birkbeck). Aperture Foundation and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting co-published his first monograph, Infra, in 2012. Mosse is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. He will represent Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2013.

About the Commissioner and Curator Anna O’Sullivan (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1958) is the Director and Chief Curator of the Butler Gallery, in Kilkenny, Ireland where she also manages the Butler Gallery Permanent Collection. Prior to joining the Butler Gallery in 2005,  O’Sullivan spent over twenty years in New York, first as Performance Curator at the avant-garde arts venue Franklin Page 2 of 3Furnace and then as Director of the Robert Miller Gallery and Danese Gallery. O’Sullivan has worked with many internationally-renowned artists and artists’ estates to realize projects and exhibitions including Alice Neel, Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner and Patti Smith at the Robert Miller Gallery, and Hans Op de Beeck, Ian Burns, Louise Bourgeois,

Werner Herzog, Tony O’Malley, Barry McGee, Jeanne Silverthorne and Eve Sussman at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. O’Sullivan has published several catalogues on Irish artists including Tony O’Malley, Barrie Cooke, Michael Beirne and Gypsy Ray. O’Sullivan graduated from the National College of Art & Design Dublin and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York. She will be Commissioner and Curator of the Pavilion of Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale de Venezia in 2013.

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The Enclave progetto di Richard Mosse per l'Irlanda

Il progetto di Richard Mosse per la prossima Biennale di Venezia si intitolerà The Enclave, ospitato presso il Fondaco Marcello, ecco qui sotto il comunicato ufficiale:

Richard Mosse will represent Ireland with The Enclave, a major new multi-media installation at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The Commissioner and Curator is Anna O’Sullivan, Director of the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland. Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Mosse’s practice resides at the interface between documentary journalism and contemporary art. For centuries, the Congo has compelled and defied the Western imagination. Richard Mosse brings to this subject the use of a discontinued military surveillance technology, a type of color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Originally developed for camouflage detection, this aerial reconnaissance film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink.

Infrared film found civilian uses among cartographers, agronomists, minerologists, and archaeologists to reveal subtle changes in the landscape. In the late 1960s, the medium was appropriated in artwork for rock musicians like the Grateful Dead or Jimi Hendrix, trickling into the popular imagination as the palette of psychedelic experience, eventually accumulating the aesthetic of kitsch. 

With the collaboration of cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, composer Ben Frost, and film editor Melody London, Mosse has created a highly immersive five-screen multimedia installation titled The Enclave. 

The Enclave is a mythic conflation of many discrete rebel enclaves in Eastern Congo. During a period of two years, Mosse, Tweeten, and Frost, inserted themselves as journalists within armed groups, which fight nomadically in a war zone plagued by frequent ambushes, massacres and systematic sexual violence. Film, photography, and sound recorded during these trips have been used in the production of the Venice project. Film, photography, and sound recorded during these trips have been used in the production of the Venice project.

“I am beginning to perceive this vicious loop,” Mosse writes from Goma, “of subject and object. The camera provokes an involuntary unraveling, a mutual hijack of authorship and autonomy.” Neither scripted nor directed, Congolese rebels return the gaze of Mosse’s camera in a distinctly confrontational and accusatory manner. The camera seems to mesmerize and provoke everyone it encounters in The Enclave. This precarious face-off reveals an ambiguous defiance, vulnerability, and indictment.

About the artist

Richard Mosse’s (b. 1980, Ireland) work has been exhibited at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Bass Museum, Miami; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Kunsthaus Munich; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Open Eye Liverpool; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Mosse is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts and a Visual Arts Bursary from the Irish Arts Council. He was recently a resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Mosse holds an MFA in photography from Yale University and a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths College, London. He also holds a first-class BA in English literature from King’s College London and an MA in cultural studies from the London Consortium (ICA, AA, Tate, Birkbeck). Aperture Foundation and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting co-published his first monograph, Infra. Mosse is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

A new publication titled The Enclave, with an essay by Jason Stearns, will be published by Aperture Foundation to coincide with this exhibition. 

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Irlanda - Richard Mosse

L’ Arts Council dell’ Irlanda ha annunciato che sarà Richard Mosse, a rappresentare il paese nel padiglione nazionale alla Biennale di Venezia. L’opera sarà un progetto installativo a otto canali video sulla Repubblica democratica del Congo. Curatore è Anna O'Sullivan, 2013 direttore della Galleria Butler a Kilkenny.

English text 

The Arts Council and Culture Ireland have announced the artist and commissioner/curator to represent Ireland at the Venice Art Biennale in 2013, which is an initiative of Culture Ireland, in partnership with the Arts Council. 

The Commissioner/Curator for Venice 2013 is Anna O’Sullivan, Director of the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, who has selected artist, Richard Mosse, to present a highly ambitious eight-channel multimedia installation on the subject of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

  

Orlaith McBride, Director of the Arts Council said: "Once again we are proud to be supporting Ireland's representation at the Venice Biennale 2013. We believe that this artist and commissioner/curator will deliver a world class presentation and ensure that Ireland's representation will be at the forefront of international visual arts practice. We wish the team the very best with their preparations". 

Christine Sisk, CEO of Culture Ireland said: "The Venice Biennale remains the foremost showcase for visual arts in the world. It was wonderful to see the strong response to the open selection call, which reflects the range and level of experience in the visual arts sector in Ireland".

Commenting on the selection, Ms. O'Sullivan explained:  "Richard is an outstanding choice to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2013.He has already gained international recognition, especially for his ongoing work, Infra. At Venice, Richard will push this work into a strong, immersive multimedia environment. I am thrilled for Richard, who I know will rise to the challenge of this important opportunity, and will create an extremely original installation that will represent Ireland powerfully on the international stage". 

Culture Ireland, in partnership with the Arts Council, is committed to Ireland’s participation in the Venice Biennale and to increasing opportunities and profile for Irish artists abroad.

Curatore: Anna O'Sullivan

Artisti :Richard Mosse

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