ulster university and the graduate school

 

ulster university researchers at gradcam

 

  • The first Ulster researchers at GradCAM will commence in autumn 2008

 

ulster university associate fellows at gradcam

 

  • Dr. Stanley Black. (Ulster, Faculty of Arts - Acting Head of the Research Graduate School)
  • Dr. Mia Lerm Hayes. (Ulster, Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment - Head of the Research Graduate School)
  • Prof. Kerstin Mey. (Ulster, Director of Art & Design Research Institute)

 

'art, media and contested space'

research events at ulster autumn semester 2008

 

Art, Media and Contested Space is a programme of events featuring the work of lens based artists and media practices (as means of production and/or documentation) and the representation of ‘contested space’. Events include a public art project, film screenings, talks, lectures, discussion and guided tours. The programme will address the role of art and media in ‘contested space’ in the changed context of Northern Ireland alongside contributions from practitioners dealing with communities and ‘contested space’ situations elsewhere. The events will explore how lens based practices shape perceptions of conflict; post conflict and the public sphere both nationally and internationally. This programme has been devised and originated by Interface – Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design at the University of Ulster.

 

  • 16 October
    10-11.30 PM
    Artist Talk, Wendy Ewald
    2-3.30 pm roundtable discussion with the artist
    American artist Wendy Ewald has worked with communities all over the world. Her innovative particpatory photographic methods blurr the boundaries between author and subject and her work has been exhibited widely. The Promised Land was published in 2006 to accompany an outdoor installation in Margate, commissioned by ArtAngel
    Location: Interface Seminar Room, Floor E, School of Art, Design and the Built Environment, University of Ulster, York Street

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  • 3 - 16 November Public Art Project
    Interface will present a large-scale public art project situated across 36 Belfast city-centre locations, where artists have been invited to produce a 48-sheet billboard image. Artists’ works will appear alongside advertising sites during the busiest shopping period of the year, leading up to Christmas.
    Artists include, Faisal Abdu’ Allah, Susanne Bosch, David Cook, Wendy Ewald, Andrew Freeman, Guerrilla Girls, Pat Griffin, Anthony Haughey, Sean Hillen, Peter Kennard & Cat Phillipps, Alfredo Jaar, Anne Sarah Le Meur, Mary McIntyre, Brian McClelland, Peter Neill, Paul Seawright and Dan Shipsides

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  • 4 November
    5.30-7.00 PM
    Artist Talk: Alfredo Jaar.
    Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He was born in Santiago de Chile in 1956. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989), Sydney (1990), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Seville (2006), as well as the Documenta exhibitions (1987, 2002) in Kassel. His work has explored subjects such as the plight of refugees, genocide and political violence. His innovative installations directly challenge the over saturation of media images of human misery which lead to apathy, instead demanding a critical dialogical encounter with the viewer. Declan McGonagle, Director of the National College of Art & Design, Dublin will introduce the artist.
    6.30 PM Reception
    Location: Old Museum Arts Centre, 7 College Square North, Belfast
    Seating is limited, booking essential, please email L.Harbinson1@ulster.ac.uk to book a place.

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  • 5 November
    10.00AM-12.30PM
    Artist Talk: Communities and Contested Space. David Cook and Andrew Freeman. Chaired by Pauline Hadaway, Director of Belfast Exposed Gallery.
    David Cook is a photographer who lives in New Zealand and has produced an extensive 20-year photographic research project which documents the human cost of the removal of the entire village of Rotowaro and its mine workers in the late 1980s to make way for a vast open cast coal development.
    Andrew Freeman is a US based photographer. His recent work and publication, [Manzanar] Architecture Double explores the legacy of the Second Word War by photographing Japanese American internment camps in California's Owens Valley.

     

    Lunch 12.30-1.30 PM

     

    Panel Discussion 1.30-4.30 PM

    Panel 1 Representation of Global Conflict, and Contested Space, Peter Kennard & Cat Phillipps, Faisal Abdu'Allah Chaired by Fiona Kearney, Director of Glucksman Gallery, Cork

    Panel 2 Memory and Place: Producing Public Art in Northern Ireland, Susanne Bosch, Sandra Johnson and Sean Hillen. Chaired by Anthony Haughey, Co-curator and former Research Fellow at the Interface Research Centre, University of Ulster

    About the panelists
    Faisal Abdu'Allah is an artist whose work evolves primarily from the interface of photography, the printed image and lens-based installations. His recent film, The Browning of Britannia was a major BFI commission.
    Peter Kennard & Cat Phillipps have been working in collaboration since 2002. Their powerful work deconstructs the tyranny of global conflict and politics. John Berger has said of their work that their images ‘are full of history’s irony, fury and anger at the mistakes made in its name’.
    Sandra Johnston is a Belfast based artist. Her performances centre on the notion of territory. Each performance is site specific and utilises elements of audio and video recording sourced from the location. She is associate lecturer in Time Based and Mixed Media at the University of Ulster, Belfast.
    Susanne Bosch is a German artist living in Belfast. Her work involves site-specific, gallery and context-based installations, publications and collaborative event-based projects. Usually based in long-term research questions such as art and its potential for visions and change, the role and potential of art in contested societies and situations
    Sean Hillen is a Northern Irish artist living in Dublin. He is widely known for his witty and sardonic photomontage images dealing with issues of conflict and contested territory. He recently completed a public art commission to commemorate the victims of the Omagh bombing.

    6.00 PM Reception York St campus, University of Ulster

  • 6 November
    10.00-12.30 PM
    Artist Talk Faisal Abdu'Allah and Peter Kennard & Cat Phillipps.
    Location: Interface Seminar Room, Floor E, School of Art, Design and the Built Environment, University of Ulster, York Street

    7.00 PM Naughton Gallery, Queens University, Belfast, Private view and opening of Inside Stories: Memories from the Maze, a video installation by filmmaker Cahal McLaughlin.
    Cahal McLaughlin is a leading documentary filmmaker in N. Ireland. His work explores memory, history and politics in relation to an emerging postconflict society.

  • 8 November
    Film Screening at Queens Film Theatre. Tickets are only available from QFT
    3.00 PM Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary. Directed by Margo Harkin, 2007
    On 30th January 1972 the British Army shot dead thirteen unarmed civilians on a civil rights march in Derry. Eye witness and director Margo Harkin follows the families’ long search for the truth at the new Tribunal of Inquiry into `Bloody Sunday’ held in Derry and London over a 6 year period.

    6.30 PM Calle Santa Fe, Directed by Carmen Castillo, 2007
    An intensely personal project, the film documents Castillo's recent return to Chile, which she fled while pregnant in 1974 for Paris after her husband Miguel Enriquez, leader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), was killed in a gunfight at their house on the titular street. In a deliberately slow moving film, the director meets up with former friends, neighbours and colleagues in an attempt to come to terms with the nature of loss, memory and exile.
    Carmen Castillo and Margo Harkin will attend a Q&A after the screening

  • 9 November
    Film Screening at Queens Film Theatre Tickets are only available from QFT.
    3.00 PM Wall, Directed by Simone Bitton, 2004
    A meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker asserts her double identity as Jew and Arab. In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world, while imprisoning one people and enclosing the other.

    6.30 PM Women without Borders, Directed by Jean Chamoun, 2004.
    This documentary looks at the lives of some Palestinian women - young resistance fighter Kifah Afifi's experience as a survivor of the 1982 Shatila massacre in Lebanon and of her later imprisonment in Khiam prison. Also explored is the pioneering contribution of activist Samiha Khalil, who spoke out against the British occupation of Palestine at an international women's demonstration in 1936, when she was just thirteen years old.
    Simone and Jean will attend a panel discussion after the screenings

  • 10 November
    10.30-3.30 PM
    Masterclass with filmmakers Jean Chamoun and Simone Bitton
    Location: Interface seminar room, Floor E, School of Art, Design and the Built Environment, University of Ulster, York Street. For further information visit our website http://interface.rehabstudio.co.uk/ or contact a.haughey@ulster.ac.uk