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The
Munter Hitch Dan Shipsides
and Seamus
Harahan, two of Northern Irelandīs finest contemporary artists,
come together in "The Munter Hitch", showing video works that blur
the lines between documentary film making and visual art. Shipsides
and Harahan share a unique relationship with the environment that
they occupy and offer the viewer an opportunity to walk/climb into
their shoes.
If
you were blind would you consider rock climbing? Dan Shipsides'
works "Echo Valley" and "A Guiding Dilemma" creatively document
his long term venture of climbing with and guiding a blind man.
"I have no sight at all - so I didn?t have any fear climbing ? it
probably helps not to have any idea of what 20metres looks like
from above."
Before
Sunrise, by Seamus Harahan, leads viewers through Alexandra Park
in North Belfast, following the peace line and its division of neighbourhoods.
His second work, Splitting in Two, continues the theme of the separation
of communities in Belfast .
"If
itīs a question of me or you, I never, ever know quite what to do
because Iīm always too late, I?m biting my nails, Iīm splitting
in two. If itīs a question of loving you, thereīs a barrier that
I canīt break through, because Iīm lonely and sad, Iīm biting my
nails, Iīm splitting in two."
Mark
Perry, Alternative TV.
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