exhibitions archive 2009

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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