The Libertango Smokin' Club - Thursday 8th December 2011

The Libertango Smokin' Club

A night of passion, heat and decaying glamour with a twist!
Taking you on a rip roarin' ride through the underworld and outer antics o
f a woman on the edge....

Nicole Rourke brings the character to life in 'The Suitcase Milonguera' -
A torrid tale of tango featuring dancer Hernan Catvin.

For a teaser....
http://thesuitcasemilonguera.blogspot.com/

The wonderful Truly Divine gives her own unique interpretation of the character's world, playing out her emotional heartstrings with gusto.....and piano accompanyment by Mr Bryan Mullen.
For a taste of Truly...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWJoNLykAQ

The Libertango Smokin' Club dares you to a night of sultry passion and blistering wit. Be sure to check for your nearest fire exit!

When : December 8th (Thursday) 2011.
Where : The Back Loft. http://www.lacatedralstudios.org/
How much: €10
Doors open at 8pm. Show starts 8.30 sharp!

Ballyrogan Expression

 

Please join us for the opening reception 

of 

Ballyrogan Expression

on Thursday 1^st December 2011 

6pm-8pm.

Ballyrogan Expression is a group collaboration of artists whom have either lived or worked at Ballyrogan House. This show includes six artist who work in various disciplines including; Film, Print, Painting and Graphics.

This exciting exhibition presents a mix of six established and emerging artists. This collection of artists, though disparate, is essentially connected by the use of contemporary methodologies in dealing with each individual discipline. All have spent time at Ballyrogan House

Prime presents the Jazz Is... mini-festival

A boutique music festival presented by The Prime Collective. We have a five-day line-up of gritty funk, smooth tones, hard-hitting jazz, acoustic instrumental and experimental improvised music for your pleasure. 22 - 26 November 2011 in various venues. 

Line-up for the Back Loft 25th- 26th November:

Friday 25th  8-11pm  €8 adm.

Leafzang sextet 8pm

Leafzang sextet takes the approach of adding cello, clarinet and sax to a guitar trio, resulting in a balance of warm acoustic tones ranging from chamber ensemble to European jazz.
www.patrickgroenland.com

Bryan Quigley & Gordon Delap 8.45pm

Quigley plays the bass like few others, approaching it from the basis of pure sound rather than notes and rhythms. Delap provides the electronic ammunition – live processing that results in an otherworldly sound world between the two.
http://www.myspace.com/bquigley2009
http://cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=173

Rhombus 9.20pm

Playing all original music written by Dennis Wyers, Rhombus draws from Norwegian and British jazz, contemporary classical, blues and South-Indian music, moving between textures to create colouristic and often rhythmic compositions.
www.denniswyers.com

Paul Roe & Danny Roe 10.00pm

Everyone loves to see things kept in the family, and this is no exception – son Danny provides the percussion to his father’s etherial clarinet – Paul, who recently had an album released on Diatribe records.
http://www.paulroe.org/

Saturday 26th  8-11pm  €8adm. 


Concrete Soup: Colm O’Hara presents Concrete Soup 8.00pm

Colm O’Hara is one of the best trombone players around - he’s been playing with all sorts of interesting musicians over the past few years. Recently, he’s been curating a night that he dubs ‘Concrete Soup’, an assortment of improvising musicians that O’Hara personally assembles in one-off groupings. The result is an evening of music that will never be performed the same way twice, but one that leaves a lasting impression.

Will feature: Lauren Kinsella, Fergus Cullen, David Lacey, Conor Murray, Derek White, Matthew Berrill, Cathal Roche, MERSK collective from Cork and many more.
https://www.facebook.com/concretesoup

http://www.primecollectivedublin.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qM0SDhlzEw

Moving Backwards. Backwards Moving

Opening on Wednesday 16th November, (6-8pm) 

Daily viewing Thursday 17th to Sunday20th November, 3-6pm til Friday, by appointment only Sat-Sunday (call 0872753944) .

Moving Backwards. Backwards Moving focuses on past movements can be seen in an instant, where it can be recognized and is never to be seen again. To articulate this past does not mean to recognize it the way it really was, it means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes into our consciousness, before it is lost again. Moving Backwards. Backwards Moving intends to reverse this by capturing a memory and preserving it through the manufacture of sculptures based on the movement itself. The sculptures consist mainly of unorthodox materials, in combination with structural materials such as wood and metal. With the amalgamation of all these necessary factors it allows for the opening up of new possibilities for exploring reality and live new fictions through the investigation of body movements and mimesis.

About the artist: Evelyn O' Connor is an emerging artist who recently graduated with a first class honours degree in painting from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2010. She also attended, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Karlsruhe for a short period of time in 2009. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most noted was an exhibition entitled, Ich suche eine WG, which was held last June in Karlsruhe, Germany. She was also shortlisted for the Irish Residential Studio Award at The Red Stables twice and has just completed a bursary which she received from the Contact Studios in Limerick.

Negative Exposure - November 24th - 28th

Negative Exposure - November 24th - 28th

Negative Exposure

an exploration of the body through fine art nude photography

　

with Photographers

Karol Liver and Douglas Ross

and models

Juchi, Rachel Lally and Spunky Gore

   This November sees the opening of an exciting exhibition and associated events at the Back Loft. From November 23^rd through to the 28^thNegative Exposure will present the breath-taking and insightful work of two fine art photographers and three art models, who have worked in close collaboration to bring this highly unusual exhibition together.

   The depiction of the human body in art has long been contentious. This exhibition has been put together by five people who have consciously addressed these issues in their work . The diverse ages (23 - 57) and cultural backgrounds (Ireland, U.S., Poland and Italy) have informed the development of the work and issues of gender and sexuality are examined directly in some of the work. Above all this is an exhibition of work involving five people who are passionate about the power and beauty of the human body and its depiction in fine art photography.

   The active participation of the three models is a unique feature of this exhibition. In addition to actively collaborating in the creation of the photographic work, the models have worked creatively with castings of their own bodies and also produced video footage looking at some of the issues around figurative art, modelling and photography.

   As well as the exhibition, the Negative Exposure group are running a fine art photography workshop and a multi-facetted evening which will go into the exhibition in depth and explore the issues it raises.

   Schedule:

                   November 23^rd - 28^th , Exhibition open 1 - 7pm daily.

                   November 24^th, Opening night 6-9pm.

                   November 26^th,  All day workshop (view details below!)

           November 28^th, Night of discussion, performance, multi-media presentations.

All events are free, except for workshop.

  

To see the work of everyone on the team:

Karol Liver: www.karol-liver.com

Douglas Ross: www.modelmayhem.com/1004286

Juchi: www.modelmayhem.com/578216

Rachel Lally: www.modelmayhem.com/1379176

Spunky Gore: www.modelmayhem.com/1848790

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ALL DAY WORKSHOP INFORMATION

This full day workshop on fine art nude photography is being held in conjunction with the exhibition “Negative Exposure”. Participants will spend half the workshop with each photographer covering preparation, the working relationship between model and photographer, lighting, the shoot and post-production. Participants will have a shoot with a model as part of each session, i.e. two shoots during the day. Each group will be kept small to ensure in-depth dialogue and a reasonable time to shoot.

Karol Liver and Douglas Ross are two innovative photographers with different styles and working in different ways. Karol Liver has an improvisational approach to developing the content of his work, with meticulous attention to technical execution. By contrast, Douglas Ross prepares his themes intensively before the shoot and then improvises technically. 
Juchi, Rachel Lally and Spunky Gore are three models, each with their own exciting and distinctive style. They have participated actively in the development of the work in “Negative Exposure” and will give participants a rare opportunity to dialogue with them about the model’s perspective, as well as a couple of wonderful opportunities during the workshop to work with them.


Places are strictly limited to allow for the close personal involvement of participants. A deposit of 50 euro will secure your place. Payment through PayPal to dlross@eircom.net.

Who Lives Here Belongs Here - 5th November 2011

The Anti Racism Network

is proud to present

‘Who Lives Here Belongs Here’

An exhibition

Saturday November 5^th

Official Opening 5pm

Exhibition runs all day from 1-9pm

This Exhibition presents the works of over 30 artists working on the theme of Multiculturalism.

All artists have worked on a piece in and around this theme and have kindly donated their works to the Anti Racism Network (ARN) for exhibition and fundraising.

This one day event is to take place in the Back Loft Gallery 7-11 St. Augustine Street (of Thomas Street) Dublin 8 on Saturday 5^th of November 2011.

With a room filled with inspired, beautiful and affordable art pieces from many different artists we hope to create awareness of The ARN in a fun fundraising event.

We Hope you can come along to support this event.

About The Anti racism Network:

We are a grassroots network of ordinary individuals, community groups activists, ethnic and faith-based group activists, anti-racism campaigners and NGOs workers or volunteers committed to equality for all, diversity, intercultural exchange, fighting individual, institutional and state racism and supporting migrant rights.

VISIT 2011

La Catedral Studios will throw its doors open for VISIT 2011 on 22nd October, 12-6pm.

After 6pm the Back Loft will play host to an intimate acoustic night, Indie-Ah! More info on this link: http://thebackloft.blogspot.com/2011/10/indie-ah-saturday-22nd-october.html

VISIT 2011 is an open invitation to the public to come see how artists work, to explore artistic methodologies and to have a glimpse into the creative processes that culminate in the artworks often shown in galleries, museums, art centers, artist led spaces and various venues. Many exhibitions show the end result of artistic practices,VISIT 2011 invites you to see how visual arts practice takes shape on the ground. Following the national and international focus of Dublin Contemporary, VISIT 2011 provides the opportunity to refocus on the wealth of artistic practices thriving in Dublin city, VISIT is delighted to partner with Dublin Dublin Contemporary and to receive the on-going support of Dublin City Council to present this year’s open studio day.

This year sees VISIT’s third event which comprises of eighteen visual arts studios in Dublin city and will provide access to over two hundred and fifty visual artists. Dublin’s creative city is mapped out through the great variety of studio work-spaces in this specially produced VISIT 2011 publication and on the accompanying website. VISIT operates as an archive in two ways, it provides an extensive inventory of all the participating artists and it also displays architectural spaces used by visual artists as studios, ranging from industrial warehouses, Georgian buildings, converted stables and many other inspirational uses of space. With this large scale open studios event, visitors can see the wide diversity of art forms at work within these spaces from painting, sculpture, video, photography, performance, new media and installation. 

This private and often hidden world of the Artist’s Studio life is opened up to the public for one day, VISIT is a chance to connect with the many unseen layers of cultural activity that go on in our city. Contained in this brochure and on our website you can find a map of the city-wide visual art studios, with information and contact details for this free public event and suggestions on how you can plan your day of studio visits.

Discover VISIT for yourself – take a bus, hop on a bike, jump on the Luas or stretch your legs with a walk. On Saturday 22nd October we’ll be waiting for you, from 12 – 6pm.

We hope you enjoy your VISIT!

The Back Loft will play host, throughout the day, to a group exhibition with contributions from many of La Catedral's resident artists, to include an interactive, performance/installation by Anthony Collins, "The Academy for Less Control". This is the culmination of A. Collins' interactive practice over the past 12 years. In this installation the artist emphasises the fun-chance-spontaneous nature of the piece by making tools or implements which can be understood as playful. For this unique Back Loft Concerto participants will be asked to make a percussive sound on the open strings of a piano, the sound to be recorded and than mixed to make a unified piece on a CD. Come along and take part!!

http://www.visitstudios.com / http://www.dublincontemporary.com