From September 7th until October 7th 2012 Stephen Brandes, Sarah Iremonger,
Marianne Keating
and Mick O'Shea will be exhibiting Sub-plots a cross-disciplinary installation
at Sirius Arts
Centre, Cobh Co.
Cork.
Sub-plots is the result of an exchange which
has been developed between allerArt in Bludenz, Austria and Sirius Arts Centre,
Cobh over the last 3 years and is a response to place and a play on the idea
that what is presented is not the whole 'story' or 'plot'. Working
collaboratively in response to the idea of the 'Alps' (where Bludenz is
situated) each artist has engaged with the subject in their own way, though the
intention is not to have boundaries between the works but to let them migrate
through each other, the vision being a considered arrangement of composites
rather than several visions vying for attention.
Stephen Brandes’s participation in the installation, involves the design and
production of eight new posters ranging in size from A4 to A0. These posters
are suggestive of a golden age of travel, when the previously inaccessible
landscapes of the world were opening up to popular imagination and at the same
time becoming emblematic of nationalistic endeavour.
From research in Australia, Sarah Iremonger has developed new work for this installation, a
mural with text and photographs, based on the work of Austrian/Australian 19th
centuary artist Eugene von Guérard whose work is referenced to create a
disembodied relationship between the landscape of the Alps at Bludenz and von
Guéards landscapes of Australia and in a sense bringing him home.
Marianne Keating has created a text-based work, incorporating the text of
French-Cuban author Anais Nin, “We don’t see things as they are, we see things
as we are” in reference to the title of the exhibition and how each person can
perceive the same event in many different ways. This piece is site-specific,
screen-printed wallpaper, that captures the silhouettes of the Austrian alps
while created through the use of text.
Mick O’Shea’s sound installation of field recordings including spoken
words from the texts used by the other artists at once connects and creates a
disembodied atmosphere to the installation.
This exhibition has come about through and exchange between
allerArt, Bludenz and the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh.
With thanks to Alfred Graf, Hildegard Gunz, allerArt Bludenz
Austria, Broken Hill Art Exchange Inc. Desert Knowledge Australia, Outback
Business Networks, National Parks Australia, rightbrain.ie, South Tipperary
County Council and the Sirius Arts Centre. This project would not have been
possible without the help of Culture Ireland.
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