'The Drawing Factory'
Draw In
'Bbeyond Monthly Meet'
Bbeyond
31st May - 11th June
The Drawing Factory:
Tue 1st - Fri 4th June
Sunday 6th- Wednesday 9th June
Open Daily from 12pm - 8pm
Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell in association with Belfast's drawing collective Draw In
Create drawing machines, become a whirling drawing dervish, experiment, draw on the huge windows, go on a drawing adventure, try our mark-making party bags and play drawing games to your hearts content.
Exchange Gallery was transformed into an interactive drawing factory finding weird and wonderful ways to draw. All you had to do was clock in and get started!
Unfortunately the Drawing Factory was forced to close its doors early due to leaky ceilings
but will be returning to open the Factory Shop at a later date.
Special Events in collaboration with Caragh O'Donnell:
Fort Builders Anonymous
Friday 4th June
12pm-9pm
For those who had an addiction to fort building?
Fort Builders Anonymous, a haven for fort builders, for any who couldn't pass stacks of sticks or cardboard without the desire to make some fantastic construction. The streets of Dublin were scavenged for materials to build ones very own grand design in Exchange Gallery in this one day event.
Shadow Puppets
Friday 4th June
9.30pm-11pm
Wondering what to do now that you've built your dream fort? It was then time for making shadow puppets and creating ones own show in the Exchange Gallery windows for the fleeting street audience wandering past.
Bbeyond Monthly Action Meeting and PANI Publication Launch
Saturday 5th June
Starting at 3.30pm in Exchange Gallery
Bbeyond members come together once a month to experiment in making simultaneous group actions, sometimes interacting with one another and sometimes not, the audience is never an arranged audience it is usually the incidental/accidental that witness the art, the monthly meetings can be spontaneous and improvised at times. Sometimes it can be used as a testing ground for Bbeyond members to try out new ideas's and have those idea's critiqued by like minded people over tea or a pint after the monthly meeting.
Also was the launching of PANI. The first annual publication by Bbeyond, it documents and contextualises the I Am/Jestem event of 2008/9 alongside other contingent activities of Bbeyond, from May 2008 to June 2009. This publication is an attempt to promote, disseminate, distribute and extend the shelf life of performance art events that have happened in Belfast from 2008 to 2009, hence the title, pani, (performance art northern ireland).
Bbeyond presented pani: I Am/Jestem, a publication of 168 pages involving over 67 artists, Dandy the horse and Paddy the pig. Nine writers and eleven photographers have contributed to this book. Performance art places the human in the centre of the creative act; the artist as laboratory where culture is deconstructed and transformed. This publication serves, in its own way, to extend these processes and makes it available to others outside of the visual art channels.
I Am/Jestem is contextualised by the writers, Dr Slavka Sverakova, Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes and Dr.Justin McKeown. It also contains an essay by Brian McAvera on the History of Performance and Theatre and an interview with Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, by Brian Connolly and Brian Patterson. The section on ‘contingent activities’ is represented mainly through visual documentation but also contains an essay by Colin Darke on the Dublin Collective solo performaces and their collaboration with Bbeyond in 2009.
Bbeyond is committed to promoting the practice of performance art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. Our aim is to raise people’s consciousness of live/performance art as being integral to the world in and around us, inspiring reflection and enriching lived experience. We host artists of international reputation throughout the performance art world and encourage newer artists to experience performance art practices for themselves. Bbeyond encourages greater access to and appreciation of this visually based art form, through facilitating modes of active private/public participation, allowing people from all sectors of society, not just the traditional arts, to experience and enjoy performance art directly.
For more information:
www.bbeyondperformance.org
email: bbeyond@europe.com
copies of PANI were available
