At the Still Point
Curated by Josephine Kelliher • Opening Brunch at Cleere’s Bar & Theatre, 10:30am – 12 noon, Saturday 11 August
Áine Phillips Performance
Sat 11th Aug
Áine Phillips will make a live performance of Redress in the Bishop’s Robing Room on Saturday 11 August from 12pm to 4pm.
Aideen Barry Possession
Sat 11th Aug – Sun 19th Aug
Victorian Tea House, Bateman’s Quay
Exploring societal expectations of ‘the modern woman’, Aideen Barry’s film Possession is enigmatic, surreal and infused with dark, satirical humour.
Cecily Brennan
Sat 11th Aug – Sun 19th Aug
Brennan’s work focuses on traumas of the body and mind, exploring the ways in which humans learn to survive, to endure, and to overcome their damaged selves.
Anita Groener Somewhere Else
Sat 11th Aug – Sun 19th Aug
7 Parliament Street, 1st Floor (above Foodworks)
Somewhere Else is an ongoing project that began in 2009 and appears in its fourth incarnation at the festival, set to a minimal sound piece that echoes the drawing strategies Groener employs.
Tracy Hanna
Sat 11th Aug – Sun 19th Aug
Hanna’s installations focus on the tactile and sensory qualities of sculpture, paying close attention to texture, scale, sound and light.
Jesse Jones The Predicament of Man
Sat 11th Aug – Sun 19th Aug
Muniments Room, Kilkenny Castle
Jesse Jones’ work explores the pleasures of mass entertainment and the thwarted potential of collective action, imagining alternative histories and their urgent political implications for the present.
Niamh O’Malley Island
Sat 11th Aug – Sun 19th Aug
Niamh O’Malley’s video Island, shot on Lough Derg, is an evocative exploration of place.
Áine Phillips & Vivienne Dick Redress
Sat 11th Aug – Sun 19th Aug
Redress is a video shot by Vivienne Dick of a performance by Áine Phillips, commemorating the private traumas that are sewn into the fabric of Irish society.
Deborah Smith
Sat 11th Aug – Sun 19th Aug
Smith’s work explores aspects of the familiar and the apparently banal, manipulating and transforming these images through a range of materials and forms of display.
Kilkenny