Notes and thoughts #2

State of a Nation Frieze 140 June – July – August 2011 On the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, curators and critics respond to the country’s political crisis and its effect on cultural institutions. Cecilia Canziani Co-director of Nomas Foundation in Rome, with Ilaria Gianni, Canziani is a founding member...

A Nation of Art without a Future?

Maurizio Cattelan, LOVE, 2010

Goran Galic & Gian-Reto Gredig

Ma Bice Bolje / It’ll Get Better Goran Galic & Gian-Reto Gredig (Switzerland) Former P&D Furnishings Store, Perry Street, Cork November 19 – December 4 Curated for ArtTrail by Chris Clarke and Stag&Deer The role of nationhood and identity is key to understanding the ‘national interest’. In Ma Bice Bolje...

Kent Gustaffsonn / (Un)Like

(UN)LIKE Kent Gustafsson (SWE) exterior of Former Government Buildings, Sullivan’s Qy., Cork (Audio work) With this piece I would like to raise a few simple, though rather important questions. Do we need nations? What is globalisation leading to? Who are dictating the terms for this globalisation? Is the world becoming...

Earth Station / David Upton

EARTH STATION David Upton Former P&D Furnishings Store, Perry Street David Upton recently graduated from the CIT Crawford College of Art and Design receiving a first class Honours degree in Fine Art. In this time he has also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. David’s research...

Denise Kehoe / This Is Conceptual

This is Conceptual Denise Kehoe 29/31 Washington Street (Former ExtraVision) My current practice is concerned with investigating the value and accessibility of contemporary art. I am concerned with scrutinising the role and sincerity of ‘the artist’ and ‘the artwork’. My work illustrates my own investigation into defining art in my...

Neil Butler / Under The Flag

UNDER THE FLAG Neil Butler (IRL) TACTIC Gallery ‘Under the Flag’ explores ideas of Irishness through the prism of technology and the internet. Five distinct but interconnected pieces take us on a journey through national stereotypes as perpetuated by global Google users. As far as the internet is concerned, it...

24 Hours / A Printmaking Project

24 HOURS A collaborative print project involving artists from Cork Printmakers Workshop, Limerick Printmakers, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin and Artichoke Printmaking Workshop, London. LIVE STREAM: The initial collaboration at the Limerick Printmakers Gallery in February 2011 came about in a very organic manner and sprung from a passion for...

The 2011 ArtTrail festival

The 2011 ArtTrail festival seeks to address the notion of ‘National Interest’ – What is it? Who is it? Who can and does invoke it? Who defines it, and why? Is it a social ideal, an political get-out clause, or something undefinable? In 2011, who is the Irish Nation? Are...

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About

ArtTrail Festival is an annual contemporary art festival in Cork City that uses existing and unusual spaces to develop and present projects by established and emerging local, national and international artists. The festival includes projects, exhibitions, events, talks, tours, and a programme of Open Studios where the public can visit the working artists studios in the city and surroundings. This year’s theme is the “National Interest” and will examine the term from a wide range of perspectives – Who is the nation? what is Ireland interested in?

A major highlight of this year’s festival will be a new large-scale exhibition Art Work Embassy in The Elysian, where group studios and individual artists will showcase their work.

Projects are presented in a variety of venues across the city centre, including existing galleries and temporary spaces – pop-up-galleries and discussed premises. Artists open their studios to show the processes they use, and give visitors an insight into their work.

Preview of the 20second ad for ArtTrail, made by Denise Kehoe – one of ArtTrail’s Graduate Award Winners for 2011. The ad was made for broadcast on RTE television from Sunday 13th – Sunday 20th November.

Untitled from denise kehoe on Vimeo.