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JUN NGUYEN-HATSUSHIBA, Vietnam
Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam -
Towards the Complex - For the Courageous,
the Curious and the Cowards, 2001
single-channel projection on DVD Edition of 10
Courtesy of the Artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
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Jun Nguyen-Hatshushiba
Tulca are delighted to present ‘Memorial Project Nha
Trang, Vietnam: Toward the Complex-For the Courageous,
the Curious, and the Cowards,’ 2001, a work by Vietnam
based artist Jun Ngu yen -Hatsus hiba . Born in Tokyo
in 1968, his solo exhibitions include the Mori Art Museum,
Tokyo, the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, and the
Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. His work has been selected for
numerous biennials, including the Shanghai Biennale,
the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, and the Sao
Paulo Biennale. This film piece represents two of the
most disenfranchised groups in Vietnam, outmoded by
a country that has gone through seismic change in its
embrace of new technologies. Rickshaw drivers and
fishermen, both of whom are being replaced by industrial
fishing and cars, manually propel vehicles in a race at
the bottom of the sea. This combination of a political
statement with the aesthetically sublime is compelling
and truly poetic. The collective choreographed efforts in
moving these contraptions on the seabed are reflective
of an entire nation discovering its identity after war and
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Art / Not Art
The ‘portable’ construction is a learning lab,
a portable experimental probe that includes a wide range
of artistic proposals that can be forwarded to and unfolded
in any location. The ‘portable’ is a self-contained mobile
art unit conceived and designed by all its participants;
for Tulca this includes Breda Lynch (Artist & Lecturer),
Brian Walsh (Artist & Teacher), Fergal Gaynor (Writer &
Independent Scholar), Trevor Joyce (Poet & Director of
SoundEye Festival), Mick O’Shea (Artist & Cook), Dobz
O’Brien (Artist & Independent Curator).
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MARK CULLEN
Mark Cullen was born in Dublin in 1972 where he is
based. He works in a variety of media and is interested in
exploring cosmologies and mans position in relation to his
surroundings in both macro and micro terms. His recent
exhibitions include ‘Cosmic Annihilator’ at Pallas Heights,
2002; ‘Offside’ at the Hugh Lane, 2007; and E+VA 2005.
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DAMIEN DOYLE
Damian Doyle was born in 1970 and is based in Dublin.
His work combines a childlike sense of play whilst
simultaneously drawing on Duchamp’s ready-mades.
His fearless appropriation of objects from their original
purpose leaves one’s perception of the world interestingly
askew. He has exhibited in Norway, New York, Portugal,
Bangkok and Ireland.
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Joey Kotting,UK
"(Please stop telling me how to) FUCKING
THINK!" 2008
inkjet collage
Courtesy Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium |
JOEY KOTTING
Joey Kötting was born in England in 1966 and
currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He has been
using his body as the subject and the material for his
art for many years. The images he makes are at times
humorous and torturous, often taking on the appearance
of documentation of performance art from the 1970s.
Projects include: Larrisa Goldston Gallery and Yvon
Lambert in New York; Galerie Fortlaan 17 in Ghent
Belgium and Lieu D’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France.
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Niamh Mc Cann, Ireland
Perch (Recreating the Natural Habitat)
Sculpture;Neon, Wood, Veneer Paper, Magpie (taxidermy), 2008
w 178cm x h 76cm x d 50cm
Courtesy of the Green on Red Gallery |
NIAMH MCCANN
Niamh McCann lives and works in Dublin. Her
diverse and playful practice, which includes sculpture,
installation, painting and video, explores philosophical
riddles/conundrums through seemingly random visual
juxtapositions and spatial relationships, looking toward
themes of travel, globalisation and urbanisation within very
particular social and political contexts. Her solo projects
include: ‘<<EME,’ Pallas Heights, Dublin, 2004 and ‘Total
Eclipse of….’ Planet 22 , Geneva, Switzerland, 2001.
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BEA MCMAHON
Bea McMahon lives and works in Dublin. She mostly
uses video and small drawings to articulate her ideas
which weave a strange and boundless path between an
inner reality of thought and the ordinary outside world,
a world in which her version of events have a somewhat
hallucinogenic feel. Recent solo projects include: Void
Gallery; The Douglas Hyde Gallery and The Lab.
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Tom Molloy, Ireland
Covenant, 2007
Books in Acrylic Case
25 x 14 x 18 cm
Map, 2007 |
TOM MOLloy
Tom Molloy was born in Ireland, in 1964. His work
operates according to the logic of symbols and revolves
around ideas of America in cultural, economic, political,
and military terms focusing on its dominance in the
realm of the imagination. Solo projects include: include:
Rubicon Gallery Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art;
Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, USA and Galerie Guy
Bartschi, Geneva.
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Gavin Murphy, Ireland
'Sketches for a Light/Heavy Monument,' 2006
Newspapers, cable-ties, washing line, light-box, colour separation film
5’ x 5’ at base, 5' high
Image courtesy of the artist |
GAVIN MURphy
Gavin Murphy is a Dublin-based artist. His work
draws from an intertextual palette, combining literature,
philosophical thought and historical characters, in order
to make universal, personal concerns regarding time,
existence, and the history of ideas. He has exhibited with
Green on Red; Four and Colony and recently had a solo
exhibition at The Lab, Dublin.
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Liam O Callaghan, Ireland
If I falter, if you falter, you will hold me,i will hold you, 2007
Sculptures
12x12x12cm
Hold Together, 2007
152.5 x152.5 11cm
Courtesy of the Rubicon Gallery |
LIAM O'CALlAGhan
Liam O’Callaghan was born in 1968 and is based in
Dublin. He works in a range of forms and materials and
deals with questions of what we value and why, notions of
success, preciousness, of beauty, quality and importance,
while also dealing in an investigation of aesthetics and the
aesthetic experience. Recent solo projects include Royal
Hibernian Academy, Dublin and Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
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Alan Phelan, Ireland
Phantom Blanket, 2008
orange blanket, push pins
120 w x 180 h x 40 w cms
Courtesy of the artist and mother’s tankstation. |
ALAN PHELAN
Alan Phelan was born in Dublin in 1968. His practice
involves the production of objects, participatory projects,
curating and writing. These all inform and contribute to an
interest in the narrative potential surrounding an artwork.
Recent solo projects include Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin,
2007; The Lab, Dublin and MCAC, Portadown, 2006.
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Siobhan Tattan,UK
A Brief History of... , 2006- 2008,
Digital Projection Installation |
SIOBHAN TATTAN
Siobhan Tattan currently divides her time between
Amsterdam, London and Cork. Her work seeks to inquire
into the discords of historiography and the disruptive
temporal transitions that occur between the article and
its rendition. In 2008 she had a solo exhibition at the
Triskel Art Centre, Cork. |
Jane Thurley, UK
Black Eagle Aviary, 2007
Painting ,Collage
9ft x 7ft |
JANE THURLEY
Jane Thurley was born in the UK and is based in
London. She is interested in the way in which parkland
can be used primarily as a means of display. Her large
collages aim to explore both the spectacle of nature, and
human attempts to control and categorise. Here, the
conflict between the entangled wallpaper patterns can
occasionally give way to order and the legible image. Her
exhibitions include the Mostyn Open 2005 and ‘Collage’ at
Bloomberg Space in 2004.
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MARNIE WEBER
Marnie Weber is a Los Angeles-based artist. Through
her work she has created a unique cut’n’paste world
where demure rabbit-headed women are the norm and
fairytales are tinged with dark, sinister undertones. This
world is represented in a range of mediums including
sculpture, collages and film. Most recently, Marnie has
had a solo exhibition at the Praz Delavallade Gallery,
Paris. She has also exhibited in the 2008 Busan Biennial
in Korea and at the Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles.
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suzane wrig
Suzane Wrig ht was born in Connecticut in 1968. She
is based in New York and California. Her drawings explore
her complicated relationships with terrorism, politics,
society, her own sexuality and environmental concerns.
She asks difficult questions about the moment in which
we find ourselves. Her solo exhibitions include the Stefan
Stux Gallery and Monya Rowe Gallery in New York.
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Allan Kaprow
TULCA 2008 in collaboration with the Allan Kaprow
Estate are honored to host the re-staging of a happening
by Allan Kaprow. ‘Travel og,’ 1968, is a seminal artwork
that merges the distinction between art and everyday
life. As originally performed, on day one a vehicle’s tyres
were changed by attendants at a number of different
gas stations and these actions were documented via
photography and sound recordings. On the second day
the entire process was repeated without documentation.
This happening was reinvented earlier this year at the
haudenschildGarage, San Diego, in conjunction with ‘Allan
Kaprow – Art as Life,’ a retrospective exhibition held at the
Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles – where it was simultaneously staged by
artists in Caracas, San Diego, and Shanghai.
Many of Kaprow’s performances kept the line between
the happening and daily life as fluid as possible, an issue
that has become ever more worthy of examination. For
his retrospective at the University of Texas at Arlington,
curated by Jeff Kelley, Kaprow staged a year long
reinvention of his performance pieces.
“So, in taking one of the first of the selected events to
recapitulate, the one we did in New York a few weeks
ago, which you’ve probably heard is very often quoted as
a fairly well-known prototype of that time, 18 Happenings
in 6 Parts, I wholesale changed it. I took it’s principals
of participation, of changeability, of simultaneity, and
spread these, instead of the original loft work where the
thing had taken place in 1959, I had it take place at the
desires of the participants all over New York City.”
Allan Kaprow
Kaprow’s works are
open to reinterpretation.
The original version is
preserved as a script or documentation that
functions as an open
template for a new work.
This event will be led
by artist and curator
George Bolster alongside
performance artist Áine Phillips with the
participation of teams
they have built to reinvent
this piece.
These groups
will be comprised of
curators, artists, and
students from GMIT.
November 6th at 7pm:
Initial meeting, instruction,
team allocation, and talk on Allan Kaprow.
November 7th daytime:
Teams to complete and
document project.
November 8th at 7pm:
Teams meet up with Aine
and George to present and discuss documentation.
The documentation from
this piece will be exhibited throughout Tulca in No 1
Merchants Road.
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