'Space and Ladders' Launch of Art in the Making 2012/2013 @ Lismore Castle November 21st

‘SPACE AND LADDERS’

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ART IN THE MAKING 2012

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LISMORE CASTLE LAUNCH/EXHIBITION/COLLABORATIVE MAKING

About Art in the Making

Art in the Making has been running throughout many Irish art colleges over the past few years. It is a student led initiative. In Crawford groups of three students per week run a lunch time session of art in the making. These sessions can be anything the students want them to be whether it is collaborative making,  gorilla art, exhibition visit, documentary, critic, interventions, anything goes! The groups must produce a poster for their event each week and document the event. All information will be displayed on the Art in the Making blog for all to see. 

Art in the Making launch, Lismore, November 21st 2012

Last years Lismore Castle Art in the Making event was so successful that we have been invited back to have the launch there.

All students are welcome to attend the event.

There will be a bus leaving from the Crawford at 9am and returning at 7pm and will cost €2 per student. To book a place contact artinthemakingccad@gmail.com with your name and year and we will  get back to you.

The day will comprise of:

- Short presentations of work by recent graduates

- Group based discussion and planning (groups will be 6-8 people from different years and different art colleges)

-Group making which can take place in the gallery or in the gardens. This can be sculptural work, video, photography, sound, installation, painting, drawing it's up to the group. The three words you will be given to respond to and give you a starting point are Resistance, Systems and Mobility.

-Set up work for exhibition in the gallery

-Group presentations, but with a difference! Each group will present another groups work as if it is their own. Afterwards the group who made the work can discuss the piece and what it's really about.

-Banquet, each student is asked to bring a dish inspired by the word Medieval. Last year the banquet was the highlight of the day, and the Grand Pugin dining hall has been opened for us again. Students brought home made baked goods, salads, medieval breads, cheeses, condiments, casseroles. It is important to remember that there are no cooking/reheating facilities on site and the dish must be transportable on the bus.

-Music, any student musicians are welcome to participate in the musical entertainment for the evening, if you wish to perform please let us know via email.....the more the merrier. Or if you decide you want to sing a song on the spur of the moment you're welcome to do that too!

-Exhibition Launch, The work from the day will be displayed in Lismore Castle Arts Gallery as an exhibition entitles 'Space and Ladders' . There will be an official launch with drinks, opening speaker and maybe more music??

-This is a pop up exhibition so before you leave you must take down the work and dispose of or return items to where you found them.

Students should bring a packed lunch to have mid day while working as there is no cafe on the castle grounds. There are some cafes in Lismore town but many close for the winter months.

Recent graduates will be on hand to assist the groups with the formation of ideas, making and presentation.

Things to bring

-Art Materials
-Different papers
-Pens, pencils, paints
-Cameras/card readers/laptop/speakers
-Tape/glue/needle and thread
-Scissors
-String
-Fabrics, various surfaces
-Hammer and nails
Anything you think someone might use or you could use on the day!

Timetable for the day

11:00- Arrival and groups formed

11:20-  Introduction to the project, the schedule for the day, the words chosen (Resistance, Systems & Mobility) and intro to graduates who will set up and talk about their work.

11:30- Graduates discuss their work for 5/10 minutes each. After talks Q&A for 10 minutes

12:00- The group facilitators will tease out with the groups what connections they see between an element of the work discussed and an element of one of the chosen words. All connections will be noted.

12:20- Over lunch: groups get a tea or coffee & packed lunch and discuss how the connections they have made in response to the work and words will be made into an artwork.

13:00-16:30- Make the work and display in gallery

16:30-17.30- Presentations of work

17:30-18:00 Banquette, Exhibition opening and Art in the Making launched by Trish Brennan with music
18:30: Clean up and clear out

19:00: Home Time! Drop off at CCAD

Lismore Castle November 2012 project 'Space and Ladders'

Hello everyone!
Art in the making will be officially launched on Wednesday November 21st in Lismore castle. The day will include a presentation by recent CCAD graduates and a collaborative making session culminating in an exhibition. Followed later in the evening by a banquette, and official launch of AITM and the exhibition.
More info to follw, keep your eyes peeled for posters around the college.

Lismore Castle Colaborate Art in the Making 2012

the details:
Venue: Lismore Castle
Date: 6th March 2012

 

the colaboration:

Art in the making is striving here at CCAD and from looking at their blogsite [view here], NCAD are having as much fun as we are with the project. Moreover on the 6th of March 2012 for the first time CCAD and NCAD we will be joining forces for a huge Art in the Making Project.

the framework:

You will be organised in groups of 6-8 with students from both colleges, and work collaboratively within this group. The conceptual / contextual framework of the event is its site-specific nature. Ways of approaching this may be through the following categories 

• Historical
• Comparative
• Formal
• Symbolic
• Relevant
• Political
• Poetic
• Game
• Gravitas
• Tradition
• Animate
• Mythical

A list of basic materials and equipment to bring down which you may (or may not) use could include paper, pencil, charcoal, string, rope, bluetack, camera / video camera etc. Also please bring any other materials you may like to use.

Fom 3pm-4.30pm each group will present on some aspect of the day. These will be informal presentations and approx. 5 mins.

As there is no cafe on site, each person is asked to bring one dish based around ideas of a banquet / castle / medieval period etc. As a group we will create a 'banquet' from the dishes for lunch, which will also form part of the collaborative element of the day.

Please note the castle grounds are generally closed at this time of the year, but if the weather is nice they will be opened for us. A number of inside spaces have been allocated to us for that day.

 

travel information:

-The bus for Lismore will leave the Crawford at 9.30am SHARP.

-€1.50 Deposit is required

-Please leave your name with Eamonn Shanahan, Catherine Hehir or Margaret O' Brien if you would like to go - There are very few places remaining.

 

 

Week 5 CCAD Art in the Making

Video Coming Soon.

Week 4 CCAD Art in the Making

Art in the Making Week 2

Host: Grace O' Leary & Roisin Bohan

Venue: DLT, CCAD.

Invented on a sunny Sunday afternoon in 199AD. It dates back thousands of years across many different cultures such as Ancient Egyptians, the Celts and the Native American Indians. It has been used for a wide variety of purposes that weren’t just all for fun and play. This unique art process also includes use for camouflage, religious purposes, entertainment, inclusion in sports and as a statement about society. It is a medium of expression as well as functionality based, depending on the sole intentions of the creator. Why restrict yourselves to a rigid structure when you can work on a moving canvas.

Week 2 CCAD Art in the Making

Art in the Making - Week 2

Venue: Art Trail

Host: David Upton

For the first installment of Art in the Making students and staff met at one ofthe venues in use for ArtTrail 2011, a disused furniture shop on Perry Street. The venue housed three groups of work by local and international artists with a strong emphasis on lens based media. David Upton, a recent graduate from the Crawford College who recieved an ArtTrail graduate award this year and one of the artists exhibiting in the show, led a discussion on the rise in video art and its current ubquity in contemporary art.

The group discussed issues relating to video as a medium such as the problems of working in a medium where the newest technological developments become outdated and appear old fashioned in a matter of years and tackeling viewers familiarity with the production standards and budgets of film and television. The group debated whether or not video is a democratic medium though its origins lie in the counter culture of the 60s has it sold out? As a medium associated the conceptual movement and non-objecthood can it be seen as anti-capitalist? Methods of presentation were also discussed from the cinematic projection to the everything goes video installation, opinion was divided on the presentation of accompanying sound with video headphones definetly not being a preferred method.

24 Hour Print Workshop



13th December 2011

Crawford College of Art & Design

24 Hour Print Workshop

www.24hourprintpopup.com

24 hours is collaborative print project involving artists from Cork Printmakers, Limerick Printmakers Studio & Gallery, Belfast Print Workshop, Black Church Print Studio and Artichoke Printmaking Workshop, London. The initial collaboration at the Limerick Printmakers Gallery in February 2011 sprung from a passion for the medium of print and willingness to the push the boundaries of what is sometimes perceived as a traditional art form.

The group comprises of established artists who have exhibited both nationally and internationally and at times represented Ireland at international symposia. In the past, their careers have overlapped in different capacities and this has created a level of dialogue and interaction that has now led to this collaboration. Cork Printmakers 24 hours project artists are Gemma Dardis, Morgan Doyle, Pamela Dunne, Clare Gilmour, Catherine Hehir, Marianne Keating, Des Mac Mahon, Lorraine Neeson, Noelle Noonan, Margaret O’Brien, Suzannah O’Reilly, Derek O’Sullivan and Fiona Quill.