Projects

Pallas Projects collaborates with artists and groups, placing a particular emphasis on early-career, emerging artists and recent graduates, experimental or overlooked practices.

Artist-Initiated Projects (AIP) is a highly accessible open-submission programme, presented in a peer-led, supportive environment. It is designed to be dynamic, quick and responsive to reflect what artists are currently making. Periodical Review (2011–present) sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland to facilitate and encourage new readings, collaboration, crossover and debate.

This core programme is contextualised alongside collaborative and international projects.

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Facsimile at Lismore Castle Arts: St Carthage Hall

Martin Healy's Facsimile is single projection HD film and comprises of a sequence of shots across lush tropical foliage.

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Ciarán Walsh—this brief visual pattern

In Ciarán Walsh's video work It’s Just a Shadow Away two actors sit in a production studio, re-performing the original Russian dialogue (a language in which they have no knowledge) of two short sections of the 1972 film Solaris.

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Here’s the Tender Coming (WHOOPEE) We’re all Going to Die

Here’s the Tender Coming (WHOOPEE) We’re all Going to Die plays out a dialogue concerning the reclamation of death within the condition of life, a space where finitude is integral, death is never far from the mind of the artist, and present on the surface, just underneath, or within the text of their work.

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Toine Horvers—Copying as a ritual act

Horvers transmits this material into another reality in the form of voice performances, hand-written drawings, hand-written books, sound installations and interactive electronic text displays.

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John Smith—The world seems a long way away

The exhibition contains in the first programme four key works filmed on 16mm between 1976 and 1996, beginning with the seminal The Girl Chewing Gum shot in black and white on a grey day in Hackney, through to the lyrical Blight, revolving around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London and the bitter campaign by local residents to protect their homes from demolition, and made in collaboration with the composer Jocelyn Pook.

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Pallasades/Score for 51°57’N 08°40’W

Pallasades have created a live, interactive sound installation in the Triskel Gallery, a former ESB substation. Developing a practice based upon collaboration, process and site-specificity, Pallasades engage with the historical associations of the building, activating the space using sound and electrical impulses.

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Bizarre Bazaar

A random mess, a shantytown, a temporary nuisance, a necessary group-hug to negate the cold, and a special opening performance by Big Chief Random Chaos.Enter Bizarre Bazaar, an open platform for the exchange of ideas, where every idea has its price.

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Jim Ricks—Synchromaterialism

Jim Ricks has developed the method of synchro-materialism as a means to consider the territory where art meets capitalism. To do this properly, history must be re-worked, splintered and re-imagined.

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Liminal Margins

Liminal Margins is the outcome of the Intern programme at Pallas Contemporary Projects.

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Not Abel—Private Commissions

Private Commissions is new work by artist group Not Abel focused on an interest in the re-evaluation and re-presentation of particular common or contemporary cultural references.

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Pat Foster & Jen Berean—The Problem with Stability

Pat Foster and Jen Berean work, incorporating site-specific installations, photography and sculpture, often uses the language of architecture, social infrastructure and design – things that typically require collaboration in order to have a successful outcome.

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Paper Work

Paper Work explores the primacy of paper as a fundamental medium, a celebration at the core of the transformative essence of artistic production, and of the possibilities inherent in the simplest medium, intrinsic as it is to the facilitation of expansive contemporary artistic concepts.

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