Projects

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.