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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Periodical Review 12—Practical Magic

Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) is a long-running curatorial project which sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland.

Periodical Review
Frank Wasser—On Tenterhooks
Black and white image, the corner of a granite headstone with a grey concrete wall in the background.

Taking these histories into consideration as a starting point, this exhibition takes the form of an evolving and changing set of digressions, objects and materials which pose as voices that recount, contaminate, fabricate and complicate narratives constructed by the artist deployed through performance, images, sound and text. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Cóilín O’Connell and Michelle Doyle—Super Gairdín
An image of a man in garden centre kneeling down and talking to a large grey rock.

Super Gairdín is a new video work by artists Cóilín O’Connell and Michelle Doyle about divine spirits, landscape, language and nature. Taking cues from the folk horror tradition, the film is set in a desolate garden centre, a space where landscape is held indefinitely. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Rocío Romero Grau—Interregnum
Documentation of a live performance, a person drapped in white fabric standing in front of a large proejction of a shadowy figure in black and white in a dark room.

Rocío interrogates our present as a liminal space, an Interregnum between an unreliable past and an uncertain future. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Art Nomads—Karvansarai کاروانسرای
A large projection on a white wall in a dark room, the video depicts a pair of hands holding up a black and white image of a man.

‘Karvansarai’ a meeting and resting place for migrants from the long and tough journeys of life has come out of Art Nomads project ‘Souk/Bazaar’. This participatory process included others from academia, community development, activism and migrant solidarity from China, India, South Africa, USA and Ireland. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Kate Fahey—Mouthnotes
Exhibition documentation of a white wall gallery with a wooden floor and low ligthing, to the right a circular image is projected depicting a close up of a verticle mouth and to the left a sculpture of bent metal wire with two large grey rocks at the bottom.

Mouthnotes reclaims the stone's split, and reimagines it as a mouth from which a multitude of utterances and un/speakable things leak and spill.Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Chronic Collective
A group of people wearing face masks posing for a picture, four stand in the back, in front of them one person sits and another kneels beside them, in the background is a white wall covered in post-it notes in pastel purple, pink, green and blue surround the text 'Chronic Collective' written in a neon pink.

Chronic Collective, an initiative by artists Áine O'Hara and Tara Carroll who have developed a landmark series of events around art, illness, and disability. These events are by and for sick and disabled artists as well as anyone who wants to create with accessibility in mind, or participate in an accessible art project.

Collaboration
Exquisite Moving Corpse Screening
Video still depicting two women standing in a public park, the woman in the back is about to walk on a piano rug and the other woman stands on the other end facing the camera, old red brick buildings sit in the background and a fountain sits to the right.

The Exquisite Moving Corpse decisions were made to trade the methodology from the original Surrealist drawing strategy with video making. Each invited artist made a one-minute video based on the last frame of the previous minute.

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Camilla Hanney—Lament
Sculpture documentation of a white bust of a womans face with a floral headdress, silver tears are rolling down the cheeks from both eyes it sits on a white ceramic cake stand and a pair of ceramic cupped hands sits in front of the bust all on a white plinth with a dark background

Lament explores the tradition of Irish ‘keening’ and its deep-rooted relationship with catharsis, loss and care. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Qaleidoscope— Queer Film and Performance on Tour
Peformance documenation, a person wearing headphones is standing hunched over in front of a buliding, their two hands reach around holding the red brick framing the window.

Qaleidoscope will feature Canadian and international film and performance art by Queer and QTIBPOC artists that explore, question and play with notions of identity and utilize queer artistic expression to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender, race and film and performance art itself.

Collaboration
Deliverables
Exhibition documentation of a white gallery wall on the left s small white ipad displays a video work, in the centre a pile of large rusty metal screws tied together with twine and to the left a wooden embroidery frame with brown mesh stretched in the centre.

Deliverables is a remote collaborative exhibition project, the exhibition is the story of a postal package, an experiment in communal art making, and the celebration of a collaborative structure built over the course of one year, spanning across the Atlantic ocean. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Day Magee— Contraindications of the Cross
Performance documentation, a man lays in black underwear on a bright red sheet of fabric on a wooden floor, his hands hold a pair of scissors over his chest his arms and legs are tied with large black cable ties which stick out from his body, a white wall is behind him.

In Contraindications of the Cross, Magee presents a series of votive multimedia chronicling the lived intersections of queerness, illness and faith, prospecting the raw material of their experiences. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects