Fwd: Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War

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Date: Sun Jan 04 2009 - 05:46:33 PST


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> Date: 4 January 2009 11:42:48 GMT
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> Subject: Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War
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> January 4, 2009
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> Model Arts and Niland Gallery
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> Signals in the Dark:
> Art in the Shadow of War
> March 15th - May 3rd, 2009
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> Model Arts and Niland Gallery
> Model Satellite space at Castle House
> Sligo, Ireland
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> http://www.modelart.ie
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> Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War will open at the Model
> Arts and Niland Gallery on March 14th 2009 following its successful
> tour in Canada in 2008. Curated by Seamus Kealy, the newly appointed
> Director/Curator of the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, and recently
> of the Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Signals marks the start of the
> Model Niland's ambitious offsite 09 exhibition programme. As a
> series of artist projects, film screenings, discussions, tours and
> forums that centre on representations of contemporary ideological
> and socio-political realities, the large-scale project Medium
> Religion(produced by ZKM, Karlsruhe) follows Signals in the late
> spring. While the first project takes a hard look at the profane
> world of war, the second enters sideways into a provocative
> discussion on the sacred world of religions. Alongside these
> exhibitions are a range of Education Programming, Artist
> Commissions, and Musi c Programming that exemplify the Model
> Niland's multi-disciplinary activities. Both exhibitions will be
> shown in the Model Satellite space at Castle House in central Sligo,
> a space temporarily occupied by the Model Niland while the main
> building undergoes a major redevelopment.
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> Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War involves international
> artists who are responding to war and its contemporary
> representations. Held as an inter-disciplinary project, this project
> includes an exhibition, an extensive film/video program, a
> catalogue, and a public forum on the subject.
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> Investigating the interstices between perpetual war, dominant
> politics, and military aesthetics, this project confronts issues of
> global warfare, how it is imaged, and how it is imagined. The
> exhibition presents artists who are responding to these
> representations of war through informed critique. While a number of
> artists produce analyses or outraged expressions arising from their
> own or others' experiences of war, other artists challenge the
> spectacle of contemporary war, its veracity and, ultimately, its
> intertwinement within a New World Order.
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> Exhibition:
> Maja Bajević (Bosnia)
> Bureau d'etudes (France)
> Paul Chan (USA)
> Köken Ergun (Turkey)
> Harun Farocki (Germany)
> Omer Fast (Israel/USA)
> Kendell Geers (South Africa)
> Johan Grimonprez (Belgium)
> Jamelie Hassan (Canada)
> Kristan Horton (Canada)
> Abdel-Karim Khalil (Iraq)
> Anri Sala (Albania)
> Sonja Savić (Serbia)
> Sean Snyder (USA/Germany)
> Ron Terada (Canada)
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> This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Sonja Savić
> (1961-2008).
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> Public Curator Tours will be scheduled throughout the exhibition.
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> The Model Niland is currently undergoing a major redevelopment,
> which will see it grow by a third in size, introduce new artists
> studios, include a new performance space, and expand to a suite of
> new galleries. The Model Niland reopens in Autumn 2009. To support
> us, please visit our website.
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> The Model Niland gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts
> Council of Ireland and the Sligo and Borough County Council, and the
> cooperation of the Blackwood Gallery.
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> Anri Sala, Naturalmystic (tomahawk # 2), 2002, Courtesy of the
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> Jamelie Hassan, Because there was and there wasn't a city of
> Baghdad, 1991, Courtesy of the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery
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> Bureau d'etudes, Bohemian Club, 2005, Courtesy of the artists
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> Köken Ergun, I, Soldier, 2005
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> Johan Grimonprez, DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997
> Both courtesy of Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/TBA
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> Paul Chan, Tin Drum Trilogy, 2002-2005, Courtesy of Greene Naftali
> Gallery
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