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VAI Visual Artists’ News Letter: University of Atypical (organisational profile)
University of Atypical JANE MORROW DISCUSSES THE 25-YEAR EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ATYPICAL, BELFAST Most organisations would throw a big, indulgent party for their 25thbirthday. It’s not that the former Arts & Disability Forum don’t love a party – they do – but they elected instead to mark this key anniversary by asking…
Circa review: Travis Somerville, Golden Thread Gallery
Travis Somerville: Homeland Insecurity Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 4 August – 22 September 2018 In Fourth year English Literature, we had to read A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. One tends to try to forget these things quickly, and with the exception of this book and a (perhaps rash) aversion to Shakespeare,…
Circa review: Belfast School of Art MFA Fine Arts Degree Show – Cathy Cannon and Joey O’Gorman
It starts with a fly. That too-warm room in a relatively-new-but-potentially-already-sick-building, a buzz (both literal and figurative) coming and going, untraceable amongst the always already information heavy degree show experience. But then there is a fly – a painted one, which disrupts in a more focused way. It’s rendered perfectly amidst a fruit bowl…
Circa review: Miguel Martin, Millenium Court Arts Centre
Miguel Martin: Let the Dead Leaves Fall Millennium Court Arts Centre 2 December 2017 – 24 January 2018 This time of year does something to people, and worse – we’re all in on it. From every TV screen, Instagram post, billboard and glance in the mirror we are reminded of our untapped potential.…
Circa review – Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Golden Thread Gallery
Vanessa Donoso Lopez: Quotidian Tensions between the Domestic and the Unexpected Golden Thread Gallery 11 January – 17 February 2018 The Babel fish in Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a universal translator renowned for its instantaneous language translation capabilities. Because of its extraordinary evolution, it is argued in the book that the…
