“Fix on, ok, looks outside. The tree. A tree. What kind of things, things out of a story. What lives in a tree? A bird. A bird lives in a tree, ok, ok what, ok what can this bird be doing, the bird ehhhh, maybe it’s not a bird maybe it’s a person. Maybe the person who wants to be a bird, ok, and what is that person trying to do and where is it going to go. What kind of story arc is it going to be doing? Ok, the start of the story, Ok, it’s a boy that wants to be a bird.
 
And it keeps going like that, like that’s how my brain would work, that’s my inner monologue.” He
 
The LAB invites you to this this solo exhibition by the 2011/12 recipient of the Irish Artist’Residential Studio Award, Alan-James Burns.
 
He explores the manner of thought through the audio / visual medium of interview. Examining the mental perspectives of our own cognitive mind and that of one individual, He creates a sensory journey that navigates understandings and interpretations of neurological processes. He questions what is it like to perceive as another.
 
He is a Noema of the Noesis
(Noema - object of a thought
Noesis - the mental process used in thinking)
 
The exhibition is accompanied by Performance Conditioning, a text written by the 2013 Dublin City Council Visual Artists Ireland Art Writing Award winner Joanne Laws., and two events, detailed overleaf.
 
Artist Biography
Alan-James Burns is a video and performance artist based in Dublin.
Selected exhibitions include: At the level of entity, The Lab, Cube space, Dublin (2013); Envelope, Ballina Arts Centre (2013); Watching the river flow, Centro de Artes Visuais, Portugal, (2012); Till the Cows Come Home, (solo exhibition) Cavan County Museum, February 2011.
Residencies include: Irish Residential Studio Award, Red Stables, Dublin (2011-2012); Cow House Studios, Wexford, (2011), Cyland Media Arts Lab, National Centre for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia. (2009). Awards include Fire Station Artists’ studios Digital Media Residency Award (2012), Cavan County
Council Arts Act Grant (2011 and 2009), and Arts Council Travel and Training award (2009). www.alanjamesburns.com
 
About The Irish Artist’s Residential Studio Award
 
The Irish Residential Studio Award is intended to support an emerging Irish visual artist at an early stage of their professional practice.
 
The Award includes:
• Studio and living accommodation at nominal rent of €200 per month for a one-year period- including light & heat
• Inclusion in Exhibition Programme at The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1.
• Administrative and curatorial support through Dublin City Council’s Arts Office.
• Internet Access.
 
The studio is located at the Red Stables in St Anne’s Park, Dublin 3, one of Dublin’s largest parks covering approximately 270 acres. The Red Stables Artists’ Studios aims to provide a working space for contemporary artists and to support artists in their investigation of ideas. The Red Stables has studio Open Days annually, a Summer School art programme, a café and a weekly Saturday Food Market.

PRESS RELEASE: 13 March 2013
 
Project Arts Centre presents Garden
Opens Thursday 25 April 2013
 
Niamh O’Malley (IE)
Curated by Tessa Giblin
 
Garden is a newly commissioned exhibition by Dublin-based artist Niamh O’Malley for Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
 
Known most recently for her moving image explorations of monumental sites in works such as ‘Quarry’ and ‘Bridge’, here O’Malley takes us into a more intimate landscape using video, sculpture and painting. Through a new video installation and a large painting on glass, the images produced by and in a private garden are examined through screens, mirrors and windows.
 
A dual channel video shows a mirror panning and tilting, reversing the normal flow of light and camera movement, slowly and silently illuminating and reflecting the garden in an elusive dance. Accompanying the video, and set into a wooden seating platform, the large glass pane is painted on both sides. The painting becomes a limitless translucent form, complicating ideas of reverse, background, and negative space.
 
A limited edition print by Niamh O’Malley from the exhibition will also be available to purchase from Project Arts Centre during the exhibition.
 
Garden will open at Project Arts Centre on Thursday 25 April and runs until Saturday 22 June 2013.
 
Gallery exhibition hours: Mon – Sat, 11am – 8pm
Admission to the visual arts at Project Arts Centre is always free.
 
Project Arts Centre is supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.
 
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Project Arts Centre - Melanie Wright, Communications Manager
E: melanie@projectartscentre.ie
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LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Exhibition: Garden
Venue: Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
Dates: 26 April 2013 – 22 June 2013
Opening: 25 April 2013, 6pm
Opening hours: Mon – Sat 11am to 8pm (excluding bank holidays)
Admission: Free
 
EXTRA INFORMATION
Project Arts Centre is Ireland’s leading centre for the development and presentation of contemporary art, dedicated to protecting and nurturing the next generation of Irish artists across all forms of the performing and visual arts. Annually the centre presents over 620 events and curates and co-ordinates 6 exhibitions, as well as supporting the presentation and touring of the work of 34 independent artists as part of our Project Catalyst initiative.
 
Project Arts Centre is a multidisciplinary arts centre in the heart of Dublin, Ireland. The visual arts programme commissions new exhibitions with leading artists from around the world. Current touring exhibitions include the Australian artist Mikala Dwyer’s Panto Collapsar which will visit venues across Ireland in 2013, including West Cork Arts Centre, Wexford Arts Centre, Ballina Arts Centre, Mermaid Arts Centre, Riverbank Arts Centre and Droichead Arts Centre, with individual paintings produced for every installation of the exhibition. Forthcoming exhibitions at Project Arts Centre include solo exhibitions by Mario Garcia Torres (MX) and Jennifer Tee (NL).
 
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
 
Niamh O’Malley lives and works in Dublin. Her practice includes video, drawing and sculpture, through which she develops projects that interrogate the documentary tradition. Niamh O’Malley has made solo exhibitions in recent years at Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway (2012), ‘Model’, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2011), ‘Island’, Centre Culturel Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2010), ‘Frame, Glass, Black’ Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France (2010), ‘Echo’, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2010), ‘No Distance’, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland (2009). A selection of group exhibitions include eva International, Biennale of Visual Art, Limerick, Tulca Visual Arts Festival, Galway, Kilkenny Arts Festival, ‘All Humans Do’, White Box, New York and the Model, Sligo (all 2012); ‘Twenty’ Irish Museum of Modern Art, ‘The Dissolution of Time and Space’, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany, ‘The Ha-Ha Crystal’, Maria Stenfors, London (all 2011). Her work is included in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery, the Arts Council of Ireland & Galleria Arte Moderna, Turin. O’Malley received a PhD in practice-led research from University of Ulster, Belfast in 2003.
 
Publications include ‘Viewfinder’, essay Chris Fite-Wassilak published Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; ‘Torch’ (monograph), essay Brian Dillon, design Robin Watkins, published TBGS, Dublin; ‘Window’ (monograph), essay Maeve Connolly, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy. Residency awards include HIAP, Helsinki & IMMA, Dublin, 2008, International Studio Programme Residency at PS1, MoMa, 2003/04 and the Northern Irish Fellowship at The British School at Rome, 2000.
 
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