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PhotoIreland Festival 2017:The Recount of Conflict

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The 2017 PhotoIreland Festival: The Recount of Conflict 

The 8th iteration of the PhotoIreland Festival explores how Photography can capture personal narratives, providing nuanced, everlasting, frozen-in-frame, perspective regarding conflict. Examining family, community, organizations, and division: race, sex, language, politics, and religion, this festival covers all sides of conflict and holds the photographs up towards one another, immortalizing both the tension and the calm before the storm. In capturing conflict and history in such a way, the collection serves as a lesson—illuminating the conditions, miscommunications, and contrasting perspectives that lead to harm.  

This year’s festival is packed with free exhibitions, workshops, photobook launches, and talks that explore how Photography is used to share accounts of personal experiences related to conflict. The subjects covered range from recounting a relatives escape from Soviet captivity, an attempt to rebuild the personal narratives construction WW2, a reflection on satellite imagery and what it says about humanity, a re-contextualization and researched-based projects, what is means to be Hispanic in Ireland and abroad, and so much more. 

The selected works aim to represent diverse aspects of social, political and cultural elements contributing to conflict. But, above all, the curation of conflict is a call for peace, a reminder of shared humanity, and a demand for understanding. 

We invite you to tour the digital archive of this festival, a mere glimpse into all the programming that took place in 2017, we invite you to unravel conflict and push for an understanding of peace. 

PhotoIreland Festival 2017:The Recount of Conflict

PhotoIreland Festival 2017

Overview

PhotoIreland Festival 2017

The Recount of Conflict
2017.photoireland.org

Exhibitions

The Recount of Conflict,  Anna Ehrenstein, Demetris Koilalous, Jasper Bastian, Marcus Haydock, Mark McGuinness, Martin von den Driesch, and Sascha Richter, 4-14 May
Michal Iwanowski, Clear of People, 5-31 May
Steven Nestor, Bellum et Pax, 5-31 May
New Irish Works: Robert McCormack & David Thomas Smith, 5-21 May
Jens Sundheim, Of Ants and Star Polyhedrons, 3-31 May
Regarding the Hispanic World, : Allyson Klein, Anita McGarry, Basil Al Rawi, Deirdre Brennan, Dick Keely, George Voronov, Gerry Blake, Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Itziar Telletxea, James Forde, Jeanette Lowe, Maurice Gunning, Michael Cassidy, Neil Hutcheson, Oisin Prendiville, Rocío López Martínez, Ryan T. Lee, Sarah Fitzgerald, Shay Farrelly, Stephen Farrell, Tárlis Schneider, and Wojciech Ryzinski. 4 May-29 Jun
How to Flatten a Mountain, : Benedetta Casagrande, Kate Petley, Lauren Roeder, Mike Callaghan, Nathan Harris, Patricia Howard, Roisin White, Ruth Connolly, Val Patterson, Valéry Pelletier, Yinon Avior, and Zhao Qian. 6-31 May
Patrick Willocq, The Art of Survival, 8-31 May
Dara McGrath, Project Cleansweep, 14 Apr-25 May
Shot. Patricio Cassinoni, Diarmait Grogan, Joby Hickey, John Minihan , Hugh O’Conor, Jill Quigley, David Stephenson,  Dominic Turner, 5-25 May
Theresa Nanigian, Trying to Behave, 6 Apr-4 Jun
Justyna Kielbowicz, Dr.Nadia Kelbova, 12-21 May
Novice Exhibition, Dublin Camera Club, 9-27 May

Workshops

Critical Practice Reviews, Christiane Monarchi, Jenny Lindhe,  Ken Grant, Marc PrüstMonika Chmielarz, Moritz NeumüllerOrla Fitzpatrick, Rodrigo Orrantia, Vivienne Gamble, Bob Gray, Ciara Cantwell, David Wall, Eamonn Hall, Laura Mcgovern, Oonagh Young, 5-6 May.
Business Bootcamp for Photographers — Marc Prüst, 3 and 4 May

Talks

Critical Practice Reviews, 5 and 6 of May
Os días Afogados (The Drowned days), César Souto and Luis Avilés, 5 May

Supported by

Arts Council of Ireland
Dublin City Council Arts Office
OPW
Cow House Studios
The Tara Building
Rathfarnham Castle
Inspirational Arts
The Copper House
Pallas Projects
Source
Marsh’s Library
Picture Bloc
Blow Photo
Instituto Cervantes Dublin
Artisan Frames

Contributors

Allyson Klein, Anita McGarry, Basil Al Rawi, Deirdre Brennan, Dick Keely, George Voronov, Gerry Blake, Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Itziar Telletxea, James Forde, Jeanette Lowe, Maurice Gunning, Michael Cassidy, Neil Hutchinson, Oisin Prendiville, Rocío López Martínez, Ryan T. Lee, Sarah Fitzgerald, Shay Farrelly, Stephen Farrell, Tárlis Schneider, and Wojciech Ryzinski.

Team

CURATORIAL TEAM
Julia Gelezova – Arts Administrator
Moritz Neumüller – Curatorial Advisor
Ángel Luis González Fernández – Director of PhotoIreland Foundation

PRODUCTION TEAM
Jamin Keogh – Technical Team

VOLUNTEERS
Bronwyn Andrews, Edita Kubistova, Emma Daly, Eoghan Gahan-Mullen, Hilbert Celestino, Jaqueline Poiati, Laura Holmes, Laura Marrero, Liam Devine, Ruth Connolly.

Achievements

  • PhotoIreland Festival and Cow House Studios present the second edition of How to Flatten a Mountain.
  • The two main exhibitions of the festival are the first exhibitions to be held at The Tara Building since their launch.
  • On the ground floor gallery of the Tara Building, visitors will enjoy for the first time in Ireland Clear of People, a project by Michal Iwanowski retracing his relative’s escape route from Soviet captivity, crossing over 2000 kilometres on their fugitive journey home in 1945.
  • New Irish Works brings to The Library Project in Temple Bar the works of Robert Mc Cormack & David Thomas Smith.

Locations

The Tara Building
The Library Project
Marsh’s Library
Pallas Projects/Studios
Rathfarnham Castle
Instituto Cervantes
Roscommon Arts centre
SO Fine Art Editions
The Copper House Gallery
The LAB
A4 Sounds
Dublin Camera Club
Pearse Street Library

Press Release

The two Main Exhibitions this year are hosted at The Tara Building, a recently renovated space that now offers studio and shared co-working spaces. These are the first exhibitions to be held at The Tara Building since their launch.

On the ground floor gallery, visitors will enjoy for the first time in Ireland Clear of People, a project by Michal Iwanowski retracing his relative’s escape route from Soviet captivity, crossing over 2000 kilometres on their fugitive journey home in 1945. Michal Iwanowski will launch his photobook Clear of People at the opening of the exhibition. The book was designed by Tom Mrazauskas, and published by Brave Books.

Meanwhile, in the basement gallery, Steven Nestor presents Bellum et Pax, a new installation that gathers images from before, during, and after World War II purchased online, and attempts to rebuild their personal narratives to tell us more about how war and hate is taught and constructed during peaceful times.

The Recount of Conflict will present the works by artists focused on the disruption of the everyday life of individuals, families, communities, organisations, countries, etc. Whether dealing with ‘race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’, established and emerging artists are brought together in this group show at Pallas Projects.

New Irish Works will bring to The Library Project in Temple Bar the works of Robert Mc Cormack & David Thomas Smith, 2 of the 20 selected artists selected for this ongoing project. Robert’s work looks at the information hidden in plain sight in some of the wealthiest neighbourhoods of London in Facade, while David Thomas follows up on his project Anthropocene with a reflection on satellite imagery and what it says about humanity in Arecibo.

PhotoIreland Festival and Cow House Studios present the second edition of How to Flatten a Mountain, a unique 12 days residency where artists are encouraged to develop a new project that will be exhibited during the festival at Rathfarnham Castle. The 12 artists that will participate in 2017 are Benedetta Casagrande, Kate Petley, Lauren Roeder, Mike Callaghan, Nathan Harris, Patricia Howard, Roisin White, Ruth Connolly, Val Patterson, Valéry Pelletier, Yinon Avior, and Zhao Qian. This promises to be an exciting exhibition!

The Marsh’s Library will host a PhotoIreland Festival exhibition for the first time this year. Tucked away behind St. Patrick’s Cathedral, this hidden jewel will showcase the works from Jens Sundheim – Of Ants and Star Polyhedrons, selected from our open call. Artists were invited to find out more about the Marsh’s Library, appreciate and engage with this specific space, and tease out associated themes like history, archives, libraries, literature, authorship, re-contextualisation and researched-based projects. Sundheim’s work really suited the call, and it is in itself a great project for our audience to discover.

Regarding the Hispanic World is a group exhibition presented in cooperation with the Instituto Cervantes Dublin, with works by 22 photographers: Allyson Klein, Anita McGarry, Basil Al Rawi, Deirdre Brennan, Dick Keely, George Voronov, Gerry Blake, Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Itziar Telletxea, James Forde, Jeanette Lowe, Maurice Gunning, Michael Cassidy, Neil Hutchinson, Oisin Prendiville, Rocío López Martínez, Ryan T. Lee, Sarah Fitzgerald, Shay Farrelly, Stephen Farrell, Tárlis Schneider, and Wojciech Ryzinski. The selected works aim to represent diverse aspects of social, political and cultural elements and themes linked to the Hispanic world in Ireland and abroad.

In 2016, we decided to stop offering standard portfolio reviews, instead, we privately tested out a new structure to replace the traditional meetings with a better format that would avoid many of its shortcomings. This year, PhotoIreland Festival is excited to present a brand new and important addition – Critical Practice Reviews. These will take place 5-6th May

Other events programmed will include the launch of Junior magazine’s second issue, entitled The Freedom Issue, and the launch of Blow Photo magazine issue 15, dedicated to abstract photography.

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