aemi @ CIFF: Spirit Messages

Delighted to be part of aemi’s touring programme for 2024!

The world premiere of ‘Spirit Messages’ – aemi’s 2024 touring programme, receives its theatrical debut at the 68th Cork International Film Festival.

19 November 2023 / 20:30 / Triskel Arts Centre

Curated by aemi for CIFF 2024 ‘Spirit Messages’ is an opportunity to spotlight some truly exciting moving image works by a range of Irish and international filmmakers. The programme includes premieres of three new Irish works by Amanda Rice, Niall Cullen and Ross McClean alongside works by artists Jamie Crewe, Luis Arnias, and Danh Guthrie. aemi are excited to have their ‘Spirit Messages’ programme screen for the first time at CIFF before it begins an extensive national and international tour in 2024.

Film information
Dan Guthrie, Coaley Peak (A Fragment), 2021, United Kingdom, 16mm/digital, 6.5 mins
Jamie Crewe, False Wife, 2022, United Kingdom, digital, 15 mins
Amanda Rice, The Flesh of Language, 2023, Ireland, 16.5 mins
Niall Cullen, The Dog Who Became a Frog, 2023, Ireland, digital, 6.5 mins
Luis Arnías, Terror Has No Shape, 2021, Venezuela / United States, 16mm/digital, 10 mins
Ross McClean, Echo, 2023, Ireland/United Kingdom, 16m/digital, 12 mins
Running time: 66 mins

Still from Terror Has No Shape (2021) by Luis Arnías. Image courtesy of the artist.

Screening as part of 'Glossaries for Forwardness' a project by Marie Farringdon

This event is a part of the public programme for Glossaries for Forwardness, a multi-platform project by Marie Farrington, examining convergences between landscape and memory through the architecture of the Museum Building in Trinity College Dublin. To expand on the exhibition's themes and offer fresh perspectives from different art practices, we will be hosting an evening of screenings, including Ghost Strata by Ben Rivers, No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun: Light, Silver and Land by Amanda Rice and an in-person presentation by Eco Showboat.

Thursday, September 21 · 6:30 - 8:30pm IST

Location: Teatar M. Uí Chadhain, Arts Building Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland

This event is co-curated by Marie Farrington, Rachel Botha and invited artist, and member of The Douglas Hyde's Student Forum, Emily Miller.

This event is wheelchair accessible. If you have any access needs for this event please don't hesitate to get in touch with Rachel Botha at bothar@tcd.ie.

Kindly supported by LUX and The Douglas Hyde Gallery.

Booking Link

Screening at Welcome to the Neighbourhood @ Askeaton Contemporary Arts 2023

‘The Flesh of Language’ is screening at Welcome to the Neighbourhood 2023 at Askeaton Contemporary Arts on Tuesday the 20th of June 2023, 8pm Top of the Town (Upstairs). Check out ACA’s full programme of events here.

Amanda Rice | The Flesh of Language

Launch Event
Amanda Rice in conversation with Michele Horrigan
 
SIRIUS
Saturday, 27 May, 3–5pm
Free; no booking required

Amanda Rice and Michele Horrigan discuss Rice’s style of filmmaking, the role of story-telling in her work, how she blends historical accounts with fiction and her approach to research, her engagement with an embodied notion of the archive, and her interest in questions of extractivism and overproduction.

Michelle Horrigan is an artist, curator, and co-Director of Askeaton Contemporary Arts.

IFI & AEMI: THE SUN GIVES WITHOUT ASKING

aemi is delighted to present ‘The Sun Gives Without Asking’, a screening programme curated by artist Sean Lynch featuring work by Dan Graham, Paul Gregg & Annette Clancy, Magdalena Jitrik, Amanda Rice, and Jorge Satorre, alongside excerpts of Lynch’s own ongoing video project What Is An Apparatus?. Revolving around the radical potential of storytelling, Lynch’s programme proposes  forms of cultural pursuit that interrogate the complex motifs found deep in everyday life, place, and capitalist society. From windows, supermarkets, and telephones, the measures and shapes of the western world that aim to manage and orient human behaviour become evident – with a sleight of hand they might change into new malleable and eclectic forms, gleefully spurred on by artistic energies!

Programme info:

Magdalena Jitrik, Pintura En Askeaton, 2009, Ireland/Argentina, DCP, 7 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Jorge Satorre, Windows Blowing Out, 2005, Ireland/Mexico, DCP, 7 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Dan Graham, Death By Chocolate, 1986-2005, Canada/USA, Digital, 8 mins,
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, USA/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Amanda Rice, No One Can Embargo the Sun, 2021, UK/Ireland, DCP, 21 minutes
Media footage featuring Paul Gregg and Annette Clancy, 1998, Ireland, DCP, 10 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 5 minutes
Running Time: 67 minutes

This screening will be followed by a discussion with Sean Lynch and Amanda Rice.

aemi is an Arts Council-funded organisation that supports and exhibits artist and experimental film. For more information visit www.aemi.ie

Material and Immaterial Worlds: Amanda Rice at the Triskel Arts Centre curated by Miguel Amado

AMANDA RICE: MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL WORLDS

The new exhibition in the series curated by Miguel Amado for the Triskel Arts Centre opens this Thursday, 10 June 2021.

The show runs from Thursday 10 JUN - Sunday 12 SEP 2021.

The practice of the London-based artist Amanda Rice (born in 1985 in Ireland) addresses a variety of issues related to humanity’s significant, long-standing impact on Earth’s ecosystems. In early works, Rice looked at historic and contemporary quests to conquer landmass conducted by nation-states and corporations. More recently she explores questions of geological nature with respect to two interrelated mechanics of capitalism: extraction and overproduction. Themes of matter, industry, energy and colonialism are common threads.

Rice operates across moving image and sculpture. Recently she has been making films in the form of essays and installations informed by research, sometimes led in dialogue with others, from academics to museum professionals. They consist of footage shot on location as well as information and archival material usually found online, all combined through storytelling devices. They mix fact, opinions, personal impressions and collective memory in narratives that oscillate between history lessons, advertising, propaganda and awareness-raising sessions.

Woman in the Machine: VISUAL Center for Contemporary Art and Carlow Arts Festival 11th - 13th June

Woman in the Machine, co-created by VISUAL and Carlow Arts Festival, will unfold through film, exhibitions, sound works, light installations, digital native events, a 360 virtual exhibition space, performances, talks and community engagement projects created in response to Carlow's landmark former Braun site, and inspired by the film about female pioneers in sound Sisters With Transistors by Lisa Rovner and women working at the intersections of art, science and digital media.

Woman in the Machine is part of Carlow Arts Festival 2021, VISUAL’s Summer Programme and presented as part of Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh, a nationwide, ten day season of arts experiences brought to you by the Arts Council. To see the full Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh programme, visit www.brighteningair.com

Sound + Light — Invited + Commissioned
Jenn Kirby / Sarah Jane Sheils / Kate Butler / Jennifer Walshe / ensembÉal / Elizabeth Hilliard

Visual Arts — Invited + Commissioned Work
Chloe Brenan / Michelle Doyle and the Digital Druids / Barbara Knežević / Nadia Armstrong / Elaine Byrne / Caroline Campbell (Loitering Theatre) / Kate Fahey / Judy Foley / Fiona Harrington / Janette Lowe / Linda McCann / Colin Martin / Eleanor McCaughey / Fiona Mc Donald / Tara McGinn/ Niamh McGuinne/ Ida Mitrani / Meadbh O'Connor / Paul O 'Neill / Liliane Puthod / Amanda Rice / Katherine Sankey

Arts Council Collection
Lucy Andrews / Rhona Byrne / Maria Farrington / Niamh McCann, Maria McKinney / Helen McMahon / Margaret O'Brien / Fiona Reilly / Lorraine Tuck

Film + Digital — Invited + Commissioned Work
George Bolster / Josephin Böttger / Ciara del Grosso / Umay Gunes Kurtulan / Jennifer Moore / Sharon Phelan / Susanne Radelhof / Lisa Rovner

Spotlight Interview: Arts Council of Ireland

I was interviewed by the Arts Council of Ireland as a recipient of the Next Generation Award for 2019/2020. Thank you to the Arts Council of Ireland for their generosity and support! You can read the interview here.