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OutArt is an ongoing attempt to investigate and showcase Queer Art. Based in Ireland, we have had three annual shows to date. Each one is timed to coincide with early Summer Pride celebrations in Dublin. The fourth - CONFRONTATIONS - opens Tuesday 23rd June.
1998 - Confrontaions
1997 - Invisibilities
1996 - Pride In Diversity
1995 - Divine Virtue
This year's show opens next Tuesday at 6pm, at the RHA ELY Place, Dublin 2. Some invitations are still available, but please don't let the lack of an invite, prevent you attending. There are over 18 artists showing in the exhibition, and the catalogue and images will be available online after the opening on Tuesday evening.
We will mail free copies of the 98 catalogue
to the first 50 requests sent by email or by post to Michael Wilson, HADCOM, NCAD, 100 Thomas
St. Dublin 8, Ireland.
Here is the text of the original Call for Submissions
for 1998
The OutArt Public Meeting - planned for Nov 30th 97 but subsequently postponed, will now take place on Thursday July 2nd 1998 at the RHA Ely Place, Dublin, during the 1998 Confrontations exhibition - time available shortly. We regret any inconvenience this change of plan may have caused.
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Related...
LUST FOR POWER - 2nd International Dyke March
DUBLIN, IRELAND. Friday 26th June 1998 - 8pm
At the end of pride week in Dublin (The Night before Dublin Pride Parade) Dykes will be taking to the streets, join us for the march and party with us later...
For more information, contact
2nd International Dyke March
c/o GCN Box 999, 6 South William Street, Dublin 2 , Ireland
Telephone Hotline +353-1-473-4650 - or Email- amazon@tinet.ie
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Artists showing in CONFRONTATIONS are
Paul Bommer
Lisa Carville & Paula Crickard
Heather Fleming
Tom Gleeson
Lorna Healy
Celia Dougherty & ILGO
Mumtaz Karimjee
Paul Kinsella
Rosy Martin
MacDermott & MacGough
Paul McClure
Paul Rowley & David Phillips
Niall Sweeney
Lynn Turner
Martin Yelverton
Images of the works, catalogue essays and biographical notes on these artists will be available from Tuesday next, the day of the opening.
other details for 1998
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Other details on the 1998 show CONFRONTATIONS
The exhibition itself will run at RHA, Dublin from June 23rd to July 5th 1998 and will include these artists.
There will be a guided walk-through talk on the exhibition on Sunday 28th of June (the day after the big PRIDE March.) Admission is free and all are welcome.
It will run for the month of September 98 in Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
We will forward free copies of the 98 catalogue in June to the first 50 requests sent here or by post to Michael Wilson, HADCOM, NCAD, 100 Thomas St. Dublin 8, Ireland.
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Call for Submissions
OUTART 1998 - CALL TO ARTISTS - "CONFRONTATIONS"
Artists are invited to submit PROPOSALS for work to be exhibited in the 1998 PRIDE Visual Arts Show. The show is curated by Ailbhe Smyth (WERRC).
We are looking for work that is explicit, provocative, and rooted in the CONFRONTATIONS of Queer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered experience.
Material which artists may wish to consider in making proposals: Sexuality and Power, Fear and Pleasure, Fantasy and Actuality, Desire and Danger, Sexuality as Performance, Perversion, Violence, Role-Play, Vulnerabilities, Intimacies, Body-Culture(s).
We are intereted in the "CONFRONTATIONS"
within queer experience:
The Confrontations with Homophobia
The Confrontations that we ourselves experience within the precincts of
queer cultures
The Confrontations between self and other that appear as central to the
dynamics of sexuality
The Confrontations in the explicit avowal of desire
The Confrontations between the viewer and the work
The Confrontations of Queers with Queerness: Confronting politics, issues,
and practices.
Submit a PROPOSAL with a current copy of your resumé and not more than 10 slides or photographs of previous work (clearly labelled and identified, size, media, date etc.)
Closing date 23rd of February 1998
This call is open to artists who are Queer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgendered or who identify with these constituencies and experiences.
Work in any media will be considered (including
performance and group work). This will be a touring exhibition taking
place from June 1998 onwards. Enquiries: Mick
Wilson or Henry Pim c/o NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
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Public Meeting
DIRECTIONS OUT: The Future Programme of OUTART
We plan to hold this on Thursday July 2nd 1998 during the Confrontations show at the RHA, Dublin.
QUESTIONS TO BE CONSIDERED:
Do we need or want exhibitions and artworks by queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgendered artists? Where should these exhibitions take place? What kind of work? How should these shows be assembled, selected, curated? Who should be allowed show? Do we need altewrnative community-based art practices? Do we want a "blockbuster" international show? How should outart shows be financed? Should we expand beyond PRIDE?
A panel of invited speakers will open the discussion and then an open discussion and debate will follow. Everybody is welcome, admission free.
The list of speakers and the time of the meeting will be posted here
as soon as it is confirmed ...
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Confrontations
Images, essays, and biographical notes of the artists in this year's show will be available online from Tuesday 23rd June, after the opening.
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Activities
The Group meets every month in the National College of Art & Design
in Dublin. It liases with the Pride Committee which is responsible for
the co-ordination of a national programme of Pride events in Ireland. We
organise public discussions and artists' talks in conjunction with the
visual arts projects undertaken. The exhibitions present the work of invited
artists and also work received through open submission. Each year a different
selection panel produces a final list of participants based on an interpretation
of a given theme or brief.We welcome the participation of new members in
the organisation of future projects. (See contacts)
We would like to invite you to a public meeting
to discuss OutArt's future plans and purposes during the 1998 show on Thursday
July 2nd 1998 at the RHA Ely Place, Dublin. Time to be confirmed.
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Possibities for the Future
Whilst the OUTART group by no means regards itself as a permanent institution
we have already begun outline planning for the 1999 event and welcome the
participation of new committee members to help develop the project. People
interested in becoming involved should contact Henry Pim, OUTART, c/o NCAD,
100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, Republic of Ireland
Ideas and proposals are still being discussed. OutArt would particularly welcome proposals and suggestions from anyone with an interest in the possible intersections between contemporary visual art and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered issues. Part of the process of developing further Out-Art initiatives is inevitably an interrogation of the basic rationale of attempting to bring these two terms together: visual art and queer culture. Thus we are planning a major public discussion "Directions Out: Future Projects for Qutart" on Thursday July 2nd 1998 at the RHA Ely Place, Dublin on precisely the issues at stake in attempting to foreground queer dimensions in contemporary visual arts etc.
As with our other initiatives we welcome suggestions or propsoals.
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- posted August 21st '97
Some of the key issues which have emerged in previous shows have been those of the internal diversity of lesbian and gay experience and the anxieties around making queer identities and desires visible. One of the recurrent issues to emerge from the 1997 show was the contested nature of the whole project of linking the terms "queer" and "art".
This is an issue which we wish to confront next year in a head-on way as it were, hence the title of our 1998 project CONFRONTATIONS.
The Title:
This title signals our wish to examine the possible confrontations implied or rendered explicit in the fact of "queerness". The questions we are putting to artists and audiences are: "Is lesbian / gay / queer art confrontational ?" "Who or What is confronted by the work of lesbian / gay / queer artists ?" "What is confronted by explicitly presenting work as Lesbian / Gay / Queer ?" "Is confrontation transgressive, subversive, revolutionary?" "Does confrontation reinforce pre-established positions or forge new ones?"
The kinds and aspects of confrontation we are proposing to address may be summarily described by the play of the following terms: sexuality and power, fear and pleasure, fantasy and actuality, disturbance and desire exhilaration and danger. The play of these terms can be understood as simple oppositions or as ambiguous complementarities.
Some of the particular confrontations within queer experience and queer visual culture which prompt us to adopt this theme are: The Confrontations with Homophobia. The Confrontations that we ourselves experience within the precincts of queer cultures. The Confrontations between self and other that appear as central to the dynamics of sexuality. The Confrontations in the explicit avowal of desire The Confrontations between the viewer and the work. The Confrontations of Queers with Queerness: Confronting politics, issues, and practices. We welcome you to submit work for consideration.
Thus we are planning a major
"Directions Out: Future Projects for Outart", during the 1998 show, in the RHA, Dublin, on precisely the issues at stake in attempting to foreground queer dimensions in contemporary visual arts etc. More details as soon as they are available.
"Confrontations" will be curated by Ailbhe Smyth, Director of the Womens Education Resource and Research Centre at UCD (University College Dublin), writer, activist and broadcaster.
The show will involve the participation of invited artists and work received through an open submission process. It may involve exhibition spaces north and south of the border, and in locations outside Dublin.
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Who to contact and how
Henry Pim, OutArt Member - c/o Ceramics Dept. Craft, NCAD, 100 Thomas St. Dublin 8, Ireland
M. Wilson OutArt Member, NCAD, 100 Thomas St. Dublin 8, Ireland
Website design Eamonn Foley
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History
OutArt is a voluntary group which was set up in 1995 to promote the work of queer artists particularly in association with annual Pride events in Ireland. The group actively organises exhibitions and public discussions around issues of sexuality, community and art- practice. Previous OutArt shows have included:
1997
Invisibilities - at the RHA.
1996 Pride In Diversity - The City Arts Centre,
Dublin.
1995 Divine Virtue - The first OutArt show at the
Irish Film Centre, Dublin
The OutArt initiative is NOT rooted in the belief that there is a necessary or inevitable connection between sexual practices and art practices, or even between cultural identities and cultural production. Rather, we seek to create opportunities to explore notions of identity, pride, community and difference, with reference to visual arts practices.
OutArt Commitee Members
At various times OutArt has involved the participation of
Henry Pim, Louise Walsh, Billy Quinn, Mick Wilson, Tom Gleeson, Gerry Scott,
and Deborah Ballard.
These people became involved by virtue of a shared interest in the Visual Arts (many are practising artists). They were interested in the possibilities of visual arts projects where questions of sexual identity could be explored in general terms.
OutArt have not sought to promote a standardised style or practice.
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