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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-26/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nOpened June 15th @ 6pm – Check out our LAUNCH Event for more info! \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-23/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nOpened June 15th @ 6pm – Check out our LAUNCH Event for more info! \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-22/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:SMART Talk: Sustainability in the Arts
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a free open Round Table Discussion focusing on sustainability in the Arts\, featuring Matthew Nevin\, Bernard O’Rourke\, Katherine Nolan and Jenny Minniti Shippey of MART Gallery & Studios Dublin and CIACLA\, along with a visiting Irish Environmental Specialist Declan Breen. \nThe discussion will revolve around the history of MART Gallery & Studios\, the development of CIACLA\, living and working as an artist and creative\, sustaining an artist career\, achieving environmental sustainability in an arts organisation and positive actions towards professional development. \nWe welcome with an open call to local artists\, arts organisers\, studios\, organisations\, curators\, directors\, writers\, filmmakers\, musicians\, theatre practitioners\, dancers\, designers\, academics and craft makers to attend this discussion on sustaining a creative practice or company. \nThe discussion will be followed by live performances as part of our Poetry Beyond Borders event. \nKey Speakers: \nMatthew Nevin – Artist | Director @ MART & CIACLA \nMatthew Nevin is an Artist\, Curator\, and Co-Director of The MART Gallery & Studios Dublin and Contemporary Irish Art Center Los Angeles (CIACLA). As a cultural producer he is devoted to providing artists with the support\, guidance and resources they need to create and display art. His aim is to generate experiences that inspire curiosity while challenging perceptions and promoting the arts.Through MART he supports over 150 studio members across eight buildings in Ireland’s largest studio network. Matthew works closely with artists at all stages of their career and has curated over 60 exhibitions in Ireland\, UK\, Central Europe\, USA and Japan\, leading projects on national\, European and international projects for MART\, CIACLA\, PQ\, IrelandWeek\, EUCIA and Imagine Ireland. \nMatthew is a passionate advocate for the arts\, with a keen interest in sculpture\, installation\, experimental film and performance art. Through his own artwork\, such as ‘The Core Project’\, he looks to create conversation and dialogue about key world issues\, directly connecting the audience with a relatable narrative. He has a particular interest in the creation of spaces and projects that break down barriers and maintain an inclusive ethos.Matthew completed a Degree in Film & TV and Scenography from University of Wales Aberystwyth and a Masters in Art in the Contemporary World from National College of Art & Design Dublin. He also works as a Film & Television Art Director and Designer in the UK\, Ireland and the US and has previously worked for the BBC\, MTV\, RTE\, TG4\, Element Pictures and ITV. \nMatthew has secured funding from Culture Ireland\, Arts Council of Ireland\, Kildare\, Galway & Dublin City Councils\, Visual Artists Ireland\, IFA Germany\, Alliance Francaise\, David Manley Awards\, JEC Fund\, Dept of Foreign Affairs Ireland\, Creative Ireland and received a commission from Ralph Lauren. \nwww.matthewnevin.com \nJenny Minniti Shippey – Poet | Director at CIACLA \nJennifer Minniti- Shippey is the Managing Editor of Poetry International literary journal\, Director of Poetic Youth\, and a professor at San Diego State University. She earned her B.A. with honors in English from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in 2003\, and her M.F.A in Creative Writing- Poetry from San Diego State University in 2008. In 2009\, she was hired as the Managing Editor of Poetry International\, and she has taught at SDSU in the Department of English & Comparative Literature since that time. Jennifer has also taught poetry at the University of San Diego and in community writing workshops through the Creative Cusp\, the Magee Park Poets\, and other San Diego arts organizations. \nJennifer’s chapbook\, Done Dating DJs\, won the 2008 Fool for Poetry Competition\, sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre and Southword Editions of Cork\, Ireland. Her second chapbook\, Earth’s Horses & Boys\, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. After the Tour\, her first full-length collection\, was published by Calypso Editions in 2018. Individual poems\, translations\, and reviews have appeared in Salamander\, Cider Press Review\, Spillway\, Tar River Poetry\, Jackson Hole Review\, San Diego Poetry Annual\, The San Diego Union-Tribune\, and many others. Minniti- Shippey has performed her work at national and international venues\, including The Narrators San Diego\, the San Diego Art Institute\, the Éigse Literary Festival in Cork\, and MART Dublin. \nwww.jennyminnitishippey.com  \nKatherine Nolan – Artist & Lecturer | Curator at CIACLA \nAn artist\, lecturer and curator specialising in gender and new media. With a particular focus on tensions between the experiential and the spectacular body\, her research investigates gender\, identity and desire in the context of digital cultures. Recent publications include The Camera and the Selfie: Narcissism\, Self-Regulation and Feminist Performance Practices (DRHA\, DCU 2015). \nShe has exhibited internationally in Europe\, America and Asia and regularly curates with MART and Dublin Live Art Festival.  Recent exhibitions include The Mistress of the Mantle solo exhibition at MART Dublin and group shows at LACE Los Angeles\, Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm and Future Histories at Kilmainham Gaol. Her extensive teaching experience\, includes a course leader role at the University of the Arts London and visiting lectureships at The National College of Art and Design\, Crawford College of Art and Design and Central Saint Martins\, London. \nShe is currently a Lecturer in Creative Digital Media in Technological University Dublin \nwww.katherinenolan.net \nBernard O’Rourke – Writer  | Marketing Manager at CIACLA & MART \nBernard O’Rourke is the marketing manager for MART Gallery & Studios and the Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles (CIACLA). Specialising in new media and digital marketing\, Bernard has coordinated global marketing campaigns promoting the contemporary arts to Irish and international audiences. As a journalist\, he has written for The Visual Artists News Sheet\, The Irish Independent\, Magill\, Totally Dublin\, GoldenPlec\, and HeadStuff. His fiction has appeared in The Tangerine\, Spelk\, Queen Mob’s Teahouse\, The Honest Ulsterman\, The Bohemyth\, and Wordlegs. His work has also been shortlisted for the Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Prize and the Doolin Writers’ Weekend Video Poetry Prize. \nBernard has a BA in English and Philosophy from Maynooth University and a MA in Journalism from Technological University Dublin. Twitter: @guyserious   Instagram: @guyserious5  \nDeclan Breen – Waste Prevention Officer  \nDeclan currently fulfils the role of Prevention Officer for the Eastern-Midlands Regional Waste Management Office based in Dublin City Council Ireland and is responsible for developing and implementing waste prevention measures to meet the strategic objectives of the EMRWMP 2015-2021. Declan has developed several successful national awareness campaigns in Ireland\, all of which have been used to educate and raise awareness of waste prevention and to introduce the idea of the circular economy to the general public. \nwww.emwr.ie/our-people
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/smart-talk/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Design & Craft,Film,Literature,Music,Performance,Theatre,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nOpened June 15th @ 6pm – Check out our LAUNCH Event for more info! \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-21/
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CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nOpened June 15th @ 6pm – Check out our LAUNCH Event for more info! \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-20/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nOpened June 15th @ 6pm – Check out our LAUNCH Event for more info! \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-19/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Seminar - Care. Complicity. Critique
DESCRIPTION:Seminar June 17th from 11am – 2pm ! \nPerformances will be held on June 15th at 6pm and June 16th from 1-3pm \nSpeakers: Anuradha Vikram\, Mary Anna Pomonis\, Amanda Beech\, Katherine Nolan\, Amanda Coogan\, Cindy Rehm\, Thinh Nguyen\, Meiling Cheng\, Marjan Vayghan\, Barbara T Smith\, Kaucyila Brooke.  \n** Free Admission or Donation Welcome – See Tickets Below.  \nCare. Complicity. Critique. will be comprised of a series of performances by Irish and Los Angeles based artists\, and a seminar discussing the modes of performance\, politics and critique arising from their practices. \nThis programme aims to engage audiences with contemporary performance art by bringing together key Irish and American artists working in the field. Looking at their practices through the lenses of ‘care\, complicity and critique’\, the project will make a space for considering a range of ways of looking at and responding to local and global politics\, through performance practice.  \nThe concept of care\, has been mobilized not unproblematically within feminist philosophy in areas such as the Ethics of Care (Gilligan\, Noddings). Proposing a mapping of caring inter-relationships onto wider society on a global level can easily slide into a normative morality and compounding of gender stereotypes. And yet there persists a sense that ethical and empathetic inter-relations might offer a counteractive force to the dehumanisation that occurs through the use fear and terror by the alt-right as means of social control. In this way the idea of care has a kind of polemic value that might be reconsidered through performance.  \nThe act of collusion is one that is in constant focus in the media in relation to the Trump Administration. However on a less obvious level\, it is the manipulation of the subject through rhetoric in order to collude in their own oppression that allows the maintenance of power and control\, and the status quo. This programme will also consider the role of complicity as a mode of both performance and critique. \nCritique of institutions can be looked at as the scrutiny of systemic oppression by for instance drawing attention to the ways in which power operates\, or by gathering and disseminating data to measure and reveal the depth and breadth of inequality in societal structures. Changing this structural oppression however is more difficult. How can performance mobilise such forms of critique? \nCurated by Dr.Katherine Nolan and the Association of Hysteric Curators  \nDr. Katherine Nolan \nDr. Katherine Nolan is an artist\, lecturer and curator specialising in gender and new media. With a particular focus on tensions between the experiential and the spectacular body\, her research investigates gender\, identity and desire in the context of digital cultures. She has exhibited internationally in Europe\, America and Asia and regularly curates with MART and Livestock. She is currently a Lecturer in Creative Digital Media in Technological University Dublin. Recent practice-based research projects include The Mistress of the Mantle. and Seducing the Machine \nwww.katherinenolan.net \nThe Association of Hysteric Curators  \nThe Association of Hysteric Curators (AHC) envelops a fluid\, evolving\, trans-generational group of feminist who gather to discuss contemporary feminism and the historicity of the term. \nWe seek to explore notions of female protest and the presence of gendered articulations through a non-hierarchical structure based in dialogue and exchange. As we honor the lineage of feminist models\, we dare to envision a future of human equality\, knowing we must interrogate the customs of today in order to enable conditions for change. As a working model\, we understand that democratic consensus is slow and laborious in comparison to the type of fast paced and often decentralized systems found today. The reduced pace of our methodology allows for ideas to ebb and flow through on-going conversations aimed at process over product. \nwww.hystericcurators.com \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/ccc-seminar/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hung over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience  members walked into and stood underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hung entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation shapeshifted. Performers moved the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation was visually stunning and carried with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggested multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Performances - Care. Complicity. Critique.
DESCRIPTION:Live Performances on June 16th from 1-3pm. – See Tickets Below. \nSeminar June 17th – 11am – 2pm \nPerformers: Lili Bernard\, Michiko Yao\, Therese Bachand\, Claire Apana\, Sarah Julig\, Maya Gurantz\, Cindy Rehm\, Thinh Nguyen\, Katherine Nolan\, Amanda Coogan\, Marjan Vayghan\, Dajin Yoon\, Matthew Nevin\, Tim Kline & Dean Robertson. \nCare. Complicity. Critique. will be comprised of a series of performances by Irish and Los Angeles based artists\, and a seminar discussing the modes of performance\, politics and critique arising from their practices. \nThis programme aims to engage audiences with contemporary performance art by bringing together key Irish and American artists working in the field. Looking at their practices through the lenses of ‘care\, complicity and critique’\, the project will make a space for considering a range of ways of looking at and responding to local and global politics\, through performance practice.  \nThe concept of care\, has been mobilized not unproblematically within feminist philosophy in areas such as the Ethics of Care (Gilligan\, Noddings). Proposing a mapping of caring inter-relationships onto wider society on a global level can easily slide into a normative morality and compounding of gender stereotypes. And yet there persists a sense that ethical and empathetic inter-relations might offer a counteractive force to the dehumanisation that occurs through the use fear and terror by the alt-right as means of social control. In this way the idea of care has a kind of polemic value that might be reconsidered through performance.  \nThe act of collusion is one that is in constant focus in the media in relation to the Trump Administration. However on a less obvious level\, it is the manipulation of the subject through rhetoric in order to collude in their own oppression that allows the maintenance of power and control\, and the status quo. This programme will also consider the role of complicity as a mode of both performance and critique. \nCritique of institutions can be looked at as the scrutiny of systemic oppression by for instance drawing attention to the ways in which power operates\, or by gathering and disseminating data to measure and reveal the depth and breadth of inequality in societal structures. Changing this structural oppression however is more difficult. How can performance mobilise such forms of critique? \nBloomsday Readings \nJames Joyce’s Ulysses features one of the great female voices of Modern literature\, Molly Bloom. But what does it mean for that iconic female voice to have come to us through Joyce\, a male writer? How can men be complicit in–accomplices in–the work of female equality? As part of Care. Complicity. Critique Performance Event at CIACLA on this Bloomsday \, join a range of Irish & American male voices as they uplift Molly Bloom’s stream-of-consciousness narrative at this special event. Featuring Matthew Nevin\, Tim Kline & Dean Robertson. \nCurated by Dr.Katherine Nolan and the Association of Hysteric Curators  \nDr. Katherine Nolan \nDr. Katherine Nolan is an artist\, lecturer and curator specialising in gender and new media. With a particular focus on tensions between the experiential and the spectacular body\, her research investigates gender\, identity and desire in the context of digital cultures. She has exhibited internationally in Europe\, America and Asia and regularly curates with MART and Livestock. She is currently a Lecturer in Creative Digital Media in Technological University Dublin. Recent practice-based research projects include The Mistress of the Mantle. and Seducing the Machine \nwww.katherinenolan.net \nThe Association of Hysteric Curators  \nThe Association of Hysteric Curators (AHC) envelops a fluid\, evolving\, trans-generational group of feminist who gather to discuss contemporary feminism and the historicity of the term. \nWe seek to explore notions of female protest and the presence of gendered articulations through a non-hierarchical structure based in dialogue and exchange. As we honor the lineage of feminist models\, we dare to envision a future of human equality\, knowing we must interrogate the customs of today in order to enable conditions for change. As a working model\, we understand that democratic consensus is slow and laborious in comparison to the type of fast paced and often decentralized systems found today. The reduced pace of our methodology allows for ideas to ebb and flow through on-going conversations aimed at process over product. \nwww.hystericcurators.com \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/ccc-performances/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:CIACLA Launch & Amanda Coogan Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:CIACLA was officially opened by Special Guest Robert O’Driscoll\, Consul General of Ireland – Western United States. \nCIACLA’s summer program is focused on public engagement\, showcasing multidisciplinary contemporary art projects that engage with local communities and interrupt the vision of what ‘Ireland’ is. \nCIACLA operates as a creative hub for Irish and local partners to showcase their activities; through a programme that aims to support work that is new\, experimental and unrestricted. CIACLA facilitates collaborative events with local artists and cultural partners while also showcasing artists\, curators and institutions based in Ireland. \nCIACLA promotes Contemporary Irish Culture and supports local diverse communities through a multidisciplinary programme\, in collaboration with local and international cultural partnerships. CIACLA is focused on developing a creative platform to support and challenge artists as a means of promoting creative innovation and collaborative initiatives in Los Angeles. \nThe Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition by Amanda Coogan \nOpening June 15th @ 6pm \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/launch/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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