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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-30/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-30/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES: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\, 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-2019-06-30/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:KIDS ART WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION:KIDS ART WORKSHOPS \n30th June | 28th July | 18th August \nTime: 11am – 1pm \nFree Workshops – all welcome! \nOrganizer: Katriona Woods \nJoin us for our monthly Kids Art Workshop\, fun for all the family. Create\, paint and engage with contemporary art. Each workshop will cover a new artistic medium and use the current exhibition as inspiration for your little ones to create new masterpieces. All ages and abilities are welcome. A great way to get creative and have fun with the community and your family. \nParental supervision is required. \nFree of Charge {Donations are appreciated} – Book Free Tickets Below  \n{Just book tickets for the kids}
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/kids-art-workshop/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:CIACLA Sessions
DESCRIPTION:A monthly series of informal social gatherings that offers a platform for performance in all styles and mediums! \nFeaturing: Comhaltas Los Angeles\, Ken Malone\, Marc Ivan O’Gorman\, Dylan Townsend\, Jenn McGuirk\, Emer Kinsella\, James Nolan\, Chris Lilian  \n* Free Admission or Donation Welcome – See Tickets Below.  \nCIACLA Sessions are a monthly series of informal social gatherings that offers a platform for performance (in all styles and mediums)\, from storytelling and music\, to dance\, theatre and literature. CIACLA Sessions are inclusive events to bring  people together to socialize and celebrate a unique part of Irish culture. An event to showcase local talent and engage with people from all nationalities\, everyone is invited to participate and/or observe. All genres and styles are welcome. Everyone has something to contribute. CIACLA Sessions are organized by Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne; CIACLA’s Community Engagement Officer.   \nInterested in taking part? Email sinead@ciacla.com  \nAbout Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne \nSinéad Finnerty-Pyne is currently the Project Strategist at Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA]\, where she leads the firm’s public relations outreach which includes outreach\, exhibitions\, and publications. In addition\, Sinead has over fifteen years of experience in curatorial practice\, exhibition production\, and studio management at small and midsized institutions throughout the region. She has worked closely with artists and curators to produce a number of public and institutionally housed projects with artists such as Daniel Buren\, Richard Jackson\, Yoko Ono\, Bruce Nauman\, Analia Saban\, and Barbara T. Smith. Sinéad is the former Gallery Manager/ Assistant Curator at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena\, CA. She completed studies at University College Dublin\, Ireland and received her B.A. in Art History from Loyola Marymount University\, Los Angeles. Sinead earned an M.A. in Museum and Curatorial Studies at California State University\, Long Beach\, where she received the Collage of Art Outstanding Thesis Award for her paper “Outward and Boundless: Painting in the Age of Expansion.” \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/june-session/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Film,Literature,Music,Performance,Theatre,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-29/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-29/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES: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\, 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-2019-06-29/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-28/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190628T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-28/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES: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\, 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-2019-06-28/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190627T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190627T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190429T175100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T175100Z
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-27/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190627T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190627T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190429T172653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190622T225709Z
UID:2406-1561640400-1561658400@ciacla.com
SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-27/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/03_iamyourshame.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190627T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190627T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190324T152449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T032826Z
UID:1323-1561640400-1561658400@ciacla.com
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-2019-06-27/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190626T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190626T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190429T175100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T175100Z
UID:2529-1561554000-1561572000@ciacla.com
SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-26/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Paula-Stokes-web.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190626T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190626T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190429T172653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190622T225709Z
UID:2405-1561554000-1561572000@ciacla.com
SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-26/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/03_iamyourshame.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190626T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190626T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190324T152449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T032826Z
UID:1322-1561554000-1561572000@ciacla.com
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/d1c98d62ce23f456eaa9bc3820500768.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190624T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190624T130000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190416T204141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190505T164625Z
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SUMMARY:Figurative Drawing Workshop - June
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly uninstructed figurative workshop with live models – to engage with your pencil\, mind and creativity! Our free life drawing workshops provide an opportunity to enhance your drawing skills and a great way to meet the local creative community and visiting artists; to eat\, drink and draw at our wonderful new space! All skill levels welcome – from first timers to professionals.  \nOrganizer: Susan Broussard  \nDates: June 24th\, July 29th \, August 26th {last Monday of every Month} \nTime: 10am – 1pm \nCost: Free of Charge {Donations to CIACLA are appreciated} RSVP your place below. \nMaterials: Chairs\, tables and drawing boards provided; but no drawing horses or easels. Bring your own art supplies and paper. {Drawing only; no paints\, please.}  \nParking: Free \nQuestions: Email info@ciacla.com to contact our workshop organizer Susan Broussard with any questions.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/figurative-drawing-workshop-june/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/179f556c061f232eac8f92f939232b2a.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190623T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190429T175100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T175100Z
UID:2528-1561294800-1561312800@ciacla.com
SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-23/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Paula-Stokes-web.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190623T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190429T172653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190622T225709Z
UID:2404-1561294800-1561312800@ciacla.com
SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-23/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/03_iamyourshame.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190623T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
CREATED:20190324T152449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190620T035413Z
UID:1321-1561294800-1561312800@ciacla.com
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:Poetry Beyond Borders
DESCRIPTION:CIACLA / Poetry International / Literature Ireland Present: Poetry Beyond Borders \nFeaturing: Jenny Minniti- Shippey\, Emily Vizzo\, Sheila McMullin\, Bernard O’Rourke\, Karla Cordero\, Leonora Simonovis \n* Free Admission or Donation Welcome – See Tickets Below.  \nPoetry is an aural and an oral art form; when we share language\, we share stories\, of where we’ve been and where we mean to go. Language doesn’t stop at a border\, whether artificial as a wall or natural as the sea. How can the act of sharing language—words—poetry—move us beyond borders and into a space of shared community and connection? \n This live event\, organized by Jenny Minniti- Shippey\, Director of Development at CIACLA and the Managing Editor of Poetry International\, features poets whose art moves beyond\, through\, in\, and past the space and idea of borders. Whether it’s a border between countries or a border between genre\, these poets push to transcend\, push to complicate\, push to expand. Funny\, moving\, and meditative at each turn\, this event will open a space of connection. \nCurator: Jennifer Minniti- Shippey \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. \nIn 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.  \nJennifer 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.Jennifer’s chapbook\, Done Dating DJs\, won the 2008 Fool for Poetry Competition\, sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre and Southword Editions of Cork\, Ireland.  \nHer 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. Her chapbook manuscript “Waiting for a Ripe Mango” was a finalist for the Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook contest. 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. \nEmail: jenny@ciacla.com  \nwww.jennyminnitishippey.com \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/poetry-beyond-borders/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-22/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190622T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190622T180000
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-22/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190622T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190622T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T143246
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190622T140000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190621T180000
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-21/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190621T180000
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-21/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190621T180000
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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/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-20/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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