Sirius Arts Centre partners with American Sound Artist, Stephen Vitiello for “From Another Room”

Sirius Arts Centre
in partnership with
Cork County Council, the Arts Council, Cork Midsummer and St Colman’s Cathedral present a performance in St Colman’s Cathedral

From Another Room
St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh
Saturday 29th June @15:00
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A sound and visual performance by American sound artist, Stephen Vitiello, joined by Adrian Gebruers Carillonneur and Organist of Cobh’s St Colman’s Cathedral.

From Another Room is a multi-media mix of experimental sound and video, featuring electric guitar, field recordings generated in and around Cobh (including those from unique acoustic locations in the Cathedral) with as church organ and carillon.

ADMISSION FREE
This event is ticketed – please go to www.corkmidsummer.com to book your free ticket

Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. His sound installations have been presented internationally. Vitiello’s audio recordings of the World Trade Center have been included in numerous exhibitions as written about in publications by Paul Virilio, Arthur Danto and David Toop. In August, his installation, A Bell For Every Minute will be installed in New York’s Museum of Modern Art as part of the exhibition, Soundings: A Contemporary Score. Vitiello has collaborated with such artists and musicians as Nam June Paik, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree, Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Irish sound and visual arts collective, Strange Attractor.
Performance will last approximately 45 minutes

For more information on Stephen Vitiello please visit his website: www.stephenvitiello.com

Sirius Arts Centre exhibits ‘Cruel and Unusual’

Sirius Arts Centre
in partnership with
Cork County Council, The Arts Council, Noorderlicht Gallery & Cork Midsummer Festival
present

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

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Image by Araminta de Clermont

Cruel and Unusual showcases the works of eleven female photographers brought together by curators, Hester Keijser and Pete Brook exhibiting a collection of revealing, and quite unexpected photography illustrating life behind bars.

Photographers included in the exhibition include: Alyse Emdur, Amy Elkins, Araminta de Clermont, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Christiane Feser, Jane Lindsay, Natalie Mohadjer, Deborah Luster, Lizzie Sadin, Yana Payusova and Lori Waselchuk

This exhibition will run from 13 June – 7 July, with a special reception for the exhibition on Saturday 22 of June at 2pm with Hester Keijser, one of the curators of the exhibition.

Cruel and Unusual looks at how the prison system is presented in images and how these images are created, distributed and consumed. The modern prison system is a popular cause for social debate and especially in recent times due to more and more reports of shocking conditions and overcrowding.

‘LITTLE PIECES OF NO VALUE’ – Collective exhibition from Austria opens at Sirius Arts Centre Friday 19 April 7:30pm

SIRIUS LittlePiecesOfNoValue INVITESirius Arts Centre presents the third part of an ongoing exchange between Austrian & Irish visual artists with the exhibition “Little Pieces of No Value” featuring works by, Alfred Graf, Hannes Ludescher, Alois Galehr, Edith Hofer & Monika Boldrin – a follow on from the SUB PLOTS exhibition which was held in Cobh and Blundenz Austria with AllerArt in 2011 & 2012,  ‘Little Pieces of No Value’ is another in a series of multidisciplinary exhibitions exchanging skills between Cork Based artists with these established Austrian artists.  The exhibition of Little Pieces of No Value is made in partnership with Allerart in Blundenz and the Austrian Embassy, Dublin.

A FREE Artist’s talk will take place at the Crawford Art Gallery on Thursday 18 April at 5:30pm in the lecture theatre in Cork – All welcome!

Tonght Friday 12 April at 8pm an evening wtih Paul Tiernan and Marja Gaynor

Italian Curators visit Sirius Arts Centre

Sirius Arts Centre welcomes Alessandra Capodacqua and Daniele De Luigi to Ireland for a full week of photographic portfolio reviews – The curators will travel to Cork Belfast and Dublin to meet Irish photographers with a view to curating an exhibition of Irish Photography in Italy in 2014.  Thanks to our partners – Crawford Art College, Camden Palace Hotel, Belfast Exposed, Ulster University, Gallery of Photography, Dublin Institute of Technology and all those associated with these organizations!Image