muTual a night of performance, art and music
in 5th @ Guinness Storehouse

thursday 23rd of may: 8.30 - 11.30

muTual: * adj. 1 experienced or done by each of two or more parties towards the other or others: mutual respect ? (of two or more parties) having the same specified relationship with each other: 2 held in common by two or more parties: a mutual friend 3 denoting a building society or insurance company owned by its members and dividing some or all of its profits between them.

Curated by Leah Hilliard and Michelle Darmody

Artists were approached through mutual contacts and asked to respond the broad theme of muTual, encompassing notions of friendship, friends as the new family, society, social, work and play emotional ties, six degrees of separation. Emphasis was placed on work of a transitory nature such as projection, temporary installation and performance. Although muTual exists for one night it is hoped that it will emanate into something further and will be a beneficial experience for all those involved.

Artists:

Trish Brennan
Photographer, lecturer and producer of the annual Alternative Miss Ireland pageant. Offaly born and Dublin based Trish has shown in Dublin, London and San Francisco. Her work steams from the social and the personal. Currently studying for an MA in Virtual Realities in NCAD.

Fergus Byrne & Slavek Kwi
Fergus Byrne is a performance artist based in Dublin who has worked in public performance, video and installation over the past six years. His work explores the potential for expression in the body, a language independent of words. Drawing is an activity that consistently informs his work and has featured in previous performances.

Slavek Kwi
is a sound-artist, composer and researcher whose main interest lies in the phenomena of "perception". He has been fascinated by sound-environments for the last 20 years, focusing on electroacoustic "sound-paintings". This collaboration demonstrates Slavek's skill in free-music improvisation employing the space and any objects it contains as musical instruments.

Declan Clarke
Dublin born, London based artist and curator. Currently on a Residency in IMMA while preparing work for shows in London, Los Angeles and at Project Art Centre in Dublin. Declan works in a variety of media including video. His work examines the language and histories inherit in our everyday
encounters.

Aoife Desmond
Recently returned to Ireland from travels in Asia. It is Aoife's many excursions abroad that provide a constant inspiration for her work. As a performance artist she incorporates photography, sculpture and video in to
her work. Her performance for muTual was conceived while on a Pepiniere residency in Mantes la Jolie, Paris.

Gavin Delahunty
Claire Born Gavin works in a multitude of media from performance to sculpture. His work is currently on show in "Mark" at the Project Arts Centre Temple Bar and has been published in the latest production by the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity. In this new work he examines our mutual
passion for music while emphasising the individuals taste in satirical fashion.

Christina Ellis & Mark Garry
Mark Garry is a Dublin based artist, writer and curator. Mark has shown in Dublin, London and New York. Curator of Tripswitch @5th Guinness Storehouse Dublin and "Mark" currently running at the Project Art Centre in Temple Bar.

Christina Ellis
is an artist, graphic designer and musician. Her work has most recently been seen in Tripswich @5th Guinness Storehouse. She describes her works as pursuing visual tactile explorations. This works examines practise and process through a "Chinese whisper method of production" with materials and concepts being moved backwards and forwards between the two artists.

Karl Him
Karl Him, also know as Karl Burke, has exhibited his unique form of sculpture extensively over the past few years. He has always been interested in geometrical shapes and the varying shadows they through. More recently he has developed his ideas in the form of soundscapes. He will play from his widely acclaimed album "Electronic Lament" on the night.

Tom Gleeson
Limerick born and New York based Tom has exhibited in Ireland, UK and the USA working primarily in video and photography. The work is concerned with issues of communication between the inner self and outer world. A founding member of London based artist collective "Yoke" and the Irish OutArt Society.

David McGinn
Dublin based artist and curator works in a mixture of media ranging from drawings to digital images. He recently showed at "Precinct" in 2001 organized by Pallas Studios and "Ascend", Ballymun in 2000. David curated "A Presence x 3" in Arthouse Multimedia Centre, Temple Bar.

Yvonne McGuinness
Yvonne is currently studying for her masters in the Royal College of Art in London. When last in Dublin she was a member of the Blackchurch Print Studio in Temple Bar and has most recently shown her work in The Original Gallery,
also in Temple Bar.

David O'Brien
Dobz lives and works in Ireland, Scotland and Italy. His work is predominately performance and video based. He has stated that "An awareness of yourself comes from a certain amount of activity and you can't get it from just thinking about yourself"

David Philips & Paul Rowley
Collaborating since in 1998, Phillips and Rowley work is an antidote to accelerated culture, finding the poetic in the slow and the stilled. Their work uses digital manipulations of film and video, juxtaposing original and appropriated footage to focus on time, location and narratives of social containment. They have been awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. They were the recipients of the 1999 New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. In 2000 they were winners of the Glen Dimplex Artists Award, IMMA.

Niall Sweeney
Niall works all over the world with Cities, Situationism, Nightclubs, Electropop and Drag Queens. One time Artistic Director of Arthouse Temple bar. His studio, PONY, is currently based in London. He designs, photographs, films, performs and prints for all possible media.

John Younge
Working in a variety of media, John has shown work at "The Body without organs project ", Temple Bar Gallery 1999 and the SEED/ Aspidistra series of events in Arthouse 1998/1999. John's work has also been exhibited in South Tipperary Art Centre, Crawford Open and the Real Art Project, Limerick. Recurring themes in his work are defunct medical related imagery and the derelict aspects of the urban industrial landscape.