Michelle Browne - Chrissie Cadman - Anne Quail - Elvira Santamaria Torres - Amanda Coogan - Pauline Cummins - Ann Maria Healy - -Frances Mezzeti - Áine O’Dwyer - Áine Phillips - Helena Walsh -

 

LABOUR is a touring exhibition of Live Art, featuring eleven leading female artists who are resident within, or native to, Northern and Southern Ireland. LABOUR offers audiences unprecedented access to a huge body of live performance work by some of the most radical and exciting women artists emerging from an Irish cultural context.

 

LABOUR will launch in London, on the 9th and 10th of February, then tour to Derry/Londonderry (Feb 24th and 25th). The final exhibition and surrounding events will take place in Dublin on March 9th and 10th to coincide with International Women’s Day 2012.

 

LABOUR interrogates the gendered representational frameworks prevalent within an Irish cultural context, that produce, limit and devalue, various forms of female labour. In each durational exhibition participating artists will perform simultaneously for eight consecutive hours, reflecting the duration of an average working day. Set within the shadows of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries, LABOUR explores current shifts in the political and economic climate within an Irish cultural context.

 

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RISK - Quantified Self Group Show

The LAB, Dublin 18 October - 3rd December 2011

 

 

Michelle Browne will present RISK a new mutli-screen video piece as part of Quantified Self. The exhibition features work by who have developed new work using shimmer technology, a small wireless sensor platform that can record and transmit physiological and kinematic data in real-time. The exhibition is presented as part of Innovation Dublin in association with Shimmer Research, the leading provider of wearable wireless sensors in the world.

 

For more informartion on The Lab Click Here

For mor information on Shimmer Research Click Here

 

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House on Air and other works

presented as part of Into a Limbo Large and Broad

 

 

House on Air and other works developed during a residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre will be presented as part of a group show Into a Limbo Large and Broad. The exhibition will presented at 200 Clonliffe Road, Dublin 9, a Victorian house built in the 1840s. The house has had a colourful history, most recently being repossessed by the bank from a failed property developer. The bank will now become the reluctant custodian of the house, with the most likely outcome being neglect and dereliction. The works presented both comment on and are inspired by the current fate of the house and its residents.

 

21 - 23 October 2011

 

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Direct Action 2011 on Tour

 

Michelle Browne will present her video piece Pregnant with Infinite Possibility as part of Direct Action 2011 Video Fesitval of performance on/for/as video touring exhibition at CAZ Project Space, Penzance, UK - Saturday October 1st, 11 am - 7.30 pm

For more information on CAZ Project Space Click Here

 

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Soiled at All Around the field, Waterside!

International Performance Festival 9-10 September 2011 Linz, Austria

 

 

New documentation of Soiled by Michelle Browne uploaded to facebook Click Here to see images. Phots by Philippe Gerlach

 

 

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Jeu Parti

Solo Show

The Leitrim Sculpture Centre,

Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim

2 - 24 Spetember 2011

 

 

Following a three month residency at The Sculpture Centre in Manorhamilton, Michelle Browne will present new work in response to her time in Leitrim. During her residency in Manorhamilton she has been researching the development of the built environment and will present a body of work that deals with the current state of flux in the town due to the down turn in the economy.

 

Michelle will also present new work responding to public spaces made with a group of women who live in Manorhamilton as part of Culture Night at The Leitrim Sculpture Centre on Friday 23 September.

For more information on The Leitrim Sculpture Centre click here

 

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Soiled at All Around the field, Waterside!

International Performance Festival 9-10 September 2011 Linz, Austria

 

 

Michelle Browne will present Soiled as part of a weekend of live art in public space in Linz, Austria. The festival, All around the field, waterside! is curated by Sibylle Ettengruber, Elisa Andeßner und Amel Andeßner

 

For more information on the festival click here

 

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Pregnant with Infinite Possiblity at SPANE 2011

 

 

Michelle Browne's video work Pregnant with Inifinite Possibility wil be presented as part of SPANE 2011, Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment on August 28, at Artscape, Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, Canada. The event is presented by FADO Performance Art Centre and curated by Johannes Zits.

 

For more information about FADO click here

For more information about Artscape click here

 

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Process Now

 

Michelle Browne presents a series of new print works as part of Process Now an exhibition of print work by Leitrim Sculpture Centre's Print Group, with new work by Wales based master printmaker Peter Williams. This work forms the beginning of her research during her residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre.

The Exhibition runs until 2nd July 2011.

 

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Direct Action 2011

 

Michelle will present her video piece Pregnant with Infinite Possibility as part of Direct Action 2011 Video Fesitval of performance on/for/as video touring exhibition at Konnektor, Hannover in July following a successful festival in Berlin at i-a-m. For more information on Direct Action click here

 

A recent review by Richard Rabensaat of Direct Action wrote of Browne's work:

 

'„Pregnant with Infinite Possibilities “ by Michelle Browne shows a beautiful, picture underlaid by trance music. A woman teeters on a plank over a lake in the countryside. She describes in an aesthetically compelling and intellectually clear way the exact location of fracture between humans and nature without any kitsch and propaganda.'

 

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FutureHouse

 

For this exhibition the children's gallery space at The Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge. Co. Kildare is turned into a streetscape created by Michelle Browne with the help of families who have taken part in the Futurehouse workshop held on the 21st of May. The work was created using predominantly recyclable materials, to explore in a fun and colourful way how we live. This exhibition invites you to imagine a different kind of home that focuses on sustainability and the environment.  

Exhibition runs until 2nd July 2011

foor further information Click Here

 

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Transmuted Performance Festival, Mexico

 

Michelle Browne will take part in Trasmuted International Performance Festival, Mexico, May 26-27th 2011.

For more information click here

 

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Leitrim Sculpture Centre Residency
May-July 2011 Exhibition of work September - October 2011
Manorhamilton, Leitrim
www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie

 

Michelle Browne will being a residency in Leitrim Sculpture Centre in late May. During this time she will undertake a participative public art project, engaging local people in issues of public space and the changes in their native landscape. The work produced will be presented from Sept 16 - Oct 14th in Leitrim Sculpture Centre.

 

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The Performance Collective Residency
Broadcast Gallery DIT Portland Row April 11 - 16th
www.broadcastgallery.ie

 

The Performance Collective (Michelle Browne, Alex Conway, Amanda Coogan, Pauline Cummins, Frances Mezzetti, Dominic Thorpe) will take up residency in the Broadcast gallery from 11-16th of April. A public performance will be presented on Thursday 14th of April from 5 - 7.30pm.

 

The Performance Collective is a group of artists dedicated to live art practices. Formed in 2007 the group is comprised of leading artists in the field of performance art in Ireland, with a variety of styles and influences coming to bear on the group. The Performance Collective focuses on improvised performance, creating vibrant collaborative work that challenges the positions of individual performers, while exploring the dynamics of working within a group. The Performance Collective has carved out a unique voice in contemporary performance, presenting thought provoking, challenging and sometimes irreverent performances.

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Exhibition extended:

 

‘out on the sea was a boat full of people singing’ and other stories
Solo Show by Michelle Browne The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1
Opening Thursday 3rd March, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition runs until 16th April 2011

 

Michelle Browne’s first solo show presents a series of public performance works made over the last four years. Browne has become synonymous with public event based work, and here she looks at how to translate these works to the gallery setting. Presenting past performance work is an oft-sited challenge and Browne grapples with the inherent difficulty in documenting temporary and performative artwork.

For this show she creates a series of works revisiting a variety of public performance projects to see how the memory of these events lives on to the present. Created through a series of interviews with witnesses to these events, Browne tries to determine the experiential legacy of this work. In conjunction with this, Browne has curated a group exhibition of work dealing with the challenges of documentation featuring Amanda Coogan/Simon Keogh, Trace Collective, Susanne Bosch and Ella Burke.

 

To Read a recent review by James Merrigan click here

 

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