Projects from SKART

For this project, SKART (a Cork-based artist collaboration) has invited 4 Irish artists, 4 Oland-based artists, and a Danish artist to make and present work in, around, or about the Öland landscape, during February, 2008. The artists will be based in Sattra on the island of Öland, Sweden from 18th -29th February, and will present their work in two events - first in/around Yellow Box Art & Music Centre, Sattra, Sweden on 28th February then in the Cork Artists Collective “Guesthouse” , Cork City, Ireland three weeks later. We are interested to explore how the landscape and the people change in response to their environment, and the influence each can have on the other. To read more see: ±PLUS/MINUS

ARTISTS INVOLVED: Helle Kvamme, Kevin Tuohy, Malin Lindmark-Vrijman, Sharon McCarthy, Mathieu Vrijman, Irene Murphy, Kalle Runeson, Kevin Flanagan, Morten Espersen.                                                         Funded by

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The uploading of images has taken a bit longer than first expected, and as we said all images will be viewable on the web page soon. The final selection is just being processed and artists will be let know the selection for this project in the next day or two.

Sorry again for the delay, and thanks for your patience

Sharon

UPDATE….____________________________________

Images are being uploaded now, to www.postedproject.wordpress.com

SKART would like to thank the 87 artists who have submitted images/texts to our first international poster project. Selection will be taking place during this week, and we will (hopefully) have an answer by May 1st. All the image that have been submitted will be viewable on this site in the next few days, and please feel free to comment on what you think.

Thanks again

SKART

ArtTrail have confirmed their support for POSTED 3 - to be displayed outdoors in the Shandon area of Cork City during September 2007, as part of the ArtTrail annual event. See www.arttrail.ie for details of past events.

ArtTrail generously supported our first public project - ‘3 Vincents Avenue’ - for the 2006 event, and we are looking forward to developing this new project with them.

POSTED 3 will be a curated installation of 20 images and texts printed as A3 posters, in a similar format to POSTED 1

We have invited artist Mick O’Shea to co-curate this project with us.

More details to follow…

Submission deadline is 21st April, when all submissions will be posted on this blogpage - or a dedicated website if we have been granted funding by then..

A shortlist will be selected by SKART members, which will then be narrowed down to 12 images/texts in collaboration with our co-curators. A final selection will be announced on 1st May, when all artists will be contacted.

The start date for display of the posters is either the 12th or 18th June (to be confirmed) to run for 2 weeks.

POSTED 1

POSTED 1 will be a curated international poster project of 12 selected artists, presented in June this year in 12 venues across the world simultaneously, and on a project website. Submission will be free, and open to all artists who’s work can be represented in A3 poster format. The website will be the hub of the project: it will include a curated gallery of submissions; documentation from each venue; and a public discussion forum.
For this project we have invited two established professionals also based in Cork to co-curate with us:

Rene Zechlin, (Curator of Exhibitions and Projects, Glucksman Gallery, Cork), Trevor Joyce, (Contemporary Poet, Founder and Chair of SoundEye International Poetry Festival)

This project aims to challenge the increasingly unquestioned commodification of images, writing, and public blank wall space through a temporary installation of posters that are not advertisements. The idea for this project came from a frustration with the lack of motivation among artists to engage with the public outside of the gallery/exhibition space, and how advertisers have appropriated public wall spaces.
In 1960 Paul Goodman (Compulsory Miseducation, Penguin, 1960),
U.S. literary and social critic, argued that
“… when the purpose of advertising was to give information… it was useful to be able to read; when the point of advertising is to create synthetic demand, it is better not to be able to read.”

Could the same be said of visual literacy? When the purpose of images is to stimulate, inspire, inform, challenge, etc. it is useful to recognise and pay attention to the images; when the point of images is purely as an advertising tool (whether for a product or the artist) would it be better to not notice or pay attention?
We want to show this project in social area of multi-disciplinary art venues, because we are interested in bringing art-forms together, and showing work outside the formal gallery space.

POSTED 1 will be presented in two formats - online and as a printed exhibition.
The website (www.skartpostedproject.ie - under construction) will be the hub of the entire project. It will contain: -information identifying each image in the printed exhibition with the artist who’s work it depicts.
-a gallery of all submissions.
-a forum to facilitate open discussion on the selections and the selection process,
-a gallery documenting each stage of the POSTED project in each host venue, with images taken by the hosts.
- links to participating and selected artists, artists groups, support organisations, gallery spaces.
- links to relevant artists’ networks and resources around the world

To submit an image or text, or for any further information, please email skartincork@gmail.com

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For POSTED 1 , SKART will be Sharon McCarthy, Kevin Tuohy, Cian McConn

3 Vincents Ave is a house project curated for Art Trail 2006 by the nomadic art organisation Skart. Coming to Cork and seeing the possibilities and restrictions that are facing artists in today’s money-driven world, Skart wants to comment on this by staging an art event in a house which is currently inhabited. The artists were asked to select and/or produce their own work in collaboration with the house and with consideration for its location and structure. Skart Statement: ‘We wanted to make this project to investigate the possibilities that are available to artists to show their work outside of the gallery. There are so many avenues open for experimentation and this hopefully will be the first of many projects that we will develop in Cork in the future.’ Selected Artists: Stephanie (Sticky) Hough Konrad Juscinski Sharon McCarthy Lorraine McDonnell Peter McMorris Bartek Nowak Kevin Tuohy Laurence Wawrzyn Viewing by appointment only and running on an hourly basis from 2pm to 6pm Thursday 28th September to Monday 2nd October 3 Vincents Ave is located in the Shandon area – for directions and to book your place call 0863623523 Places will be limited so book early to avoid disappointment

The link below will take you to the ArtTrail website, from where you can view the full catalogue, along with related information about ArtTrail - an Artist-led organisation based in Cork City.

ArtTrail 2007 Special Projects link, 2006 page not active

Lorraine McDonnell - plasticine and toaster. Installation view.

Bartek Novak - plaster and text/images. Installation view, in sitting room. Sheets on the wall included maps of the locality with floor-plans of the house fitted to the streets, and definitions of ’surface’ from a range of sources.

Sharon McCarthy - Fridge-magnets on washing machine and fridge. Installation view.

Stephanie Hough - t.v. piece, work in progress. Installation view. A looped recording screened on the existing t.v.

This is the blog of SKART - a multi-disciplinary Art collaboration/organisation physically based in Cork City, Ireland (and to avoid any confusion - we are not linked to the Skart art organisation based in Belgrade). Here we will post information on our projects - past, present, and future.

We welcome your comments, criticisms, suggestions, and/or offers of financial support…

Contact us through the comments section below, or by email skartincork@gmail.com