FOUR | Dialogue Series

Dialogue Series

Dialogue Series at Four are a series of conversations that take place the first week of each exhibition and are free. Focused on the current exhibition in Four, the one-hour conversations are lead by artists, curators, art historians, and writers, and take place in Four. Reservations are suggested. Please call Four at 086 365 1256.

Brain Ward & Aoife Desmond

Temporary Refuge Saturday 19th May 2006 1pm
The Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Brian Ward graduated from the School of Architecture, UCD in 1999. He has won Architectural Association of Ireland Awards with both Dominic Stevens Architects and De Paor Architects. A member of the building material editorial staff since 2004, he has acted as editor since 2005. He teaches design studio and lectures in history and theory of architecture at UCD. He is currently researching a PhD. on early garden suburbs.

Aoife Desmond received an honours degree in fine art from Crawford College of Art and Design in 1996. Subsequently she has returned to college to do the Masters in Visual arts Practices through the Institute of Art and Design Dun Laoighaire. In the development of her performance work she has trained in Butoh with Tinaka Min of The Body Weather Laboratory in Japan and with numerous other dance and performance practitioners in Ireland and France. In 1999/2000 she did a Pepineire resiency in Paris for 8 months. She has received several grants from the Arts Council to travel and research in Asia. She currently lectures in visual culture studies in IADT to 2nd year animation students , the course is based on the city as metaphor. Desmond has been awarded a residency at the Irish College in Paris for Autumn 2007.

Vaari Claffey & Isabel Nolan

Andrew Vickery Saturday 27th January 2007

Vaari Claffey is a lecturer at IADT's MA in Visual Arts Practice, founder and producer of Fient and Gallery for One. She lives and works in Dublin.

Isabel Nolan is an artist based in Dublin. Recent exhibitions include ‘Ireland at Venice 2005’, the 51st Venice Biennale, ‘The Yugoslav Biennial for Young Artists’, Serbia-Montenegro, 2004; Coalesce - With All Due Intent, Model Arts and Nyland Gallery, Sligo 2004. Thinking about Ideas, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 2004; and solo shows ‘Everything I said let me explain’, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2005 and ‘Death creeps in through the mouth’, Goethe Institute, Dublin 2003.

Kasinather Sivapalan & Abdujalil Boymatov

Stories from the Front Line Saturday 9th December 2006 3pm

To mark the 8th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, Front Line, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in association with Four will host ‘Stories from the Frontline” at 3.00 pm, Saturday 9, December.

Kasinather Sivapalan, a prominent lawyer and human rights defender from Sri Lanka and Abdujalil Boymatov, a leading human rights defender and nuclear physicist from Uzbekistan will give their personal testimonies of working at risk in hostile environments.

Sivapalan is the former President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and Coordinator of Legal Aid Center; he is a lecturer in Law at the Eastern University in Sri Lanka and member of the Ceasefire Monitoring Commission.

Abdujalil is the vice – president of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan an organization with over 600 members. For over 15 years he has reported and documented the human rights violations committed by the Uzbek government, consequently.

Mandla Reuter & René Zechlin

Time Has Ceased Space Has Vanished Saturday 14th October 2006 3pm

Mandla and Rene will discuss a number of aspects relating to Time Has Ceased Space Has Vanished.

Mandla Reuter's was educated in Städelschule, Frankfurt and Parsons School of Design, New York. He has exhibited widely in Europe and America in solo and group exhibitions. In 2006 he curated the exhibition Pigment Piano Marble in Buenos Aires. Works of his are in private and public collections. He lives and works in Berlin.

René Zechlin is Curator for Exhibitions and Projects at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. After finishing his studies in Art History, Philosophy and Economics with an MA in Stuttgart, Germany, he became first trainee and then curator at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main. In Frankfurt Ren Zechlin presented the exhibitions series fresh & upcoming of young emerging artists co-curated group exhibitions like deutschemalereizweitausenddrei or nation and worked together with Marcel Odenbach and Gerard Byrne on their solo presentations. At the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork Ren Zechlin curated for example the exhibition Blake & Sons and the project series Investigations. Currently on show is the exhibition Cooling out: on the paradox of feminism, which he curated in collaboration with two other international institutions.

Ciaran Walsh & Mick Wilson

Archipelago and Other Stories Friday 28th July 2006 1pm

Ciaran Walsh graduated from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in 2003 and has exhibited in 'Haunted' in the City Arts Centre, 'Elsewhere from Here' in the Workroom, and 'Flagged' a part of the VISUALISE: Carlow public art programme. He has most recently exhibited as part of 'Imagined - Visions of Architecture' in The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon in June of this year and is presently working as curator for part of VISUALISE: Carlow's 2006/2007 programme. He currently lives and works in Dublin.

Mick Wilson is Head of Research & Postgraduate Development in NCAD. Prior to this he initiated, developed and delivered the IADT’s masters programme in visual arts practices based in Temple Bar. He is currently completing a research project entitled ‘The Conflict of the Faculties?’ which addresses interdisciplinarity, critical thinking and the contemporary conditions of the university. A writer and artist, he is a graduate of NCAD and Trinity College Dublin.

Lorna Macintyre & Isabel Nolan

Death and the Compass Friday 7th April 2006

Lorna Macintyre is an artist based in Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow School of Art (Environmental Art) in 1999. Recent exhibitions include 'Leviathan', London, 'Superbia 2', Cork, 'Liberation de L’Aesthetique', Glasgow, 'Low Lights and Trick Mirrors', Generator Projects, Dundee 2005. 'Spacemakers', Munich, 'Women Men Children', Glasgow, and 'In Viaggia', Italy 2004. A solo show 'Miseries and Wonders are Twins, They are Born Together', Glasgow 2004. She recently received the Formal Education Artist in Residency, Dumbreck Marsh Art Project along with a SAC National Lottery Grant.

Declan Clarke & Dave Beech

Mine Are of Trouble Saturday 18th February 2006

Declan Clarke was educated in N.C.A.D. Dublin, and Chelsea College of Art London. In 2000 he was one of the recipients of the Saatchi Fellowship at Chelsea College of Art and Design. In 2002 he represented Ireland on the International Studio Programme at PS1 MOMA, New York. He has exhibited widely in Europe and America, and has a solo exhibition with Lantana Projects, Memphis later in 2006. He lives and works in London.

Dave Beech is an artist who is known for his socially engaged work and critical writing. He is a regular writer for Art Monthly and other art magazines, has exhibited work recently at the Venice Biennale and Course Leader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. He has had solo shows at Flag gallery, London, The Trade Apartment, London, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, as well as important group exhibitions such as Futurology at the New Art Gallery Walsall, Radio Radio at International 3, Manchester, Strike in Wolverhampton and Philadelphia, Nanoscopic Culture, London and Slimvolume. He has exhibited recently at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, MM gallery in Zagreb and the second Guangzhou Triennale, China. He was a prominent member of the young London art scene in the mid-90’s, exhibiting with BANK. He is the co-author of the Verso book “The Philistine Controversy” and edited a special issue of Third Text entitled Art, Politics and Resistance?

Mark Garry & Isabel Nolan

Borderline Saturday 17th December 2005

Mark Garry is an artist ,Writer and independent curator based in Dublin.Mark has curated a number gallery based and large scale off site projects in Dublin over the past couple of years.As an artist mark has exhibited in a number of prominant art spaces in Dublin and was one of the artists representing Ireland at this years venice Biennial.

Xylor Jane & EE Miller

The Doubloon Friday 18th November 2005

Xylor Jane's work draws on mathematical algorithms to make intricate and staggering installations. Deriving her patterns from often basic arthimetic exercises (such as the Fibonacci Series or prime numbers), she deals in both complexity and simplicity, finding hidden curiosities and subtle patterns amidst swarms of numbers. Her rigourous execution highlights the personal touch and commitment she brings to each piece.

EE Miller has been recording conversations for over a decade across disciplines and with multiple agendas, including the production and preservation of history and conversational art-making. She has just curated a CD of Orpheus-inspired sound art for Andrea Lawlor's Pocket Myth Series. EE co-produces a weekly radio show for Western Massachusetts's newest low-power FM station.

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