Don’t Cry-Work!
Can be visited at The Back Loft, 7-11 St.Augustine Street Dublin 8.Between the 7th and 17th of February.
Open Monday to Friday: 11am-5pm
Open Saturday and Sunday: 12pm-5pm
Performance/Screening: 7pm
To make appointments outside these hours telephone:0857237821
Wednesday, February7th.6pm-9pm: Opening Party: Don’t Cry-Work at “The Back Loft”.
Thursday, February 8th.2pm Recital: excerpt from writings of Guy Debord
Friday, February 9th2pm Recital: excerpt from writings of Filippo Tomasso Marinetti
Saturday, February 10th2pm Recital: excerpt from writings of Alexander Rodchenko
pm: Live Musical Performance: David Turpin
Turpin describes the balance of the detached and the intimate, which characterises his music as being "like love without touching (...it) is just supposed to be a frozen, beautiful thing, always at one remove". Turpin, who has a background in photography and film-making, also acknowledges the influence of cinema on his music: "film-makers like Jean Cocteau and Kenneth Anger, who made the fantastic real, but also people like Larry Clark and Gregg Araki, who take harsh imagery and give it a kind of beauty. I try to do that with these songs (...to) lace together the beautiful and the dangerous. Sometimes you have to listen hard for either one, but both are always there."
Sunday, February 11th2pm: Aleana Egan’s “untitled (Iris Murdoch)” read by Helen Robertson/3pm:Curators Exhibition Talk
Monday, February 12th2pm Recital: excerpt from writings of Virginia Woolf
Tuesday, February 13th2pm Recital: excerpt from writings of Siegfried Kracauer
Wednesday, February 14th2pm Recital: excerpt from writings of Allen Kaprow
Thursday, February 15th2pm Recital: excerpt writings of Sol Le Witt
Friday, February 16th2pm Recital: excerpt writings of Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Saturday, February 17th 2pm: Live display of sculptural attire designed and produced by Brigid McClean.
Combining Subtle delicate Elements with Raw and brutal textures McClean manually produces objects that are at once equally exquisite artworks and elegantly sculpted apparel.
7pm:Irish Debut Screening of “The Nomi Song" -Andrew Horn's award-winning look at the life of German-born singer Klaus Nomi. One of the most profoundly bizarre characters of the late 70s/early 80s New Wave underground scene, Klaus Nomi was a genuine counter-tenor who sang pop music like opera to enthusiastic club audiences. Through archival performance footage and interviews with his friends and fellow artists, Nomi's influence and unique style are brought to life two decades after his untimely death from AIDS.The Nomi story was awarded for the Best Documentary Film at the 2004 Berlinale.