Saturday 9th June – 26 August 2012. Roller skating is encouraged in the gallery
Eigse Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow Local Authorities Arts Office & VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art present
Everything can be done, in principle
A co- commissioned artwork by Brian Duggan, curated by Helen Carey
Ground Floor Galleries, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland.
Opens Saturday 9th June – 26 August 2012.
Special event June 8th: a musical performance on the opening night by David Mansfield, the original composer for the film Heaven’s Gate. Further screenings and talks to be announced.
Within the extraordinary VISUAL Carlow galleries Brian Duggan’s installation will invite the public to roller skate in the gallery, echoing a different time and place, but one that connects to our present circumstances. The roller rink will be 25 Meters (m) = 82.02 Feet (ft.) long by 12 meters or 39.37 Feet wide and 7 meter high = 22.9 feet.
Outlined in the banditti of the plains by A.S. Mercer, (1894) a band of fifty-two cattlemen and hired gunmen invaded Johnson Country, Wyoming, in April 1892 killing and terrorizing the settlers. Through the raising of the timber and canvas roller skating rink within the gallery, Duggan’s ambitious installation transports gallery visitors through the frontier lands of Wyoming and American Western Cinema as seen in Michael Cimino’s Heavens’s Gate (1980).
Main gallery is 29m long by 16m wide with a clear ceiling height of over 11m. This door is 5m high.
‘ It was an experience...’
John Hurt, discussing the making of heaven’s gate with the artist, Prague 2012.
this video will be in Link gallery installation.
David Mansfiled on set in Heaven’s Gate, (circa 1980),
We are delighted that he will be playing at the opening, from 7.15.
new small video from last day of exhibition on vimeo
Opens Saturday 9th June – 26 August 2012.
Exhibition venue:
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & The George Bernard Shaw TheatreCarlow, Ireland
new small video from last day of exhibition on vimeo
PDF recent review in ARTFORUM-review-of-Everything-can-be-done...BDuggan-by-DLong-Oct2012.pdf
links commissioners
CLOSING EVENTS
Closing Sunday 26th August 2012
You are invited to a final weekend of discussion, film screening, live music and skating in association with: Everything can be done, in principle
Saturday 25th Discussions and Film Screening
11.00am-1.00pm Discussion: Everything can be done, in principle: Annie Fletcher Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Rod Stoneman, Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Sheena Barrett, Arts Office , Dublin City Council, Brian Duggan, Artist Helen Carey, Curator, Hugo Jellett CEO, The Carlow Arts Festival, Sinead Dowling, Arts Officer, Carlow Local Authority & Emma- Lucy O’ Brien ,Gallery Manager, VISUAL. More to be confirmed. See www.visualcarlow.ie/exhibitions for information
2.00pm Pre-Film talk with Rod Stoneman, NUIG and Helen Carey, Curator. Contact Box Office (059) 9172457
3.00pm Film Screening: Heavens's Gate (1980) Directors Cut [219 minutes]. Contact Box Office (059) 9172457
Sunday 26th Last day of skating at VISUAL with live music 2pm-6pm
Final afternoon of SKATING, to the accompaniment of live music from members of the Cracked Bucket Band (who accompanied David Mansfield on the Opening Night) led by Eric Butler, and featuring a miscellany of local trad, folk, bluegrass and country musicians. Refreshments will be available all afternoon.
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June 8th: a musical performance on the opening night by David Mansfield, the original composer for the film Heaven’s Gate.
Panel Discussion with Pat Cooke and Aine O’Brien
Date 8th June 4pm - 5.30pm
This will be followed by the Opening Night reception at 6pm. skating will be free on the opening night until 7. after which will be music and very short speeches, till 9.
Rian
Date Sunday 17th June - 9pm Tickets €20 book through box
office. One-off performance of Fabulous Beast Theatre
Company’s Rian by Michael Keegan Dolan and Liam Ó Maonlaí
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