Launch Event
Amanda Rice in conversation with Michele Horrigan
SIRIUS
Saturday, 27 May, 3–5pm
Free; no booking required
Amanda Rice and Michele Horrigan discuss Rice’s style of filmmaking, the role of story-telling in her work, how she blends historical accounts with fiction and her approach to research, her engagement with an embodied notion of the archive, and her interest in questions of extractivism and overproduction.
Michelle Horrigan is an artist, curator, and co-Director of Askeaton Contemporary Arts.
IFI & AEMI: THE SUN GIVES WITHOUT ASKING /
aemi is delighted to present ‘The Sun Gives Without Asking’, a screening programme curated by artist Sean Lynch featuring work by Dan Graham, Paul Gregg & Annette Clancy, Magdalena Jitrik, Amanda Rice, and Jorge Satorre, alongside excerpts of Lynch’s own ongoing video project What Is An Apparatus?. Revolving around the radical potential of storytelling, Lynch’s programme proposes forms of cultural pursuit that interrogate the complex motifs found deep in everyday life, place, and capitalist society. From windows, supermarkets, and telephones, the measures and shapes of the western world that aim to manage and orient human behaviour become evident – with a sleight of hand they might change into new malleable and eclectic forms, gleefully spurred on by artistic energies!
Programme info:
Magdalena Jitrik, Pintura En Askeaton, 2009, Ireland/Argentina, DCP, 7 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Jorge Satorre, Windows Blowing Out, 2005, Ireland/Mexico, DCP, 7 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Dan Graham, Death By Chocolate, 1986-2005, Canada/USA, Digital, 8 mins,
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, USA/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Amanda Rice, No One Can Embargo the Sun, 2021, UK/Ireland, DCP, 21 minutes
Media footage featuring Paul Gregg and Annette Clancy, 1998, Ireland, DCP, 10 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 5 minutes
Running Time: 67 minutes
This screening will be followed by a discussion with Sean Lynch and Amanda Rice.
aemi is an Arts Council-funded organisation that supports and exhibits artist and experimental film. For more information visit www.aemi.ie
Material and Immaterial Worlds: Amanda Rice at the Triskel Arts Centre curated by Miguel Amado /
AMANDA RICE: MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL WORLDS
The new exhibition in the series curated by Miguel Amado for the Triskel Arts Centre opens this Thursday, 10 June 2021.
The show runs from Thursday 10 JUN - Sunday 12 SEP 2021.
The practice of the London-based artist Amanda Rice (born in 1985 in Ireland) addresses a variety of issues related to humanity’s significant, long-standing impact on Earth’s ecosystems. In early works, Rice looked at historic and contemporary quests to conquer landmass conducted by nation-states and corporations. More recently she explores questions of geological nature with respect to two interrelated mechanics of capitalism: extraction and overproduction. Themes of matter, industry, energy and colonialism are common threads.
Rice operates across moving image and sculpture. Recently she has been making films in the form of essays and installations informed by research, sometimes led in dialogue with others, from academics to museum professionals. They consist of footage shot on location as well as information and archival material usually found online, all combined through storytelling devices. They mix fact, opinions, personal impressions and collective memory in narratives that oscillate between history lessons, advertising, propaganda and awareness-raising sessions.
Woman in the Machine: VISUAL Center for Contemporary Art and Carlow Arts Festival 11th - 13th June /
Woman in the Machine, co-created by VISUAL and Carlow Arts Festival, will unfold through film, exhibitions, sound works, light installations, digital native events, a 360 virtual exhibition space, performances, talks and community engagement projects created in response to Carlow's landmark former Braun site, and inspired by the film about female pioneers in sound Sisters With Transistors by Lisa Rovner and women working at the intersections of art, science and digital media.
Woman in the Machine is part of Carlow Arts Festival 2021, VISUAL’s Summer Programme and presented as part of Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh, a nationwide, ten day season of arts experiences brought to you by the Arts Council. To see the full Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh programme, visit www.brighteningair.com
Sound + Light — Invited + Commissioned
Jenn Kirby / Sarah Jane Sheils / Kate Butler / Jennifer Walshe / ensembÉal / Elizabeth Hilliard
Visual Arts — Invited + Commissioned Work
Chloe Brenan / Michelle Doyle and the Digital Druids / Barbara Knežević / Nadia Armstrong / Elaine Byrne / Caroline Campbell (Loitering Theatre) / Kate Fahey / Judy Foley / Fiona Harrington / Janette Lowe / Linda McCann / Colin Martin / Eleanor McCaughey / Fiona Mc Donald / Tara McGinn/ Niamh McGuinne/ Ida Mitrani / Meadbh O'Connor / Paul O 'Neill / Liliane Puthod / Amanda Rice / Katherine Sankey
Arts Council Collection
Lucy Andrews / Rhona Byrne / Maria Farrington / Niamh McCann, Maria McKinney / Helen McMahon / Margaret O'Brien / Fiona Reilly / Lorraine Tuck
Film + Digital — Invited + Commissioned Work
George Bolster / Josephin Böttger / Ciara del Grosso / Umay Gunes Kurtulan / Jennifer Moore / Sharon Phelan / Susanne Radelhof / Lisa Rovner
Spotlight Interview: Arts Council of Ireland /
I was interviewed by the Arts Council of Ireland as a recipient of the Next Generation Award for 2019/2020. Thank you to the Arts Council of Ireland for their generosity and support! You can read the interview here.
‘No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun: (Light, Silver, Land)’ at M8 Space, Aalto University, Helsinki /
I have a solo show at M8 Space, Aalto University (Maarintie 8 building, Electrical Engineering) Helsinki, Finland - if you’re in the area please check it out - until 26th Feb 2021!
No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun: Light, Silver and Land’ by Amanda Rice
26.11.20 - 26.02.21 at M8 Art Space
This three-part film moving image work takes the form of a research essay which explores geological materials such as silver and salt, and their subsequent integration as part of thermal solar energy systems and the geophysical spaces they themselves inhabit. The work thinks through both material histories and sunlight as something which is both entangled and interconnected, personal and political. Green energy systems, and in the case of solar energy, is sold to us as immaterial and renewable; but it’s technics are grounded in the extractive and geophysical, de-territorialized and disseminated. The work moves between personal mediations on light and geology, and thinks about sunlight as an elemental, omnipresent and global experience, one which pervades bodies – both human and non-human; also as a global commodity, one which has been subject to the laws of capital and extraction.
‘No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun: Light, Silver, Land’ by Amanda Rice is the fourth project in the new screening programme ‘Dialogue Model: I can’t hear myself without you listening’ for M8 Art Space curated by Edel O’ Reilly.
Aemi & Docs Ireland: Material Legacies Nov 9th - Nov 12th 2020 /
9 November 2020 / 18:00 / Online Event
Screening online November 9th - 12th 2020
‘Death in Geological Time’ is screening at Docs Ireland as part of ‘Material Legacies’ curated by AEMI.
The programme explores ideas around family, lineage, inheritance, legacy, death and afterlife. The screening opens with two films by Irish artist Grace Weir, Dust Defying Gravity (2004) and A Reflection on Light (2015), both of which convey the fluid momentum of a relentlessly inquisitive subjective position in constant shift between past and present. From there we move into Renèe Helèna Browne’s Daddy’s Boy (2020), a recent commission for Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival which offers a highly personal reflection on the body, gender and family legacy refracted and entangled with considerations of the legacy of the T-Rex. Coleen Fitzgibbon’s Trip to Carolee (1973) follows with a kind of Super8 diary film documenting a road trip to feed the artist and experimental filmmaker Carolee Schneemann’s cat Kitsch. Kelly Gallagher’s film Pearl Pistols (2014) is a shiny stop-motion resurrection incorporating archival recordings of the American civil rights revolutionary Queen Mother Moore. Amanda Rice’s Death in Geological Time (2018) is a document of transformation, exploring the messy materials of life and death crystallised into new forms and the programme concludes with Alice Rekab’s Migration Sings (2020) which utilises a single image and recitation to examine a very personal experience of race, place, and belonging.
Material legacies
Grace Weir, Dust Defying Gravity, 2004, 4 minutes
Grace Weir, A Reflection on Light, 2015, 21 mins
Renèe Helèna Browne, Daddy’s Boy, 2020, 22 mins
Coleen Fitzgibbon, Trip to Carolee, 1974, 5 mins
Kelly Gallagher, Pearl Pistols, 2014, 3 minutes
Amanda Rice, Death in Geological Time, 2018, 4 minutes
Alice Rekab, Migration Sings, 2020, 2 minutes
Image: Grace Weir, Dust Defying Gravity, 2004
On Ancient Earth, The Artist Expedition Society x Lumen London /
Showing ‘Notes on the (Microscopical) Character of Krakatoa’ at ‘On Ancient Earth’ with The Artist Expedition Society x Lumen London, at The Earth Sanctuary in Central Australia. Running from Thursday the 24th of September.
Curated by Anna Dakin and Lumen London.
Featuring works by Kitoka Diva, DRAN, Nichola Rae, CAI, Sarah Edmondson, Amanda Rice, Lunar Breath, Hannah Scott, Anais Tondeur, Anna Ridler, Pale Blue Dot Collective (Louise Beer and John Hooper) and Anthony Carr.
On Ancient Earth is an exhibition about the relationships we have with the night sky. Projection and sounds based works by 15 artists from 8 countries have been exhibited outdoors at night at The Earth Sanctuary in Central Australia exclusively for the night sky.
Here, the landscape has been shaped by the forces of fire and water, rather than concrete and steel, and the night sky in Central Australia is uniquely dark.What lies beyond the outer edges of Earths atmosphere?
This question, when lying here in a swag at night, is stumbled upon naturally.
This exhibition reflects on our relationships with the night sky, which for so many during these Covid times, has been restricted due to lock down and light pollution.