Basement Project Space Announcement

Oct. 22, 2009

Type: event
Location: IE
Starts: Nov 13 2009 at 12:00AM
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[size=40] Basement Project Space[/size]
[size=40]Announcement:[/size]

[size=20]We Are Delighted to Announce the two selected artists for the 3 week residency at Basement Project Space. The Artists were selected through an open call for submissions process.
The two artists are:[/size]

[size=20] Alan James Burns[/size] [size=10](IRE)[/size] [size=20]&[/size] [size=20]Monique Besten[/size] [size=10](NL)[/size]

Alan James Burns is a video installation artist living and working in Cavan and Dublin in Ireland. Burns graduated with a 1st class honours BA in Fine Art from DIT in 2008 and his recent activities include: Generation - Project Art Center, May 2009. Residency at Cyland Media Arts Lab, National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2009. www.alan-burns.com
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[size=10]Alan James Burns, Doings-Three Channel Video Projection Still[/size]

Monique Besten
Monique Besten’s work traverses installation, video and performance. Besten holds a B.A. in Fine Art, M.A. in History and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Recent activity includes: Art project & Group exhibition New Riddles & Constellations I, II, III & IV, Amsterdam & Kolderveen (NL), 2004 - ongoing. Solo exhibition Now Here, At Home Gallery, Šamorín (SK) 2007. www.moniquebesten.nl.

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[size=10]Monique Besten - Jó világ van ("Life is good")- 40.000 post-it notes with handwritten text (2005)[/size]

We are very excited to be hosting and facilitating these two artists to develop a new body of work in response to the Art Trail 2009 theme ‘Rediscovering Locality’

The Residency begins on the 23rd October until the 12th of November and they will be exhibiting their work at the Basement Project Space as part of the Art Trail 2009 festival which is running from the 13th of November until the 22nd of November. And the official opening of this exhibition will be held on Sunday the 15th November @ 5pm - 7pm

Basement Project Space:
A co-operative Artist-led space, founded in July 2009 and located on Camden Quay, Cork city, Ireland
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for more info about the space and the residency visit: www.basementprojectspace.wordpress.com
for info about the ArtTrail 2009 festival visit: www.arttrail.ie