Catalyst Arts is UNDERCONSTRUCTION: DAY BY DAY

15/04/13

UNTITLED GALLERY

14/04/13

ADRIEN AROUD & MARTIN HYDE The Troubles (the solution) Movie projection on Saturday 13th April

HOLD^UP talk This is a Stick Up project

12/04/13

TWELVE/ELEVEN - UNTITLED GALLERY OPENING

photos by Jordan Hutchings

09/04/13

TEXT BY BRYAN BIRTLES

At its most basic, construction is about hope. I don’t want to get too sentimental or grandiose about it: it’s just an honest hope that the future can be made better by the work we put in today.

I’ve noticed that business is a bit precarious in this town. Blame it on the recession, call it a penchant for risk-taking, but businesses open and close constantly around here.
And so, Belfast feels like an unfinished city to me, one constantly being worked on, tweaked. Each day, somewhere along my road, there’s construction being done. I see workmen walking in and out of empty shops all the time, their clothes covered in paint and dust, hauling drywall and wood to skips that sit in the bus lane.
They take a space that was one thing—and failed at being that thing, I guess—and turn it into a space that is a new thing. And then the whole neighbourhood waits to see if that works.
Each job is a leap of faith. Somewhere there’s a person with an idea, who brought in a bunch of people to help her realize it. Tangled up in the construction is that idea and the hope that people will respond well to it, that the shop will be successful and stay open for the long term, be able to pay the rent, to sell its products or services, to be able to make it all work.
Within the act of construction is the hope for the future that may or may not come, but we bet that it will come and that we will be there to see it and we build and we build and we refuse to be knocked back by failure, we refuse to be knocked back by foreclosure. We gut the place and we build it again.
Sometimes we let that hope expand into something bigger than a shop. The Parthenon wasn’t built for a single generation, nor was the Colosseum. Humans construct monuments to their existence to be read by other humans well into the future. Through what we construct when we’re alive we can, in a sense, live forever.
But, like I said, I don’t want to get too grandiose about it. All construction is a message to the future, one that says, “I was here, I existed, I was human.”

07/04/13

6th April - EARS WORKSHOPS W/ BARRY CULLEN - UNTITLED GALLERY

photos by Jordan Hutchings

06/04/13

5th APRIL - LAWRENCE STREET WORKSHOPS - BREAD -

photos by Jordan Hutchings

Stop Motion

05/04/13

LATE NIGHT ART - PAUL CHAZAL ' Tell Me More Smiley Faces

04/04/13

3rd April - Second Day of Construction

2nd April 2013 - First Day of construction -

03/04/13

Lawrence Street Workshop - Bread

Every Friday at Catalyst Arts

02/04/13

OPENING NIGHT on 1st April 2013

28/03/13

HOLD^UP

THIS IS A STICK UP!

We have the pleasure to announce a new Hold^Up intervention: This is a stick up , at Catalyst Arts Gallery in Belfast, from April 1st to 24th, 2013, as part of the exhibition UNDERCONSTRUCTION.

On this occasion H^U will take you hostage.

For this intervention, H^U has asked Catalyst Arts Gallery to purchase the license for a Getty image, by doing so the collective enlarges the gallery and the image becomes another exhibition room. Choosing this particular image is no coincidence; consider for instance the present realities and tensions it evokes.

At the end of the mail you will find a link, click on it and a virtual device will operate. The image will appear and it will trigger a network of iconographic references. This symbolic confrontation emphasizes the strenuous relationship each of us has with society and representation, for better or for worse.

If we agree that an image is in a certain way a “hold up”, how can we subvert that meaning? How can we divert from the target? How can we resist? In any case, he who subverts last, subverts best.

Hold^Up expects your participation, individual and collective, taking this image as the trigger. If you are to carry through you will need to be reactive, manage your stress and act in cold blood.

Your proposals will make a re-appearance in the gallery in Belfast through a printer and the works will be shown.

You are free to act incognito or to include your name, or names, on your work(s).

Stay strong!

Link: http://understickup.blogspot.fr/

Please send your participation to holdup.team@gmail.com

From the date of the opening there will be an online slide show where you will be able to check the images contributed.

Please share this mail.

The Hold^Up Team

http://holdupteam.blogspot.fr/

25/03/13

EARS