is a special series of PERSPECTIVES that invites different artistic responses to the exhibition From the Sources, created by Mel Mercier to commemorate the Fleischmann centenary.
From the Sources contains some 20 hours of footage, capturing 840 performances on all the traditional instruments presented in multiple, simultaneous projections to create a collage of images and sounds in the uppermost gallery of the Glucksman.
PERSPECTIVES: invites performers from a range of fields including dance, music and poetry, to react to this unique installation of sound and video material. DOWNLOAD EVENT FLYER HERE.
A POETIC RESPONSE 3pm, 3 October
This event in the Perspectives series invites a group of poets to respond to From the Sources and its mixture of recorded sound and video footage. Through a series of overlapping and intermingling readings, the poets will create an immersive environment that re-creates and responds to the structure of the installation. Participating poets are Liam Ó Muirthile, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Gabriel Rosenstoc.
s poetry collections include Tine Chnámh (Sáorséal Ó Marcaigh, 1984), which was awarded the Irish-American Cultural Institute Prize; Dialann Bothair (Gallery, 1992); Walking Time agus Dánta eile, (Conamara, Cló Iar Chonnachta, 2000); An Seileitleán agus véarsaí seilí eilí, (Baile Átha Cliath: Cois Life Teoranta, 2004); and Sanas (Cois Life, 2007),
Tine Chnámh was produced in the Project Theatre, Dublin, in 1993, followed by Fear an Tae at Andrews Lane Theatre and An Taidhbheaarc, Galway in 1995.
His novel Ar Bhruach na Laoi (Comhar, 1995) won the Duais chuimhneacháin Sheáin Uí Éogeartaigh.
is the author/translator of over 100 books, including 12 volumes of poetry in Irish and a number of volumes of bilingual haiku. A member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters, he has given readings in Europe, the US, India, Australia and Japan. He has translated into Irish the selected poems of, among others, Francisco X. Alarcon, S. Heaney, G. Grass, W M Roggeman, Said, M. Augustin, P. Huchel, G. Trakl, G. Heym, H. Schertenleib and his Irish-language versions of haiku masters Issa, Buson, Shiki, Santoka and others are much loved in his native country.
is one of the most popular of contemporary Irish poets. Her works include FéarSuaithinseach (1984); Rogha Dánta/Selected Poems (1986, 1988, 1990); Pharaoh's Daughter (1990); Feis (1991); The Astrakhan Cloak (1992), and The Water Horse (selected translations with parallel text 1991). Ní Dhomhnaill received the 1988 O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry and the 1991 American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She served as visiting professor of Irish Studies at NYU and Boston College in 1999. She was named Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2002 - 2004. Her most recent publication is The Fifty Minute Mermaid (Bilingual, translations by Paul Muldoon) from Gallery Press in 2007.
3pm, 10 October
In May 2008 Elaine Agnew was appointed as the first RTÉ lyric fm Composer-in-
Residence in association with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Elaine's many
works have been performed worldwide by artists such as Lontano Concorde, the
Vogler Quartet, the National Chamber Choir, the Kaunas Chamber Choir, the
European Union Chamber, Ulster Youth and Irish Chamber Orchestras, pianists
Angela Hewitt and Romain Descharmes and conductors Takuo Yuasa and Jane
Glover.
and 3pm, 17 October
Palle Mikkelborg is a Danish composer and musician with an international
reputation, whose work has brought him into contact with leading figures in
contemporary music. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes, including 2
Grammy Awards for the recording of the work he was commissioned to write for
Miles Davis’ Aura and a Danish Grammy for best jazz album for his Anything But
Grey. Singer and composer Iarla O Lionáird is a prolific recording artist; he has
released two solo albums with Real World Records and is core member of the Afro
Celt Sound System. Iarla developed his voice in Seán Ó Riada’s choir, Cór Chúil
Aodha and collaborated on countless albums and film soundtracks including The
Gangs of New York and Hotel Rwanda. An iconic influence on, and a pioneer of, the
renewal of sean nós as an art form, twice Grammy-nominated O Lionáird is a
treasure of Irish music.
MÍCHEÁL Ó'SÚILLEABHÁIN & FROM THE SOURCES MUSICIANS 3pm, 24 October
From The Sources musicians directed by Mel Mercier will perform the first revival of Mícheál O Súilleabháin's innovative composition: EGLEGO for Traditional Musicians
and Tape. Composed in 1984 and first performed at the Aula Maxima, UCC that
year, this is a rare opportunity to hear a work that in the words of the composer
"seeks to 'pick up' global listenings for Irish traditional music across the cultural air".
Mícheál O Súilleabháin is one of Ireland's best known musicians with over ten
recordings on the EMI label, many with the Irish Chamber Orchestra performing
compositions and arrangement by him under his direction. EMI will release his new
CD 'ELVER GLEAMS New and Selected Tracks' in October of this year. In 2005, he
was awarded an Honorary D.Mus by the National University of Ireland at his alma
mater, University College Cork.
is generously supported by Cork City Council.
All events are free and take place at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery.
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