The week of Iron R 2!

The National Sculpture Factory & CIT/ Crawford College of Art & Design

Presents

Meitheal na hAbhann : 

A Collective Gathering on the River

A Performance By Matt Toole

Soundscapes by Mick O’Shea & Alex Pentek

April 10th Thurs Night 8:00 - 9:30 pm

Kennedy Quay , On The Waterfront.

Matt Toole’s interest in the transformation of materials has inspired a series of performance events that highlight the moment when a work of art is created. Focusing on the process of casting iron, his performances serve not only as a means to create objects but to connect the resulting objects to the actions that manifested them. 

In an effort to bring a sculpture’s inception to light, the act, or ritual, functions to de-emphasize the manufacture of the object as the sole purpose for the act. In these performances the structures used to melt, pour, and receive the molten metal essentially function as artworks that create other works of art; utilising fire as a means of destruction while simultaneously employing it as an instrument of origination. Most often the event is a tribute to the rite of creative expression, focusing on the power of a collective experience rather than that of an individual artist acting alone to create.

For the Iron R2 project, Matt will work in cooperation with CCAD students and visiting artists to create a waterfront performance that is indicative of his contraption based events engendering not only his process driven performative work but the collaborative, transformative ethos of Iron R2.

This is an out-door performance so please dress appropriately. This event may be postboned due to adverse weather conditions and will be re-programmed for the same time on Saturday 12th April.

Please check our website for further announcements.

http://nationalsculpturefactory.com/

Matt Toole would graciously like to thank Mick Wilkins (artist) for his support & incredibly generosity; Ronan Bradbury, Mara Muller Tolk and Lynn Dennehy (students from CCAD) for all their work on the pyres; James Hayes and the rest of the CCAD staff for making a new furnace, Axel, for this event.; Mick O'Shea (Sound artist) and Alex Pentek (artist) for their soundscape collabroation; and finally Donal Dilworth (NSF) without whose help this performance would not have materialised

Special thanks to the overall Iron R2 crew :

IR2 Panel : Eilís O’Connell (Artist) and Patrick T. Murphy (Director at the RHA Gallery)

(SCAD) Matt Toole; (CCAD/CIT) Orla Flynn, Trish Brennan, Fergal Goulding, Trevor Whelan, Liam Rice, Debbie Dawson, Roisin Collins, John Cronin, Pat O’Shea; (MCP) Gerry Wycherley & Diarmuid O’Sullivan; (Cork Rent A Van) John Seaman; (Carey Tools) Ken Carey; (McCarthy Insurance Group) Peter Kirwan; (Hurrah Hurrah) Robin; Asgrove Recycling; Tipperary Water; (Cork City Council) Martin O’Brien; Mick Wilkins; (The Guest House) Mick O’Shea & Irene 

Murphy; Brian Cronin; Coughlan’s Bar; Cork Film Centre; Cork Civil Defense.

IR2 Project Team : James L. Hayes; Mary McCarthy; Dobz O’Brien; Donal Dilworth; Elma O’Donovan; Fiona Hegarty; John Booth; Sarah Kelleher.

 David Dobz O'Brien Programmes Manager National Sculpture Factory, Albert Rd, Cork City. dobz@nationalsculpturefactory.com www.nationalsculpturefactory.com 00 353 (0)21 4314353 00 353 (0)87 934 2911