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THE MUNTER HITCH : DAN SHIPSIDES AND SEAMUS HARAHAN
THURSDAY 26 MARCH
OPENS 6PM - 8PM
GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY
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ADMISSION: FREE
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THIS EXHIBITION RUNS FROM 20TH MARCH – 18TH APRIL 2009
DAN SHIPSIDES – GALLERY 1
SEAMUS HARAHAN – GALLERY 2
Seamus Harahan is a Belfast-based artist working primarily in film and video. For this show he is presenting two new works.
Splitting in Two, 2008 If it’s a question of me or you, I never, ever know quite what to do because I’m always too late, I’m biting my nails, I’m splitting in two. If it’s a question of loving you, there’s a barrier that I can’t break through, because I’m lonely and sad, I’m biting my nails, I’m splitting in two. Mark Perry, Alternative TV. Before Sunrise (2007) is an experiment in response to On a Beautiful Day, a film made by artist KP Brehmer in 1969. He was asked by a friend to retrace a walk along the Berlin Wall and to record it on film. Harahan was asked by a fellow artist to do the same through Alexandra Park in North Belfast. He was given a super-8 camera and one reel of film. The camera leads the viewer to a peace line separating the people of the neighbourhood.
Dan Shipsides Echo Valley / A Guiding Dilemma
An exploratory art project based around climbing with a blind person.
“I have no sight at all - so I didn’t have any fear climbing – it probably helps not to have any idea of what 20metres looks like from above. As long as it feels safe I enjoy the climbing and I don’t have any fear - it doesn’t come into my mind. The only time I’m scared of heights is in my dreams.”
Over the last fifteen years Dan Shipsides has developed an art practice which uses climbing to think creatively about the spaces around us - in particular landscape spaces and ideas about what landscape is or could be.
The Golden Thread Gallery, Switch Room, 84-94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast, BT1 2LU.
Tel: 028 9033 0920 Email: info@gtgallery.org.uk Web: www.gtgallery.org.uk
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