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booksmart Curated by Joshua Rios Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas Nov 7 – Dec 12 2009 Okay Mountain proudly presents "booksmart," a group exhibition featuring works by Joshua Callaghan, Gareth Long, Neva Elliott, Heman Chong, Anthony Romero, William Hundley, and Erick Michaud. "booksmart" deals with artistic outputs that re-order, deconstruct, or alter the book as a cultural system, either for critique, humor, formal investigation, or all three. Although the artists in "booksmart" have an interest in the book as a catalyst for imaginative thinking, they are by no means limited to this particular interest. "booksmart" includes and excludes certain types of artistic production in order to communicate a specific narrative that relates to the cultural phenomenon of the book as an intellectual structure. www.okaymountain.com Accumulator Curated by Amanda Coogan Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow. Inaugual programme, Sept 24 – Dec 2009 Accumulator is a series of live durational performance pieces curated by Amanda Coogan. There will be six performances by six artists, including the curator, who will open the programme. Each artist will be required to deal with the detritus of the previous artist's work, hence the title, Accumulator. Also part of the exhibition will be short audio-visual gallery works as well as recorded footage of previous performances as the show progresses over the three month period. This exhibition will bring together some of the exceptional practitioners in performance art from Ireland and abroad. Included are senior figures of Irish performance practice Alastair MacLennan and Brian Connolly as well as younger generation of practitioners Declan Rooney and Neva Elliot, both Carlow artists currently living in Berlin and London respectively. Completing the line-up is Yinmei Duan, a Chinese artist who has built a strong international reputation. The exhibition will serve not only as an overview of a potent practice in the visual arts but will be flagging new directions in presentation and collaborative practice in the visual arts in Ireland. Sat Oct 3rd - Neva Elliot, 2pm - 8pm Broken Hearts United by Neva Elliott is a performative work taking an individual private process and making it public and collective through setting up a club open day. See Broken Hearts United (link to work page) for more details. www.visualcarlow.ie Unrealised projects Vol. 4 Guest curated by Josh Love in collaboration with Sam Ely and Lynn Harris. B-Sides and Rarities, Lokaal 01 in Breda, Netherlands September 20- December 12 2009 'The theme for Volume 4 centres on an exchange of moral rights, production roles, obligation, and the notion of realising unrealised works. Over the next few months and through a discursive production program, each work is to be readdressed as 'realisable' for the limited duration of an exhibition that will occur later in the year. With a discursive, practical and legal approach to the interpretation of your project's ideas, we aim to focus on the artist's intellectual property rights and producer's moral rights when developing projects collaboratively. Traceable similarities between unrealised works will become apparent within the production of Volume 4 projects, and be made visible in the exhibition of them. The framing of volumes on Unrealised Projects as separate entities is to be shifted in an exhibition platform that relates unrealised projects both spatially and in productional development. This project seeks to license the copyright for the production of each artist's work to be represented spatially. Unrealised Projects and Josh Love will hold equal share in the licensed copy of production for this period of time and in turn offer the labour, funding and platform for the work to be shown.' www.unrealisedprojects.org Sligo Local Elliott Harris Feb - Oct 2009 Sligo Local is a project through the local arts community in and around Sligo, Ireland. We're interested in generating support systems and means to facilitate the self management and empowerment of artistic practice. Specifically our approach looks at how discussion, collaborative engagement, artist-led activity and networks offer the kind of non-hierarchical support that grows a practice naturally. Through a series of discussions and meetings we have engaged local artists with the goal of creating an tools and platforms designed to serve the community. Please see www.elliottharris.org news section for updates on the project www.elliottharris.org