Bisan Abu-Eisheh
Doa Aly
Kjersti G. Andvig
Martí Anson
Amanda Beech
Ann Bottcher
Jenny Brady
Benjamin de Burca
Barbara Wagner
+billion-
Luis Camnitzer
Chimurenga
Jacqueline Doyen
Tom Flanagan
Megs Morley
Zachary Formwalt
GRRRR
Nilbar Gures
Rana Hamadeh
Siobhan Hapaska
Nicoline van Harskamp
Cecile Hartmann
Malak Helmy
David Horvitz
Luis Jacob
Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock
Ramon Kassam
Patrick Jolley
Hassan Khan
Per-Oskar Leu
Alon Levin
Sofie Loscher
Mona Marzouk
Pauline M'barek
Asier Mendizabal
Metahaven
Nastio Mosquito
Catalina Niculescu
Seamus Nolan
Mark O'Kelly
Uriel Orlow
Nesa Paripovic
Michael Patterson-Carver
Garrett Phelan
Elizabeth Price
Raqs Media Collective
Iswanto Hartono
Eva Richardson McCrea
Walid Sadek
Miri Segal
Ann-Sofi Siden
Praneet Soi
Paul Tarpey
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Humberto Velez
Carla Zaccagnini
Bassam El Baroni
Agitationism. This Ireland's Biennial features works by 56 Irish and international artists, selected from over 2000 proposals by artists in 96 countries. It simulates the sense of living under agitation while capturing how we are slowly adapting to a different perception of the world by working through our relationships with historical ideologies, post-colonial narratives, other beings (including animals), and speculations about the not-so-distant future.
curated by Bassam El Baroni
Participating artists:
Bisan Abu-Eisheh, Doa Aly, Kjersti Andvig, Martí Anson, Amanda Beech, Ann Böttcher,
Jenny Brady, Benjamin de Búrca & Barbara Wagner, +billion- (James Merrigan), Luis Camnitzer,
Chimurenga, Jacqueline Doyen, Tom Flanagan & Megs Morley, Zachary Formwalt, GRRRR
(Ingo Giezendanner), Nilbar Güreş, Iswanto Hartono & Raqs Media Collective, Rana Hamadeh,
Siobhán Hapaska, Nicoline van Harskamp, Cécile Hartmann, Malak Helmy, David Horvitz,
Luis Jacob, Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock, Ramon Kassam, Patrick Jolley, Hassan Khan,
Per–Oskar Leu, Alon Levin, Sofie Loscher, Mona Marzouk, Pauline M'barek, Asier Mendizabal,
Metahaven, Nástio Mosquito, Catalina Niculescu, Seamus Nolan, Mark O'Kelly, Uriel Orlow,
Neša Paripović, Michael Patterson-Carver, Garrett Phelan, Elizabeth Price, Eva Richardson
McCrea, Walid Sadek, Miri Segal, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Praneet Soi, Paul Tarpey, Stefanos
Tsivopoulos, Humberto Vélez, Carla Zaccagnini
extreme tension of the brain in its attempt to determine something perceived as
previously undetermined – such as a sublime experience of nature. These agitations usually
recast the sense of the human self accompanying all thinking into a clearly distinguishable
entity, treating it as if it were something we could claim to really understand.
Agitationism, on the one hand, is the condition of living under a constant flow of agitations,
including the ones that you inevitably sometimes produce yourself. However, it is also the
process of ‘working through’ them with the aim of seeking adaptation to a logic situated
somewhere else beyond the entrapment between past, present, and future – three tenses that
overlap in the contemporary moment creating a kind of palimpsest of half undone histories,
half imagined futures, and a present of phantasms as a consequence.
EVA 2014 AGITATIONISM simulates the sense of living under agitation while capturing how
we are slowly adapting to a different perception of the world by working through our
relationships with historical ideologies, post-colonial narratives, other beings (including
animals), and speculations about the not-so-distant future. The notion of AGITATIONISM is
activated throughout by Garrett Phelan’s project ...THAT TENSE EXPECTATION... an
intervention into the identity output associated with EVA 2014, from branding and advertising,
to merchandise and a series of slogans in public space around the city. ...THAT TENSE
EXPECTATION... reflects the confusion and disjuncture within systems of conviction and
principles – unknown spaces or entities. It represents both certainty and true irrationality or
perhaps ultimately the energy used when trying to rationalize the impossible.
AGITATIONISM is part of Limerick City of Culture 2014 and presents projects and new
commissions generously supported by: Outset England and Outset Netherlands as part of
the International Production Fund; Acción Cultural Española, AC/E; Artis Grant Progam;
Coleção Teixeira de Freitas; Etxepare Basque Institute; French Embassy in Ireland; Iaspis,
the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Program; Kontakt, the Art Collection of
Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation; Mondriaan Fund; Office for Contemporary Art Norway,
OCA; the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Prior to the opening of AGITATIONISM in Limerick EVA is holding a full program launch and
symposium at IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin:
EVA 2014 Program Launch and performance by Nastio Mosquito
Friday 21 March, 19h
EVA 2014 Prequel Symposium: It Makes us Think of a Dance and a Fête as Much as of
War (On Violence)
Saturday 22 March, 12–19h
Contributors: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Hadrien
Laroche, Paulo Tavares, Milica Tomić
Screening by: Jean-Luc Godard
Curated by Doreen Mende
This symposium is the third and final part of Artistic Justice: Positions on the Place of Justice in
Art a series of three symposia leading up to EVA 2014. Artistic Justice: Positions on the Place
of Justice in Art is supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation, has been developed in
partnership with Dar al-Ma'mûn, Marrakech and is presented in partnership with IMMA | Irish
Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
For further information or details about the program, Dublin launch, symposium and
professional preview accreditation please see www.eva.ie or contact info@eva.ie.
Image: Garrett Phelan, A MOMENT OF THREAT, 2014. Assorted pens, Indian ink, Tippex on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy the artist.
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Professional preview: Thursday 10 April
Opening: Friday 11 April
Venues:
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Carnegie Building - Pery Square - Limerick City
Opening times
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Thursday: 10.00am – 8.30pm
Saturday: 10.00am – 5.00pm
Sunday: 12.00pm – 5.00pm
Closed on Bank & Public Holidays
Kerry Group fromer Golden Vale Milk Plant
North Circular Road - O'Callaghan Strand - Limerick
Opening times
Daily: 12.00pm – 5.00pm
Closed on Bank & Public Holidays
The Hunt Museum
The Custom House - Rutland Street, Limerick
Opening times:
Monday to Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Sunday and Bank Holidays 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Closed Good Friday (April 18) & Easter Sunday (April 20)
Bourn Vincent Gallery
University of Limerick - Limerick
Opening times
Daily: 12.00pm–5.00pm
Closed Bank & Public Holidays
Limerick Greyhound Stadium
Greenpark - Dock Road - Limerick
Opening times
Saturday 12 April 6–11pm