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2/5/2008

2MOVE: Ireland

Belfast Exposed, Belfast

Curated by Mieke Bal and Miguel Hernandez-Navarro

2MOVE: Ireland presents an exciting range of video work by international artists exploring the connections between video, mobility, migratory culture and our contemporary world. 2MOVE: Ireland is part of a wider international touring project 2MOVE curated by internationally renowned cultural theorist and critic Mieke Bal and art historian Miguel Hernández-Navarro.

2MOVE: Ireland will be exhibited across two venues in Ireland (North and South): the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan and Belfast Exposed Photography.

WHY
Ireland has seen dramatic changes in the last decade, unprecedented economic growth and a reversal of the direction of migration – from emigration to immigration. We celebrate our diaspora and have begun to make sense of and respond to the complex social issues it can involve. As a society we now have a new phenomenon to make sense of, our increasing diversity. The international touring exhibition 2MOVE is timely in this regard and has the potential to make an important contribution to our changing self-understanding as a nation.

Across Ireland, North and South, cities, towns and villages have become more heterogeneous. For example, music, cinema and news media have been enriched through variety. Meanwhile, migrants also change. Their double relationship to host and home country produces an aesthetic, which, in turn, further contributes to changes in the host countries and their cultural expressions.

HOW
This exhibition captures this contemporary multiple sense of movement – in the media and the art it makes, and in the social movement and the cultural ‘look’ it brings with it. Taking video to be inherently connected to the migratory, the exhibition brings together a number of significant international video works. Connections between video and the culture of migration are explored – the sense of accessibility, experiment, novelty, and community.

As Ireland and Northern Ireland are newly experiencing significant levels of inward migration, we hope the outcome of this exciting exhibition will be multi-layered. We hope that as well as enriching the Irish art scene, 2MOVE: Ireland will generate discussions within and beyond the art world about the significance of the cultural changes and opportunities our new experience of migration has to offer, and the kinds of response that it demands.

WHAT
The exhibition consists of 29 video works, the core of which is curated by Mieke Bal and Miguel Hernández-Navarro. Most of these works are previously unseen in Ireland and explore a contemporary multiple sense of movement, both through the use of the moving image and the exploration of impacts of social movement and migration. We have included 3 works by Irish artists working on these subjects for the 2MOVE: Ireland exhibition.

Critically, a series of events – gallery talks, workshops and documentary film screenings on migration – will take place alongside the exhibition. This will facilitate greater understanding of migration and the significance of Ireland’s new experience of cultural change and the kinds of responses that it demands.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2MOVE: Ireland is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Department of Social Development, Esmée Fairbairn, Belfast City Council, Navan Town Council and Meath County Council and Limerick City Gallery of Art.

Belfast Exposed would like to thank Belfast Film Festival and Northern Visions for use of the back space at 23 Donegall Street.

2MOVE is curated by Mieke Bal and Miguel Hernández-Navarro.
2MOVE: Ireland is curated by Niamh Ann Kelly and Siún Hanrahan.

2MOVE has been exhibited in Murcia Cultural in Murcia, Spain; Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands and Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway. Website: http://www.doublemovement.org.
2MOVE is co-produced by Zuiderzeemuseum and Murcia Cultural (Murcia Cultural S.A. and Consejería de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes).

TEXT by: Siún Hanrahan and Niamh Ann Kelly.

Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place 23 Donegall Street - Belfast

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