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| The Projection Room The Projection Room, a designated room in County Hall, for screening of video artworks, DVD and film The Projection Room is curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey
SUKY BEST & RORY HAMILTON (UK) Suky Best and Rory Hamilton have been collaborating on works exploring cowboy films. They have
made a series of hand-drawn animated films based on generic scenes within these narratives.
Themes of heroism, the lone stranger putting things right; the anti-hero, cowboys and their leading
ladies, and the saloon fight, where only the protagonist and/or his companion (be they horse, tracker
ANDREA FRASER (USA) 20 October – 8 November Shot with hidden cameras in the Guggenheim
Bilbao, Little Frank and his Carp is based on an
unauthorised intervention in the museum
designed by Frank Gehry. Inspired by the text of the
audio guide as means of packaging corporatised
museums’ architecture, their collections and
exhibitions. Andrea Fraser is best known for her
performance critiques of art institutions, art
MARK WALLINGER (UK) 9 November – 16 November Threshold to the Kingdom is set at the arrivals gate at London City Airport. In negotiating the more or less authoritarian or coercive apparatus of the state, which define and control one’s progress from‘air-side’ to ‘land-side’, one is perhaps reminded of a secular equivalent of the progression from confession to absolution. Eventually, all that separates us from the no man’s land and the official terra firma of the state is a pair of automatic doors. This film plays with the symbolism that signals a change in state. The aura of security, the self-consciousness this induces, and the little drama of the final gates opening are amplified and transformed by the soundtrack into an altered state or delivery into the Kingdom of Heaven itself.
ANU PENNANEN (Finland) 17 November – 25 December Heavy Snowflakes is filmed in Kirkonummi, a small town 30 Kilometers from Helsinki, when the first snow was falling. Pennanen filmed a portrait of her parents in a landscape, which created a space separating and connecting her with the camera and her subject. Only local cars drive on the road, which is isolated from the motorway by a thin slice of forest and field. You can hear the sounds of the highway and airplanes in the distance. The walking couple are accompanied by a Lutheran hymn, which describes a child’s belief in the existence of a higher authority.
AILBHE NÍ BHRIAIN (Ireland) 28 Nov – 13 December “In my work I set out to interrupt the ‘believable’ space of the video image, displacing our perception of place and creating a dialogue between internal and external states. Ideas of Exile in its double form inform the work i.e. exile as a physical state of displacement and the work of art as exemplary exile - the image as a form of otherness or ‘being out of’. I see the gap between the real and illusory which video, by its nature, forces us to occupy, as a parallel to the ever-absent present occupied by the exile. It is this gap which I exploit in my video work, the slippage between ‘being in’ and ‘being out of’, where place and placelessness, internal and external, abstraction and representation merge.”
VIVIENNE GRIFFIN (Ireland) 28 Nov – 13 December Vivienne Griffin’s scaled video and slide projections take the form of temporary installations or publicly sited interventions. She is currently in residence in the National Sculpture Factory in Cork and researching for an MA programme in New York.
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