EXHIBITION: ARTUR ŻMIJEWSKI at RHA, Thursday, November 18th, 6-8pm

Runs 19th Nov – 22nd Dec, 2010.

 Gallery II & III: RHA, Ely Place, Dublin 2,.


Video screening:
 Two Monuments 2009, Democracies 2009

In 2008 the Fire Station Artists Studios, as part of its annual Studio Award, invited Polish artist Artur Żmijewski to develop a project in Dublin, that would take as a starting point, the changing nature of Polish Irish relations and the labour market. Over a series of visits to Dublin in 2008-2009 the artist invited Polish and Irish unemployed men and women to take part in a series of intense workshops. The artist filmed and edited the results into Two Monuments (2009). Democracies consists of 20 short videos made by Żmijewski between 2007 and 2009, in cities and towns across Europe exploring the diversity of political uses of public space. These videos which play simultaneously, include a protest against the Israeli occupation in the West bank, a Loyalist parade in Belfast, a re-enactment of the Warsaw Uprising, and a crowd of German and Turkish football fans.

Launch of publication:
 The Applied Social Arts : Artur Żmijewski . Includes essays by Dave Beech and Artur Żmijewski. Edited by Fire Station Artists’ Studios. Available for purchase at RHA and through Fire Station Artists Studios.

Panel discussion: Friday 3rd Dec: 2pm- 3.30 pm Venue: RHA.

‘The ethics of collaboration within socially engaged arts practice.’ with Dave Beech, (UK writer/ artist), Dr Aine O Brien (Director of the Forum on Migration and Communications FOMACS) and Jesse Jones
(artist). Chaired by Liz Burns (Fire Station Artists’ Studios).

For further information contact:
RHA, Ely Place, Dublin 2, T:+353 1 6612558. www.royalhibernianacademy.ie
Fire Station, T:+353 1 8069012. www.firestation.ie