This day next week will see art and film collide in Dublin at a collaborative effort between aemi and the Irish Film Institute. The experimental arts org an the IFI will be presenting The Sun Gives Without Asking, curated by Sean Lynch on Wednesday 19th April at 6.30pm.
The upcoming screening programme is curated by artist Sean Lynch and will also feature work by Dan Graham, Paul Gregg & Annette Clancy, Magdalena Jitrik, Amanda Rice, and Jorge Satorre, alongside excerpts of Lynch’s own ongoing video project What Is An Apparatus?.
This screening will be followed by a discussion with Sean Lynch and Amanda Rice.
Revolving around the radical potential of storytelling, Lynch’s programme proposes forms of cultural pursuit that interrogate the complex motifs found deep in everyday life, place, and capitalist society.
Sean Lynch (b. 1978, Kerry, Ireland) is an artist living in Askeaton, Limerick. Alongside representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015, prominent exhibitions include Edinburgh Art Festival, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, CAPC Bordeaux and Modern Art Oxford. Since 2006, he has worked alongside Michele Horrigan at Askeaton Contemporary Arts.
Film information
Magdalena Jitrik, Pintura En Askeaton, 2009, Ireland/Argentina, DCP, 7 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Jorge Satorre, Windows Blowing Out, 2005, Ireland/Mexico, DCP, 7 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Dan Graham, Death by Chocolate: West Edmonton Shopping Mall (1986-05), 1986-2005, Canada/USA, Digital, 8 mins,
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, USA/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Amanda Rice, No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun, 2021, UK/Ireland, DCP, 21 minutes
Media footage featuring Paul Gregg and Annette Clancy, 1998, Ireland, DCP, 10 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 5 minutes
Running Time: 67 minutes
Tickets are available now from the IFI here.
aemi is an Arts Council-funded organisation that supports and exhibits artist and experimental film. For more information visit www.aemi.ie