Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Alice Rekab Public Programme

 

Alice Rekab Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics Public Programme (Part 2) Alice Rekab is a Dublin-based, Irish Sierra Leonean artist who uses their identity as a starting point to examine the intersection of personal and shared historical and cultural narratives. Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is an exhibition by Rekab that explores themes of familial and artistic connections, diaspora, and sense of place and belonging. It features commissioned, newly made works engaging with the location of SIRIUS in Cork Harbour along with a comprehensive selection of past works that trace fragments of the artist’s mixed-race experience. To accompany the exhibition, SIRIUS presents a public programme this February and early March, comprising various events that address the themes and ideas of Rekab’s practice. These events include screenings, performances and workshops by artists and curators based both locally and internationally.  Dylan Kerr. Photograph: Camille Blake. Courtesy of the artist PERFORMANCES Alice Rekab and guest artists D.OTU, Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmine Wood SIRIUS presents a day of performances and screenings by Alice Rekab and guest artists D.OTU, Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp and Jasmine Wood. The works respond to Rekab’s positioning of the Atlantic Ocean as a terrain of mythological recovery that encapsulates stories common to Irish and Black people, including change, repression and resistance across history. SIRIUS Saturday, 22 February 11am - 7pm Free; no booking required Dylan Kerr 11am - 1pm Berlin-based artist Dylan Kerr’s performance is staged between the basement at SIRIUS and Cork Harbour, and engages with the colonial context of the SIRIUS building and questions of endurance and trauma. The performance lasts 24 hours, beginning and ending on 21/22 February in line with Cork Harbour’s tide times. Alice Rekab 2pm Dublin-based artist Alice Rekab’s performance explores their identity and family lineage, both informed by mixed-race experiences, through text and archival imagery drawn from personal and official holdings that engages with themes of belonging and displacement. Jasmine Wood 3pm Dublin-based artist Jasmine Wood’s performance explores their Native American heritage, specifically Blackfeet songs recorded in 1914 on the Montana reservation, and combines voice, analogue instruments, existing audio and field recordings. Eamon Ivri 4pm Cork City-based artist Eamon Ivri’s performance addresses questions of the transmutation of memories and experiences into a material for salvaging and repurposing, and combines vocal sampling, manipulated existing audio and field recordings. D.OTU 5pm Cork City-based artist D.OTU’s performance reflects on the intersection of haptic and subconscious knowledges through the use of Irish traditional instruments, vocals and electronic instruments in real-time engagement with the SIRIUS building. polyp 6pm Dublin-based artist polyp’s performance addresses themes of memory, agency and feminism through a DJ set informed by the fabric of, and stories associated with, the SIRIUS building. Cian Ó Donnchadha 11am - 7pm Dublin-based artist Cian Ó Donnchadha’s film, Show Me Something That Does Not Move, explores myth-making through imagery and sound generated with analogue sources that connect landscape with human and more than human relationships. Alice Rekab performing at SIRIUS, 2024. Photograph: Giles Carey Visuals. Courtesy of the artist Sirius Arts Centre The Old Yacht Club Westbourne Place Cobh, Co. Cork P24 F209 Ireland siriusartscentre.ie Opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11:00 - 17:00