Critical Voices 3 in association with MA Visual Arts Practices (IADT), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and Project Arts Centre, presents screenings and panel discussions focussing on visual artists who direct, script and choreograph others in live action performed for the camera (8 & 9 December).

Friday, 8 December, 6.30pm
Venue: Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Launch screening of Intermittent – a programme of artists’ videos dealing with performance.

Saturday, 9 December, 11.00am
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Iwona Blazwick, curator, critic, art historian and Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London will be guest speaker at Performing the Moving Image: Artists, Critics and Curators in Conversation.

Her talk will centre on the Short History of Performance seasons, initiated in 2002. The most recent season, A Short History of Performance Part IV (1-14 April 2006) included daily screenings and talks by artists such as Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Judith Barry, Gerard Byrne, James Coleman, Isaac Julien, Barbara Kruger, Aernout Mik and Francesco Vezzoli.

The seminar continues until 6pm with contributions from Vaari Claffey and Paul O'Neill, the curators of  Intermittent; Gerard Byrne, one of the artists featured in A Short History of Performance, Part IV; and a panel discussion chaired by Maeve Connolly, Head of the Dept of Film and Media, IADT.

This will be followed by screenings co-curated by MA Visual Arts Practices and Temple Bar Gallery.
Studio 6 at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, 3.30 – 6 p.m

Booking from IADT: amanda.ralph@iadt.ie or: +3531 214 4716.