Ronan McCrea

Gracelands participation, Saturday, September 26th

Posted by Ronan McCrea, on
21 September 2009, 08:09

Gracelands : Folly

Gracelands presents an outdoor day-into-evening programme of screenings of artists’ film and video, readings, live performance and sculpture, including several new commissions. The main event takes place in an intimate festive atmosphere in an unspoilt field below the Mimetic House, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim on Saturday, September 26th. (see information document, below). All welcome, admission free.

This year Gracelands considers Folly; foolishness or acts of madness, ornamental buildings designed as conversation pieces or theatrical sketches and songs. In doing so, it looks at the norms of what may be regarded as ‘constructive’ or ‘useful’. All kinds of follies are presented as propositions and occupations designed to show up the destructive or stultifying effects of more conventional behaviours and to suggest that overreaching and the ethics of making unlikely things can have a rehabilitative effect.

Events begin at 3, with a boat trip from Parke’s Castle, Lough Gill during which Aurelien Froment will present a staged reading of a recently published interview between the artist and filmmaker Werner Herzog. Places for this are limited so please book early, details follow.

Events at the Gracelands site commence at 5.
Screenings : Carlos Amorales / James Lee Byars / Les Blank / Karl Burke / Jimmie Durham / Factotum / Seamus Harahan / Pil and Galia Kollectiv / Oleg Kulik / Ronan McCrea / Alexsandra Mir / RW Paul / Wilhelm Sasnel / Bernard Smyth / Lili Dujourie (in Dromahair Village)

Sculpture/Installation : Gerard Byrne / Nina Canell / Declan Clarke / Sam Keogh / Bea McMahon / Dennis McNulty / Isabel Nolan / Grace Weir / Walker and Walker

Pre-loved heat exchange units : Rhona Byrne.

Live Presentations : Stephen Brandes (Domestic Godless) / Feint/Alice Rekab / Georgina Jackson / Mark Garry / Walker and Walker / economicthoughtprojects / The Wonky Choir (with reluctant conductor Jaki Irvine) / Swintak (courtesy Reverse Pedagogy) / Dominic Stevens

Readings : Jessica Foley / Bea McMahon / Sarah Hurl / Sarah Pierce / Padraic Moore

Gracelands will also make presentations at Culture Night in Sligo (Friday 25th) in response to the Reverse Pedagogy project, opening that night at the model satellite in Sligo. http://www.modelart.ie/culturenight.html. From 8 on O’Connell Street.
Sven Augustijnen / Feint / David Turpin / Grace Weir / Sam Keogh / Shelter by Rhona Byrne.
Graclands takes place on the grounds of the Mimetic House, Dromahair Co. Leitrim designed by Dominic Stevens. The viewing platforms and site for the event were also custom designed by Stevens.

Graclands: Folly features work from the collection of M HKA, Antwerp.

Curated by Vaari Claffey
Assistant Curator : Jennie Guy

Gracelands is produced in association with The Model, Sligo.

Gracelands is made possible by the support of

The exhibiting artists
Grace Weir and Joe Walker
The Irish Architecture Foundation
Leitrim County Council Arts Office
The British Council (Northern Ireland)
The Goethe Institut
Sue and Dave Raethorne
Image : Gracelands Inflated Folly drawing by Bea McMahon
Friday 25th, Gracelands Presentations for culture night O’Connell Street, Sligo at 8pm, in response to Reverse Pedagogy, opening at the Modelrelocating to the Model Satellite, Castle Street in case of rain.
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Saturday, September 26th
at 3pm
Aurelien Froment reading, The Rose of Innisfree, Parke’s Castle, Sligo
Supported by the Goethe Institut, DublinBOOKING ESSENTIAL at gracelandsis@gmail.com
A bus will collect from Sligo at 2.30 from the bus stop at the Yeats statue near the Glasshouse Hotel in Sligo, price 5 europlease indicate when you book if you wish to take this busThis bus will deliver to Gracelands Site after the boat trip.A bus will also collect from Dromahair Village, outside Stanford’s pub at 2.30/2.45pmhttp://www.roseofinnisfree.com/
at 5 events begin at Gracelands site.
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We suggest meeting at Stanford’s in Dromahair where you can get toasted sandwiches and excellent fruitcake before the event.Tea and scones are available on the boat.During the festival, Vegetarian Indian food, spicy hot chai, beer and water will be sold on site.At the end of the evening the Woodview Inn in Dromahair will provide us with free finger food (potato wedges, onion rings etc)
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Midsummer’s Cottage , 2 double bedrooms (in village centre)http://dromahaircottage.com/Owners/Bookings Mrs &Mrs Wright +44 (0)2087802586, +44(0)787015483E-mail: mail@dromahaircottage.com Self catering houses, http://www.selfcateringleitrim.com/index.phpPhone: + 353 (0) 71 9177615E-mail: bernard@mcsharryfoley.ie
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The venue for Gracelands is the Mimetic House, Shriff Crossroads, 2km from Dromahair village. Please note that once you have arrived in Dromahair you come to the end of the village (direction Sligo), take right hand fork uphill (signposted Ard Nahoo). Stay on this road, keeping left at next fork (marked stone, Newtownmanor ). House is immediately on left before crossroads.
Train from Dublin – there are 10 euro trains available online, for those arriving on Saturday, the 11 o’clock train will bring you to Sligo in time to catch the bus to Parke’s Castle
.http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/printed_timetable_pdfs/2009/Dublin20Sligo2009.pdf
Travelling by bus from Dublin http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1210688579-23.pdf
Travelling by car:http://www.aaireland.ie/routes/ eg. Dublin to Dromahair
For those travelling by train, Collooney is as close to Dromahair as Sligo and is a 20 euro taxi-ride away. Negotiate the price in advance. Ciaran Clinton is the local (and cheapest) taxi – book in advance 087 9164000.
His details are on http://www.dromahair.ie/

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http://www.dromahair.ie/ contains the useful Dromahair Directory – last minute Wellies can be bought in Gilmor’s Spar on the main street
DRESS WARMLY AND BRING WATERPROOFS; WELLIES ARE ESSENTIAL AS THE GROUND MAY BE WET. YOU MAY NEED A SMALL TORCH.
If you bring children, please keep them with you at all times.