Danse Macabre
Catalyst Arts and other local music venues
Thursday 22nd July - Friday 13th August
Free
Opening 6-9pm Thursday 22 July 2010.
Catalyst Arts will host a 4 week project, “Danse Macabre,” celebrating the collaborative nature of visual arts and music. The gallery exhibition features Heather Gabel, Martha Colburn, Helen McDonnell and Hornby, whose distinctive dark aesthetics each draw influence from punk rock genres through a diversity of mediums from sculpture and film to collage and tattoo illustration.
The project will also stage off-site collaborative performances between Irish musicians Logikparty and US based artist Martha Colburn, and workshops led by Heather Gabel offering participants the opportunity to create their own music and sleeve artwork.
Through these events Catalyst hopes to offer the public a more interactive experience within a gallery context, and to encourage multidisciplinary engagement between various art forms.
Events:Thursday 22 July, 10pm
Waterfront Hall Penthouse Bar
Martha Colburn (16mm film visuals) performing with Logikparty (Dublin based No-Wave band)
Heather Gabel DIY record workshop
Saturday 24 July, 1pm – 5pm
Catalyst Arts Gallery
Martha Colburn
Through a collage of live action (paint-on-glass) animations, found footage and documentary filmmaking techniques, her stop motion animation films are a disturbing and at times humorous take on popular and political culture. She created pieces to accompany the San Francisco-based band Deerhoof’s song “Wrong Time Capsule” in 2005 and Serj Tankien’s “Lie, Lie, Lie” in 2007, as well as an animation for the 2005 documentary about the musician Daniel Johnston entitled ‘The Devil and Daniel Johnston’. Most recently she appeared at All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by the Flaming Lips in NY alongside Deerhoof.
Heather Gabel
Heather has been active in the San Francisco art community for years, exhibiting her photographs, paintings and collages in shows around the bay area as well as across the country. She is moved to create visually fantastic situations that are not based in reality but, rather, that she has stumbled upon in her head. Inspired by fancy grandmas, mossy trees, jaunty caps, prosthetic limbs, flowers, old movies and the overall grandeur of the past, Heather cleverly juxtaposes classic imagery with clean, stark lines and cutting irony. Having lived in Chicago, Detroit, and Oakland, Heather has also done extensive design work for plenty of bands. Her day job is touring with friends, Alkaline Trio, designing and selling their merch. For them alone she has designed over 100 shirts. Some other repeat offenders include AFI, Rancid, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.
Helen McDonnell
Since training as a tattooist in Dublin, Helen has travelled extensively, spending time in Mexico, Polynesia, Southeast Asia and Japan among other places. Researching the skills and artistry of tattooing and related artwork has helped inform and inspire her both in her daily work as a tattooist and as an artist. The opening of Skullduggery Custom Tattoo Studio ten years ago in Belfast brought together the craft of tattooing and its broader cultural context as the studio co-exists with a contemporary art exhibition space. Helen’s had exhibited in New Zealand, Italy and collaborated in shows in Belfast. She is also a co-founder of the successful arts and craft fair The Black Market, Belfast.
Hornby
Hornby was bought his first guitar for Christmas 1993. It was a £129 package deal which included a Guitar. a 15 watt Practice amp, a strap and a cable. It was possibly the best Guitar he has ever owned. Not the actual Guitar it was awful but that Guitar was the beginning. He stood in his dining room on that Christmas day doing one simple thing over and over again… plucking the E string and listening to it strike and reverberate and decay. Endlessly, all day. There was something in that sound that has fascinated him ever since.
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Catalyst Arts and other local music venues
Thursday 22nd July,
Free
