PLACE presents

Out of Place

Various locations, Belfast City Centre
Thursday 1st July - Saturday 31st July
During July
Free

Out of PLACE is a PLACE project that seeks to generate activity in vacant shop units in Belfast City Centre. PLACE will focus on animating one vacant unit at a
time by programming a rich content of cultural activity within these spaces.

By using these vacant units, PLACE intends to increase public safety by having the space active and bright and offering an alternative way to use the city centre.

Paint By Numbers. Trans (Castle Lane / July)

From 5 – 25 July 2010, the trans festival will bring together an artist, a designer and an architect to design three large-scale paint-by-numbers pieces at out of PLACE. The lines will be blurred between artist and voyeur as the public watch the artists at work before being invited to take over and complete the work themselves.

Next up, from Monday 12 July, Ryan O’Reilly:

In an ongoing project called ‘Day or Night’, Ryan has been documenting and creating work inspired by remnants of signage and typography found amongst the redevelopment of the city. For ‘Paint by Numbers’, Ryan will invite visitors to explore the variety of lettering and geometric patterns to be found in our urban environment and create a collaborative collage based on these forms and fragments.

Ryan O’Reilly is a designer and illustrator based in Belfast. Interested in combinations of music and visual art, Ryan has curated audio visual exhibitions ‘Oh No! Ulster’s Hidden Reverse’ at the Black Box and ‘Warm Moving Bodies’ at Ormeau Baths Gallery. Ryan has also initiated a broad range of events including the monthly Black Market art and craft fair, Bop Yestrum club night and many live music performances as a member of the Ordinary Days collective. Ryan is founder and curator of Oscillations, a festival of new international music, art and film.

LAUNCH EVENT
Thurs 15th July, 5-7pm

Last week’s piece was by Miguel Martin:

Belfast based visual artist Miguel Martin (born 1985) currently works from his studio at “Platform Arts” on Queen Street. His playful versatility in scale often range from sketchbook drawings to wall sized panoramic multi perspective viewpoints. Often permeating his subject matter with chaotic overtones of horror and violence, a grotesque humour and wit evolve. He indulges in the process of drawing and attempts to seduce the viewer with variety. Offering a multitude of textures and actions with simple thin line, each drawing is intended to imply a fictional sound or movement.

Balance, Escape Act (Castle Lane / 17–18 July)
Escape Act will move beyond the standard performance scenario to engage the public in the presentation and development of music within the public realm. Today’s culture promotes fast, easy consumption. Escape Act attempt to alter the listener’s perception by slowing things down and enabling interaction. Escape Act will use Out of PLACE as a centre for performance in the city centre over two afternoons. The wider public is invited to engage in performances taking place throughout the surrounding streets and within Out of PLACE. The audience will also be encouraged to capture audio and video for contribution to a film to document the making of their second album Balance which will be released on 18 July in McHugh’s Bar.
www.escapeact.com

Place’s Garden (Belfast City Centre / July)
Focusing on public space, streetscape, sustainability and ecology and how people engage with the city, PLACE will create a series of events and interventions around the city centre, in unexpected places.