18th – 25th May 2012 | Opening Thursday 17th May at 7pm featuring a live sound improvisation by Declan Synott | is an exhibition of work by postgraduate students of Philosophy and Comparative Aesthetics at University College Cork. The overarching concern of the artists involved is in the exploration of the points of confluence between philosophical thought and other creative practices including visual art, sound and film. Other artists include, Chloe Brenan, Fergal Dunne, Valerio Giovannini, Laura Hadnett, Mercedes Lopez, Aishling Martin, A Non, Paul Hegarty and Ouyang Xiao. The exhibition will close on Friday 25 May with an evening of film screenings curated by Moira Hassenfuss. Tom Tykwer’s ‘Run Lola Run’ and Chris Marker’s ‘La Jetée’ which will be screened from 7pm onwards. With support from Philosophy, UCC.

10 May – 27 June | Opening Thursday 10 May 2012 at 6pm | Exhibition will be opened by Martin Clark, Artistic Director, Tate St Ives | Curated by Rachel Thomas, Senior Curator : Head of Exhibitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art | The Crawford Art Gallery is pleased to present, for the first time in Ireland, the British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara. In collaboration with Tate St Ives, the exhibition will showcase an ongoing installation, ‘The Museum of Incest’. This piece is considered one of Fujiwara’s most crucial works as it marks the beginning of his career. The Museum of Incest is Fujiwara’s fictive recreation of the story of mankind’s evolution, and the objects are archived and displayed in a museum-like setting | www.crawfordartgallery.ie

LOVESTACK is an electro-acoustic performance and audio-visual installation for one night at BPS. When: Tuesday 8th May at 6pm. Lovestack’s performance at the Basement Project Space, Camden Quay, Cork will involve the activation of audio instruments constructed using a variety of assemblage, common materials and everyday objects. These bespoke mechanisms will be used in conjunction with software instrumentation. Visual accompaniment will include the instruments themselves and projected imagery.
http://lovestack.net | http://basementprojectspace.wordpress.com/

4 – 25 May 2012 | St. Peters, North Main St | ‘Happy Hour’ | Award-winning Cartoonist, illustrator and Artist Jiri Sliva’s artworks have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Stern. We will also have a public performance on Friday 4th May at 4pm by the Primorska Academic Choir Vinko Vodopivec, Slovenia | www.corkvisioncentre.com

7 – 29 April | Mill Cove House, Castletownbere | Open submission selected exhibition including painting, print and sculpture | www.millcovegallery.com

27 April – 27 May | Opening Friday 27 April 7:00pm | Sirius Arts Centre Cobh County Cork in partnership with The Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Cork County Council presents  ‘IS(not)’: Works by the Photographic Collective Sputnik. Featuring photographs by Agnieszka Rayss,  Rafał Milach, Michał Łuczak, Jan Brykczyński, Adam Pańczuk. For more information please contact Sirius Arts Centre T: 021 481 3790 | E: cobharts@iol.ie | For more information on Sputnik: www.sputnikphotos.com

19 April – 31 May 2012 | Opening Thursday 19 April at 5.30pm | ‘Exile World’ an exhibition of paintings on Irish life by London-based Irish artist Bernard Canavan will be opened by Piaras MacEinri | Contact E: bcanavan@hotmail.com | www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvgnASfM42g

21 April – 26 May | North Street, Skibbereen, Co Cork | ‘Difference Engine’ is an evolving touring exhibition by artists Mark Cullen, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler and Jessica Foley, featuring Gordon Cheung and, at WCAC, Paul Green. Difference Engine is based upon a kind of ‘jamming’, between the artists. At each manifestation, the artists, through their works, must rearticulate themselves or risk stasis. Difference Engine is a mutable and shifting entity of moving and fluctuating parts; the artists and their works will riff off each other and the space of exhibition, evolving a language of contingency, yet maintaining a fidelity to the individual perspectives and expressions of each artist | www.westcorkartscentre.com

April 20 – June 30, 2012 | Opening Thurs 19 April, 2012 6:15pm – 8pm with guest speaker Peggy Sue Amison, Artistic Director, Sirius Arts Centre | Simon Norfolk will discuss the exhibition and his practice on Thursday 19 April, 5:30 pm. Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to present Burke + Norfolk: photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk. In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century Irish photographer John Burke. In partnership with Sirius Arts Centre, Crawford Art Gallery present a four-day Masterclass with Simon Norfolk from June 28 – July 1, 2012 (inclusive). This program is a unique four-day intensive, practice-oriented photography workshop under the guidance of Simon Norfolk. Limited to no more than 15 participants, successful candidates will have the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive advanced photographic program, involving technical instruction, group critiques, daily reviews and monitoring/guidance with Norfolk. For further information: www.crawfordartgallery.ie/events.html

Exhibition runs until 3 June 2012 | Rifrazioni : from an initial form, through the action of light: the modification, the construction by means of correspondence during the harmonious transition of geometries. This exhibition of sculpture and drawing was commissioned for Christchurch to celebrate our 1st anniversary, and continues the approach begun with Vivienne Roche last year, whereby an artist responds to the architecture, atmosphere and artistic possibilities of Triskel Christchurch. | www.triskelartscentre.ie/visualarts.htm