Signals and Circuits | Group Show, aemi and Pálás Cinema

Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/10/2021
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

Location
Pálás Cinema

Website
https://aemi.ie/event/aemi-palas-cinema-signals-circuits/

Email
info@aemi.ie

Categories

• Connaught - Galway
• Exhibition
• Reopening

‘Signals & Circuits’ is a programme curated by aemi of contemporary moving image works by Irish and international artists Jenny Brady (IE), Jussi Eerola (FI), Laura Fitzgerald (IE), John Smith (UK), Deborah Stratman (USA) and Yoga For The Eyes (IE).

Taking the ‘circuit’, with all of its possible meanings, as a conceptual framework, the programme purposefully complicates interconnected ideas relating to communication, travel and technology, highlighting films in which intimate or ordinarily private thoughts are vocalised and acts of speaking or mis/over-hearing, particularly in recorded form, take on significances other than those originally intended. This gives rise in several instances to concerns about illicit societal control and surveillance but ultimately ‘Signals & Circuits’ emphasises the political and cultural value of speaking out, either to express an inner voice or strengthen the power of collective struggle.

‘Signals & Circuits’ is aemi’s 2021 touring programme. aemi Co-Director Alice Butler will be present at the screening to introduce the films.

‘Signals & Circuits’ film info:
Jussi Eerola, Blue Honda Civic, 2020, 11 min, Finland
Laura Fitzgerald, P45, 2017, 16:10 min, Ireland
Michelle Doyle, Eva Richardson-McCrea & Cóilín O’Connell with Jenn Moore, Yoga For The Eyes, 2018, 24:12, Ireland
John Smith, A State of Grace, 2019, 3:23 min, UK
Deborah Stratman, Hacked Circuit, 2014, 15:08 min, U.S.A.
Jenny Brady, Receiver, 2019, 14:36 min, Ireland

More info on the ‘Signals & Circuits’ tour is available here

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