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  • Niamh Seana Meehan

    Dreamers, 2024Audio Recording, 8 mins 10 sec

    Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2024 and National Drawing Day 2024.

    This year CCA invites artist Niamh Seana Meehan to design an activity for NIMHAF 10–19 May 2024 and National Drawing Day 18 May 2024.

    In Dreamers Niamh invites you to listen, float, and linger with an audio coastal walk. Walking along edges of liquid space this audio will explore moments to find stillness, to feel how our skin touches seawater and how we can reimagine the desire path. A desire path is a path created by animal traffic, or a path taken as a short-cut. For this coastal walk the desire path will present listeners with the space to reimagine what they desire to find on their own coastal path.

    Listen to the audio, pausing to draw or write anything that comes to mind. Alternatively you can listen to the full audio, then begin to draw what you feel, think or imagined as you were listening. You are also welcome to sit comfortably and listen to the audio.

    Suggested materials are pens, pencils, colouring pencils or whatever you have to hand or prefer to draw with. You can collect materials from CCA, 10-12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6RG from 10 May 2024.

    You can download or listen online to this specially created audio with intentional pauses to give you space to reflect, draw or write. Headphones are preferred. You can tag your drawings with @CCADLD, @nimhaf, #NationalDrawingDay

    Read more about the work at: ccadld.org/public-programme/dreamers-an-activity-for-nimhaf-and-national-drawing-day

    And visit the artist's instagram at: @niamhseanameehan

    This project was supported by:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry

    Arts Council England

    Arts Council of Northern Ireland

    Derry City & Strabane District Council

    Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival

  • CCA Introducing continues with a takeover by R Talitha Samuel, an independent cultural producer and editor based in New Delhi, India. R's takeover, entitled Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard', takes place on CCA's Instagram and Spotify on Sunday 24 March 2024.

    Below, you can find a description of the takeover:

    'I had a totally different plan in mind for this visual and audio project when I initially started out. However, just before I was all set to hit record, my grandfather got very sick and passed away. This was during the month of December 2023, and it naturally changed the course of not only my life and understanding of myself but also of this work. I wanted to explore why I do what I do in terms of my approach to audio as a medium, mediated through the literal voices of members of my community and my family. Now, my takeover, Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard', composed of audio recordings, old Tamil hymns and voice notes will dive into the warp and weft of grief, collective prayer, sound as infrastructure, recording as witness and what it means to be a man.'

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  • Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

    Sound and Vision connects this episode's speakers: Peter Glasgow, Susan Hughes and Ryan Vail. Recorded during Susan Hughes' solo show, 'Stones From a Gentle Place' at CCA, each artists' practice spans music and visual art. Susan is a fiddle player using music to barter for stories, Peter experiments with slide guitar and participated in CCA's Digital Residency 'The Honkey Tonks and Me⁠' in Autumn 2023, and Ryan Vail won the NI Music Award for Best Album with Elma Orkestra in 2019 as well as working with Visual Spectrum Studios creating audio-visual installations.

    You can find out more about CCA at ⁠⁠CCADLD.org⁠⁠.

    Peter Glasgow peterglasgow.co.uk | @peterglasgow

    Susan Hughes cargocollective.com/susanhughesartist | @susandorothyhughes

    Ryan Vail @ryanvail | @visualspectrumstudio

    With thanks to:

    CCA Derry~LondonderryArt FundArts Council of Northern IrelandDerry City & Strabane District Council

  • Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

    Episode 9 welcomes SEAMS artist Laura Wilson who talks with writer Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh and weaver Claire Whelan about linen, family, history, motherhood, nature and the colour indigo amongst other topics.

    You can find out more about SEAMS at ⁠CCADLD.org⁠.

    Laura Wilson laurawilson.me | @wilsonlaurawilson

    Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh @kerrinidochartaigh

    Claire Whelan @whelansweaving

    With thanks to:

    CCA Derry~LondonderryArt FundArts Council of Northern IrelandDerry City & Strabane District Council

  • Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

    In  this episode artist Tom O'Dea and Frank Sweeney talk with Pirate.ie's John Walsh about the Irish Pirate Radio Archive, cross border broadcasts and country music.

    You can see documentation from the exhibition Ballads of Rhinestones & Newcomers, which featured work by Frank Sweeney and Tom O'Dea at CCADLD.org and you can read more about the artists at the following links:

    Frank Sweeney
    franksweeney.art | @frankbeee

    Tom O'Dea
    iamtomodea.com

    John Walsh
    Pirate.ie | @pirate_ie

    With thanks to:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Art Fund
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council

  • Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

    In  this episode artist Bojana Janković invites Justin Kuoame and Vukašin Nedeljković to talk with her and Director of CCA Catherine Hemelryk. They discuss how they came to art, life as a migrant and navigating the various hostile environments they have encountered through the different systems operating across the UK and Ireland.

    You can see documentation from the exhibition Ballads of Rhinestones & Newcomers, which featured work by Bojana Janković at CCADLD.org and you can read more about the artists at the following links:

    Bojana Janković
    bojanajankovic.com | @postmoderna 

    Justin Kuoame
    Interview 

    Vukašin Nedeljković
    asylumarchive.com | @asylum.archive

    With thanks to:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Art Fund
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council

  • Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

    In  this episode 2022 DeMo Reciprocal Residency artists Mark Buckeridge and Ona Juciūtė talk with artist Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir and curator and  Director of CCA, Catherine Hemelryk. They talk about the past, the present and the role materials play in their practices.

    You can see more by Mark Buckeridge and Ona Juciūtė and their solo shows at ccadld.org as well as more about the artists at the following links:

    Mark Buckeridge
    markbuckeridge.com | @mark_buckeridge | muinebheagarts.com

    Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir
    hrefnaleifsdottir.be | @hrefnahorn | @the_tail_brussels | @f.ct.on

    Ona Juciūtė
    Interview

    With thanks to:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Lithuanian Culture Institute
    Art Fund
    Kaunas Artists' House
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council
    Lithuanian Council for Culture
    Kaunas Municipality
    Kaunas 2022

    This podcast was made possible by Lithuanian Culture Institute, Arts Council for Northern Ireland and Art Fund.

  • Oisín Roberts
    Fool's Spring, 2022
    Audio reading, 4 mins 45 sec

    Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2022.

    Oisín Roberts is an artist and poet originally from our city and a recent graduate of the Slade School of Art in London. This new installation is centred around a new piece of writing entitled Fool’s Spring and consists of a bicycle rack, yellow light and poem installed in CCA's Project Space and the poem is available to download in this podcast.

    The title of the long form poem comes from the nick name of a fake season, naming the week of warmth that comes after winter and before ‘second winter’. It is, for the artist, a false start, a brief and urgent movement between periods of stagnancy. Oisín is interested in repeating fleeting human interventions in their environment, whether seeing a person absent-mindedly moving something from one place to another, noticing a sticker stuck on the side of a wall, or screen-shotting the bike ebay ad when noticing a butterfly on the frame.

    Oisín writes referencing the tone of the New Narrative movement way of writing poetry, creating auto-fiction texts that sound like they could be talking about their life, but the content comes from a wide range of sources. Adopting the idea that all sources are as valid as the other, Oisín practices a way of making in which no hierarchy exists.

    Fool’s Spring is on view in the CCA Project Space for the duration of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival from Monday 9–Sunday 15 May 2022.

    About the artist

    Oisín Roberts (b.1994) is originally from Derry~Londonderry. They moved to London to study at The Slade School of Fine Art, graduating in 2018. A Pisces, a poet and an artist - they went on to read in public and exhibit sculptures, now scattered across various defunked and hard to find web-links. Their current exhibitions include, catch Fast Glass, a group photography exhibition at Set New Cross, 15–16 April, Carpeted Stares, a group show in AMP Gallery 15–19 June and 07803178250/07531313883, a two person show with Lowri Heckler at Set New Cross 2–9 August.

    Read more about the work at: CCADLD.org/public-programmes/fools-spring
    And visit the artist's instagram at: @oisin.roberts

    This project was supported by:

    CCA Derry~LondonderryArts Council EnglandArts Council of Northern IrelandDerry City & Strabane District CouncilNorthern Ireland Mental Health Festival

  • Chinasa Vivian Ezugha
    Tongues, 2021
    in collaboration with Uchechuwku and Chidinma Ezugha
    Audio performance, 10 minutes
    Edited by Martyna Poznanska

    This first practice-as-research project by CCA Research Associate  Chinasa Vivian Ezugha seeks to examine the question: ‘What kind of  documentation can be derived from glossolalic speech and its  presentation?’ It does so through the development and creation of an  audio performance, realised in collaboration with the artists' sisters  recorded in everyday mundane spaces such as the kitchen or bedroom. This  project examines the practice of glossolalia within family  relationships and the everyday, and the way in which spoken glossolalia  can  be used to further discussions around our relationship to the voice as a  form of connection to our bodies and others.

    This is the first iteration of this research project, exploring  glossolalia and the differences in speech and sound between the  diasporic Nigerians in the UK and the Pentecostal Nigerians across Nigeria.

    Read more about the work at: CCADLD.org/public-programmes/tongues
    And visit the artist's websites at: vcezugha.wixsite.com | ezugha.tumblr.com  

    This project was supported by:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Arts Council England
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council

  • Welcome to the fifth of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where we  bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.   

    The exhibition Tilt [at Windmills] is the starting point for this  conversation between artist Jarkko Räsänen with the project's curator  Mirjami Schuppert and Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell who is both a curator at Northern Ireland Screen and member of the Turner Prize winning collective Array! They discuss archives, Teletext, collective memory and more.   

    A full transcript will be available soon.   

    Read more about the exhibition and view the cryptark at:
    CCADLD.org/exhibitions/tilt-at-windmills
    cryptark.net    

    And you can find out more about the speakers at:  
    Jarkko Räsänen - jarkko.persona.co
    Mirjami Schuppert - mirjamischuppert.com
    Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell -  arraystudiosbelfast.com/sinead-bhreathnach-cashell.html
    Northern Ireland Screen - digitalfilmarchive.net    

    With thanks to:
    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council  
    Art Fund

  • Welcome to the fourth of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where we  bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.  

    In conversation in this episode are artists Priya Mistry, Nithya  Nagarajan and Hetain Patel. The artists discuss their practices, working  across disciplines, collaborations, family, diaspora and identity.  

    A full transcript is available to download here: tinyurl.com/35jw5m8p

    You can read more about the artists at their websites: 

    Priya Mistry - whatsthebigmistry.com
    Nithya Nagarajan - nithyanagarajan.com
    Hetain Patel - hetainpatel.com  

    With thanks to:
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council
    Art Fund

    CCA Derry~Londonderry | CCADLD.org | @CCADLD

  • Welcome to a BONUS MATERIAL podcast that follows on from the third CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Table with the Irish Modernisms artists talking about their work and experiences. The exhibition's artists James Ashe, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurray join the exhibition's curators Catherine Hemelryk and Matt Retallick to discuss modernisms, the work in the show and their wider practices.

    The full transcript is available to read here: tinyurl.com/smrf6nce

    You can listen to the first part of the conversation here: anchor.fm/ccadld/episodes/CCA-DerryLondonderry--Round-Table-3--Irish-Modernisms-e14coei

    You can see 'Irish Modernisms: legacies of modernism in the north' at CCA until 18 September 2021. You can see images of the show at the website and online @CCADLD.

    CCADLD.org/exhibitions/irish-modernisms

    With thanks to:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council
    British Art Network
    Paul Mellon Centre
    Yale
    Arts Council England
    Tate

  • Welcome to the third CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Table where we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.  Irish Modernisms is an exhibition bringing together five contemporary artists from NI influenced and exploring the legacies of modernism in the north. The exhibition's artists James Ashe, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurray join the exhibition's curators Catherine Hemelryk and Matt Retallick to discuss modernisms, the work in the show and their wider practices.  

    The full transcript is available to read here: https://tinyurl.com/3afcnfp4 

    This is the first part of the conversation - you can listen to the rest of the conversation on our Bonus Material Podcast: anchor.fm/ccadld/episodes/BONUS-MATERIAL-CCA-DerryLondonderry--Round-Table-3--Irish-Modernisms-e14cp8v 

    You can see 'Irish Modernisms: legacies of modernism in the north' at CCA until 18 September 2021. You can see images of the show at the website and online @CCADLD.  

    CCADLD.org/exhibitions/irish-modernisms  

    With thanks to: 

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council
    British Art Network
    Paul Mellon Centre
    Yale
    Arts Council England
    Tate

  • Welcome to the second of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where we  bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.  

    In this episode artists Janie Doherty and Locky Morris are in  conversation with Joanne Laws. They discuss their respective practices, collaboration, movement, painting, place, disembodied limbs and more.

    You can see nothing (but windows), a new body of work by Janie Doherty and Locky Morris, in CCA’s Project Space until 1 May 2021 and clips by  the artists can be seen on Instagram @CCADLD and 'especiallyeverything' @LockyMorrisArtist. 

    Transcription of this recording is available here.


    With thanks to:  

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council

  • URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.

    Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 3, 2021  
    9 minutes 12 seconds

    Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.

    URGENCIES (2021) features artists and Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser and was selected by artist Locky Morris and CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.

    Read more about the exhibition:   
    http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/exhibitions/urgencies-2021

    Listen to Clickety-Clack parts 1 and 2 here.

    This project was supported by:   
    CCA Derry~Londonderry  
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland  
    Derry City & Strabane District Council

  • URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.

    Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 1, 2021
    3 minutes 55 seconds

    Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.

    URGENCIES (2021) features artists and Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser and was selected by artist Locky Morris and CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.  

    Read more about the exhibition:  
    http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/exhibitions/urgencies-2021

    Listen to Clickety-Clack parts 1 and 3 here.  

    This project was supported by:  
    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council

  • URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.

    Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 1, 2021
    7 minutes 31 seconds

    Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.

    URGENCIES (2021) features artists and Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser and was selected by artist Locky Morris and CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.

    Read more about the exhibition:

    http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/exhibitions/urgencies-2021
    Listen to Clickety-Clack parts 2 and 3 here.

    This project was supported by:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council

  • Put on your headphones and join artist Jan Uprichard on a self-directed smell walk to explore your surroundings with your nose.

    Find out more at cca-derry-londonderry.org

    For CCA during lockdown, Jan has created OlfactoStroll, a smell walk for our city, however, you can listen to the audio anywhere in the world or around your own home to create your own OlfactoStroll. Both walking and smell have taken on added importance during the pandemic. This guided walk offers a different way to experience familiar surroundings guided by a series of prompts from the artist. The podcast/guided walk, is accompanied by a series of Deep Smelling protocols, visible through our gallery windows and at various spots around the city.

    Jan is an artist and freelance curator/producer based in Belfast. She is currently a PhD researcher at Ulster University. OlfactoStroll is grounded in Jan’s PhD research, in which she is developing a method of Deep Smelling. Deep Smelling is a meditative, experiential and process-based art practice, which brings our attention to our sense of smell.

    As an artist and researcher Jan works with smell as a device to re-programme how we perceive our surroundings, whilst themes of friendship fuel her curatorial practice. Jan’s art practice oscillates between participatory events and obsessive research, using smell, walking, archives, mapping, food, sound, film, bookmaking, botany, and interventions as tools.

    Jan’s hope, as we negotiate the pandemic and try to figure out what a ‘new normal’ could be, is that we take the opportunity to maintain a slower pace. That we will
    reflect on our experiences with a quiet activism, that utilises taking time to do nothing but wander around, and in this case, notice what we can smell and sense
    around us.

    * If you are experiencing a loss or distortion of your sense of smell this could be a symptom of Covid-19; please follow guidance to self-isolate and book a
    test  www.nidirect.gov.uk

    AbScent is a UK charity that offers support and advice to people with smell disorders. Their resources include smell training, a technique that can help to stimulate the sense of smell and encourage regeneration of the olfactory nerve. Visit their website at  AbScent.org.

  • Welcome to the first of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where  we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

    In  this episode DeMo Reciprocal Residency artists Niamh Seana Meehan  and Gintė Regina talk with artist Mikhail Karikis and curator and  Director of CCA, Catherine Hemelryk. They discuss language, music,  aesthetics, influences and more.

    You can see work from Niamh Sean Meehan and Gintė Regina's solo shows at cca-derry-londonderry.org and Mikhail Karikis' Ferocious Love is on show at Tate Liverpool until 22 November 2020.

    With thanks to:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Lithuanian Cultural Institute
    Kaunas Artists' House
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council
    Lithuanian Council for Culture
    Kaunas Municipality
    Kaunas 2022

    This podcast was made possible by Lithuanian Cultural Institute and Arts Council for Northern Ireland.

  • CCA Derry~Londonderry presents two solo exhibitions by Niamh Seana Meehan (NI) and Gintė Regina (LT), participants in the first DeMo reciprocal residency programme, a partnership between CCA, Lithuanian Cultural Institute and Kaunas Artists’ House. The exhibitions feature new work by the artists following their participation in the residency programme.

    Niamh Seana Meehan's solo exhibition Coming Soon / Netrukus is on show at CCA until November 2020. Due to government restrictions we are showing several works from the exhibition online for the duration of the show.

    Niamh Seana Meehan, Notebook Whisper, 2020

    Niamh Seana Meehan is an artist living and working in Northern Ireland and spent February–March 2020 in Kaunas. Her interest in the residency was piqued by the language used to discuss its structure and aims; words like ‘demo’, ‘pilot’, ‘modernity’, ‘dialogue’ and ‘exchange’. Niamh’s practice often focuses on performance and spoken word and examining words. Niamh began the residency by asking what the words from the call meant and what they intended to convey in the context of an artist’s residency. As a working research method that informed much of the work in the exhibition, Niamh asked people she met during the residency for their definitions of these words and formed narratives. She combined these with her experience of the world as an ‘emerging’ artist in the political and social landscape of today, which has resulted in a new body of work in this exhibition.

    Notebook Whisper (2020) hears the voice of the artist reading aloud in a whisper a set texts by the artist relating to her experiences of being an artist in a new country.

    Read more about the exhibition:

    http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/exhibitions/reciprocal-residency-solo-exhibitions

    This project was supported by:

    CCA Derry~Londonderry
    Arts Council of Northern Ireland
    Derry City & Strabane District Council
    Lithuanian Cultural Institute
    Kaunas Artists' House
    Lithuanian Council for Culture
    Kaunas Municipality
    Kaunas 2022