SANDRA CORRIGAN BREATHNACH – HILARY GILLIGAN – KATRINA SHEENA SMYTH – NINA QUIGLEY – REBECCA STRAIN – JAMES KING – CAROLINE MURPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JORDAN HUTCHINGS
In September 2022 Artlink invited Bbeyond to host one of their ‘performance monthly’ at Neds Point Fort, Buncrana to respond to the installation LANDMARK by Roberto Uribe Castro.
About Bbeyond
Bbeyond is committed to promoting the practice of performance art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. Our aim is to raise people’s consciousness of live/performance art as being integral to the world in and around us, inspiring reflection and enriching lived experience. We host artists of international reputation throughout the performance art world and encourage newer artists to experience performance art practices for themselves. Bbeyond encourages greater access to and appreciation of this visually based art form, through facilitating modes of active private/public participation, allowing people from all sectors of society, not just the traditional arts, to experience and enjoy performance art directly.
This hypothesis for Bbeyond has a two-fold nature, one the ‘actual’, the other liminal, one based on the physical/literal journey, the other on a more elusive journeying through the process of being and becoming. The literal, overtly physical aspect predominantly deals with the location of Belfast, by hosting international artists here to present work alongside local artists, the knowledge and consciousness of performance art grows through increased exposure to other modes of practice, opening up possibilities of wider connections. The liminal nature deals with transition, transformation and transcendence. This is the more subtle aspect and the power of the work rests in that it can only be realised in the process of actual being and doing. ‘Bbeyond’ has the potential to become a directional force towards a lived philosophy of being, that continues long after the framing of any specific performance has ended, becoming the real transitioning and transforming energy in the life consciousness of the practitioner, to literally ‘Be beyond’.
About Landmark
“In this “Landmark” series, which I have been doing since 2016, I temporarily intervene in buildings with white/red warning tapes that are familiar to us in places where some remodeling or infrastructure work is being done to warn us of a danger or simply alert us about a possible eventuality. The tape functions as a signal. In a simple way this tape marks an environment, delimits a space and announces the change that is taking place, whether it is inside a building, on the sidewalk, the street or a portion of an interior space. In their presence there is an intrinsic message of temporariness, of transience.
This work adapts itself each time in a different way to each building in which it is installed. The pattern with which I respond in each opportunity refers to some aspect of the building in an abstract way, but always seeking to create a surface that makes a reference to the topic/ subject I am interested in.”
LANDMARK has been exhibited as the initiator of a series of exhibitions in the Grid Cabins, Exgirlfriend Galerie Berlin and the cultural program EAT the Walls at EAT91.In May 2022 LANDMARK will be installed at Neds Point Fort, a Napoleonic fort on the banks of Lough Swilly curated by Artlink Creative Team.
Roberto Uribe-Castro’s practice focuses on how the colonial past or violent historical events persist through time in architecture and urban landscapes.With temporary / ephemeral interventions made with materials and elements present or gathered in the place where the intervention occurs, Uribe-Castro subtly alters the place where he works allowing political speeches or forgotten historical events to emerge.
Born in Bogotá in 1974, Roberto graduated as an architect from the University of the Andes and with a master’s degree in spatial strategies at the Weißensee School of Arts in Berlin, he has been a finalist in international competitions.His experience as an external advisor for the Bogotá POT in 2000, a field researcher for urban studies, the work in the studio of Doris Salcedo and Mona Hatoum in specific facilities of the site, have been of great influence in his work that is of interdisciplinary and collaborative character.
Roberto has lived in Dublin, Madrid and Amsterdam and Cartagena de Indias. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
About Neds Point
The Fort was built in 1812 the Napoleonic era and is one of a number of batteries found around the area, which were built to protect the northern coast of Ireland. The fort has great views over a large part of Lough Swilly and can be found on the Buncrana Shore Walk. The fort itself is not open to the public.
