Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War
About the Exhibition / Film and Video Programme

Opening Sat 14th March, 5 – 8pm
Sun 15th March – Sun 3rd May 2009
This Exhibition takes place at the new Model Satellite space in Castle House, 9 Castle Street, Sligo.
See the map below for its location, and the location of the
Jamelie Hassan billboard - indicated by the green arrow.

Following its successful tour in Canada in 2008, this inter-disciplinary project explores contemporary art’s relationship to war and its representations. This project includes an exhibition of fifteen international artists, a rotating film/video programme, a catalogue with international contributing writers, a series of public tours and discussions, and events out of the Model Education Programme to complement the project.

Investigating the interstices between perpetual war, dominant politics, and military aesthetics, this project confronts issues of global warfare; how it is imaged, and how it is imagined. The exhibition presents artists who are responding to these representations of war through informed critique. While a number of artists produce analyses or outraged expressions arising from their own or others’ experiences of war, other artists challenge the spectacle of contemporary war, its veracity and, ultimately, its intertwinement with a New World Order.

This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Sonja Savic. (1961-2008).

Exhibition:
Maja Bajevic (Bosnia)
Bureau d'etudes (France)
Paul Chan (USA)
Köken Ergun (Turkey)
Harun Farocki (Germany)
Omer Fast (Israel/USA)
Kendell Geers (South Africa)
Johan Grimonprez (Belgium)
Jamelie Hassan (Canada)
Kristan Horton (Canada)
Abdel-Karim Khalil (Iraq)
Anri Sala (Albania)
Sonja Savic (Serbia)
Sean Snyder (USA/Germany)
Ron Terada (Canada)

Public Tours with
Director/Curator Seamus Kealy
Saturday March 14th, 5 pm

Wednesday April 29th, 5 pm