Nina Canell Open Studio
27 October – 10 November
To coincide with The Eternal Now 2007 Model Fellow Nina Canell, and her long-time collaborator Robin Watkins will open the artist’s residency studio at the Model to the public.  People are invited to contribute to Canell & Watkins ongoing collaborative video work; C Chant which was exhibited as part of Nina’s solo exhibition Moon. Mist. Drum. at the Model earlier this year. Based on a simple principle of participation and a sort of musical coalition; a number of geographically dislocated artists, hobby-musicians and friends have been invited to play, sing or interpret the note C# with no specific instructions regarding octave, tempo or rhythm. Throughout the duration of the ‘open studio’ Canell & Watkins hope to extend the project further by inviting the Sligo audience to the Model studio, where one can make a contribution, borrow instruments, discuss and view other contributions, or arrange for a contribution to be recorded elsewhere (many participants have been filmed in specific settings chosen by the individual performer and the artists welcome and encourage such suggestions!).

Maeve De Markievicz
Nina Canell would also like to locate paintings, stories and any anecdotes regarding local painter Maeve De Markievicz, whose paintings 'Blackcurrant Harvest' & 'Sunday at Kenwood (Iveagh Bequest)' among others are both in the Niland collection.
If you have any information relating please contact reception at the Model or info@modelart.ie
www.canellwatkins.org

Shake it Makeshift

Friday 2nd & Saturday 10th Nov I 7pm
Shake it Makeshift is a program of free events organised in the studio by Model fellow Nina Canell and Robin Watkins.
Running parallel to the exhibition The Eternal Now, these two nights present a disarray of informal encounters and include
contributions and performances by musicians, artists, thinkers, lecturers, film-makers and writers from Ireland & abroad.
Free in the Studio at the Model

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More single shot films about buildings: William Basinski's film Disintegration Loop 1.1

Sat 3 Nov I All Day

New York composer William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops derived from Basinski’s failed attempts to transfer an old pastoral composition onto digital format, instead discovering that the magnetic tapes
began to disintegrate during the recording process. As the tape played, fragments of iron oxide spalled off the surface of the tape and became dust, gradually but progressively, breaking down the music into a ghost of its former self. Simultaneously within view of Basinski’s apartment, the evening of September 11 was unfolding and the document of this evening is a single-shot meditation on construction, destruction and decay.

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