Things To Do: See the cool air, get to the wake house, become a mystic

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Metabolic Intimacies

Last week, we were over in Phibsborough Shopping Centre for Richmond Road Studios’ final farewell to their space on the fourth floor of the tower.

As part of the event, artist Lana Zubović launched her new solo show The House of Complex: The Necromancer, in which she used beeswax, tattoo ink and human hair among other materials to explore memories from her childhood home.

If you weren’t able to catch Zubović’s show before the Richmond Road members departed Phibsborough for their new home in Glasnevin this week, then we have some good news, because she will be bringing a few of the featured pieces over to Little Green Street for a group exhibition this week.

Launching this evening in Kirkos, Metabolic Intimacies asks the question “what happens to intimacy when the self becomes data and connection becomes extraction?” Alongside Zubović, the show features works by cinematographer and film photographer Antonia Quintiliano and printmaker Ross Clancy.

Metabolic Intimacies will open at 6pm today (Thursday, 2 July) and will be on view daily between 1 and 6pm at 1 Little Green Street until Sunday, 5 July .

For more information and for updates, follow Kirkos’ Instagram page here.

Painting Air

Also opening this evening in Powerscourt is Painting Air, the new solo show by artist John O’Flynn.

InQuirer readers might recall O’Flynn as the artist who creates impressionistic paintings of Dart trains, some on the sides of buildings and hoardings, others on household appliances, like toasters and microwaves. Last September, we sat down with him in his studio off Collins Avenue prior to Souvenirs, his previous solo show at Flux Studios.

Presented by SO Fine Art Editions, and part of Dublin City Council’s new night-time economy initiative Dublin by Dusk, Painting Air is composed of semi-abstract works that draw inspiration from significant moments in O’Flynn’s everyday life. These, he says are moments in which he “found peace, excitement, hope and the ineffable”.

O’Flynn’s new works invite the viewer to consider the challenge of capturing the invisible: “the warmth and coolness of the air and quality of light that surround and animate the physical world.”

Painting Air will launch at 6pm today (Thursday, 2 July) in the SO Fine gallery space on the second floor of the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre. The show will be free to visit throughout the month until 1 August.

For more information, follow SO Fine Art Editions on Instagram here.

Æ and Le Fanu in the Light of Swedenborg and Blake

This is a gentle reminder that William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy, the Tate-curated exhibition of works by the artist and poet, as well as his contemporaries, will be wrapping up on 19 July in the National Gallery of Ireland.

If you’re looking for a few talking points to loudly exclaim in the gallery at some point during the next fortnight, then we might recommend paying a visit to the United Arts Club this Saturday, 4 July.

Patrick O’Donnell of the Æ George Russell Society will be delivering a lecture about how Blake and the Swedish author and mystic visionary Emmanuel Swedenborg influenced the works of writers Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and George William Russell, better known pseudonymously as Æ.

Organised as part of the Æ George Russell Summer School, the event is free to society members. Otherwise, admission is €10 or €20, depending on ability to pay.

You can book a seat here. But attendees are asked to pay at the door.

IFI and Irish Modern Dance Theatre: Dancer from the Dance

Next week, the Irish Film Institute is teaming up with the Irish Modern Dance Theatre to present a programme of new Irish dance films as part of the Dancer from the Dance Festival of Irish Choreography.

On Monday evening at 6:30pm, the cinema will be screening a selection of short films which gathers films by contemporary choreographers. Curated by IMDT director John Scott, New Irish Dance Shorts will feature works by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahearn, Emilie Leriche, Ghaliah Conroy, Jessie Thompson, Amir Sabra, Alex O’Neill and Ingrid Nachstern among others.

Most excitingly, it will be one of the rare occasions where we’ll be able to see the Adam O’Reilly-directed music video for RÓIS and hhH’s single "Did ye ever get The Ride at the Wake House?" on the big screen.

Tickets are available here.

Then, on Wednesday, 8 July at 6:30pm, there is a screening of Nicky Larkin’s To This I Belong, a documentary which charts four different journeys of dance makers in their home regions and communities.

To This I Belong follows the creation of an ambitious, island-wide dance project in which choreographers Tobi Omoteso, Lucia Kickham, Edwina Guckian and Dylan Quinn were commissioned to make site-specific works rooted in land, memory, and belonging.

After the screening, Larkin will be in conversation with John Scott.

Tickets are available here.

Rosaleen McDonagh and Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan on Contentious Spaces

Finally, next Thursday, writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh will be in Books Upstairs to discuss Contentious Spaces, her debut novel.

Released back in March, Contentious Spaces is a portrait of Traveller families living within the Saint Rita’s community as they are just a week away from being evicted by the council. As the day of eviction draws closer, the families struggle to preserve their dignity, and look to find strength within one another as they navigate an unknown future.

And at 6:30pm, McDonagh will be speaking with Irish-Indian writer, performer and cultural consultant Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan about the novel, its themes and McDonagh’s artistic practice more broadly.

The event will be taking place in the downstairs shop area which is semi-accessible for wheelchair users. If you have any queries regarding accessibility contact catherine@skeinpress.com.

Attendance is free but booking is essential, and can be done here.

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Container Coffee Venezuela Earthquake Fundraiser

Container Coffee, the café at The Digital Hub, will be hosting a fundraiser on Friday, 3 July, for those impacted by the recent devastating earthquake in Venezuela

Sadly, some of the Container Coffee team have close friends and family who have been directly affected by the recent devastating earthquake in Venezuela.

Container Coffee will be donating 100 percent of Friday’s takings to help provide much-needed relief communities that were affected.

Every purchase will go directly towards supporting those in need, and for anyone who can’t make it to Container Coffee, but would still like to contribute, the team has set up a GoFundMe campaign here.

Anne Devlin Community Centre Soundsystem

On Saturday, 4 July, the Anne Devlin Community Centre in Dublin 8 will be putting on a day of music with a soundsystem by Bushwack.

Featuring hip hop, dub jungle and techno, the event will run from 12 to 6pm, and attendees are advised to bring some clothes as Vice Grips will also be doing on-site screen printing.

Cherish

Also on Saturday, 4 July, at 4:30pm, GalleryX on Hume Street will be previewing Cherish, the debut exhibition of Síól Collective.

Featuring eight artists who work in painting, sculpture and textile, Cherish will be opened by artist Vivian Hansbury, and will run until 17 July.

For more information, follow Síol Collective on Instagram here.