Appearance, Inside / Out

The LAB Gallery

Free workshop with acclaimed performance artists Pauline  Cummins and Frances Mezzetti as part of their current exhibition at The LAB

The LAB Gallery is pleased to present a free workshop entitled Appearance, Inside / Out with internationally acclaimed performance artists Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti as part of their current exhibition A World of Appearances / Walking In The Way. This workshop includes a tour of the exhibition and performance exercises encouraging individual actions in response to the exhibition. Free workshop for adults (18+). All are welcome and loose clothing is recommended. Booking is essential. About the exhibition:A World of Appearances / Walking In The Way is part of a countrywide retrospective of the work Walking in the Way . This is a collaborative performance series by established artists Frances Mezzetti and Pauline Cummins. They explore control of space, stereotyping, masculinities, movement and presence. Walking in the Way was first performed in Dublin in 2009 and the artists continue to probe the possibilities to date. This decade long collaboration in performance art, A World of Appearances, addresses cultural and social perceptions around gender, age and visibility through documentary images and video. The Walking in the Way performances take place in cities where the two female artists take on the mannerism, gestures and physicality of male presence in the public arena. The focus of each piece develops from the general to the particular and each one is unique to that city. The development of the work is informed by key figures from the chosen community, and an important part of the research process is informed by understandings and connections that are forged with local individuals in each of the selected cities. The performances are observational, transient works, with a unique meaning and resolution. 10 performances have taken place in 9 different cities, Dublin, Belfast, London Edinburgh, Derry/Londonderry, Istanbul, Madrid, Seville, and Malaga.About the artists:Pauline Cummins’ performance and video work examines the human condition from a feminist perspective. Research driven themes of the political body, activism, human rights and gender are often explored in the artist’s practice. Cummins likes to collaborate with artists and communities in public sites and situations; including within prisons as a visiting artist and was the founding chairperson of the Women Artists Action Group, (WAAG). Cummins lectured at the National College of Art and Design from 1994 – 2014. Her work is in both national and international collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Maternity Hospital. Commissions include the Newgrange Interpretive Centre, New St. Park (Dublin) and the National Maternity Hospital. Current exhibitions include The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now, Protest and Conflict, IMMA. Cummins was recently an Artist in Residence at The Irish Museum of Modern Art from 2021 – 2022 and is currently based in Rua Red artists studios.Frances Mezzetti is a visual artist based in Dublin. Mezzetti holds a BA hon in Fine Art from NCAD (1998) and a MSc in Art Psychotherapy from Queen Margaret University Edinburgh (2011). Her extensive background in art therapy and in the field of well-being practices have influenced her concept of performance as a means of &quot;movement to a way of awareness&quot;. Mezzetti&#x27;s practice explores the themes of gender and place from a feminist perspective. Previous exhibitions include JJ Summer School, Univ. of Trieste, Italy 2022, Nairs Fundaziun, Switzerland, 2021, BIFPA 2020, Greenway Boston 2018. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally. She works in performance art, including six years of events with The Performance Collective, and in site specific, installation and video, with an emphasis on collaboration with artists across disciplines.

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