Platform-Vaasa has a pleasure to invite you to the next 1+1 TALK with Mary Cremin and Britt Kootstra, initiated by Sencer Vardarman, a residency artist of Platform.
The talk will take the format of a conversation between the artist and the curator as a means to explore each of their practices through the use of visuals and exploring the parallels and convergences of their areas of research. They will discuss works in progress teasing out the process of making in terms of exhibition making and the production of artworks. The talk will be informal and will encourage more of an open dialogue with the audience.
MARY CREMIN is a writer, art historian and independent curator based in Dublin. Cremin graduated from University College Cork with B.A. in History of Art and Political Geography (2004) and graduated with a Masters in Visual Art Practice (curating) from the Institute of Art,
Design and Technology, Dublin in 2007. Curatorial projects include Aether, Martin Healy at Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin (2014), Misadventure Seeks Rainy Afternoon: Sonia Shiel, Oonagh Young Gallery (2013/2014) , Bring in the Noise, Ormston House & Limerick City Gallery (2013) , Lights, Camera, Action!, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (2012) , Pilgrimage from Scattered Points: Luke Fowler, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (2011), Sidney Nolan; Ned Kelly Series, IMMMA (2012-2013), Garrett Phelan, IMMA off site NEW FAITH LOVELSONG (2012), Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection IMMA, (2012), Cyprien Gaillard & Koudlam, IMMA (2011). She was Project Manager, Richard Mosse, The Enclave, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2013, prior to this she was Project Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She has produced major exhibitions on Eileen Gray, Lynda Benglis, Francis Alÿs, Carlos Garaicoa, Romuald Hazoumè, Gerard Byrne, and Alice Maher.
She was awarded the curatorial residency in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin for 2010/2011, the visual arts curator residency, 2013 from the Irish Arts Council. In 2015, she curated a performance series at IMMA as part of the Summer Rising festival titled In the Silence of the Night including artists writers and experimental music; Ruth Proctor (UK), Sarah Jones (UK), Ella De Burca (Irl) Lee Welch (Irl/US), Sally Rooney (Irl), Dimitra Xidous (Gr), Claire-Louise Bennett (Irl) a n d D o r i t C h r y s l e r ( A t ) . S h e produced the Magnetism; Siobhan Hapaska (Irl), Luck Andrews (UK), Garrett Phelan (Irl), Mikala Dwyer (Au), Aleksandra Mir (Swd), Laura Morrison (UK), Igor Grubic (HR). She is the curator of Dublin City University art collection and is the curator of TULCA Visual Arts Festival, 2015.
BRITT KOOTSTRA (1976) graduated with a B.A. in Mixed Media from AKI, art academy in Enschede (1998-2001), and with a Masters in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2002-2004). Her work shows itself as ‘tableaux vivants’, either on hand processed analogue film or as performance in which seemingly everyday places and events seperate themselves from our world. Since 2009 she lives and works in Ostrobothnia, Finland.
She has shown works and exhibited nationally and internationally. Filmfestivals include AAVE Festival, Helsinki (2014), Toronto Urban Film Festival (2013) and International Film Festival Rotterdam (2010).