SWITCH 2010 - Switched On

 Harald Turek, the tour leader and chief switcher on, starts the evenings proceedings with Jeff Langile's Waterfall.

 Indeterminate Form O by McLean Fahenstock in situ on Silver Street.

 Martijn Kuijten - A song to Dylan

 Wolfgang Lehrner - Trident

 Those on the tour were given hand-held slide viewers, or 'time machines' as we were told. Slides showing works from previous years as well as historical photograghs of Nenagh were handed out throughout the tour.

 Thomas Horak - Glühbirnen

Cows by Holga Mohaupt and Glühbirnen by Thomas Horak on Pearse Street.

  Robert Ladislas Derr - Man in Relation to Men

 A slide view of my video untitled (2006) from last year's Switch, in front of the window in was shown in.

  Brigid McLeer - Freighter Drawing (01.13mins)

For more details on all artists and video pieces, as well as a free PDF broucher download, go to s-w-i-t-c-h.org

Switch 2010 - Launches Sunday 31st October, Nenagh Co. Tipperary

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Switch 2010 - Artists Announced

On August 25th I headed off to Nenagh to sit on the curatorial panel picking the videos that would be shown in Switch 2010. There were over 150 submissions from artists from all over the world, including Chile, Australia and China. A shortlist of 40 works were presented out of which 8 were selected.
 

The participating artists for Switch 2010 - 'the scale of things' are - McLean Fahnestock, Thomas Horak, Martijn Kuijten, Jeff Langille, Robert Ladislas Derr,Wolfgang Lehrner, Brigid McLeer and Holger Mohaupt.

Switch 2010 will take place from 1st to 7th November on the streets of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. There are also plans to move the works to Bangor, Co. Down shortly after.

For more info see the Switch website.

Switch 2010 - Call for Submissions

Switch 2010 will take place from 1st to 7th November 2010, in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, Ireland.

Switch are now making an open call to artists working with film, lens based work and moving image to submit work responding to:

‘the scale of things’

to apply,

• please send applications to: switch, c/o The Arts Office, North Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices, Limerick Road, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. 
• digital applications please send to: switch.information@gmail.com

Closing date for receipt of submissions is 18th August 2010 at 4pm.

More details on the Switch 2010 website.

The website for Switch 2009 has been updated and now includes on the street video documentation. See my piece Untitled(2006) insitu here.