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Ferox
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Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh
Ferox
14 Jan 22—12 Mar 22
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Holy Blood
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Cat McClay, Éiméar McClay
Holy Blood
25 Oct 21—31 Oct 21
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Tilt [at Windmills]
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Tilt [at Windmills]
05 Oct 21—18 Dec 21

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Dye Lab
Saturday 26 February 2022, 1pm – 2.30pm As part of NI Science Festival 2022 CCA Derry~Londonderry invites artist Lyndsey...
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Chinasa Vivian Ezugha
Tongues
07 Jan 22—21 Jan 22
Chinasa Vivian EzughaTongues, 2021in collaboration with Uchechuwku and Chidinma EzughaAudio performance, 10 minutesEdite...
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Meadhbh McNutt, Alex Singe
Pierrot
04 Jan 22—17 Jan 22
Pierrot is the last in our current series of ten window text commissions by artists, writers, and designers created du...
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Painting To See the Skies. 2021 Spring
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CCA Introducing: Puer Deorum
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Erotic Labour is Essential Labour

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Our latest show ‘Ferox’ by Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh is open Tuesday–Saturday, noon–6pm until Saturday 12 March 2022. Ciarán draws parallels between the ecological decline of the land and the creatures that occupy it, and the collective experience of generational trauma by contextualising the technical drawings of the fish next to an imagined rendering of his late father's stomach, which was completely removed as treatment for a very aggressive form of stomach cancer. This radical procedure resulted in a new stomach organ being constructed from the small intestine. Ciarán references Dr. Raymond McClean’s account of the autopsies carried out after Bloody Sunday (1972) by using a graphic illustration of a human stomach and its contents. The illustrations accompany a three-metre round table made up of two rectangular granite pieces built to hold all iterations of the tools featured across the exhibition. Click the link in our bio for more on the show and to keep tabs on when more events are announced. [Alt text: Five images of technical drawings by Ciarán showing the lough, renderings of a human stomach and its contents and the table featured in the exhibition.] 🎣 OPENING: 'Ferox' by Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh 🎣 Friday 14 January 2022, 7–9pm CCA Derry~Londonderry is proud to present 'Ferox' – its first exhibition of 2022, and artist Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh’s most extensive solo show to date. You are warmly invited to the exhibition's launch at CCA on the evening of Friday 14 January 2022, 7–9pm. Ciarán makes use of a wide range of media – customised tools made of ceramic, marble, granite, sound recordings, technical drawings – in an attempt to deal with themes of generational grief, trauma and healing and how these lived experiences are indivisible from the landscape. Sources for Ciarán’s work are found in his research garnered from historical documentation and archival footage, as well as personal experience and storytelling. 'Ferox' focuses on Lough Fad East, Donegal – a small body of freshwater that supplies drinking water to the surrounding townlands in the Inishowen peninsula. The ecosystem of the lough has been damaged in recent years, most significantly by the introduction of a new fish species that has irreversibly altered its biodiversity which had previously been unaltered since the last ice age. For full details of ‘Ferox’ and to keep tabs on upcoming events for this exhibition, click the link in our bio. 💛 It's our tenth and final window text in the series! 💛 ‘Pierrot’ is written by Meadhbh McNutt, designed by Alex Singe and printed at Derry Print Workshop. The series of texts range from dense personal accounts to bold slogans, and were made throughout the 2021 lockdowns. Thank you to all of our wonderful writers and designers who made this series possible, and to everyone who has picked up copies at the gallery and purchased the fundraiser bundle from our shop. To see the full information on each risograph, click the link in our bio. 🪟 WINDOW TEXTS: ‘Painting To See the Skies. 2021 Spring’ written by Michaela Nash and designed by Edward Boyle 🪟 ‘Painting To See the Skies. 2021 Spring’ is the penultimate installment in a series of ten window texts created during the 2021 lockdowns. The texts range from dense, deeply personal accounts to bold slogans, each capturing the different thoughts and feelings of the author. The texts have been designed by different artists and designers and printed in a risograph edition by Derry Print Workshop. The texts are visible from CCA's windows, each for two weeks, as well as visible online and distributed across our region. All ten are available as a bundle edition to buy from CCA's shop as a fundraiser. Click the link in our bio for more. Ceramics I made to be exhibited as part of my solo exhibition Coccinum; Fate Unwinding at @quenchgallery These pieces were partly glazed and coloured using slips on grogged terracotta and black clay The floral arrangements were created using flowers from @windmill.project - A community garden in Margate This online takeover by Puer Deorum is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more Excerpt from my performance film Coccinum; Fate Unwinding + installation shots at @quenchgallery of the solo show I made this work to be exhibited at :) This work was filmed in advance to be installed in the exhibition but also performed live on the day of the opening along the seafront in Margate. Full film on my website www.puerdeorum.com Performers @puer_deorum @blckgeezer @feelbreezee and improvised violin score by @damsel.elysium Director of Photography @alexanimba Costumes by @puer_deorum & assisted by @feelbreezee Spinning wheel by @tobias_bradford Movement Facilitation @error_404_page_not_fauci Performance video directed & edited by @puer_deorum Quench Gallery is currently fundraising to support their next cohort of artists. Link in @quenchgallery bio to support! This online takeover by Puer Deorum is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more La Planète Sauvage is available to watch in full on my website www.puerdeorum.com A documented performance film created during lockdown at the beginning of 2021 during my residency with @weexistlondon at @the_koppel_project which premiered with online streaming with @fringefilmfest Directed and performed by @puer_deorum With movement collaborator and performer @blckgeezer Sound score by @damsel.elysium DIrector of Photography & editing @avestakeshtmand Costume & set by @puer_deorum Hair & production assistant @feelbreezee Photos by @avestakeshtmand This online takeover by Puer Deorum is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more “Under the Moonlight, in Lieu of Anna, Khala, Sassi, Affa and Me, they picked flowers for us” This photography series explores my relationship with my mother and elder femme figures within my life of Bangladeshi heritage.  It explores our connection to land, horticulture and questions the concept of decolonisation through emulations, via portraits, of an ambiguous figure silhouetted in draped Bangladeshi textiles/sarees. The works challenges preconceived societal perceptions of South Asian/Muslim women being monolithic in their cultural identity, revealing alongside care, a projected version of a different side, anger, nonchalance, towards our (dis)connection with Britain's landscape(ing). Marking territory and reclaiming land and agency with a contemporary twist on the act of foraging. - 35mm Photographic Series & Poem, 2021 I see you in all the green around me, the flowers and the blooms. Something about them draws me in. To caress the leaves and the petals then snatch them from the soil they're rooted in The soil I have no roots in. The roots ready to be uprooted, They claim no ownership over the land we step foot on Yet, the land claims them. How do we decolonise without the leadership of Amma, Khala, Sassi and Affa? When we speak the Queen's English but our mother tongue has our tongues tied? How do we continue the work and care of our ancestors when we navigate the land with the Queen's knowledge on the tip of our tongues? This online takeover by Puer Deorum is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more “Under the Moonlight, in Lieu of Anna, Khala, Sassi, Affa and Me, they picked flowers for us” This photography series explores my relationship with my mother and elder femme figures within my life of Bangladeshi heritage.  It explores our connection to land, horticulture and questions the concept of decolonisation through emulations, via portraits, of an ambiguous figure silhouetted in draped Bangladeshi textiles/sarees. The works challenges preconceived societal perceptions of South Asian/Muslim women being monolithic in their cultural identity, revealing alongside care, a projected version of a different side, anger, nonchalance, towards our (dis)connection with Britain's landscape(ing). Marking territory and reclaiming land and agency with a contemporary twist on the act of foraging. - 35mm Photographic Series & Poem, 2021 I see you in all the green around me, the flowers and the blooms. Something about them draws me in. To caress the leaves and the petals then snatch them from the soil they're rooted in The soil I have no roots in. The roots ready to be uprooted, They claim no ownership over the land we step foot on Yet, the land claims them. How do we decolonise without the leadership of Amma, Khala, Sassi and Affa? When we speak the Queen's English but our mother tongue has our tongues tied? How do we continue the work and care of our ancestors when we navigate the land with the Queen's knowledge on the tip of our tongues? This online takeover by Puer Deorum is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more Hiii @puer_deorum here ! I’m a multidisciplinary artist who works with a bunch of different mediums included but not limited to : performance, costume, set, sculpture, installation, film, photography I also have my own brand where I mainly make custom hats @shop___puer I wanted to start my Instagram takeover with a photo series I took this year called “Under the Moonlight, in Lieu of Anna, Khala, Sassi, Affa and Me, they picked flowers for us” It was a very quick series I had an idea for to exhibit at the @baesianz “Roots” exhibition back in summer. I got them printed around postcard size to be reminiscent of family photo albums. (Only sharing 3 out of 5 of the photos from the series) This photography series explores my relationship with my mother and elder femme figures within my life of Bangladeshi heritage.  It explores our connection to land, horticulture and questions the concept of decolonisation through emulations, via portraits, of an ambiguous figure silhouetted in draped Bangladeshi textiles/sarees. The works challenges preconceived societal perceptions of South Asian/Muslim women being monolithic in their cultural identity, revealing alongside care, a projected version of a different side, anger, nonchalance, towards our (dis)connection with Britain's landscape(ing). Marking territory and reclaiming land and agency with a contemporary twist on the act of foraging. - 35mm Photographic Series & Poem, 2021 I see you in all the green around me, the flowers and the blooms. Something about them draws me in. To caress the leaves and the petals then snatch them from the soil they're rooted in The soil I have no roots in. The roots ready to be uprooted, They claim no ownership over the land we step foot on Yet, the land claims them. How do we decolonise without the leadership of Amma, Khala, Sassi and Affa? When we speak the Queen's English but our mother tongue has our tongues tied? How do we continue the work and care of our ancestors when we navigate the land with the Queen's knowledge on the tip of our tongues? This online takeover by Puer Deorum is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more 🐌🇧🇩🪡 Wednesday 22 December 2021, from 10am CCA Introducing: Puer Deorum It's our final CCA Introducing takeover of the year! Follow Puer as they take over our Instagram and Twitter pages to share work and research for CCA Introducing 2021. We are @CCADLD on all platforms. The recommendation to invite Puer to participate in CCA Introducing came from Hetain Patel, who spoke on our CCA Round Table podcast #4 with Priya Mistry and Nithya Nagarajan. "Working with performance, costume, and sculptural prop-making, with a curiosity and nature in multidisciplines, I centre personal expression of liminality and fragmentation felt within my identity, narrating surreal paracosms with harmonious references and insights through word-of-mouth and oral histories and research on anthropology and folk culture/art from South Asia, specifically the Bengali Region. I explore nuances of intimacy, love, touch and personal censorship/repression under a homogenised gaze, highlighting complexities of interpersonal power relations and the concept of ‘play’ through implicit/movement based dialogue - experimenting with boundaries and limitations of navigating non-verbal worlds." Puer will be sharing images and stills from their practice and also sculptures, props and costumes they've made. They also hope to share work by fellow artists that inspire them. For more on Puer and our entire CCA Introducing programme over this past year, click the link in our bio. #ccaintroducing From the CCA Staff and Board, we send a huge thank you to everyone who has supported CCA in 2021. Whilst it has been another deeply challenging year, we are reflecting on the positives we have experienced too. Our highpoint was being shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year!   In 2021 we presented four exhibitions with work by 23 artists, and hosted five small scale shows in the CCA Project Space, with two by the recipients of the CCA Graduate Award.   Our online platforms and new website have come out strong this year, with 24 social media takeovers including 20 in our CCA Introducing programme. Three week-long digital residencies have been shared throughout 2021. We could not have produced our exhibitions and online activity without the work of our artists and help of technicians, videographers, photographers and designers. Thanks to 60 freelancers together with our staff team of four, we made Round Table podcasts, schools packs, summer family workshops, writing and design workshops and more. The CCA Youth Collective shifted online to support younger people living in lockdown. The CCA Research Associates continued to work with us and we look forward to supporting the new cohort beginning in 2022. Our CCA Supports events expanded online to provide crit groups, surgeries, mentoring, and tax return guidance for artists working in isolation.   Our new window texts had us invite 10 writers and 10 artists/designers to create this new series. We also used our platform of being a shortlisted institution to raise awareness of art funding in NI and the disproportionately high levels of mental health issues affecting people working in the arts by advocating for our sector. We cheered on Array Collective's historic win at the Turner Prize 2021; we couldn't be more proud!   We can't wait to see you in the new year for our solo show by Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, and online we are releasing audio artwork by CCA Research Associate Chinasa Vivian Ezhugha. After another difficult year, to every artist, visitor, freelancer, educator, funder, donor, follower, volunteer, supporter – stay safe and we wish you well however you are spending the holidays.