Exhibitions

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The Indoor Tree
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Ciara Finnegan
The Indoor Tree
22 Nov 21—29 Nov 21
Past
Holy Blood
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Cat McClay, Éiméar McClay
Holy Blood
25 Oct 21—31 Oct 21
Current
Tilt [at Windmills]
Exhibition
Tilt [at Windmills]
05 Oct 21—18 Dec 21

Public Programmes

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Mincers
Mincers is the next in a series of ten window text commissions by artists, writers, and designers created during the 2...
'Daddy's Boy' 2020, video still
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Renèe Helèna Browne
CCA Introducing: Renèe Helèna Browne
26 Nov 21—27 Nov 21
On Friday 26 November 2021 from 10am, follow artist and CCA Research Associate Renèe Helèna Browne as they take over our...
Vera Ryklova Untitled5001 Aesthetic Distance series 2015 web Vera Ryklova
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CCA Introducing: Vera Ryklova
14 Nov 21—15 Nov 21
On Sunday 14 November 2021 from 10am, follow artist Vera Ryklova as she takes over our Instagram and Twitter pages to sh...
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Some art things I explain in emojis
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CCA Introducing: Claudia Rose
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Samhain
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Skin Loving Language

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'Tilt [at Windmills]' Relaxed Performance Day
CCA Derry~Londonderry is hosting a Relaxed Performance Day as part of Derry City and Strabane District Council's Disabil...
Posted 26 Nov
The Indoor Tree
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The Indoor Tree
The Indoor Tree by Ciara Finnegan is the third digital residency hosted by CCA Derry~Londonderry in 2021. This residency...
Posted 18 Nov
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'Hidden Signals' with Jarkko Räsänen and Raquel Meyers
CCA Derry~Londonderry would like to thank Jarkko Räsänen and Raquel Meyers for delivering the Teletext Workshop yesterda...
Posted 12 Nov
'The Land Question: Where the fuck am I supposed to have sex?' (2020) 38m, video still
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Announcing the 2022 CCA Research Associates
Each year five CCA Research Associates are selected through an open call (with at least two from Northern Ireland) for e...
Posted 25 Oct

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Cover of The Faggots and Friends Between Revolutions The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in decline, and introduces us to the communities of the faggots, the women, the queens, the queer men, and the women who love women who are surviving the ways and world of men. This online takeover by Renèe Helèna Browne is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing #reneehelenabrowne Pencil drawing of Esther Roper (1868-1938) co-editor of Urania in a frilly necked shirt. This online takeover by Renèe Helèna Browne is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing #reneehelenabrowne An Irish School Girl: Student falls in love with a trainee nun. 'Oh ecstasy!', Katherine Tynan. Twenty-five Years’ Reminiscen. From Urania Issue May-August 1933. This online takeover by Renèe Helèna Browne is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing #reneehelenabrowne Installation view of Rebuilding Urania: Episode One presented at the 19th edition of the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Eoin Dara under the title 'there’s nothing here but flesh & bone, there’s nothing more'. Rebuilding Urania: Episode One is made up of four aural contributions by different speakers invited by the artist to read an article from Urania. Following each reading is a personal response or reflection by each contributor, opening up new discussions on the radical historic journal Urania. Photo by Ros Kavanagh Image 2: Transcript of 'A Strange Eight' read and responded to by Oreet Ashery for Rebuilding Urania: Episode One Image 3: Detail of article 'A Strange Eight' from Urania Issue January - April 1935. This online takeover by Renèe Helèna Browne is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing #reneehelenabrowne Extract to invitation to Rebuilding Urania (2021) contributors: "I'd like to ask after you record yourself reading the article if you could respond to it, doesn't have to be anything laborious, just saying how you felt about it /did it make you think of anything else/ were there any points of connectivity for you/ were there the opposite. I’d love if you could think about where you might put yourself in space to do the reading and maybe mention these decisions after in your response; are you on a walk, outdoors sitting down, in your bed making a voice note, in the aisle of a shop, is there a song playing in the background (random or chosen) or is it silent. What location, sounds (if any), and physical comforts feel instinctively right to be sharing the text with aurally." So far, Rebuilding Urania has been enriched and enlivened by contributions from Sharlene Bamboat, Mason Leaver-Yap, Hannah Fitz, Oreet Ashery, Marian Mayland, and Hamshya Rajkumar. 💗 Hi hi my name is Renèe and I will be sharing bits today in relation to art I make and things I love. Firstly if you'd like to listen, my new work is currently available online with @luxscotland untill the end of this month: Rebuilding Urania (2021-ongoing) This work began with my research into Urania, a historic printed journal that focused on gender and was privately distributed and published in London from 1916-1940. Featuring re-printed articles from newspapers around the world, editorial commentary, poetry and prose, it provided readers with an alternative scientific and cultural basis of expression on androgyny and love. 'Rebuilding Urania' is an oral archiving project of Urania, and takes the form of multiple episodes with public presentations across radio, gallery and online contexts. The development of the project has involved me connecting with invited people to respond to articles from the original journal and in doing so starting to build a community and friendships around ideas in the work. The first iteration, Rebuilding Urania: Pilot (2021) is accompanied by a transcript on the Lux website. This episode was produced with Mason Leaver-Yap, Sharlene Bamboat and Hannah Fitz, with Malin Lewis’ Are We appearing courtesy OVER / AT E.P.: FOLKS’ SONGS. Different stages of my research and the development of this work have been supported by a number of organisations: Rebuilding Urania: Pilot (2021) was co-commissioned by Dublin Digital Radio’s Alternating Currents Festival (2021) and Book Works UK for the Happy Hypocrite radio show on Resonance FM, Sep 2021. Rebuilding Urania: Episode One premiered at TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway in November 2021 curated by Eoin Dara. Rebuilding Urania (2021-ongoing) was commissioned by the Project Art Centre, Dublin. This online takeover by Renèe Helèna Browne is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing #reneehelenabrowne 🦖🎧👨‍👦 Friday 26 November 2021, from 10am CCA Introducing: Renèe Helèna Browne Follow artist Renèe as they take over our Instagram and Twitter pages to share their work and research for CCA Introducing 2021. We are @CCADLD on all platforms. The recommendation to invite Renèe to participate in CCA Introducing came from Mason Leaver-Yap, who contributed to Sarah Pierce's 'No Title' publication for the exhibition of the same name that was hosted at CCA in 2017. Renèe makes essay films, vocal soundscapes, and angsty drawings. They are 2021–2023 Talbot Rice Resident Artist with ECA at the University of Edinburgh. Recent things include screening at the European Media Art Festival No. 34 and aemi & Docs Ireland: Material legacies. For more on Renèe and CCA Introducing click the link in our bio. #ccaintroducing 🏝 COMING UP: ‘The Indoor Tree’ digital residency by Ciara Finnegan 🏝 Monday 22 November–Sunday 29 November 2021 From the artist: “How can you transcend the physical and play around in the in-between? Of course, art is a means of transport to ‘another realm’, a transcendental trigger - taking the viewer elsewhere is part of what art does. Is it possible for an online space to facilitate that? If you are here, can you be ‘here’ too? The Indoor Tree’ attempts a very explicit externalisation of this transcendental property of art by exposing it as a property of itself as an artwork. Speculating on these questions from home in the Netherlands, I have worked with CCA Derry~Londonderry as an ad hoc Astral Travel Agency to arrange an idyllic, three day holiday at ‘The Indoor Tree for Laura, who was selected through a Holiday Competition earlier this year. Without moving from her home in Co. Clare, Ireland, Laura will ‘travel to’ ‘The Indoor Tree’ where Ciara will attempt to interpret, enact and deliver online, a holiday experience that somehow, sort of, aligns with Laura’s desires. In making this holiday happen, Laura and I will play in a dynamic space within CCA website where Laura will express her holiday hopes and dreams and I will attempt to cater to these wishes. The space will be permanently erased when the holiday comes to an end on Friday 26 November 2021. This is an improvisational and experimental approach to almost carbon-zero holiday making – what could go wrong, really?!” To see the digital residency, tune into our website from Monday 22 November 2021 by clicking the link in our bio. #theindoortree #digitalresidency This online takeover by Vera Ryklova is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the @artfund. Click in CCADLD bio for more. This is my last post. I hope you have enjoyed my takeover. That it was not too text heavy 📖📖📖📖. I have had a ball 💃. Do follow me or reach out to me if you feel like. We have something in common. It can be for just a chat about our practices or even for collaboration 🤝. As I in fact look for women (and their child) to collaborated on my ongoing project ➡️ which is, simply put, about motherhood. But you know now what I do and how. It is not just about taking 📷🎥. If you are interested or know of some one. Do get in touch ✉️ ➡️📷: 1. @vera.ryklova , Jasmin-9-years (II), 2017. | 2. @vera.ryklova , Johana-12-years (XIX), 2017. Both from ‘Child’ [working title]. #wip #ccaintroducing #conceptualart #ongoingproject #irisartist #motherhood #child #woman #loss #catharsis #collaboration Massive thank you to @ccadld @susanmacwilliam This online takeover by Vera Ryklova is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the @artfund. Click in the CCADLD bio for more. 🎥: excerpt from @vera.ryklova , the only real thing to do #1, 2021, HD video, 10 min. As represented in Of the Body, 2021 solo exhib. at Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport. I have approached the concept of faith from two different perspectives: 1️⃣ as practiced in religion 2️⃣ as a process that refers to one’s way of learning into and making sense of life, finding its purpose. Another take here is how the word #faith itself is understood. As English is not my first language. In Czech faith stands for 🅰️ The faith (in God). But it also has second meaning, 🅱️ A strong believe in happening (in general of any thing). In the context of this work, the strong believe is in that withstanding obstacles will bring the desired, or rather deserved, state of happiness and satisfaction. (Self-)fulfilment. 📖worth reading: James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning. Alan Gewirth, Self-fulfillment. #ccaintroducing #customehousestudios #ofthebody #conceptualart #ongoingproject #performance #irishartist #video #self #fulfillment #catharsis #languagemeaning This online takeover by Vera Ryklova is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the @artfund. Click in the CCADLD bio for more. 📷: 1. still-9 | 2. still-17 Both from @vera.ryklova , the only real thing to do #1, 2021, HD video, 10 min. 🎥: @vera.ryklova , Of the Body, 2021 solo exhib. at Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport. Install. video-snap. ‘the only real thing to do #1’ is the first video piece of the intended series I named ‘the only real thing to do’. This project questions the role of #faith and means to represent the human struggle to achieve a state where need and desire are united. It confronts my (a) search for contentment. I plan to produce a series of 7️⃣ video (self-)portraits on this theme. The 7️⃣ refers to the Book of Genesis. For ‘the only real thing to do #1’ I performed in the back yard of a vacant farm cottage in the countryside near a small Irish town. Through the #realexperience of physical pain and discomfort, this piece depicts the (almost painful) course of maintaining hope - of attaining what has been longed for. Here my action stands for the process of striving, and my (the artist) body is where the psychological drama takes place. The only real thing I can do is to face the pain. And accept the experience. The more I try to avoid it the further away I am from its ending. After I performed this piece, I have been mainly working on the sound composition. I got inspired by a #buddhist meditation. This piece is essentially a meditation on pain - not the one that is obvious (here). 📖worth reading: Erich Fromm, The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture. Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving. #ccaintroducing #customhousestudios #ofthebody #ongoingproject #performance #video #irishartist #lifeexperience #fulfillment #catharsis This online takeover by Vera Ryklova is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the @artfund. Click in the CCADLD bio for more. My practice is quite multi-layered: I mix research with personal knowledge and merge elements of the events from my past and present, which all I then combine in the creative process ⚗️ This way I build a subject for the viewers to explore, as well as invite their life experiences to impact the reading of my work. It is not important to me that my inner motives behind each work are disclosed or understood ↪️ ↪️The key concept of my practice is confrontation: My work firstly confronts me (the artist) while at its making. And then the viewer. To question is my intention. And to encourage viewers’ intimate explorations of their own selves - that may suggest answers to their own personal inquiries. 🎥: 2x excerpts from @vera.ryklova , the only real thing to do #1, 2021, HD video, 10 min. As represented in Of the Body, 2021 solo exhib. at Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport. About the work in my next post/s. 📖worth reading: Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. #ccaintroducing #customhousestudios #ofthebody #conceptualart #irishartist #ongoingproject #video #self #lifeexperience #confrontation #catharsis