An innovative collaboration between composers and visual artists on two simultaneous sites in Limerick and Belfast will be launched on 26 January.

Curated by Seán McCrum, Two Places involves seven separate partnerships between composer and artist, each of which have created a response to specific locations within both the 52-acre site of the University of Limerick and the single-building Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast.

Focused on ‘events, not static exhibits’, the projects all involve sound, moving images and objects and are designed to respond to the stimuli provided by the interaction with visitors to the individual spaces. Interaction in one site and the resulting ‘response’ by the art work is streamed in real time to the other site using technology devised by the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast and Limerick’s Interaction Design Centre.

Composers and artists taking part include Michael Alcorn, Gráinne Mulvey, Jürgen Simpson, Paul Wilson, Kieran Ferris, Barbra Freeman, Slavek Kwi, Pedro Rebelo and Anthony Kelly and David Stalling.

Two Places runs at the University of Limerick and the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast from 26 January to 1 March.

A Symposium with contributions from participants opens the event on 26 January at 11am; the Sonic Arts Research Centre’s Dr Eric Lyon will give a talk on A History of Sonic Art at 4pm on 2 February; and Gráinne Mulvey will run a workshop for 3-7-year-olds at 11.45am on 16 February, all of these events taking place at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.

For details, see our calendar or visit www.ormeaubaths.co.uk.

Posted: 17 January 2008