Bbeyond group performance - (Christine Cadman, Stephen Dorothy, Brian Patterson, Rainer Pagel, Hugh O'Donnell, Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell, Brian Connolly)
7 PEOPLE AND A TABLE

15 November

15.00-19.00h
Catalyst Arts Gallery

Bbeyond is an organisation set up to promote performance artists and art in Northern Ireland.

This exchange between seven individuals and a table, interested and committed to group interaction and exchange between subjects, objects and environment. The mathematically equation 7+0; 0+7; 6+1; 1+6: 5+2; 2+5; 4+3; 3+4 are the given variables and dynamics leaving as wide open as possible the performance offered by Bbeyond and the individual artists.

- Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell
- Chrissie Cadman
- Brian Connolly
- Stephen Dorothy
- Hugh O'Donnell
- Rainer Pagel
- Brian Patterson

Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell
Country: Northern Ireland

Statement: born Belfast 1983. BA Hons Fine and Applied Art Belfast Art College Graduate 2007. Playful Actions and Interventions in 2007: 'Drawing' SCRATCH, Dublin |'Tumbleweed' streets of Omagh and 'Hair do' in Catalyst Arts, ARES 07, International Performance Art Residency Exchange Northern Ireland and Transylvanian Region | 'E.N.O.L.G.' various locations in N.Ireland and Scotland |'Salt Drawing' CATFLAPS, Cardiff. Ongoing Collaborations and Collectives: !AbasMcnally! with Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, draw in an artist collective and Playgroup with Anne Marie Dillon and Dandy.

Chrissie Cadman


Embrace the physicality of the self and its unlimited interaction quality

Brian Connolly
Country: Northern Ireland

Title: House of Memory;Timisoara Table/ Timisoara Memory/ Timisoara Aspiration

Statement: Brian Connolly is a multi-media artist who's works often relate to 'place' or context. He employs a wide range of artistic processes, including Performance, Public Sculpture, Installation Art, and collaborative projects.

He currently employs two distinct Performance strategies: The first is geared to entice a non 'art' audience and takes the form of Market Stall intervention. Surreal humor is employed to question aspects of consumerism and global political and social ethics.

His other live works are often both place-specific & durational. These Performance works, generically entitled "Install-actions", are often visually elaborate and contain both political and spiritual metaphors.

Stephen Dorothy

Loose the inhibitions and find the self in the doing.

Hugh O'Donnell
Country: Northern Ireland

Title: I just don't know why my feet burn and the c.d doesn't work

Statement: Hugh O'Donnell's work is Performance/Drawing and Installation. It starts with an object, any object; it could be a toilet or a tin can. I then see an image or a shape that becomes a drawing or at least the start of one. The object is appropriated into my artistic thinking and then something happens... I think of the room that I could be in or a space outdoors. I begin to draw and within my studio this drawing takes the format of being on the wall or the floor or in the notebook that is small enough to fit into my pocket. Sounds and noises are interesting. Shush, bucket barking, sawing into a table, hammering the table, the echoes that are made from a performance that happened in an underground space where trains pass over head. The sound of a chair being scraped and dragged across a concrete floor.

O'Donnell has made performances and installations at national and international events and exhibitions in places such as trace installaction art space Cardiff Wales. La sala naranja Valencia Spain. Rencontre international d'art performance de Quebec. International multi media arts festival Serbia. National review of live art Glasgow. Art trail Cork. Frank O B's performance event 'full bleed' Colchester arts centre. Rub me up the wrong way- Norwich art centre.

Rainer Pagel
Country: Northern Ireland

Born 1948 Mecklenburg, Germany, Studied in Hamburg and Belfast.
Member of NI Workshop of the Free International University at Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany, 1977.
Founder Member of Art and Research Exchange, Belfast.
Coordinator Media Workshop, Belfast, 1979.
Invited to represent NI Workshop at Beuys Exhibition, New York, 1979.
Community Worker, Centre for Neighbourhood Development, Belfast 1982.
Voluntary and Community Sector Trainer, Belfast 1986.
Deputy Director for organisational development, NICVA, Belfast, 1996.
Founder member, Bbeyond, Belfast 2000.
Director Face Inclusion Matters (youth work agency) 2002 - present.

"My art comments on belief systems, societal events, political developments, absurd ideas and conventions of communication and human interaction. Performance / live art allows me to use process to illustrate how our world changes while we're not looking, and how we then misinterpret what we have not seen but think we know intimately."

Brian Patterson
Country: Northern Ireland

Statement: Our positioning within the cultural map of time is the result of humanity's constant search for identity and meaning. My working practice is concerned with the poetics of being in relation to place (the present/environment) and intellectually how we have arrived here (through our past/histories), and the potentially to navigate our future/s. Art through its creative process is an integrated and alchemical transformation of the self and consciousness. It has a vital role for the well being of the individual in today's society. As Ghandi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world"

Bio: Has served as a committee member of Catalyst from 1996 -1998. Worked with Flaxart from 1998 -2004. Help set up Bbeyond in 2001 and since 2005 has devoted time and energy to the realizing Bbeyond as a performance art organization in Belfast.