TweetShare Heady days here at our arts centre HQ as we gear up for the pride and fervour of St. Patrick’s Day and shake off those post-Christmas blues! Last month, I mentioned that we had a number of interns working with us and yes, they are still here, beavering away in their own rural fashion. [...]

TweetShare  A trip so manicured would make any man nauseous. Certainly my patience was steadily draining away. Through some 4,000km due south, west, then north in Argentina I had allowed myself to be shepherded along like a supine little lamb. Puerto Madryn, Bariloche, and now Mendoza – each precise little step of it horribly choreographed. [...]

TweetShare In his own words, “an awful man”, Jinx stands at the outer edge of the periphery of the Hibernian music machine picking the dirt beneath the fingernails of the fading septic tiger landscape while the larvae practice their new voices in their bedrooms in front of mirror contemplating visualisation for the mid atlantic voiced [...]

TweetShare The Play Ethic is the site of Pat Kane, author, journalist and half of the duo, “Hue + Cry”. The phrase came to him during band rehearsals and was to serve as a headline bringing together a wide range of interests of his; cultural, technological and political. As the Nineties progressed, the idea that [...]

TweetShare (Image by Fiona Hallinan)  Leeks make their first appearance of the season in September but they are happy growing in the winter soil. It’s just as well, early spring is when they really get a chance to shine. Marking a mid point between the deep, earthy root vegetables of the cold, dark months and [...]

TweetShare Hi Kids! Previously in this column i have managed to leave several threads hanging; – how the industy is changing – how to get VAT back from the taxman – how to reproduce the sound of the Big Bang with a four track recorder and a guitar. I haven’t forgotten them, but all things [...]

TweetShare  Jean-Marie finds himself on the defensive back in France all the time. They reckon he, with his company Produits de Palestine, is just “in it for the money”. “Eez difficult for us in France. We are a traditional family. People don’t understand what we make. I went to a village outside Nablus during second [...]

TweetShare  La Catedral Studios is a space for the arts in a raw Victorian industrial building located at the heart of one of Dublin’s oldest quarters, the Liberties. Named after a Milonga venue in Buenos Aires due to its founders’ keen interest in tango and the alternative artistic culture of that city, La Catedral Studios [...]

TweetShare John Murphy is an Irish digital artist and designer based in Madrid Spain and working under the name Sineload Studio. He works in Conceptual Photography, Image Retouching/Manipulation and Photo Illustration. John Murphy studied Fine Art (Painting) and has been working in Web design and Digital Art with an online presence for the last 10 [...]

TweetShare   The Editor has ants in his pants and I wonder why. Do you think it could be because of lack of sleep? You have heard that he has recently become a father? Anyway, he has been at me about those of you who have a sweet tooth. Of course you were not forgotten. [...]

TweetShareThis is the time for planting spuds. Here are two websites that should tell you everything you need to know about growing potatoes in a bag on your balcony, or in the earth: Potatoes in a bag Growing fruit and veg Midas, hating riches, made his home in the country, in the woods, and worshiped [...]

TweetShare The everyday is the ordinariness of what happens; the place where ambiguity, uncertainty, disorder take precedence. Micro-activities emerge against a socio-economic landscape which suppresses. Acts of shopping, cooking, walking, working can become more than passive routines. They become performances carried out without an audience, The everyday is that which evades any claim. Once the [...]

TweetShare “This author is beyond psychiatric help- do not publish.” A harsh, if not telling, response by a publisher’s reader when first subjected to the even harsher fictional worlds incorporated into the writings of J.G. Ballard. The novella in question was Crash, a cruel, fantastical, wholly brutal account of the links between car-crashes and sexual-fetishism. [...]

TweetShareAll the books reviewed can be bought directly from our bookshop at mutantspace.ie The Situationist City By Simon Sadler From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western world. The movement’s broadside attack on “establishment” institutions and values left [...]

TweetShare I am Sean Corcoran. I am an Artist / Designer based in Waterford. Last year my Dad and I closed The Salvage Shop which was described by art critic Liam Murphy as ‘an Emporium of the Imagination’. It wasn’t a sad occasion for me although it does mark the end of an era. Lots [...]