Anne Maree Barry

anne maree barry says hi I started this blog in 2007. No one had heard of The Wire and I was making experimental films that a select few saw. My initial tagline for this blog was: 'I write concisely. always. I'm trying to improve this - however, sometimes few words work better'. Then I found Twitter. However, I still post here once a week, so feel free to comment or just to simply say hii.	affiliates AnneMareeBarry Still Films Dark Light Paul Rowley Eoghan Kidney Alan Butler My Tweets My Vimeo Common Ground Mad decent Warrior One Cake
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 10:04 AM Anne Maree Barry - Solo Exhibition @ The Lab The LAB, brought to you by Dublin City Council, is pleased to present: Rialto Twirlers – Anne Maree Barry Preview 06/05/10 / 6.00pm to 8.00pm Curated by Gavin Murphy 07.05.10 - 29.05.10 In her exhibition Rialto Twirlers Anne Maree Barry presents an effective study of time, movement, image and sound, an amalgamated performance, that holds within it a narrative of contemporary urban Dublin. Young people growing up in the inner city area of Rialto find a space for themselves through creatively engaging in majorette groups, a traditional feature of the social landscape in working-class areas. Not as acrobatic as their American cheer leader counterparts or as military as their marching bands founders, the Rialto Twirlers are a creative fusion of hard graft, skill and energy that is a product of a pluralistic age in which anything is possible. For a year Barry shadowed the Twirlers. At majorette competitions she observed the aesthetic visual qualities of their physical forms and interaction within a specific performance space, their vibrant colours and energy, symmetry and order, urban music sounds and sense of community. Barry was sufficiently integrated into a precious and hidden subculture to create this choreographed documentary film based on her observational experience of the group. The intention of Anne Maree Barry's work is to convey her own unique film making style in documentary or fictional format, in order to blur the boundaries between art and everyday encounters. This, her latest work combines in a collage of image, sound and music, held together by the movements of the performers. Experimenting with the power of narrative by exploring other elements of film, Barry emphasizes this interplay of image and sound, rhythm and gesture, rather than reliance on plot mechanics. In collaboration with composer Duncan Murphy the soundtrack assembles a collection of tone washes and rhythmic clusters that were collected during a series of the Rialto Twirler’s performances. The project also included Mark Bryan, a Philadelphia music producer who remixed the music for the successful cheerleading film Bring It On, and was invited by Barry to lead a workshop with the Rialto Twirlers, which is documented in this exhibition. Anne Maree Barry is a film artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She attended the Limerick School of Art and Design, BA Fine Art 2002 and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, MFA Media 2004. In 2006, her first experimental short film was the winner of Best Irish Short at the Darklight Film Festival, Dublin. Recent screenings and exhibitions include: Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Film Festival, Irish Film Institute, Dublin; The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival; New Film at Cake Contemporary Arts, Kildare; Straylight, The Light House Cinema, Dublin; Birr Arts Festival; Except, Bologna; Oslo Screen Festival; Heavier-Than-Air Flying Machines Are Impossible, The Red Stables, Dublin / Jim Thompson Arts Center, Bangkok; and Competitive Landscapes, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York. Barry was awarded a New Work Award and a Travel and Training Award from the Arts Council in 2007. Studio/Residency Awards include Studio 468, Rialto, awarded by Common Ground, Project Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry. The Lab, Dublin City Arts Office, Foley Street, Dublin 1. Labels: Anne Maree Barry, exhibitions-dublin, Gavin Murphy, Rialto Twirlers, The Lab back to top? 0 comments
Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 10:31 AM Heavier than air flying machines are impossible Cliona Harmey, Seneca (2006) Heavier than air flying machines are impossible is an exhibition of video works by artists working in Ireland. Selected by artist-run space Pallas Contemporary Projects, it now returns from Thailand, for its first screening at The Red Stables, Dublin. The exhibition includes video work from Aideen Barry, Anne Maree Barry, Daren Bolger, Cliona Harmey, Gavin Murphy, Kelly O Connor, and Fiona Whitty. Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd November 2008, The Red Stables, St. Annes Park, Dublin 3 Artist discussion and screening: Saturday 22nd November at 1pm. Followed by reception. Labels: Aideen Barry, Anne Maree Barry, Cliona Harmey, exhibitions-dublin, Gavin Murphy, Heavier-Than-Air Flying Machines Are Impossible, Kelly O Connor, Pallas Contemporary Projects, The Red Stables back to top? 1 comments
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 @ 2:47 AM Dorian Again-Suddenly (2008), Gavin Murphy will be unveiled at Frontiers, a 3 person exhibition at The Green On Red Gallery, Dublin this friday March 14th. What is special about this piece is - that I am in it. It was shot in bitter January outside the Project Arts Centre and was around the same time that I had recorded a voiceover for Anamnesis (2008) so; I was beginning to get accustomed with performing. Being forever immortalised in a video work I cannot help thinking of Will Self's Dorian where Baz Hallward's video installation Cathode Narcissus captures all of Dorian's allure but perhaps it's captured another more integral part of him also. Predictably the years go by and Dorian remains youthful and healthy whilst the artwork grows older. I am currently awaiting a private screening of Again, Suddenly where I can ask the artist Gavin Murphy what his true intention is regarding the piece. The second time we shot it, it became an endurance test - I am not a smoker and deeply enhaling cigarettes to create an everlasting smoke effect proved difficult. However like a true performer I toughed it out and obviously the artist was pleased with the results. Here, I can only speculate on my involvement in it and as Schopenhauer once said: If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Labels: Anne Maree Barry, exhibitions-dublin, Frontiers, Gavin Murphy, Green on Red back to top? 1 comments