Tide - an installation by Aileen Lambert opens at Sirius on Saturday 14 June with a special performance at 3pm

Sirius Arts Centre presents Aileen Lambert's most recent project
Tide - Video Installation, Sound and Video Works

Official Opening Saturday 14th June at 3pm Sirius Arts Centre Galleries With a performance of
One Mouthful of Water by the artist at the opening

Exhibition runs Saturday 14th June – Sunday 6th July

Following a short residency at Sirius earlier this year, Lambert presents a show including sound and video works and featuring a new video installation, Tide in the Centre Gallery. This new work was developed in response to the unique aspect of Sirius Arts Centre and it's relationship to the sea.

Tide is defined as "a point or portion of time" or "the rise and fall of the sea". Each new tide carries with it the promise of erasing a previous impression and the potential of something new and unknown. This work investigates the body's relationship with time in relation to the changing landscape, and through the use of sound explores feelings of loss and longing so often associated with the sea.

The West Gallery will feature a number of video and sound works in which the artist mediates her encounters with the environment. Performative gestures varying from short determined actions to extended periods of stillness are re-presented by employing a variety of recording and editing devices. Much of the Lambert's work is concerned with a futile attempt to preserve something which is intangible, as she uses metaphors such as the voice, breath and shadow to explore archetypal notions of life and death and the passing of time.

Aileen Lambert - Biography
Lambert's practice spans video, performance and sound work, as well as participatory public art projects. Aileen graduated from LSAD, Limerick in 1997 with a degree in Fine Art was awarded an MA in Visual Arts Practice from DLIADT in January 2007. She recently presented a solo show entitled Come and Gone, featuring video, sound and performance in Wexford Arts Centre in January/February 2008. Group shows include 7000IS, (Egilsstadir, Iceland), Anti Festival of Contemporary Art (Kuopio, Finland), Tract (Cornwall, England), EV+A (Limerick), Tulca (Galway), Visual Deflections (London), Castle of Imagination (Poland) and SWGC, (Newfoundland). Aileen was in receipt of a Bursary from The Arts Council of Ireland in June 2007, and Wexford County Council in June 2008. Public art projects include The Soft Edge, which was commissioned by Wexford County Council and culminated in a publication launch in January '08. She is currently working on a public art commission for Fingal County Council and is developing new work for Sculpture at Kells, August 2008, and Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, in April 2009.

Composer, musician and visual artist, Charlotte Hug in Residence at Sirius

Charlotte Hug, composer, musician and visual artist, lives in Zurich and travells extensively. She graduated in Visual Arts and Music, from London, Bern, Zurich & Berlin, and has received several awards, including "artist in residence" in London, Paris, Cork, Berlin and now in Cobh for the month of June.

Charlotte is well known for her spatial scores and performances in unusual places around the world. Charlotte tries to maximize amplification of playing techniques through the use of these alternative spaces. She has, among others, developed the "softbow" and specializes in mixing the sounds of viola and voice.

In addition to exhibitions, she performs as a soloist playing her own compositions at important international festivals in Europe, USA and Canada. ( for more inforamtion visit http://www.charlottehug.ch). Sarah Iremonger, Artist in Residence Co-ordinator took a few moments out to find-out more about Charlotte and her aspirations for her residency.

Sarah - Can you tell us a bit about what you've been working on recently and your plans during your residency at Sirius?

Charlotte - I was in the area during Cork Capital of Culture 2005, at that time I did an installation and performance for the Soundworks Festival as part of Arttrail. The high and low tide near the Dockyard in Rusbrookewere was inspiring for me. At low tide I was standing on the slipway... it made me think of "anderwelten" (the Celtic discription for otherworlds).

At that time I was looking for special places allover Europe which were under the earth, or under the water, or in between. Since then I played in the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland and the house of detention, a prison from the 16th century which was a air raid shelter during the second worldwar in London. I also performed in a half destroyed bunker in Berlin and in the subterranean hot springs in the cellar of a former luxury hotel of the 18th century in Switzerland.

I am currently working with Swiss TV to make a documentary film about this project, "Anderwelten". The filmmaker Alberto Venzago and his cameraman will come at the end of my residency to the Sirius Art Centre and film my work here in Ireland. My focus this year is "Anderwelten" and my time at Sirius provides me with an opportunity to continue my work on this project. I have plans for a future exhibition, including an installation and a performance which will be shown at the Kunstkeller Bern in Switzerland and at the Swissnex in San Francisco this autum.Currently I am the soloist (viola & voice) in the piece "Oedipus on Kolonos" from Sophokles /director Jossi Wieler, where I will play the psyche of Oedipus at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

For more information on Charlotte Hug visit her website at: www.charlottehug.ch