We are never at home, Pallas Projects 1996—

We are never at home Pallas Projects 1996—

Pallas Studios exterior (former Pallas Knitwear factory) Foley Street, Dublin 1 1996—2007

Pallas Projects/Studios is a programming and resource organisation dedicated to the facilitation of artistic production and discourse, via the provision of affordable artists studios in the city centre, and a curated exhibition programme. PP/S addresses the necessity of providing space for artistic production and exhibition, and foregrounds the role of the project as a constant agent of discourse and transformation. Indeed, Pallas Projects is an umbrella label for a variety of spaces, exchanges, off-site projects, exhibitions, talks, resource programmes and publications conceived of and put into practice over a fifteen-year period.

Projects Pallas Projects collaborates with artists, curators and writers to engage and develop current Irish contemporary art, through solo projects by Irish and international artists, alongside occasional thematic group exhibitions, and initiated exchanges with artists’ groups around Ireland and abroad. Pallas Projects runs a peer-aimed programme of curated exhibitions, each preceded by a PDF artwork element, or text by or about the artist, and a peer-directed info–sheet.

The ongoing project, with collaborators numbering well into the hundreds, has included exhibitions/performances by Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Manon De Boer, Alicia Frankovich, Jesse Jones, Gereon Krebber, Niamh McCann, Nathaniel Mellors, Clive Murphy, Garrett Phelan, Jim Ricks, John Smith, Stephanie Syjuco, Hito Steyerl, and Mark Titchner.

Spaces PP/S is dedicated to providing a constant space for artistic production and exhibition in Dublin, via an alternative art methodology and DIY work ethic. With the backdrop of an unwillingness of private developers to allow for the provision of a long-term cultural aspect to the regeneration of city-centre areas throughout the boom years, PP/S has been searching, inhabiting, and fighting to maintain as many as eight semi-permanent locations since 1996, and many more temporary offsite exhibition/project scenarios. These have included a four-year exhibition programme in a semi-derelict block of council flats, a white cube space in a former milking parlour, and external collaborative projects with Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin Docklands; Fire Station Artists’ Studios; The Red Stables; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; 126, Galway; The Black Mariah, Cork; Project 304, Bangkok; Sub-Urban Video Lounge, Rotterdam; Auto Italia South East, London; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne and The Model, Sligo.

A stubborn willingness to adapt and transform has enabled the project to both maintain and change, providing a fluid continuity within a difficult context, and a platform for Irish and international artists to develop discourse, links and exchanges.

Resources As a resource organisation Pallas provides affordable artists studios, a summer programme for which the space is rented out to external projects selected via a competitive open submission process, and an intern programme involving a dedicated pedagogical emphasis that culminates in research and exhibition outcomes.

Mark Titchner Offside, installation view Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane July—October 2005

(OVERLEAF)

Installation view We are never at home Part of Dorm, The Model, Sligo May—July 2010

Brian Duggan More Often Than Most Pallas Heights November 2005—January 2006

Eilis McDonald installation for By Diverse Means We Arrive At The Same End Pallas Studios & Dublin Docklands Development Authority February—March 2006

(OVERLEAF)

Automatic Installation view with performance by Alicia Frankovich Auto Italia South East, London September 2009

Nina McGowan Tie Fighters Offside, installation view Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane July—October 2005

Toine Horvers Copying as a ritual act Performance with eight participants and four mobile phones Pallas Projects April 2011

Clive Murphy MONO, Site-specific kinetic inflatable sculpture Pallas Contemporary Projects September—October 2007

Pallas Heights exterior Sean Tracey House, Buckingham Street, Dublin 1 (since demolished)

Will Cruckshank Wheelbarrow Piano Pallas Contemporary Projects February—March 2008

Published to coincide with fifteen years of Pallas Projects. www.pallasprojects.org

Pallas Projects/Studios is a publicly-funded, non-profit, and artist-run organisation, founded by Mark Cullen and Brian Duggan, and presently run by Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy, overseen by a voluntary board.

ISBN: 978-0-9554819-3-2

Personnel: Gavin Murphy, Director/Curator Mark Cullen, Director/Curator Gillan Lawler, Studio & Intern Programme Coordinator

Garrett Phelan NOW:HERE Pallas Heights, May—July 2003

Published to coincide with fifteen years of Pallas Projects. www.pallasprojects.org

Pallas Projects 23 Lower Dominick Street Dublin 1, Ireland

Made possible through funding from

Design: Conor & David

the Arts Council and Dublin City Council