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Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

Episode 9 welcomes SEAMS artist Laura Wilson who talks with writer Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh and weaver Claire Whelan about linen, family, history, motherhood, nature and the colour indigo amongst other topics.

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

In  this episode artist Tom O'Dea and Frank Sweeney talk with Pirate.ie's John Walsh about the Irish Pirate Radio Archive, cross border broadcasts and country music.

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

In  this episode artist Bojana Janković invites Justin Kuoame and Vukašin Nedeljković to talk with her and Director of CCA Catherine Hemelryk. They discuss how they came to art, life as a migrant and navigating the various hostile environments they have encountered through the different systems operating across the UK and Ireland.

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

In  this episode 2022 DeMo Reciprocal Residency artists Mark Buckeridge and Ona Juciūtė talk with artist Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir and curator and  Director of CCA, Catherine Hemelryk. They talk about the past, the present and the role materials play in their practices.

Oisín Roberts
Fool's Spring, 2022
Audio reading, 4 mins 45 sec

Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2022.

Oisín Roberts is an artist and poet originally from our city and a recent graduate of the Slade School of Art in London. This new installation is centred around a new piece of writing entitled Fool’s Spring and consists of a bicycle rack, yellow light and poem installed in CCA's Project Space and the poem is available to download in this podcast.

The title of the long form poem comes from the nick name of a fake season, naming the week of warmth that comes after winter and before ‘second winter’. It is, for the artist, a false start, a brief and urgent movement between periods of stagnancy. Niamh is interested in repeating fleeting human interventions in their environment, whether seeing a person absent-mindedly moving something from one place to another, noticing a sticker stuck on the side of a wall, or screen-shotting the bike ebay ad when noticing a butterfly on the frame.

Oisín writes referencing the tone of the New Narrative movement way of writing poetry, creating auto-fiction texts that sound like they could be talking about their life, but the content comes from a wide range of sources. Adopting the idea that all sources are as valid as the other, Oisín practices a way of making in which no hierarchy exists.

Fool’s Spring is on view in the CCA Project Space for the duration of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival from Monday 9–Sunday 15 May 2022.

About the artist

Oisín Roberts (b.1994) is originally from Derry~Londonderry. They moved to London to study at The Slade School of Fine Art, graduating in 2018. A Pisces, a poet and an artist - they went on to read in public and exhibit sculptures, now scattered across various defunked and hard to find web-links. Their current exhibitions include, catch Fast Glass, a group photography exhibition at Set New Cross, 15–16 April, Carpeted Stares, a group show in AMP Gallery 15–19 June and 07803178250/07531313883, a two person show with Lowri Heckler at Set New Cross 2–9 August.

Chinasa Vivian Ezugha
Tongues, 2021
in collaboration with Uchechuwku and Chidinma Ezugha
Audio performance, 10 minutes
Edited by Martyna Poznanska

This first practice-as-research project by CCA Research Associate  Chinasa Vivian Ezugha seeks to examine the question: ‘What kind of  documentation can be derived from glossolalic speech and its  presentation?’ It does so through the development and creation of an  audio performance, realised in collaboration with the artists' sisters  recorded in everyday mundane spaces such as the kitchen or bedroom. This  project examines the practice of glossolalia within family  relationships and the everyday, and the way in which spoken glossolalia  can  be used to further discussions around our relationship to the voice as a  form of connection to our bodies and others.

This is the first iteration of this research project, exploring  glossolalia and the differences in speech and sound between the  diasporic Nigerians in the UK and the Pentecostal Nigerians across Nigeria.

Welcome to the fifth of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where we  bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.   

The exhibition Tilt [at Windmills] is the starting point for this  conversation between artist Jarkko Räsänen with the project's curator  Mirjami Schuppert and Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell who is both a curator at Northern Ireland Screen and member of the Turner Prize winning collective Array! They discuss archives, Teletext, collective memory and more.   

A full transcript will be available soon.   

Welcome to the fourth of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where we  bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.  

In conversation in this episode are artists Priya Mistry, Nithya  Nagarajan and Hetain Patel. The artists discuss their practices, working  across disciplines, collaborations, family, diaspora and identity.  

Welcome to a BONUS MATERIAL podcast that follows on from the third CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Table with the Irish Modernisms artists talking about their work and experiences. The exhibition's artists James Ashe, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurray join the exhibition's curators Catherine Hemelryk and Matt Retallick to discuss modernisms, the work in the show and their wider practices.

Welcome to the third CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Table where we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.  Irish Modernisms is an exhibition bringing together five contemporary artists from NI influenced and exploring the legacies of modernism in the north. The exhibition's artists James Ashe, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurray join the exhibition's curators Catherine Hemelryk and Matt Retallick to discuss modernisms, the work in the show and their wider practices.  

URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.

Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 3, 2021  
9 minutes 12 seconds

Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.

URGENCIES (2021) features artists and Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser and was selected by artist Locky Morris and CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.

URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.

Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 1, 2021
3 minutes 55 seconds

Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.

URGENCIES (2021) features artists and Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser and was selected by artist Locky Morris and CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.  

URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.

Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 1, 2021
7 minutes 31 seconds

Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.

Put on your headphones and join artist Jan Uprichard on a self-directed smell walk to explore your surroundings with your nose.

Welcome to the first of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where  we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

In  this episode DeMo Reciprocal Residency artists Niamh Seana Meehan  and Gintė Regina talk with artist Mikhail Karikis and curator and  Director of CCA, Catherine Hemelryk. They discuss language, music,  aesthetics, influences and more.