Dublin's Culture Night 2023
We look back at the highlights of this year's edition of the cultural event
By
Aoife Allen
October 2, 2023
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
The 18th edition of Dublin’s Culture Night took place on Friday 22nd of September 2023. This now yearly tradition seeks to showcase the arts and culture nestled in Dublin’s towns and inner city. The event is made possible through the support of the Irish Arts Council and Dublin City Council and culture is allowed to thrive on Dublin's streets for one night a year.
Moore Street Market
Moore Street lies in the heart of Dublin's north inner city, not far from the shopping hotspots of Henry Street or O’Connell Street. Famous for its open-air fruit and vegetable market, Moore Street hosts the oldest food market in Dublin, with traders setting up shop since the 18th century. The area holds much historical significance for the people of Ireland; the buildings surrounding Moore Street housed Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a decisive event in Irish freedom and future politics. The merchants and the market are ingrained into the fabric of the city home to generations of traders. As well as those who have called Moore Street home for many centuries, the traders and produce now available at the market reflect the diversity of Dublin with multicultural stores densely populating the street. A true landmark of Dublin culture, anyone hailing from the capital will recognise the familiar sound of the Moore Street ladies shouting their deals up and down the street to attract customers. Culture Night plans to take Moore Street Market to a whole new level. Although traders set up shop on Moore Street every day for business, Culture Night saw the opening of a late market on the night of the 22nd, kicking off at 6pm and wrapping up at 11:30pm. The evening played host to the traditional food market, along with the addition of craft stands, with live music provided by Fintan Warfield and Ophelia McCabe. Diarmuid Breatnach of Save Moore Street from Demolition - an organization formed to prevent the redevelopment of the area - led several history tours throughout the evening, while Dublin-based creative production studio Algorithm, which blends creativity and technology in order to design digital experiences, displayed a projected art installation. Along with this, Original Dublin, a local tour company that provides alternative ways in which to experience Dublin, showed a series of stories surrounding the people of Moore Street, captured on film. Culture Night provided a perfect opportunity to quite literally get a taste of Moore Street.
FUNDAMENTAL
Outhouse LGBTQIA+ Centre located on Capel Street in Dublin's City Center hosted ‘A Series of Queer Artworks & Photography', an exhibition beginning in the 1970s, and spanning decades through time all the way up to the modern day. Flikkers: Come As You Were returned to the center for Culture Night, showcasing the way in which the LGBTQIA+ community partied from the 1970s through to the 1990s. A nightclub formerly located in Hirschfeld Centre on Fownes Street in Temple Bar, Flikkers unfortunately closed in 1997 due to irreparable damage from a fire, but these works allow the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of young queer Irish people in the late 20th century. Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is also welcomed back to Outhouse for Culture Night only: an exhibition with activist/ protest ephemera and photographs drawn from the private collections donated by participants from this era explores the archival and social history of lesbian activism. These two projects are complemented by illustrations and textile works from contemporary visual artists, Hannah MacArtain and Daniel Mooney (MUNDO MOO).
Along with the showcase of Artwork and Photography, Outhouse hosted ‘A Series of Queer Story Times’, an evening of community collaboration through art and storytelling from a variety of artists and community organizations on Culture Night. The theme of the evening's stories is ‘What Queer Culture Looks Like in Ireland Today’, and groups participating in the evening’s story-sharing included Black Queer Book Club, GCN, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Outhouse Library and Small Trans Library. Whether contemporary or historical, the stories told slowly across the evening provided powerful displays of performance and literature.
SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE - Live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Finally, the last must-see event at this year's Culture Night was Skin Surface Substance, a live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, taking place in Gallery X, a new gallery in Dublin specializing in figurative and surrealist art. The gallery describes their focus to be on “fantastical, the sensual and the macabre; on alternative desire and tormented bodies; on the bizarrely beautiful, the unsettling and the grotesque. Art that will question and entertain”.
Promoting, facilitating, curating and showcasing new alternative work from emerging Irish and international artists and hosting visiting artists from the global community, Gallery X is one to watch and, to celebrate Culture Night, they hosted Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, an esoteric artist in various media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. The artist is currently on show at Gallery X with their exhibition, Escharotic Ecstasies, and the Culture Night performance saw the artist interact with his installation, asking the questions “What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?” Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies 'within', and the combination of Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, allowed him to investigate such themes as the nature of the body, image and substance.
