In the lower gallery, the artist Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell’s has installed a doctor’s consultation room with a waiting area outside. A young receptionist performed by Lorraine Hamilton politely asks the spectator “Are you here to see the Doctor?” These spoken words instantly generate a nervous, visceral reaction as the prospect of medical attention can only be met with trepidation...

Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell’s YOU is an immersive, manipulative experiment. Visitors are impelled to participate in a series of unexplained psychological tests. Participants’ rebellion against this may be as much part of the artist’s expectations as their compliance...

In October 2008 the artist-run  project residence invited thirteen artists and art students from Belfast, Glasgow and Hildesheim into an uninhabited house in Belfast to work around the theme of HOUSE/HOME. The whole project was very much based on the idea of working collaboratively, discussing ways of making art in a collective, realising individual works and having dinner together. The latter went pretty wrong. And was art...

DINNER

466 SHORE ROAD

 

HOUSE/HOME residence

5th -12th November 2008

 

Review by Malte Roloff

 

Nestled comfortably somewhere between a childhood dream of Pat Sharp’s ‘Fun"House’ and an Orwellian nightmare of dystopia, Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell’s Procedure project at The Station in Belfast on 19th February was an experience one is not likely to ever forget...