REVIEWS
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...
Russian Dolls
Golden Thread Gallery
27 June – 3 August 2013
Review by Alissa Kleist
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...
PROCEDURE
(FOR DATA USE ONLY)
The Station
19th February 2011
Review by Eoin Dara
EXAMINATION
Featuring Euan Ogilvie and Lorraine Hamilton
Platform Arts
7th - 21st February 2013
Review by Angela Darby
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...
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...