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Xtravision
Saturday, November 9 from 7pm
Cagney’s Bar, Askeaton, Ireland
Videos by: John Carson, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, Michele Horrigan with Manchan Magan, Janks Archive, Steve Maher, Sean Lynch with Timmy Creed and Gina Moxley
Askeaton Contemporary Arts’ screening programme is conceived as an overview of artists associated with our ongoing artist residency programme. Topics of history, language and art’s role in the creation of public discourse pervasively influence each of six videos. Seminal artworks feature, such as a rare screening of John Carson’s 1990
BBC 2 commission Head Honcho to the Jerwood Prize- winning And If In A Thousand Years by Patrick Hough. Local interest prevails with Michele Horrigan and Manchan Magan’s exploring the Knockfaera fairy hoax of 1938, while Steve Maher searches throughout Askeaton to find illicitly brewed alcohol…