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Magdalena Jitrik Pintura En Askeaton 2009 image courtesy of the artist
Magdalena Jitrik, Pintura En Askeaton, 2009, image courtesy of the artist

aemi & IFI present: The Sun Gives Without Asking

19 April 2023 / 18:30

curated by Sean Lynch

Irish Film Institute
6 Eustace Street
Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Ireland

aemi is delighted to present ‘The Sun Gives Without Asking’, a screening programme curated by artist Sean Lynch featuring work by Dan Graham, Paul Gregg and Annette Clancy, Magdalena Jitrik, Amanda Rice, and Jorge Satorre, alongside excerpts of Lynch’s own ongoing video project What Is An Apparatus?.

Revolving around the radical potential of storytelling, Lynch’s programme proposes forms of cultural pursuit that interrogate the complex motifs found deep in everyday life, place, and capitalist society. From windows, supermarkets, and telephones, the measures and shapes of the western world that aim to manage and orient human behaviour become evident – with a sleight of hand they might change into new malleable and eclectic forms, gleefully spurred on by artistic energies!

This screening will be followed by a discussion with Sean Lynch and Amanda Rice. 

Film information
Magdalena Jitrik, Pintura En Askeaton, 2009, Ireland/Argentina, DCP, 7 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Jorge Satorre, Windows Blowing Out, 2005, Ireland/Mexico, DCP, 7 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Dan Graham, Death By Chocolate, 1986-2005, Canada/USA, Digital, 8 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 3 minutes
Amanda Rice, No One Can Embargo the Sun, 2021, U.K./Ireland, DCP, 21 minutes
Media footage featuring Paul Gregg and Annette Clancy, 1998, Ireland, DCP, 10 minutes
Sean Lynch, What Is An Apparatus?, 2016-2022, Canada/Ireland, excerpt, DCP, 5 minutes
Running Time: 67 minutes

Biography, Sean Lynch
Sean Lynch (b. 1978, Kerry, Ireland) is an artist living in Askeaton, Limerick. Alongside representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015, prominent exhibitions include Edinburgh Art Festival, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, CAPC Bordeaux and Modern Art Oxford. Since 2006, he has worked alongside Michele Horrigan at Askeaton Contemporary Arts.