aemi – announces ‘Developing Your Practice as a Film Artist’ Participants 2024/2025
Published date: 05 Jul 2024
aemi is thrilled to announce Michael Barwise, Chloe Brenan, Lawrence Cook, Yurika Higashikawa, Colm Higgins, Jack Hogan, Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, Ann Upton and Luke van Gelderen as the 2024 TIER 2 Artist Support Programme participants.
The number of applicants for this programme far exceeded our expectations. Out of the total applications received, 18 of these were shortlisted for review with external assessor Michael Hill of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. A total of 9 film artists were selected to form part of the TIER 2 Artist Support Programme.
We were incredibly impressed with the applications; particularly those of the 9 selected artists, and very much look forward to working with the group as part of our new TIER 2 Artist Support Programme throughout 2024 into 2025.
Michael Barwise is a filmmaker from Derry. His work explores the dynamic between the known and the hidden and how the relationship between these two worlds impacts our lives.
“I’m excited for the programme because it will help push my practice into the next stage of its development while also helping me form a more coherent vision of what that next stage could look like. It’s an opportunity to take some risks with my work.”
Chloe Brenan (she/her) is an artist from rural County Carlow. Recent exhibitions / screenings include Loose Definition (borders, proximity and domestic objects) Whammy Analog Media, Los Angeles (US); Where Our Worlds Meet, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR); I am Sitting in a Room, Solstice Art Centre, Navan (IE); Woman in the Machine, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow (IE); Different Dusts, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (online screening series). Recent projects include residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR); Welcome to the Neighbourhood, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Limerick (IE); Landscape, Ecology and Environment Research Residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre (IE). She is a recipient of the 2022 Markievicz Award for film and holds a Membership Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
Chloe Brenan portrait photo credit: Aurora Brenan
“I’m excited to engage with aemi throughout the coming year as I develop new moving image works, and I warmly welcome dialogue with other individuals on the programme who exemplify a knowledge and appreciation of the filmic medium, its history and potential as a critical art form.”
Lawrence Cook is an American artist and musician living in Cork since 2022, where he completed a Masters in film and Screen Media at University College Cork. Lawrence’s film work is centered around the reappropriation and remixing of archival footage with contemporary materials, particularly music, in an attempt to explore the gaps and tensions between urgent historical realities and the image-based representations that engage with them.
“Given my interest in a theory-based, historically rooted practice of filmmaking involving iterations of research and careful re-use of others’ images, the one-on-one artist support/critique meetings and access to a peer network of filmmakers provides great opportunities to workshop my project ideas from a variety of perspectives and to expand my practice into new fields generally.”
I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin who works across experimental moving image, art writing and site-specific collaborative interventions. I am concerned with more-than-human forms of knowledge. Works are composed of found, salvaged or ready-to-hand linguistic and visual ephemera: poor images, hasty screenshots, ripped visual copies, stolen turns of phrases and forgotten words run throughout. Recent works have looked at data centres in Ireland, digital glitch in dying machines, transnational surveillance technologies, the contradictions of Irish Neutrality as well as the interwoven socio-political and environmental consequences of mining.
“The vital support of this programme will allow me the opportunity to develop the technical elements of my practice so that I can take more ambitious leaps within current and future works. I am also looking forward to meeting artistic peers and to learning about their different practices – getting to know more deeply the ecosystem within which my own work exists will undeniably enrich my practice.”
My work sits somewhere between creative documentary, the artists’ moving image, and the weirder side of narrative film. I am currently using tableau, costume, experimental music, and various digital and analogue formats. Some recent creative impulses are the iconography of the bogland, camp insular art, and pictures of the edge of the world.
“As part of this programme, I am hoping to experiment with new forms and ways of working, to expand my professional network and to try out new ideas in a supportive environment, while working towards my next short film.”
Jack Hogan is an interdisciplinary artist, architect and communist from Waterford. Their work focuses on the rich sociality of everyday life, foregrounding friendship and what constitutes good, shared lives and places.
“I want to participate in TIER 2 to depend on, and to be depended on, by people that care about the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. I was over the moon to be accepted because I have no doubt that aemi and the other participants are my people.”
Dr Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz is a filmmaker/film scholar based in Dublin and a board member of Irish Screen Studies. Temmuz’s academic, creative and curatorial practice spans a variety of experimental and underground forms of audio-visual media. They are currently curating a multimedia exhibition titled “Wine and Die” which can be seen at MART Gallery on 19th-20th-21st of July, including a screening of Winesploitation (2022) – a film they made with Alina Hernández. Their book on the role of film in Judith Butler’s philosophy Judith Butler & Film is forthcoming from Bloomsbury (2025). Temmuz is teaching at UCD, working on their next film and will workshop production and distribution ideas for experimental film formats, such as essay film, parody punk films and “improvisational filmmaking” as part of aemi’s support programme.
Ann Upton is a moving-image artist from Waterford, Ireland. Her work exists at the intersection of the minimal and surreal, exploring and interrogating the formal structures and conventions of filmmaking. Ann received her MA from the Royal College of Art in 2023 and works as an associate lecturer on the Animation programme at IADT.
“I’m delighted to be included in this development programme – it’s really well timed for me, as I’m developing a framework of practice outside of formal education. I’m grateful for the opportunity to develop new work while benefiting from mentorship and guidance from the group.”
Luke van Gelderen works across video, sculpture, and digital media, creating immersive installations that examine the performance and mediation of contemporary identities through technology. Converging celebrity culture, alienation, masculinity and violence, his work is
grounded in his own experience of recurring intrusive thoughts and images amplified by the internet. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘HARDCORE FENCING’, Pallas Projects/Studios (2024); ‘unrecognisable (spillway)’, Ormond Art Studios (2020); ‘My Activity’, Rua Red (2019); ‘Chatroulette’, K4 Galleri, Oslo (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: ‘this is perfect, perfect, perfect’, Transmediale, Berlin (2024); ‘Manslows Hammer–Periodical Review 13’, Pallas Projects/ Studios, Dublin (2023); ‘LOCKJAW’, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin (2023); ‘FAKE BODY’, Platform Arts, Belfast (2023); ‘you breathe differently down here’, Draíocht Gallery, Dublin (2022) and ‘Rendering New Realities’, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2021). Recent screenings include Toxi Space, Zurich (2024) and Terrarista TV, online (2020). He lives and works in Dublin and is a current studio member in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
“The programme will significantly enhance my ability to create more ambitious short films, providing essential guidance, inspiration, and tangible skills for future collaborations with various creative professionals. It will also expand my practice beyond the visual arts and gallery context, enabling participation in film festivals and screenings both nationally and internationally.”
