aemi was delighted to present the second of three Rough Cut events to take place across 2025 on June 4th in Studio 6 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. This was the third and final Rough Cut event tied into the current iteration of aemi’s Tier 2 ‘artist development programme’. Rough Cut sessions play a central role in aemi’s artist support programme.

Rough Cut sessions play an integral role in aemi’s Tier 2 ‘artist development programme’ first launched through an open call in summer 2024. As well as the opportunity to present work in progress as part of a Rough Cut event, our Tier 2 programme supports a group of nine participating artists through monthly meetings, artist support sessions, information sessions and filmmaker masterclasses. Rough Cut events open up the artistic process for discussion and reflection, form connections around works in progress and make space for outside perspectives on a project before its final form has taken shape.

These events are not open to the public; instead the audience is made up of a small group of peers who are invited to actively participate in conversations about the works in question. Because the works being presented and discussed are still in process, Rough Cut events are not recorded for public presentation.

Film artists Rik Higashikawa and Jack Hogan generously presented works in progress at Rough Cut on June 4th with artist, filmmaker and writer Caoimhín Gaffney leading the responses to both projects.

Rik Higashikawa is a multidisciplinary artist who works across experimental moving image, performance, art writing and site-specific collaborative interventions. Their works are often composed of found, salvaged or ready-to-hand linguistic and visual ephemera: poor images, hasty screenshots, ripped visual copies, forgotten words, stock phrases, slips of the tongue, clichés and fragments of personal testimonies run throughout. Rik’s film in progress, a week in May, one minute per Day (not another documentary film), structures its pacing around data that can be found in a telegram channel titled Military Plane Tracker IRE and is ultimately a brief meditation about the end of documentary filmmaking.

Jack Hogan is an artist whose work focuses on the rich sociality of everyday life, foregrounding friendship and what constitutes good shared lives. Stream is a video of the free flow of life that makes no assumptions about what that is. A cinematic choreography of carrying on emerges, equal parts melancholy and magic. 

If you’re a film artist, film programmer, producer or curator and have an interest in attending Rough Cut in the future, contact us at [email protected].

Our sincere thanks to Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for generously hosting us for this event.

More information on Caoimhin Gaffney’s work HERE
More information on Rik’s work HERE
More information on Jack Hogan’s work HERE
More information on Temple Bar Gallery + Studios HERE