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Mill Street Studios in association with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, invites you to Artists Anna Berndtson and Amanda Elena Conrad in conversation with curator Helen Carey this Friday 13th August at 1pm in Mill Street Studios, Mill St, Dublin 8 (Off Cork Street)

For further information please contact Grace Boland: millstreetstudiosdublin@gmail.com

or Liz Burns: liz@firestation.ie / 01 8069010

www.dublinartmill.com

To coincide with their two person exhibition ‘Reflections and Representations’ which includes a performance by Anna Berndtson and video installation by Amanda Elena Conrad (running Wed 11th August (3-6pm) and Thursday 12th August (3-8pm). Opening Tues 10th August 6-8pm.

The artist Anna Berndtson was awarded the Fire Station Artists’ Studios /Arts and Disability Ireland Studio Award 2010 and she is currently taking part in a mentoring programme with the artist Amanda Elena Conrad in association with this award.

For further information, visit

www.berndtson-art.net

www.firestation.ie/project/disability-award

www.adiarts.ie

Anna Berndtson

Performance is the foundation of Berndtson’s practice, particularly in the form of long duration performance installations. Her practice also incorporates video and photography where the artist places herself in the centre of the work.

Berndtson was born in Malmö, Sweden in 1972. She moved to the UK in 1992 where she studied Theatre Performance at Dartington College of Arts. After graduating in 1999 she moved to Berlin and in 2001 joined the performance class of Marina Abromovic at the HBK Braunschweig, Germany. In 2003 she co founded the performance duo TBL (www.tallblondladies.com ) with Irina Runge. She has performed and exhibited work extensively including Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin ( 2010), The 10th Open International Performance Art Festival, Bejing, China (2009) Artists Space , New York (2007) PS1 MoMA, New York (2006) Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, (2005) and Venice Biennale ( Recycling the Future –VV2 Performance event (2003).

Amanda Elena Conrad

The central point of Conrad’s video and installation practice is the human; as a contrasting force to its surroundings, changing and being changed. The urban; a reflection of the human, often functions as the habitat of the work.

Amanda Elena Conrad was born in 1981 in Kiel, Germany. She studied Fine Art Sculpture at the Alanus University of Art and Social Science in Bonn, Germany and graduated in 2008 with a BA(hons) in Fine Art Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She has exhibited in Ireland and Germany including Mill Street Studios solo show Watching with eyes closed, Listening while talking (2010), The Joinery group show Chronicles of a dying cloud (2008) and Monster Truck Works to shrink the nation (2006) with Ian Clotworthy. Amanda Elena is currently taking part in a mentoring programme with the artist Anna Berndtson.

Helen Carey

Helen Carey is an Independent Curator, based in Dublin. Most recent work includes curating TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2009, which included artists Ann Sofi Siden, Maryam Jafri, Amanda Coogan and Guy Ben Ner. She is Curator of 3 Forum towards a Centenary Exhibition for the 1913/2013 Lockout. She set up Mockingbird Arts in 2007. Previous works includes positions as Executive Director with Galway Arts Centre and Public Art Project Manager, At Bristol. Her research interests include the Cultural Identity and the impact of historical events on its development. She is also interested in exhibition that takes place in the Public Domain, where the boundaries of the public and private fall, and how they shift.