Imagine Limerick

[anna balint]

I was surprised about this call for project from Ireland,
and to learn that Limerick is a relatively
unknown city. In fact Limerick is one of the most famous 
cities in the world, since a poetry form was named after it.

Limerick is a specifically structured nonsense poem.
Wikipedia says about it that "the rhyme scheme is usually aabba, with a very 
rigid meter. The first, second, and fifth lines are three metrical feet; the 
third and fourth two metrical feet. The rhythm can be called an anapestic 
foot, two short syllables and then a long, the reverse of dactyl rhythm. The 
first line often ends with a person's name or a location (geographical 
limericks), and rhymes are often intentionally tortured. Iambs are often 
substituted for an initial anapestic foot." 

There are three kind of limericks, the most innocent being the one that
can be recited in front of women, the other kinds that can be quoted
in front of priests and the third kind is something like an over 18 category.
If someone feels to send limericks to Limerick for an event,
here is the how to write a limerick guide: 
http://vtvt.essortment.com/limerickpoetry_nug.htm




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  ev+a 2004


  Image       ev+a 2004 Imagine
              Limerick, Open &
              Invited

              Curator: Zdenka
              Badovinac


              13th March - 23rd May
              2004, Limerick,
              Ireland.
              http://www.eva.ie


              Image credit: Dorit
              Margreiter, Untitled
              (Los Angeles), 2004 


  Image

  The Exhibition Imagine Limerick

  Limerick, the host city of ev+a, is
  a small Irish city that is more or
  less unknown outside Ireland.
  (Local politicians are trying,

  among other things, to create a
  recognisable image for the city in
  order to attract as many tourists
  as possible.) In the context of the
  exhibition Imagine Limerick, the
  name of the city represents

  something that does not yet have a
  widely recognised image and so
  remains a metaphor for a unknown.
  Only that which is known, which has
  an image, exists in the
  (post)modern world.


  To have an image is an imperative
  of the present time. In the broader
  international context, Limerick
  still exists somewhere between
  image and the absence of image,

  between market and unmarket.
  Limerick shares this fate with most
  smaller cities that fail to make
  the list of tourist destinations.
  And it is precisely for this reason
  that Limerick, in a world ruled by

  images, is something special.
  Everyone who goes to Limerick can
  freely, without any predetermined
  images, form his or her own
  independent idea about it. Limerick
  stands for all the possible spaces

  that do not lie in the centre of
  the world or its communication
  networks and that, for this reason,
  can become spaces of our
  imaginations.


  Today it is becoming increasingly
  important to draw attention to how
  dangerous various forms of
  generalisation can be and how easy
  it is for modernisation to become a
  global process of uniform thinking.

  For this reason, then, the
  exhibition Imagine Limerick makes a
  stand for spaces of unmarket and
  imagination. 

  The aim of the exhibition is to

  draw attention to the ideology of
  the visible, existence of
  conflicting interpretations and to
  the illusory nature of the known.

  Zdenka Badovinac, Curator 


  ev+a OPEN and INVITED ARTISTS:

  Carlos Amorales (Netherlands/
  Mexico); Yuri Avvakumov & Alyona
  Kirtsova (Russia); Maja Bajevic

  (Bosnia); Sarah Browne (IRL);
  Dieter Buchhart (Austria); Gerard
  Byrne (Ireland); Ben Cain &Tina
  Gverovic (UK/Croatia); Mircea
  Cantor (Romania/France); Phil
  Collins (IRL); Mark Cullen & Brian

  Duggan (IRL); Ann Curran (IRL);
  Alexandre da Cunha (Brazil); Janine
  Davidson (IRL.); Ayse Erkmen
  (Turkey); Vadim Fishkin (Russia/
  Slovenia); Leanora Hennessy (IRL.);
  IRWIN (Slovenia); Emily Jacir

  (Palestine); Emilia & Ilya Kabakov
  (USA/Russia); Johanna Kandl
  (Austria); Ziga Kariz (Slovenia);
  Michael Klien (Austria) Volmar
  Klien & Ed Lear (Austria/UK); Borut
  Korosec (Slovenia); Christine

  Mackey (IRL); Katrina Maguire
  (IRL); Dorit Margreiter (Austria);
  Maxine Mason (UK); Paul McAree
  (UK); Eline McGeorge (Norway);
  Aisling O'Beirn (IRL); Roman Ondak
  (Slovakia); Vanessa O'Reilly (IRL);

  Alan Phelan (IRL); Anri Sala
  (Albania/France); Efrat Shvilly
  (Israel); Dimitar Solakov & Nedko
  Solakov & Vaselian Solakov
  (Bulgaria); Malin Stahl (Sweden);
  Mladen Stilinovic (Croatia);

  Apolonija Sustarsic (Slovenia);
  Fiona Tan (Indonesia/Netherlands);
  Alexandra Vajd (Slovenia); Anton
  Vidokle & Julieta Aranda (USA/
  Russia/Mexico); Sally Timmons (IRL)



  exhibition of visual + art

  ev+a, a collaboration among
  artists, curators, sponsors,
  workers and committee members,
  presents yearly to audiences of and

  in Limerick the testimony that the
  best of contemporary art offers for
  the assessment, understanding and
  celebration of the contemporary
  culture we all share. 


  ev+a an artist-centered exhibition,
  has become Ireland's premier annual
  exhibition of contemporary art. It
  offers a wide ranging programme of
  events that integrate local,
  national and international

  communities in the celebration of
  contemporary art and culture. 

  Open ev+a the original approach, is
  an annual open submission
  exhibition in which all artists are

  encouraged to enter work in all
  materials, media, and styles. Each
  year since 1979 an internationally
  experienced, renown, curator, an
  "outsider" unfamiliar with the
  Irish art scene, single-handedly

  assesses the submissions (typically
  500 works of art), selects the
  exhibition, decides on the
  character, and layout of the
  exhibition in the galleries and
  alternative venues in Limerick

  City, determines the awards, and
  contributes a statement/essay and
  conceptual character to the ev+a
  catalogue. 

  Invited ev+a, a special section

  begun in 1994, is a biennial event
  in which the Open ev+a adjudicator
  of the year personally invites the
  participation of artists of
  international status, curates and
  places their work in Limerick City

  and its environs, thus providing a
  counterpart to the Open ev+a
  section. 

  Further information on the web
  site: http://www.eva.ie