BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260501T210000Z DTEND:20260503T000000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Klostes/Pleats/Folds: May Fest 2026 DESCRIPTION:Klostes translated as Pleats or Folds is a Black & White\, non verbal\, 67 minute feature film created by the People of Kaunas\, Lithuania\, together with Artist & Filmmaker Aideen Barry. This Experimental Art Film was commissioned by Kaunas 2022\, The European Capital of Culture. The film takes inspiration from Kaunas Architectural Modernism and the hidden histories associated with the magical city.\n\nKlostes/Pleats is a metaphor for how time folds like fabric. It is a metaphor for how things can appear to repeat or loop. It is also an architectural trope for a repeat pattern\, evident in Kaunas Interwar-Modernism. Klostes is a reference to how a film constructed out of thousands and thousands of still photographs creates a visual fiction or illusion. In 2023 the film was part of the bid that won UNESCO World Heritage Status for the city of Kaunas\, and in 2024 it was acquired for the National Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.\n\nThe Cork born director is delighted to be showing this work for the first time in her home city as apart of this new festival and this experience begins with a light installation on the exterior of Triskel Christchurch: audiences will enter via the Triskel Christchurch gates on South Main Street and from there though the doors into Christchurch where they are invited to watch the film.\n\nDirector's Statement\n\n'The engagement of over five hundred children and young people in workshops in short story writing\, film directing\, optical illusion workshops\, top-motion animation workshops\, introductions into Green Screen Technology & Prop Creation has also been intentional. This project set about fostering enthusiasm for this architectural and visual cultural heritage of this city. These groups of future artists have directed and made their own animated shorts adding further elements to the film project and an army of volunteers are currently engaged in large aspects of its production from workshop supervision\, extra roles\, artistic production\, makeup and special effects.\n\nThe majority of Cast\, Crew and Production of this film is made of people who live in this City. It is a deliberate intervention on behalf of Kaunas 2022 and the Artist & Director Aideen Barry to empower the creatives of this Contemporary Kaunas in the authorship of the film. The film features dancers and actors from the acclaimed International Dance Troupe AURA as protagonists in the Roles of forgotten "Others" of Kaunas.'\n\nAbout the Artist\n\nAideen Barry is a conceptual artist based in Ireland with an international multifaceted practice spanning filmmaking\, performance\, experimental lens-based media\, drawing\, and sculpture. Her work employs visual trickery to create a heightened suspension of reality\, with a central theme of exploring sinister systems.\n\nHer recent projects are intersectional and collaborative\, working with artists such as Peter Gabriel\, William Kentridge\, and The Centre of the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg\, as well as Inuit throat singer ?? Riit\, composers Irene Buckley\, choreographers Junk Ensemble\, fashion designer Richard Malone\, Tropical Topical & Margaret O'Connor\, composers Tshegofatso Moeng\, Philip Miller and Irene Buckley.\n\nBarry engages with a diverse range of collaborators\, including artists\, pop singers\, archives\, archivists\, historians\, scientists and activists\, transcending pop culture and visual culture to create massive interventionist artworks. Notably\, she collaborated with nearly a thousand Lithuanian citizens to create the feature film *Klostes*\, which is now part of the National Collection at IMMA and contributed to Kaunas receiving UNESCO World Heritage Status. Her works serve as a Brechtian hammer\, while also democratising access to visual culture for various audiences and stakeholders\, inviting them to co-author the creative process.\n\nSignificant projects include: projects and exhibitions at\; The Bangkok Art Biennial curated by Dr. Apinan Poshyananda\, FORMAT international festival of photography\, UK\, film screenings at the BFI and the IFI\, solo at IMMA\, solos at Salzburg Kunstverein\, Oakville Galleries\, Canada The Welt Museum\, Vienna\, Matucana 100\; Chile\,The Irish Museum of Modern Art PS\; Ireland\, CAC Malaga\; Spain\, The Headlands Center for the Arts\; US\, Centre for the Less Good Idea\; South Africa\, Art OMI\; US\, The Whitaker Museum\;UK\, NASA Kennedy Space Center\; US\, Skaftfell\; Iceland\, Banff Centre\; Canada\, Centre Cultural Irlandais\; France. Selected Solo and international projects at: Galleri Image\, Aarhus\, Denmark\, Zona Maco\, Ch ACO\; Chile\, The Katzen Center at the American Museum\; US\, Wexner Center: US Elephant Gallery\; UK\, Moderna Musett\; Sweden\, Mus e des Beaux Arts\,Lyon\; France\, Louise T. Blouin Gallery\; UK\, Galeria Isabel Hurley\; Spain\, Artscene Shanghai\;China and Project 304 Gallery\; Thailand\, BAC Geneva\; Switzerland\, Liste Art Fair\; Switzerland\, Catharine Clark Gallery\; US\, NYU DC\; US\, Crawford Municipal Gallery\,Project Art Centre\, Temple Bar Gallery\, Limerick City Gallery\, The RHA\, Visual\,Mothers Tankstation\, The Butler Gallery\; Ireland\, an An Post EUROPA stamp commission and a collection of edition works with various Kunstverein in Europe and beyond.\n\nBarry is a member of Aosd na and the Royal Hibernian Academy\, and her work is held in private collections and public museum collections worldwide.\n\nwww.aideenbarry.com\n\nwww.klostes.com X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Klostes \;translated as Pleats or Folds is a Black &\; White\, non verbal\, 67 minute feature film created by the People of Kaunas\, Lithuania\, together with Artist &\; Filmmaker Aideen Barry. This Experimental Art Film was commissioned by Kaunas 2022\, The European Capital of Culture. The film takes inspiration from Kaunas Architectural Modernism and the hidden histories associated with the magical city.

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Klostes/Pleats \;is a metaphor for how time folds like fabric. It is a metaphor for how things can appear to repeat or loop. It is also an architectural trope for a repeat pattern\, evident in Kaunas Interwar-Modernism. \;Klostes \;is a reference to how a film constructed out of thousands and thousands of still photographs creates a visual fiction or illusion. In 2023 the film was part of the bid that won UNESCO World Heritage Status for the city of Kaunas\, and in 2024 it was acquired for the National Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

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The Cork born director is delighted to be showing this work for the first time in her home city as apart of this new festival and this experience begins with a light installation on the exterior of Triskel Christchurch: audiences will enter via the Triskel Christchurch gates on South Main Street and from there though the doors into Christchurch where they are invited to watch the film.

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Director&rsquo\;s Statement

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&lsquo\;The engagement of over five hundred children and young people in workshops in short story writing\, film directing\, optical illusion workshops\, top-motion animation workshops\, introductions into Green Screen Technology &\; Prop Creation has also been intentional. This project set about fostering enthusiasm for this architectural and visual cultural heritage of this city. These groups of future artists have directed and made their own animated shorts adding further elements to the film project and an army of volunteers are currently engaged in large aspects of its production from workshop supervision\, extra roles\, artistic production\, makeup and special effects.

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The majority of Cast\, Crew and Production of this film is made of people who live in this City. It is a deliberate intervention on behalf of Kaunas 2022 and the Artist &\; Director Aideen Barry to empower the creatives of this Contemporary Kaunas in the authorship of the film. The film features dancers and actors from the acclaimed International Dance Troupe AURA as protagonists in the Roles of forgotten &ldquo\;Others&rdquo\; of Kaunas.&rsquo\;

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About the Artist

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Aideen Barry is a conceptual artist based in Ireland with an international multifaceted practice spanning filmmaking\, performance\, experimental lens-based media\, drawing\, and sculpture. Her work employs visual trickery to create a heightened suspension of reality\, with a central theme of exploring sinister systems.

\n\n

Her recent projects are intersectional and collaborative\, working with artists such as Peter Gabriel\, William Kentridge\, and The Centre of the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg\, as well as Inuit throat singer ?? Riit\, composers Irene Buckley\, choreographers Junk Ensemble\, fashion designer Richard Malone\, Tropical Topical &\; Margaret O&rsquo\;Connor\, composers Tshegofatso Moeng\, Philip Miller and Irene Buckley.

\n\n

Barry engages with a diverse range of collaborators\, including artists\, pop singers\, archives\, archivists\, historians\, scientists and activists\, transcending pop culture and visual culture to create massive interventionist artworks. Notably\, she collaborated with nearly a thousand Lithuanian citizens to create the feature film *Klostes*\, which is now part of the National Collection at IMMA and contributed to Kaunas receiving UNESCO World Heritage Status. Her works serve as a Brechtian hammer\, while also democratising access to visual culture for various audiences and stakeholders\, inviting them to co-author the creative process.

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Significant projects include: projects and exhibitions at\; The Bangkok Art Biennial curated by Dr. Apinan Poshyananda\, FORMAT international festival of photography\, UK\, film screenings at the BFI and the IFI\, solo at IMMA\, solos at Salzburg Kunstverein\, Oakville Galleries\, Canada The Welt Museum\, Vienna\, Matucana 100\; Chile\,The Irish Museum of Modern Art PS\; Ireland\, CAC Malaga\; Spain\, The Headlands Center for the Arts\; US\, Centre for the Less Good Idea\; South Africa\, Art OMI\; US\, The Whitaker Museum\;UK\, NASA Kennedy Space Center\; US\, Skaftfell\; Iceland\, Banff Centre\; Canada\, Centre Cultural Irlandais\; France. Selected Solo and international projects at: Galleri Image\, Aarhus\, Denmark\, Zona Maco\, Ch ACO\; Chile\, The Katzen Center at the American Museum\; US\, Wexner Center: US Elephant Gallery\; UK\, Moderna Musett\; Sweden\, Musé\;e des Beaux Arts\,Lyon\; France\, Louise T. Blouin Gallery\; UK\, Galeria Isabel Hurley\; Spain\, Artscene Shanghai\;China and Project 304 Gallery\; Thailand\, BAC Geneva\; Switzerland\, Liste Art Fair\; Switzerland\, Catharine Clark Gallery\; US\, NYU DC\; US\, Crawford Municipal Gallery\,Project Art Centre\, Temple Bar Gallery\, Limerick City Gallery\, The RHA\, Visual\,Mothers Tankstation\, The Butler Gallery\; Ireland\, an An Post EUROPA stamp commission and a collection of edition works with various Kunstverein in Europe and beyond.

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Barry is a member of Aosdá\;na and the Royal Hibernian Academy\, and her work is held in private collections and public museum collections worldwide.

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www.aideenbarry.com
\nwww.klostes.com

\n LOCATION:Triskel Arts Centre\, Tobin Street\, Cork City UID:e.2489.38013 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260501T015825Z URL:https://chamber.corkchamber.ie/events/details/klostes-pleats-folds-may-fest-2026-38013 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR