Nigel Rolfe Residency ...
UL Arts Office and Irish World Academy of Music and Dance have collaborated to invite Nigel Rolfe to visit the University for a short residency from November 24th-28th.
The primary focus of his residency will be to tutor the students of the M.A in Contemporary Dance Performance together with students from the Limerick College of Art and Design towards the creation of live performance works. The residency will be supported by athe UL Arts Office, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and the Limerick College of Art and Design.
Nigel Rolfe's work encompasses many media that include sound and audio production, video and photography. His primary reputation for the past thirty years is working live, making performances throughout Europe, and the former Eastern Block, North America and Japan.
In the 1980s and 90s he worked with the pan European group Black Market International. Since the late 1990s he has made solo performances In Ireland at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork in 1998, the Cork Film Centre in 2002, The Church Gallery, Limerick in 2003 and MountShannon Co. Clare in 2004 both as part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s National programme.
In 2004 he took part in the European Performance Art Festival in Lublin, Poland and made a performance in the Images 04 Festival in Vevey, Switzerland.
He has exhibited in Biennales in Kwangju in 1997 and Sao Paulo in 1998. His retrospective Archive was shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1994, and Nigel Rolfe Videos, 1983 – 1996 was exhibited as an installed retrospective at The Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1996. He has also had one person exhibitions of works with photography in Ireland, New York, France and Germany.
He is Visiting Professor in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in London, and Senior Visiting Critic to postgraduate fine art courses in the United States and Europe.
Born in the Isle of Wight in 1950, Nigel Rolfe lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
20 November, 2008
