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SIRIUS approaches art through the lens of society in order to play a civic role locally and beyond. SIRIUS creates focused, artist-driven projects and collaborative, community-oriented projects. SIRIUS facilitates the production and presentation of, and public engagement with, art and knowledge, and offers professional development opportunities to artists through commissions and residencies. SIRIU

S operates across all art forms – visual, performing, live, film, sound, vocal, written and born-digital – programming a mix of exhibitions, performances, events and activities, both on site and online.

19/02/2025

This is going to be one of the biggest events SIRIUS has ever undertaken as there will be 7 artists performing with music and film.
1 artist, Dylan Kerr, will even be performing and documenting for 24 hours in the basement tunnel before finishing his piece in the water next to the Naval Pier!



EXHIBITION – Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / MythtlanticsAlice Rekab is an Irish Sierra Leonean artist based in Dublin....
19/02/2025

EXHIBITION – Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics

Alice Rekab is an Irish Sierra Leonean artist based in Dublin. Rekab takes their identity as a starting point to examine the intersection of personal and shared historical and cultural narratives. They address themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

This exhibition engages with the location of SIRIUS in Cork Harbour, a historical site of migration and an entry point to the Atlantic Ocean. It treats the water as a terrain of mythological recovery that encapsulates stories common to Irish and Black people, including change, repression, and resistance across history. The featured works generate a symbolic lens by which to imagine a ‘mythtlantic family’.

SIRIUS Director, Miguel Amado comments: “Alice uses Irish and Sierra Leonean languages. These undertakings were initially facilitated by their connection with their Sierra Leonean father and grandmother, and furthered through study and contact with other artists of African heritage. They reflect on issues of minoritised identities, whether mixed race, Black, Gaeilge or other, and their pasts and presents of oppression, resistance and reconfiguration.”

📸: John Beasley

Image description: An installation view depicting a print and a dresser with books on top of it.



PERFORMANCES: Alice Rekab and guest artists D.OTU, Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmine WoodSIRIUSS...
19/02/2025

PERFORMANCES: Alice Rekab and guest artists D.OTU, Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmine Wood

SIRIUS
Saturday, 22 February
11am - 7pm
Free; no booking required

Dylan Kerr
11am - 1pm
This performance is staged between the basement at SIRIUS and Cork Harbour, and engages with the colonial context of the SIRIUS building and questions of endurance and trauma. The performance lasts 24 hours, beginning and ending on 21/22 February in line with Cork Harbour’s tide times.

Alice Rekab
2pm
This performance explores their identity and family lineage, both informed by mixed-race experiences, through text and archival imagery drawn from personal and official holdings that engages with themes of belonging and displacement.

Jasmine Wood
3pm
This performance explores their Native American heritage, specifically Blackfeet songs recorded in 1914 on the Montana reservation, and combines voice, analogue instruments, existing audio and field recordings.

Eamon Ivri
4pm
This performance addresses questions of the transmutation of memories and experiences into a material for salvaging and repurposing, and combines vocal sampling, manipulated existing audio and field recordings.

D.OTU
5pm
This performance reflects on the intersection of haptic and subconscious knowledges through the use of Irish traditional instruments, vocals and electronic instruments in dialogue with the SIRIUS building.

polyp
6pm
This performance addresses themes of memory, agency and feminism through a DJ set informed by the fabric of, and stories associated with, the SIRIUS building.

Cian Ó Donnchadha
11am - 7pm
This film, Show Me Something That Does Not Move, explores myth-making through imagery and sound generated with analogue sources that connect landscape with human and more than human relationships.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs.

Image description: A poster depicting various imagery and text.

The SIRIUS team visited Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent, also known as KCAT, a supported studio affiliated with Camp...
15/02/2025

The SIRIUS team visited Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent, also known as KCAT, a supported studio affiliated with Camphill Communities of Ireland. We have been working with artist Fergus FitzGerald on a retrospective since mid-2020. We are looking forward to presenting the exhibition this Spring.

Image description: Two men, artist Fitzgerald and SIRIUS director Miguel Amado, and one woman, artist Sarah Long, are standing in a studio.

TODAY — Performance: Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio, Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu)Cliff Masheti, Fionn...
15/02/2025

TODAY — Performance: Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio, Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu)

Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio and Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu) are artists based in Cork City and County. Their work addresses the productive tensions between inclusion and integration versus exclusion and segregation. They are presenting an evening of spoken word. They explore, individually and collectively, themes of identity associated with their diasporic experience. The performances embrace the agency provided by this self reflection and assert counter-narratives to dominant portrayals of Irish life.

Following the performance, the artists discuss their practice with SIRIUS director Miguel Amado.

This event is programmed in the context of Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. It engages with its themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 15 February
5pm - 7pm
Free; no booking required

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: 1. A close-up of a man, the artist Raphael Olympio, standing in Cork City center. 2. A man, the artist Mark Mavambu (aka Outsider Yp) is standing and wearing goggles 3. A close-up of a woman, the artist Fionnuala O’Connell. 4. A man, the artist Cliff Masheti, is performing into a microphone.

TODAY — Workshop: Éireann and IÉireann and I is a community archive that chronicles stories around heritage, activism an...
15/02/2025

TODAY — Workshop: Éireann and I

Éireann and I is a community archive that chronicles stories around heritage, activism and art relating to Black life in Ireland. It was initiated and is led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba. They are presenting the workshop Heritage Through Storytelling and Symbols. The session explores how identities evolve through social and cultural transformations.

Éireann and I invite participants to bring to SIRIUS an item from their personal archive, a memento or family photograph, to draw from throughout the session. Using these materials, they engage in various activities, including flag-making and recording oral histories, through which they design symbols that represent their own imagined place of origin.

This workshop is programmed in response to Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. It addresses its themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 15 February
11am - 4pm
Free; booking via Eventbrite is required: https://buff.ly/4hxg0VM
Refreshments are included

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A close-up of hands writing on paper on a table.

PERFORMANCES: Alice Rekab and guest artists D.OTU, Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmine WoodAlice R...
14/02/2025

PERFORMANCES: Alice Rekab and guest artists D.OTU, Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmine Wood

Alice Rekab is presenting a day of performances by D.OTU, Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp and Jasmine Wood in connection with their exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. The guest artists respond to Rekab& #39;s positioning of the Atlantic Ocean as a terrain of mythological recovery that encapsulates stories common to Irish and Black people, including change, repression and resistance across history.

Eamon Ivri

Eamon Ivri is an artist based in Cork City. He creates electronic music that incorporates vocal sampling, instrumentals, field recordings and percussion. His performance responds to notions of salvaging and repurposing familial memories found in Rekab’s work.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 22 February
11am - 7pm
Free; no booking required

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A black and white portrait of a man, the artist Eamon Ivri, in nature.

PERFORMANCE: Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio, Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu)Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’C...
14/02/2025

PERFORMANCE: Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio, Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu)

Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio and Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu) are artists based in Cork City and County. Their work addresses the productive tensions between inclusion and integration versus exclusion and segregation. They are presenting an evening of spoken word. They explore, individually and collectively, themes of identity associated with their diasporic experience. The performances embrace the agency provided by this self reflection and assert counter-narratives to dominant portrayals of Irish life.

Following the performance, the artists discuss their practice with SIRIUS director Miguel Amado.

This event is programmed in the context of Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. It engages with its themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 15 February
5pm - 7pm
Free; no booking required

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: 1. A close-up of a woman, the artist Fionnuala O’Connell. 2. A man, the artist Mark Mavambu (aka Outsider Yp) is standing and wearing goggles. 3. A man, the artist Cliff Masheti, is performing into a microphone. 4. A close-up of a man, the artist Raphael Olympio, standing in Cork City center.

TOMORROW— Workshop: Éireann and IÉireann and I is a community archive that chronicles stories around heritage, activism ...
14/02/2025

TOMORROW— Workshop: Éireann and I

Éireann and I is a community archive that chronicles stories around heritage, activism and art relating to Black life in Ireland. It was initiated and is led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba. They are presenting the workshop Heritage Through Storytelling and Symbols. The session explores how identities evolve through social and cultural transformations.

Éireann and I invite participants to bring to SIRIUS an item from their personal archive, a memento or family photograph, to draw from throughout the session. Using these materials, they engage in various activities, including flag-making and recording oral histories, through which they design symbols that represent their own imagined place of origin.

This workshop is programmed in response to Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. It addresses its themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 15 February
11am - 4pm
Free; booking via Eventbrite is required (link in bio)
Refreshments are included

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A group of people are standing around a table, displaying a diagram and taking notes.

SCREENING: Larry Achiapong and David BlandyLarry Achiapong and David Blandy are artists based in England. Finding Fanon ...
13/02/2025

SCREENING: Larry Achiapong and David Blandy

Larry Achiapong and David Blandy are artists based in England. Finding Fanon (2015-17) is a film trilogy inspired by the lost plays of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), a politically radical humanist whose practice dealt with the psychopathology of colonisation and the cultural consequences of decolonisation. In the works, the two artists negotiate Fanon’s ideas, examining the politics of race and the conditions of the post-colonial, and how these societal issues affect their relationship.

Following the screening, artist and curator Clodagh Boyce and SIRIUS director Miguel Amado respond to the themes, aesthetics and intellectual references addressed in the film trilogy.

This event is programmed in the context of Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. It engages with its themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 1 March
3pm - 5pm
Free; no booking required

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A film still depicting two men dressed identically, the artists Larry Achiapong and David Blandy, sitting on a couch.

PERFORMANCES: Alice Rekab and guest artists Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Julie Landers/D.OTU, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmi...
13/02/2025

PERFORMANCES: Alice Rekab and guest artists Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Julie Landers/D.OTU, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmine Wood

Alice Rekab is presenting a day of performances by Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Julie Landers/D.OTU, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp and Jasmine Wood in connection with their exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. The guest artists respond to Rekab's positioning of the Atlantic Ocean as a terrain of mythological recovery that encapsulates stories common to Irish and Black people, including change, repression and resistance across history.

Jasmine Wood

Jasmine Wood is a Dublin-based artist whose work spans sound, photography, film and text. They make works that explore ideas of identity and the body’s response to landscape and urban settings. Wood’s performance is informed by their Indigenous heritage and combines the use of analogue instruments with electronic manipulation.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 22 February
11am - 7pm
Free; no booking required

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

📸: Cáit Fahey

Image description: A close-up of a woman, the artist Jasmine Wood, standing partially in shadow.

EXHIBITION – Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / MythtlanticsAlice Rekab is an Irish Sierra Leonean artist based in Dublin....
13/02/2025

EXHIBITION – Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics

Alice Rekab is an Irish Sierra Leonean artist based in Dublin. Rekab takes their identity as a starting point to examine the intersection of personal and shared historical and cultural narratives. They address themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

This exhibition engages with the location of SIRIUS in Cork Harbour, a historical site of migration and an entry point to the Atlantic Ocean. It treats the water as a terrain of mythological recovery that encapsulates stories common to Irish and Black people, including change, repression, and resistance across history. The featured works generate a symbolic lens by which to imagine a ‘mythtlantic family’.

The Douglas Hyde Director, Georgina Jackson, comments: “Through their practice of making and remaking, Alice works through a material exploration of oneself – how they have been perceived and how they perceive themselves. Objects – from salvaged furniture to their father’s metronome and mother’s painting – become imbued with meaning and memory and act as totems or tools to fill gaps in their identity.”

📸: John Beasley

Image description: An installation view depicting two paintings hanging over a mantelpiece with sculptures and objects.



PERFORMANCES: Alice Rekab and guest artists Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Julie Landers, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmine Woo...
12/02/2025

PERFORMANCES: Alice Rekab and guest artists Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Julie Landers, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp, Jasmine Wood

Alice Rekab is presenting a day of performances by Eamon Ivri, Dylan Kerr, Julie Landers, Cían Ó Donnchadha, polyp and Jasmine Wood in connection with their exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. The guest artists respond to Rekab's positioning of the Atlantic Ocean as a terrain of mythological recovery that encapsulates stories common to Irish and Black people, including change, repression and resistance across history.

Dylan Kerr

Dylan Kerr is a Berlin-based artist whose work spans performance and sound. They create site-specific, durational, endurance-based works shaped by the environments they inhabit. Kerr’s performance is staged between the basement at SIRIUS and Cork Harbour, and engages with the colonial context of the SIRIUS building. The performance lasts 24 hours, beginning and ending on 21/22 February in line with Cork Harbour’s tide times.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 22 February
11am - 7pm
Free; no booking required

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

📸: Camille Blake

Image description: A close-up of a person, the artist Dylan Kerr, wearing black and standing in front of a dark space.

PERFORMANCE: Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio, Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu)Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’C...
12/02/2025

PERFORMANCE: Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio, Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu)

Cliff Masheti, Fionnuala O’Connell, Raphael Olympio and Outsider Yp (Mark Mavambu) are artists based in Cork City and County. Their work addresses the productive tensions between inclusion and integration versus exclusion and segregation. They are presenting an evening of spoken word. They explore, individually and collectively, themes of identity associated with their diasporic experience. The performances embrace the agency provided by this self-reflection and assert counter-narratives to dominant portrayals of Irish life.

Following the performance, the artists discuss their practice with SIRIUS director Miguel
Amado.

This event is programmed in the context of Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. It engages with its themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 15 February
5pm - 7pm
Free; no booking required

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: 1. A man, the artist Cliff Masheti, is performing into a microphone. 2. A close-up of a woman, the artist Fionnuala O’Connell. 3. A close-up of a man, the artist Raphael Olympio, standing in Cork City center 4. A man, the artist Mark Mavambu (aka Outsider Yp) is standing and wearing goggles.

WORKSHOP: Éireann and IÉireann and I is a community archive that chronicles stories around heritage, activism and art re...
12/02/2025

WORKSHOP: Éireann and I

Éireann and I is a community archive that chronicles stories around heritage, activism and art relating to Black life in Ireland. It was initiated and is led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba. They are presenting the workshop Heritage Through Storytelling and Symbols. The session explores how identities evolve through social and cultural transformations.

Éireann and I invite participants to bring to SIRIUS an item from their personal archive, a memento or family photograph, to draw from throughout the session. Using these materials, they engage in various activities, including flag-making and recording oral histories, through which they design symbols that represent their own imagined place of origin.

This workshop is programmed in response to Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythtlantics. It addresses its themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 15 February
11am - 4pm
Free; booking via Eventbrite is required: https://buff.ly/3WY1OwZ
Refreshments are included

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: 1. A portrait of a woman, Beulah Ezeugo, looking over her shoulder at the camera. 2. A portrait of a woman, Joselle Ntumba, standing.

Thank you to everyone who attended the closing event of the first Superprojects Curatorial Fellowship. SIRIUS is delight...
08/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended the closing event of the first Superprojects Curatorial Fellowship. SIRIUS is delighted to participate in this fantastic opportunity and partnership. It was wonderful to hear the inaugural fellow, Diana Bamimeke, reflect on their experience while in conversation with Rayne Booth, director and Superprojects, and SIRIUS director Miguel Amado. Diana organised the programme ‘We Are Part of the Wonder’, which integrated site visits, self-directed activity, workshops and presentations. Diana worked over a period of several weeks with transition year students of Hartstown Community School in Dublin and a group of teenagers from Cork Migrant Centre.

Image description: Three people, curator and director of Superprojects, Rayne Booth, artist and Curatorial Fellow, Diana Bamimeke, and SIRIUS curator and director Miguel Amado, sit and converse in front of an audience at the 'We Are Part of the Wonder' closing event.

Thank you to everyone who attended our SIRIUS Accelerator workshop Applying for Arts Council Funding for Artists and Cur...
08/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended our SIRIUS Accelerator workshop Applying for Arts Council Funding for Artists and Curators. The session was led by SIRIUS director Miguel Amado and provided an overview of the funding landscape alongside practical tools to best present a practitioner’s profile, outline activities and prepare supporting materials. Stay tuned for further professional development opportunities as part of our SIRIUS Accelerator programme.

Image description: 1. A man, SIRIUS director Miguel Amado, giving a workshop in a gallery setting with a projector screen behind him. 2. Another view of the man giving a workshop in a gallery setting with a projector screen behind him.


WORKSHOP: Éireann and IÉireann and I is a community archive that chronicles stories around heritage, activism and art re...
07/02/2025

WORKSHOP: Éireann and I

Éireann and I is a community archive that chronicles stories around heritage, activism and art relating to Black life in Ireland. It was initiated and is led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba. They are presenting the workshop Heritage Through Storytelling and Symbols. The session explores how identities evolve through social and cultural transformations.

Éireann and I invite participants to bring to SIRIUS an item from their personal archive, a memento or family photograph, to draw from throughout the session. Using these materials, they engage in two interactive activities: flag-making and recording oral histories. Beulah and Joselle guide them through the design of symbols that represent their own imagined place of origin.

This workshop is programmed in response to Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach /
Mythtlantics. It addresses its themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and
sense of place and belonging.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 15 February
11am - 4pm
Free; booking via Eventbrite is required (link in bio)
Refreshments included

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: 1. A woman, Joselle Ntumba, is standing in front of a display of photographs and objects. 2. Three women, sitting down at a table with writing supplies.







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