Nenagh is currently part of an artist led project, SWITCH. Founded in 2007, switch promotes and shows contemporary video art in a public context. Switch is an artist led project initiated and run by Triona Ryan and Harald Turek and has a partnership with the local North Tipperary Arts Office & North Down Borough Council. Switch shows 8 video art works in 8 vacant spaces in the town centre.
Art works are selected from ‘open submission’ to a theme. In 2008 ‘inside-out’ In 2009 ‘playfulness’ In 2010 ‘ the scale of things’. To date switch in Nenagh Co Tipperary & Bangor, Co Down has shown works of artists from Washington DC, Dublin, Gothenburg, Dusseldorf, London, Cork, Istanbul, Chicago, Glasgow, Belfast, Ohio, Nenagh, Helsinki, Vancover, Vienna, Gemert, California, Cork, for more info www.s-w-i-t-c-h.org or switch.information@gmail.com
The participating artists this year are Yuri A, Bonnie Begusch, Max Hattler, Dave Kemp, Ruairi McKenna, Oli Sorenson, Hing-Kai Tam, Maria Vedder. Have a look at the map of locations and go and have a look at the art shows all this week.