Vicky Langan (b. 1986)
Multidisciplinary artist working in the field of sound art, performance and film.
Education:
2016 MA in Art and Process | CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
Exhibitions:
2019 Langan/Le Cain - Personal Growth | Sirius Arts Centre, Cork
2018 Encountering the Land | Group Exhibition | VISUAL Gallery, Carlow
2017 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts | Group Exhibition | Galway Arts Centre
2017 Present Haunts | Group Exhibition | James Barry Exhibition Centre, CIT, Cork
2017 slips, speaks | Group Exhibition | 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, 32 Smith Square, Westminster, London
2017 Nasty Women | Group Exhibition | Pallas Projects, Dublin
2016 Luminous Void | Experimental Film Society Group Exhibition at Triskel, Cork
2011 Void: Volume | Group Exhibition at Galway Arts Centre
2011 Langan/Le Cain installation | Hilltown New Music Festival, Westmeath
Selected Performances:
2021 Vivienne Dick retrospective/premiere 'Réel sans être réel' | Jeu de Paume, Paris
2021 ‘Broken Karts’ - composition/live performance | It Takes A Village festival, Trabolgan, Cork.
2021 ‘Come, let the blazing truth blind': readings by Irish writers on the subject of Mother and Baby Homes’ | Poetry Ireland (online))
2021 'A Scarf' by Doireann Ní Ghríofa read by Vicky Langan | Solas Nua/Fallow Field (online)
2021 Improvised Music Company: Piece by Piece (online)
2020 Vicky Langan & Atoosa Pour Hosseini celluloid/sound collaboration | Winter Papers & Engage Studios, Galway
2019 Vicky Langan & Aaron Dilloway performance | Open Ear Festival, Sherkin Island, Cork
2019 Carrickfergus Salt Mine | Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics / The 343, Belfast
2018 Sound art performance with Alice Maher’s sculptures for Maher’s Vox Materia exhibition | Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2018 meadow, meadow, meadow | Daehakro Arts Theater, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, South Korea
2018 NAWR concert series | BBC Building Swansea Studios at UWTSD, Swansea
2017 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts | Galway Arts Centre
2017 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF), Switzerland
2017 Audiograft Festival | The Old Fire Station, Oxford
2017 Apologies in Advance #3 | IKLECTIK Arts Lab, London
2017 Berlin Experimental Film Festival | Cinema Moviemento, Berlin
2016 Lyric FM live ‘1916 Mean Time’ concert | Richmond Barracks, Dublin
2016 Tusk Festival, Newcastle
2016 Aaron Dilloway Two Day Residency w/ Vicky Langan, Evan Parker, Dieter Muh & Dylan Nyoukis | Cafe OTO, London
2015 Supernormal Festival, Oxford
2014 Penultimate Press/Kye Festival | Cafe OTO, London
2014 An Evening with Pauline Oliveros | The Guesthouse, Cork
2013 Richard Youngs, Vicky Langan and Aine O’Dwyer | Triskel Arts Centre
2012 Extreme Rituals - A Schimpfluch Carnival | The Arnolfini, Bristol
2012 Sound/Music/Noise in Performance Art: panel discussion featuring Ron Athey, Leif Elggren, Vicky Langan and Holly Ingleton | The Arnolfini, Bristol
2012 Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2012 Lydia Lunch & Vicky Langan | Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
2010 La Société des Amis du Crime | SPARK festival, Minneapolis, USA
Selected Langan/Le Cain Screenings & Performances:
2019 Brine Twice Daily, Kino Klub Split, Split, Croatia
2019 Brine Twice Daily, Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taiwan
2019 Contact & Double-Blind, Moving Bodies Festival, Turin, Italy
2019 Brine Twice Daily, Departamento Social Club, Santiago, Chile
2019 Brine Twice Daily | Vertigo, Tiblisi, Georgia
2019 Double-Blind | Muestra Internacional de Cine Experimental, Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador Ulises Estrella, Quito
2018 Inside | Luminous Void Underground Film Festival, Dublin
Inside & Brine Twice Daily | Cienclube Academia das Musas, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2018 Play Ground | The Barlow Index 5, Brighton, UK
2018 Brine Twice Daily | ‘Compact time’, The Cinematography & Alternative Art Festival, Nida, Lithuania
2018 Play Ground, | ‘Ecstatic Visions’, Brighton, UK
2018 Inside | ECRA Festival, Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018 Inside | Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Quito
2018 Inside | Encountering the Land, VISUAL, Carlow Arts Festival (Selected by Orla Barry, Sean Kissane and Emma Lucy O’Brien)
2018 Double-Blind | performance at Cork Midsummer Festival
2017 Inside | Commissioned for TULCA Festival of Visual Art ‘They Call Us The Screamers’, curated by Matt Packer
2017 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland
2017 Wilderness Notes | (Experimental Film Society & Kirkos Ensemble) Filmbase, Dublin
2016 Brine Twice Daily | Irish Film Institute, Dublin
2015 Contact | Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran, Iran
2015 Dirt | Repressed Cinema, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, Oregon, USA
2015 Dirt & Contact | Wild-screen, Connemara, Ireland
2014 Desk 13 | Experimental Film Society screening, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
2014 Tangled And Far | Fronteira Festival, Goiania, Brazil
2014 Langan/Le Cain screening | Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn , New York
2014 Tangled And Far | Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne & Perth, Australia
2013 Dirt | Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Dirt hosted on The Wire magazine’s website in conjunction with a feature interview in Issue 350.
Awards & Grants:
2022 Arts Council of Ireland | Film Bursary
2022 Arts Council of Ireland | Agility Award
2021 Cork City Council | Individual Artist Bursary
2021 Arts Council of Ireland | Professional Development Award
2020 Pan Pan International Mentorship (with Terry O'Connor of Forced Entertainment)
2019 Arts Council of Ireland | Next Generation Artists Award
2019 The Next Stage | Theatre Forum & Dublin Theatre Festival
2018 Music Network Music Capital Scheme
2017 Creative Ireland County Cork Grant Scheme | (re)sounding holy wells, with Dr. Richard Scriven
2017 Arts Council of Ireland | Film Project Award (for Inside, w/ Maximilian Le Cain)
2016 Gare St Lazare Ireland | mentorship
2014 Cork City Council | Individual Artist Bursary
2014 Arts Council of Ireland | Individual Artist Bursary
Artist Residencies:
2022 Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea | Lisbon, Portugal
202 Oileán AiR Cónaitheacht Ealaíontóirí | Oileán Chléire, Co. Chorcaí
2020 Artist-in-Residence | Doolin Writers' Weekend, Co. Clare
2019 Artist-in-Residence | Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics & the 343 Gallery, Belfast
2019 Desk residency | The Guesthouse, Cork
2017 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris | w/ Maximilian Le Cain
Teaching:
2019 Langan/Le Cain curatorship of LSAD Photography, Film & Video, Sculpture and Combined Media 3rd Year exhibition | Limerick
2019 Artist’s Talk / tutorials (w/ Maximilian Le Cain) | LSAD, Limerick
2018 Creative Mentor (w/ Jennifer Walshe and John Godfrey) | Kirkos Ensemble's BODY NOISE WORK, Leitrim
2017 Artist’s talk / tutorials (w/ Maximilian Le Cain)| CCAM at GMIT in association with TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
2016 Artist’s talk | Music Department of Goldsmiths, University of London
2016 Artist's talk | CIT School of Music - Music and Technology (MA / MSc)
2013 Red Bird Youth Collective mentoring/workshops (w/ Dominic Thorpe) | Galway Arts Centre, Galway
DJing:
Ireland: Electric Picnic, Ouhm at O’Sho Cork, Open Ear Festival, Féile Na Gréine, Gramophone Disco/The Haunt, Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Wild-screen at Connemara's Inagh Hatchery, Plastik Festival of Artists' Moving Image, Contemporary Outsider Arts Festival, Limerick, Experimental Film Society, Cork Film Festival, The Avant Festival, The Black Mariah, Soundeye, Plugd Records, Gulpd Café
Elsewhere: Café OTO, Tusk Festival, Process Film Festival, Peter Manson Symposium at the University of Glasgow
Radio: Dublin Digital Radio, UCC 98.3FM, Freak Fm
Event Programming / Producing / Other:
2020 - present Rebel Matters Podcast | Producer
2019 Open Ear festival | Sherkin Island, Cork | Programming, Artist Development and Special Projects
2019 Pavilion of Ireland at the 58th International Art Exhibition | La Biennale di Venezia | Invigilator
2011 - 2014 The Avant, Cork | Co-Director, Programming, Production
2009 - 2013 Black Sun, Cork | Founder, Programmer, Production
2012, 2014 Cork Film Festival | Administrator, Additional Music Event Programmer
2010 - 2011 SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word | Cork | Music Event Programmer