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Stephen Hackett
After studying at the art college in Belfast, I joined Catalyst Arts (an artist-run organisation based in the city) where I was co-director for two years.
The organisation is very open ended in terms of its programme and for me this meant looking outside of the gallery space. While I worked there I organised a newspaper publication, Cartography: the City, Kokomo Manifesto, collaborations between electro-acoustic musicians and video artists, along with many other events and exhibitions. I am now co-director of organisations that I helped form, Cinilingus and Factotum. Cinilingus is a film and video organisation that programmes site-specific screenings and events throughout Belfast. Amongst other things we have organised illegal screenings underneath motorway flyovers and other outdoor locations, and 'Advertence' a festival of experimental approaches to documentary film. We also programme within the Belfast Film Festival. Future ventures include an Indian contemporary film programme and a series of music documentary screenings. Factotum? Well I'm not too sure, we don't have a scheme as such, so far its a mixture of 'Peeping Tomism' – What's he building in there? – a series of tours through Belfast's hidden organisations, contemporary dance events and investigations into criminality in the nineteenth century. Future projects...
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