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CONCERT Glasshouse present Orphée by Jóhann Jóhan
nsson Fresh from their two night stint in the Douglas Hyde Gallery performing the music of Sufjan Stevens to mark his debut Irish performance there in 2004, Glasshouse return with their tribute to Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson who tragically died this spring. The event will consist of a new arrangement of his acclaimed post-classical 2016 album Orphée, followed by original pieces by five Irish composers responding to his life and work. Unitarian Church, Sunday December 9, €16/€19 SHOP Optic EXHIBITION Alice Maher – Vox Materia Optic Music specialises in hand-picked vinyl records for the curious listener. Currently trading at record fairs and pop-up shops around the city, as well as hosting a monthly radio show on Dublin Digital Radio; they are going to be popping up in the countdown. Put your needle on their records. Thomas House (December 8), Hen’s Teeth (December 9 & 23), Mart, Rathmines (December 10, 11m, 12, 17, 18 & 19) opticmusicshop.com Having exhibited in The Source in Thurles and the Crawford in Cork, Vox Materia makes it to the capital. Maher takes the mermaid myth as the point of exploration in her new work which incorporates silhouettes of photos of herself contorted into different positions along with hand-painted wood relief prints. There’s also a video installation and small sculptures displayed in a long glass cabinet. “I got really interested in what the female has had to do throughout history in order to belong to the human race, or just to be an equal,” she says. “It seemed to me that a lot of it was actually to give up her voice. And I’ve always been interested in the loss of voice.” Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, until December 22 EXHIBITION GIG The Murder Capital The first time, and last time, we caught The Murder Capital was at the Other Voices stage at Electric Picnic. The post-punk five-piece brought a fervid intensity to their set with lead singer James McGovern channeling the spirit of Ian Curtis in a fireball of rage. Unlike other acts on stage, there was no recording of their set which we can only assume is down to a rollout strategy by their management team Q Prime. In joining them, they link up with a meaty roster of acts such as The Black Keys, Foals, Metallica and Muse. With support slots to Slaves and Idles, expect much bigger stages for the boys in 2019. Workmans Club, Friday December 14, €11 Liam Gillick - A Depicted Horse is not a Critique of a Horse English conceptual artist Gillick brings together a series of new abstract wall-based works alongside a sequence of large-scale graphics in this anthology of economic, social and philosophical influences on his thinking. The two sets of works stand in confrontation to each other, offering a clear view of the distinct contradictions at the heart of the artist’s practice. Kerlin Gallery, until January 19 86