As budding pyromaniacs, they shared a burning passion for the visual arts. As artists, they got on like a house on fire. And on Tuesday night, Paddy Jolley and Reynold Reynolds set Temple Bar's art world alight with the premiΦre of their incendiary new film project. In Burn, the characters act as props, going obliviously about their lives as their homes go up in flames. The film runs in Meeting House Square until December 18th. It is accompanied by a video installation evoking the sensations of being in a burning room, at Arthouse. Among those at the premiΦre were visual artists Finola Jones and Alan Phelan and graphic designer Peter Maybury. Independent curator Valerie Connor said she has just booked Finglas duo Desperate Optimists, aka Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, for another outdoor instalment, to run the fortnight before Christmas by Carlton Cinema on O'Connell Street.
Meanwhile, Ciarβn ╙ Gaora, of DesignWorks, invites readers to the Four Seasons Hotel in Ballsbridge tomorrow, where artists will, from noon, be signing copies of Art:pack, a deck of cards designed by 54 Irish artists in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation. For details, see www.artpack.ie