Heavyside: An Unseen Place
‘The place became crater on each side, sank down to its first skull, shedding forests, oceans, dried bones and neons, as it fell through time like a forgotten pitted stone.’
PDF News Views, Issue 5, Spring 2015
Internationalism: Reflections of a Solo Traveler
It is quite often the case that even on the shortest journeys, strangers will disappear and periodically resurface, meaning you unwittingly become accustomed to their faces. Leaving ARRIVALS, the vague collectivity that bound you dissipates, as people scatter in the directions of their individual pursuits: Business or leisure? Read more…
Dublin Round Up:
Paul Seawright ‘The List’, Kerlin Gallery (30 January – 21 March 2015)
Garrett Phelan ‘A Voodoo Free Phenomenon’, Project Arts Centre (30 January – 09 April 2015)
‘Pattern Exchange’, TBG&S (06 February – 28 March 2015)
Lida Abdul, Rita Duffy & Jamal Penjweny WHITE: Lest We Forget
Elaine Byrne RAUMPLAN
Limerick City Gallery of Art (26 September – 18 November 2014)
i. Collective Labour
Speaking at ‘The Workers’ symposium in Roscommon Arts Centre in July 2014, Gareth Kennedy relayed his experiences of his 2006 residency in FDK Engineering, Ballaghadereen, as part of Roscommon Arts Office’s acclaimed Art@work residency, which facilitated professional artists to work within local businesses. Occurring in the middle of Ireland’s property boom, Kennedy felt compelled to utilise his residency at the stainless steel fabrication plant as a platform to register the “massive and unprecedented socio-economic change being experienced in the country”. While a notable ‘socially-engaged orthodoxy’ was emerging out of art colleges at that time, reactivating dematerialised art practices of the 1960’s and 70’s, Kennedy registered a desire to reconstitute the ‘art object’ as a utilitarian structure, and as a vehicle to forge links between the making process and the social capital this can generate.
Joanne Laws 