Art In The Contemporary World
A contemporary art resource featuring news and writing by participants and alumni of the MA (Art in the Contemporary World) at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin.
Report, reflection and discussion on the Former West congress
Goethe-Institut Dublin
Monday 20th May 2013 6:00pm
This event in the Goethe Institute will present a set of reports, reflections and discussions by four attendees of the Former West …
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Beauty in the Everyday
Roisin Power Hackett writes about the work of artist Liam Gough.
Don’t worry. This is how life is supposed to be.
Liam Gough
Movement is the genesis of Liam Gough’s art practice. On visiting his studio at NCAD, John’s Lane, Liam told me a story about a recent day in the studios. He was sitting drinking his morning cup of jasmine tea when all of a sudden he felt the impulse to get up from his chair and walk out the escape exit doors of his studio. So he did this. He found himself outside. A woman from across the road was staring at him out a window. Liam then realised she wasn’t staring at him. She was staring at another door into the John’s Lane Building. Liam decided then to go through this door. He found himself by the stair case. Since he had never been up on top of the roof of building he resolved to see how high the stairs would take him. When he reached the top, he came out onto a roof balcony. On the ledge of the balcony he found two half smoked cigarettes. He took these with him down the stairs again. The story then continues with a walk down to the Liffey, where Liam smoked another cigarette. On his way back up from the Liffey to John’s Lane he found a dead bumble bee, which he took with him. After telling me this story he then gestured to his studio wall where there were two drawings of the same bumble bee, and both cigarettes were pinned up. Walking is how Liam forages for the subjects of his art. Read the full story »
Wine Soak no.8: ROTATOR
Our wine correspondent Jakob Ligvine Kreek found himself spinning out of control at the opening of ROTATOR a series of performances and events by Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty that took place at Pallas Projects/Studios. …
Aisling Conroy- PRISM, Essay by Marie Soffe
Aisling Conroy- PRISM @ The Talbot Gallery 7th-30th March 2013
Essay by Marie Soffe (BA, MA)
As a fellow student of fine art in NCAD, I was always amazed at the single-minded focus of Aisling Conroy’s practice. …
Vivienne Roche RHA, ‘Spirit and Light’
Vivienne Roche, one of our foremost sculptors, at the RHA, is on till 28th April, 2013, and is showing ‘Spirit and Light’, three suites of work in the Atrium.
Monuments, 2011, consisting of five pieces, were …
‘Excess Baggage’
‘Excess Baggage’ is an exhibition of work by Irish based artists with mixed background and disciplines who work with emerging technologies, in Tallinn, Estonia March 2013.
The format consists of each artist carrying their work with …
Beyond Gallery Walls: A Street Art Blog
Laura Masi writes her second installment of Beyond Gallery Walls: A Street Art Blog, for the Art in The Contemporary World website:
Windmill Lane is definitely one of Dublin’s iconic spots for street art especially …
Wine Soak no.7: Ligvine Strikes Again
In our seventh installment our correspondent Jakob Ligvine Kreek reluctantly attends the opening of the annual Turner exhibition in the National Gallery but finds some solace in the spiritual works of James Hennessy.
It was a …
Wine Soak no.6: Catholic Intemperance
In episode six, our correspondent Jakob Ligvine Kreek finds himself at the launch of a book reissuing the essays of the late Hubert Butler. While despairing an increase of €1 excise on a bottle of …
Punk Rock Politics and The Aesthetics of Participation
Hugh McCabe writes about early 80′s US punk rock, the decline of participation in culture, and how Jacques Rancière’s formulation of the relationship between politics and aesthetics provides us with a way of rethinking what …
Review: Merlin James at the Kerlin Gallery
Laura Masi writes a review on Merlin james’s exhibition which recently ran in the Kerlin Gallery.
When I first saw the images advertised for the exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin; I instantly thought …
Review: Bea McMahon, ‘Root’
Sara O’Brien reviews Bea McMahon’s exhibition at the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
There is a certain nervousness about entering an exhibition with the ineluctable weight on my shoulders that I am going to write a …
Beyond Gallery Walls: A Street Art Column
Laura Masi writes her new Beyond Gallery Walls column about street art found around dublin.
When I decided to come to Dublin, one of the first things on my mind was that I must tract …
‘As You are We’ by Louise Rice
Kathy O’ Leary writes about Louise Rice’s recent solo exhibition ‘As You Are We’
What is the exhibition about?
Existence as encounter – with the self, and with others: this is the theme of Louise Rice’s exhibition …
Nina Canell and Fergus Feehily – Review
Maeve-Ann Austen reviews the recent exhibitions by Nina Canell and Fegus Feehily at the Douglas Hyde Gallery.
The Douglas Hyde is a great space. It really is. It acts as both facilitator and imposter, in both …
Household, Belfast
Current MA ACW student Ciara Hickey was one of the curators of the Household art festival which took place in Belfast between 22-24 August 2012. Here she writes about the festival and the motivations behind …
Improvised Music Theatre Review
Roisin Power Hackett reviews the Open Rehearsals show which took place at the Back Loft Gallery on Tuesday the 30th of October 2012.
The open rehearsals are a group who perform improvised music theatre. Before coming …
KRF Notebook Project 2012
Kathy O’Leary writes about the KRF Notebook Project.
I arrived at the opening of KRF Notebook Project in Newbridge, Kildare after eventually escaping the challenge of the traffic from the merging N7/M7 out of Dublin following …
On Discovering Echinoids …
Roisin Power Hackett reviews Anthony Hackett’s exhibition Beyond Boarders, which took place in The Back Loft on the 12th and 13th of October 2012.
This review could be seen as some sort of twisted nepotism. The …
… after the fact
The following is a response by Barry Kehoe to the NCAD Masters in Fine Art/Art in the Digital World (MFA/ADW) graduate show that took place in June 2012.
…Je me souviens, they’re memories that have …
DIVIDUAL
The following text was written by Francis Halsall to accompany the DIVIDUAL exhibition by Llobet & Pons that opens at the masART Galleria in Barcelona on Thursday September 6th at 7pm. It is curated by …
Interview: Flatpack Gallery and Studios
Flatpack, a new gallery and studio space situated in Dublin 7, is hosting its first show this week. It’s called Your Cruelty and features the work of Lily Cahill, Rob Murphy and Matthew Slack. We …
