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The people have spoken (but only, of course, when they were spoken to). And having spoken, they have discovered that their desire, hitherto so inconsequential, has unleashed a historic duty of fidelity to an event that has not yet and can... more
The people have spoken (but only, of course, when they were spoken to). And having spoken, they have discovered that their desire, hitherto so inconsequential, has unleashed a historic duty of fidelity to an event that has not yet and can never take place. Magical political thinking – self-delusion – demands that impossibility be made possible, now.
In Northern Ireland, the people are less readily or certainly invoked. Journalistic interpretations of esoteric political processes proliferate and are shared, critiqued and fine-tuned on social media. Constitutional certainties disappear. A peace agreement directly quoting Irish deconstructionism has given birth to conjoined, vividly competing Northern Irelands, which share overlapping physical territory but have mutually exclusive political imaginaries. The sophistry of European bordering is nowhere more agile than in Northern Ireland after the Brexit referendum. Within all of these Northern Irelands, magical economic thinking attempts to will the post-conflict into being. What a time to be a futurologist!
In Northern Ireland, the people are less readily or certainly invoked. Journalistic interpretations of esoteric political processes proliferate and are shared, critiqued and fine-tuned on social media. Constitutional certainties disappear. A peace agreement directly quoting Irish deconstructionism has given birth to conjoined, vividly competing Northern Irelands, which share overlapping physical territory but have mutually exclusive political imaginaries. The sophistry of European bordering is nowhere more agile than in Northern Ireland after the Brexit referendum. Within all of these Northern Irelands, magical economic thinking attempts to will the post-conflict into being. What a time to be a futurologist!
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Review of Joanna Zylinska's book 'Nonhuman Photography'.
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Book Review of Michele Mancini, Giuseppe Perrella and Benedikt Reikenbach, eds., Pasolini's Bodies and Places (trans. Ann Goldstein et al.), 2017, Zürich, Edition Patrick Frey.
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Review of a publication to accompany the exhibition 'The Streets, The Factories, The Colors, The Sky, The People: In Reference to Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert', at Osservatorio Fotagrafico, Ravenna
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Text published to accompany Jolanta Dolewska's portfolio of photographs, Breathless, published in Source magazine.
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Exhibition text published to accompany the exhibition 'Predictable Contact' by Michael Hanna at the Naughton Gallery, Queen's University, Belfast, February 2017.
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The commemoration of the Easter Rising invokes a spectral nationalism which, in the Irish Republic, has for some years largely lain dormant. That invocation attaches itself all too easily to a call to “fulfil the destiny of the nation”.... more
The commemoration of the Easter Rising invokes a spectral nationalism which, in the Irish Republic, has for some years largely lain dormant. That invocation attaches itself all too easily to a call to “fulfil the destiny of the nation”. This teleological obligation binds us to a future that has already been plotted, in the past. Against such moribund fulfilment of historical duty, it is possible to identify ways of escaping a doomed temporality, in the here and now.
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An interview with two photobook makers about their processes and practices.
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Catalogue text for the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Daniel Jewesbury in Galway, November 2016. The writing of Georges Bataille is used to explore the future of the city, public space, citizenship and sovereignty.
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The complete catalogue published to accompany the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2016, The Headless City, edited by Daniel Jewesbury.
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The document known as the ‘half-proclamation’ is to be found in a number of places, including the National Archives of Ireland, and, notably, in the court martial papers of Sean McDermott, in the National Archives at Kew, in London. The... more
The document known as the ‘half-proclamation’ is to be found in a number of places, including the National Archives of Ireland, and, notably, in the court martial papers of Sean McDermott, in the National Archives at Kew, in London. The document was printed by the Dublin Metropolitan Police following their raid on Liberty Hall, immediately after the 1916 Rising, and shows the last three paragraphs and the names of the signatories to the Proclamation.
This paper treats the half-proclamation as a document with an uncertain status; furthermore it argues that this uncertainty is potentially productive of new meanings and readings of the document, of the events which led to its production, and of the state whose inception it witnessed. Within Ireland, the half-proclamation is a venerated constitutional document, but through its fragmentary character it acquires also the semi-religious status of a relic, more so even than the full Proclamation itself; the fact of its having been printed by Crown forces also serves to produce a complex aura of martyrdom around the document, very much in keeping with the doctrine of blood sacrifice espoused by the Rising’s chief players.
Within the British National Archives, the half-proclamation is filed alongside radical publications, handwritten orders and the warrants for execution of the conspirators. The dossier containing the document remained classified until 1992, and it is not separately indexed in the archive’s catalogue. This chapter seeks to dramatise fully the ambivalence of the half-proclamation, as both an ‘authentic fragment’ and an illegitimate copy; a palimpsest of a document which for all its fame as an image has no legal standing in Ireland, something it only acquires in this bastardised form as criminal evidence. The chapter also examines the ‘empty half’ of the half-proclamation, which I argue is the most important piece of blank paper in the cultural history of Ireland. In the immediate aftermath of the Rising, this is a space onto which the most lurid colonial fantasies of the brutality and disloyalty of the Irish could be projected. A century later, at a time when the legitimacy of another state is under sustained interrogation, this empty space becomes a useful place in which to inscribe new proclamations of the aspirations and demands of the citizenry.
This paper treats the half-proclamation as a document with an uncertain status; furthermore it argues that this uncertainty is potentially productive of new meanings and readings of the document, of the events which led to its production, and of the state whose inception it witnessed. Within Ireland, the half-proclamation is a venerated constitutional document, but through its fragmentary character it acquires also the semi-religious status of a relic, more so even than the full Proclamation itself; the fact of its having been printed by Crown forces also serves to produce a complex aura of martyrdom around the document, very much in keeping with the doctrine of blood sacrifice espoused by the Rising’s chief players.
Within the British National Archives, the half-proclamation is filed alongside radical publications, handwritten orders and the warrants for execution of the conspirators. The dossier containing the document remained classified until 1992, and it is not separately indexed in the archive’s catalogue. This chapter seeks to dramatise fully the ambivalence of the half-proclamation, as both an ‘authentic fragment’ and an illegitimate copy; a palimpsest of a document which for all its fame as an image has no legal standing in Ireland, something it only acquires in this bastardised form as criminal evidence. The chapter also examines the ‘empty half’ of the half-proclamation, which I argue is the most important piece of blank paper in the cultural history of Ireland. In the immediate aftermath of the Rising, this is a space onto which the most lurid colonial fantasies of the brutality and disloyalty of the Irish could be projected. A century later, at a time when the legitimacy of another state is under sustained interrogation, this empty space becomes a useful place in which to inscribe new proclamations of the aspirations and demands of the citizenry.
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The introduction to the volume Local Authority, published by Fingal County Council Arts Office and edited by me and by Valerie Connor. The book also features contributions from Caroline Cowley, Valerie Connor, Dave Beech, Cécile... more
The introduction to the volume Local Authority, published by Fingal County Council Arts Office and edited by me and by Valerie Connor. The book also features contributions from Caroline Cowley, Valerie Connor, Dave Beech, Cécile Bourne-Farrell, Nils van Beek and María Mur Dean.
Research Interests: Space and Place, Public Art, Urban Studies, Public Space, Irish and International Contemporary Art, and 3 moreUnderstanding the Publicness of Public Places, Urban Regeneration and The Future of Cities, Cultural Spaces in The Contemporary Urban Landscape, Architecture and Public Spaces, and Publicness
The booklet 'Ich Sage' was produced as part of a residency while a Fellow at ZKU, the Centre for Art & Urbanism in Moabit, Berlin. This version is a plain A6 PDF.
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The booklet 'Ich Sage' was produced as part of a residency while a Fellow at ZKU, the Centre for Art & Urbanism in Moabit, Berlin. This version is an A3 PDF which can be folded down to A6.
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A conversation with artist Dennis McNulty, held at the first screening of his film INTERZONE, at the Seamus Ennis Centre, Co. Dublin, on 16th November 2012.
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A discussion of the ways in which artists, curators and writers working in Ireland consider nationality to be relevant — or irrelevant — to contemporary practice. Participants: artist and writer DANIEL JEWESBURY; critic CAOIMHÍN MAC... more
A discussion of the ways in which artists, curators and writers working in Ireland consider nationality to be relevant — or irrelevant — to contemporary practice. Participants: artist and writer DANIEL JEWESBURY; critic CAOIMHÍN MAC GIOLLA LÉITH; artist SARAH PIERCE, curator RACHAEL THOMAS and critic DECLAN LONG. Published in The Irish Review, Issue 39 (2008).
Research Interests: Irish Studies, Contemporary Art, Irish Art, Curatorial Practice (Art), Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory, Contemporary Asian Art, Art and Globalization, Post-Colonialism, and 4 moreIrish and International Contemporary Art, Curating contemporary art, Irish Art History, and Contemporary Art in Ireland
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Research Interests: Photography, Contemporary Art, Northern Irish Politics, Photography Theory, Postcolonialism and Literary Representations of the British Regions (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), and 7 moreHistory of photography, Conflict, post-conflict and culture, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Peace Process and Politics), Northern Ireland and the Troubles, Post-Conflict, and Modern and Contermporary Art
Research Interests: Urban Geography, Art, Poverty, Public Art, Global cities, and 13 morePost-conflict Reconstruction and Development, Urban Planning, Politics, Gentrification, Northern Irish Politics, Gated Communities, Belfast, Urban Renewal, Istanbul, Northern Irish Society, Northern Ireland, history and politics, Migration and Diaspora Studies, and Cultural and Spatial Representations of the Urban Poor
Catalogue text for Duncan Campbell at Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, 2009
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Catalogue text for Duncan Campbell, at Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, 2009 - German.
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Research Interests: Irish Studies, Art, Art Theory, Contemporary Art, Irish Art, and 15 moreEmpire, Belfast, Northern Irish art history, Conflict and security, Northern Ireland, Venice Biennale, Post Colonial Theory, Northern Ireland, history and politics, Thinking Long, Governance and Democracy, Colonialism and Imperialism, Nationalism and Decolonization, Belonging and Citizenship, Ethnicity and Nationality, and Nation building and State making
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