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Maeve Connolly |
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Maeve Connolly is a Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts
at Dun Laoghaire Institute
of Art, Design & Technology in Dublin, Ireland. She lectures on the BA in Visual
Arts Practice and on MAVis,
MA Visual Arts Practices, where she leads a module on Visual Cultural Research. Her
research centres on concepts of public space in contemporary art and culture, informed by histories
of art, film and television since the late 1960s. Her book on artists’ film
and video, entitled
The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2009)
includes in-depth readings of works by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Carlos Amorales, Gerard Byrne, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller,
Stan Douglas, Willie Doherty, Aurelien Froment, Pierre Huyghe, Jaki Irvine, Aernout Mik, Tobias Putrih, Anne Tallentire and
Jane & Louise Wilson, among others.
Previous publications include articles and reviews in journals such as Afterimage, Artforum, Art Monthly,
Boundary 2, CIRCA, Contemporary, Filmwaves, Frieze, Screen, Third Text and Variant. She also co-edited a collection
of texts and artists' projects on television, entitled
The Glass Eye (Project Press, 2000),*
which features
contributions from Matthew Buckingham, Michelle Deignan, Bettina Funcke, Andrea Geyer, Brian Hand,
Dennis McNulty and Eva Rothschild, among others. Maeve has curated screening programmes and exhibitions
such as Animation
Art Wandering (Darklight Film Festival 2006; Galway Arts Festival 2007) and The
Captain's Road (Dublin, 2002) and recently joined the board of directors of the Irish Film Institute.
*The Glass Eye is available to buy from
Project Arts Centre .
Contact : maeve.connolly [at] iadt.ie
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Reviews of The Place of Artist's Cinema |
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Robert Porter, Variant 36, Winter 2009: 36-37.
Dan Kidner, LuxOnline, October 2009.
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Selected Publications |
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(Column)
‘Writing After the Exhibition: Tactically Yours’, The Visual Artists News
Sheet November/December 2009: 4.
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(Essay)‘An Alternative Archive: Vivienne Dick and the Future of Irish Cinema’, Between Truth and Fiction: The Films of Vivienne Dick, ed. Treasa O’Brien, London: LUX and The Crawford Art Gallery, 2009: 70-77.
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(Exhibition review) Garrett Phelan, Mother’s Tankstation, Artforum, September 2009, 304-305.
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(Dialogue) ‘The Material, The Immaterial, The Shining: Maeve Connolly and Anita Di Bianco in Conversation
at the Irish Museum of Modern Art’, in Anita Di Bianco, Ghostwriter, Braunchsweig: Kunstverein Braunchsweig,
2009, 30-35.
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(Column)"Writing After the Exhibition: In Absentia", The Visual Artists News Sheet July/August 2009: 6
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(Article) City Report – Dublin, Frieze, June 2009.
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(Exhibition Review), James Coleman, Artforum (summer 2009), 349.
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(Exhibition Review) Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, Project Arts Centre, Artforum March 2009: 254-255.
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(Column)"Writing After the Exhibition", The Visual Artists News Sheet, March/April 2009: 4.
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(Exhibition Review) "Getting Even: Oppositions + Dialogues in Contemporary Art", Art Monthly 323, February 2009: 22-23.
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(Catalogue Essay) "Death-Defying Acts" in Gary Coyle, At Sea: The Daily Practice of Swimming, Dublin: Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and Project Arts Centre, 2009: 66 -71.
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(Exhibition Review), Ulla von Brandenburg,
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artforum, December 2008: 313.
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"Memory Flows: Traffic Series by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy";,
From Visualise Carlow 2007-2008, Carlow: Carlow Arts Office, 2008: 20-26. |
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(Journal Article) "Looking Backwards into the Future: Steadicam Cinematography, Narrative Space and Urban Regeneration", The Irish Review 39.1, Winter 2008: 78-92.
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"Of Other Worlds: Nature and the Supernatural in the Moving Image Installations
of Jaki Irvine", Screen 49, Issue 2, Summer 2008: 203-208 |
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"Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind", In Media Res, MIT Comparative Media
Studies Program, March 2008. |
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"Inside
the Lighthouse" in Gavin Murphy (ed), House Projects: Artworks, Documents,
Analysis, Dublin, 2008: 61-66. |
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"Return Again: Subjectivity and Spectatorship" in Niamh O’Malley’s ‘Vignettes’, Niamh O’Malley:
Window, Siena: Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, 2007: 33-43. |
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“Imaginary
Spaces, Activist Practices” in Liz Burns, Jesse Jones et al, 12 Angry
Films, Dublin: Fire Station Artists’ Studios, 2007: 17-23. |
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“Close Encounters: Cinema, Myth and Meaning”, Martin Healy: I Want to Believe, Dublin: Royal Hibernian
Academy, 2007. |
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“Cinema Spaces and Structures at the 52nd Venice Biennale”, CIRCA 121, Autumn 2007: 106-109. |
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“The Necessity of Being Lost”
in Desperate Optimists et al, Made in Liverpool 2006: Beneath the Skin of
the City, Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial, 2007. |
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"Familiar and Fantastic Journeys", In Context 2: Mythic Journey and Killinarden Short Shorts,
Dublin: South Dublin County Council, 2006 (unpaginated).
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"Jesse Jones, 12 Angry Films",
The Visual Artists' News Sheet: Critical Review Supplement Issue 1, December
2006: 9. |
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"Parallel Worlds: Contemporary
Irish Film Cultures", in John Hutchinson (ed), Alabama Chrome, Dublin:
Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2006. |
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"Vivienne Dick", Luxonline, 2006 |
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"A bit of a traveller in everybody:
Traveller Identities in Irish and American Culture" in Diane Negra
(ed) The Irish In Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture, Duke
University Press, 2006: 282 - 317. |
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“Theorising Irish Animation:
Heritage, Enterprise and Critical Practice” in John Hill and Kevin
Rockett (eds.), National Cinema and Beyond: Studies in Irish Film, 2, Dublin:
Four Courts Press November 2005: 79-89. |
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“Abstraction and Dislocation in Recent Works by Gerard Byrne”, CIRCA: Irish and International Visual
Culture 113, Autumn 2005: 31-42. |
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“Venice and the Moving Image”,
Afterimage: Journal of Media and Cultural Criticism, 33.1 July 2005: 10-11. |
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“Emporium of the Senses: Spectatorship
and Aesthetics at the 26th São Paulo Bienal”, Third Text, Vol
19, Issue 4, July 2005: 399-409. |
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“The Visible and the Invisible: A Partial View of Open EV+A 2005”, CIRCA: Irish and International Visual
Culture 112, Summer 2005. |
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“In Conversation: Experience
and Alterity at the 51st Venice Biennale”, Contemporary 74, 2005: 22-24. |
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“São Paulo: Various Venues: São Paulo Bienal”, Contemporary 69, 2004:
59-60. |
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“Life in the Departure Lounge”, Transit: 2004 Fringe Festival Visual Arts Programme,
2004 (unpaginated). |
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“Nomads,
Tourists and Territories: Manifesta and the Basque Country”, Afterimage:
Journal of Media and Cultural Criticism, 32.3, November/December 2004: 8-9 |
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“From No Wave to National Cinema:
The Cultural Landscape of Vivienne Dick’s Early Films (1978-1985)”
in Kevin Rockett and John Hill (eds.), National Cinema and Beyond: Studies
in Irish Film, 1, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004: 61-76. |
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“Souvenirs of Spectacle”(catalogue
essay), Finola Jones: Artificially Reconstructed Habitats, Canberra: Canberra
Contemporary Art Space, 2004: 13-20. |
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“The Doubled Space of Willie
Doherty’s Re-Run”, Filmwaves Issue 23, Winter 2004: 8-10 |
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“Sighting an Irish Avant-garde
in the intersection of Local and International Film Cultures”, boundary
2: International Journal of Literature and Culture, vol.31 no. 1, spring
2004: 244-265. |
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“A Cause for Celebration? Festivals
of Irish Film At Home and Abroad”, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural
Writings vol 3 no 1, 2003: 18-32. |
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“Excluded
by the Nature of Things? Irish Cinema and Artist’s Film”, CIRCA: Irish and
International Visual Culture 106, winter 2003: 33-39.
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“Re-imagined Communities? Ireland,
Europe and the Web as Shifting Sites of Television Discourse,” Irish
Communications Review, vol 9, 2003: 1-7. |
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“Green Screen”, Review of 30 Years On: The Arts Council and the Film Maker, CIRCA: Irish and International
Visual Culture 104, summer 2003, 2-23. |
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“How Things Turn Out, Irish Museum of Modern Art” (Review), CIRCA: Irish and International Visual Culture
100, summer 2002. |
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“A Crime Dramatically Reconstructed,
Again” (Catalogue text) Greyscale/CMYK, edited by Kate Davis and Rebecca
Gordon-Nesbitt, Glasgow: Tramway, 2002. |
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“Plateau of Humankind: The 49th Venice Biennale”, (Review) CIRCA 97, Autumn 2001. |
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(as co-editor and contributor) “Between
the Seasons”, The Glass Eye: Artists and Television, edited by Maeve
Connolly and Orla Ryan, Dublin: Project Press, 2000: 42-53. |
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(Exhibition Review) “Barcelona: James Coleman”, Fondacio Antonio Tapies, CIRCA 91, 2000: 60.
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“Siting
Belfast: Context, Audience and the Symbolic Economy
of the City”, (Review/Article) Variant, Vol. 2 No. 7, 1999 |
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“Postcard
from Dublin”, SuperUmbau (Interdisciplinary Urban Project Newspaper)
Winter Edition, 1998
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