Maeve Connolly
BIOGRAPHY
Maeve Connolly is a writer, lecturer and researcher whose work 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.

She is currently working on a new book entitled TV Museum, which examines the changing relationship between art museums, broadcasting and concepts of public space in Europe and North America. Encompassing discussion of artworks, institutions, audiences and exhibitions, the book develops new approaches to the critical analysis of television’s past and future. Maeve is currently a Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology Dublin, Ireland and in 2011-2012, she will be a research fellow at Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) , Weimar Bauhaus University, Germany.

Previous publications include articles and reviews in journals such as Afterimage, Artforum, Art Monthly, Boundary 2, CIRCA, Contemporary, Filmwaves, Frieze, Mousse, Screen, Third Text and Variant, together with a co-edited 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. Curatorial projects include screening programmes and exhibitions such as ‘Citing Cinema in Artists’ Films’ (GFT, Glasgow, 2010), ‘Event-Site: The Place of Artists’ Cinema’ (Picture This, Bristol, 2010), Animation Art Wandering (Darklight Film Festival 2006; Galway Arts Festival 2007) and The Captain's Road (Dublin, 2002).

*The Glass Eye is available to buy from Project Arts Centre .



REVIEWS of The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen


Mo White, Review of The Place of Artists' Cinema, The Art Book, Volume 17, Issue 2 May 2010, pp 65-66.

Kate Mondloch, ‘Placing Artists’ Cinema’, Jump Cut 52, Summer 2010.

Robert Porter, Variant 36, Winter 2009: 36-37.

Dan Kidner, LuxOnline, October 2009.