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.