Art & Ideas
Bury It
Aisling Clark
Curator and writer Aisling Clark explores the built legacies invoked by Dreamtime Ireland
Looking back on Garter Lane Arts Centre Artists' Commissions, 1995–1999
Garrett Phelan
From 1995 to 1999, the artist Garrett Phelan acted as curator at Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford. 25 years after the project’s conclusion, Phelan shares some remembrances of his time working on it and consideration of its legacy. He also shares an extract from the report sent to the Arts Council at the project’s conclusion, which outlines its original goals, objectives, and parameters.
The Lumpies
Erica Van Horn
Responding to Deirdre O'Mahoney's exhibition Between A Rock and A Hard Place, artist and writer Erica Van Horn presents a diaristic text reflecting upon landscape, infrastructure, and living in rural Ireland.
Kingdom
Irenosen Okojie
Written in response to Dominique White's exhibition Cinders of the Wreck, author Irenosen Okojie presents a specially-commissioned piece of speculative fiction, giving an powerful imagined history to the sculptural assemblages on show at VISUAL.
All this will feel impossible soon
Sophia Al-Maria
In this text, the artist, writer and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria responds to Amie Siegel’s video installation Asterisms. The text is written in the style of a voiceover, taking its cue from Werner Herzog’s 1992 documentary on the burning oil fields of Kuwait, Lessons of Darkness.
A Certain Slant of Light: a response
Zoë O’Reilly
A response by Zoë O’Reilly to A Certain Slant of Light, an exhibition showcasing the work of participants from Forward Steps Family Resource Centre, Bagenalstown Family Resource Centre, and Carlow County Development Partnership, created during 12 weeks of workshops led by artist Sophie Béhal.
What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike
Mosab Abu Toha
A poem by Mosab Abu Toha, originally published in the New York Review of Books, and republished here with the kind permission of the author.
We Start Together and Change Again
Emma Dwyer
A Response to Ulla von Brandenberg’s Under Water Ball by arts writer Emma Dwyer
Hearth Songs, Curtain Calls: Come Sit By Me
Sinéad Gleeson
Author and artist Sinéad Gleeson responds to Artworks 2024: Behind the Curtain.
spaces / I want to be honest with you / places
Wendy Erskine
Author Wendy Erskine responds to VISUAL’s Spring Visual Arts Programme. Using a subjective and fragmented approach, Erskine fuses her insights on the artists' work with memories and anecdotes on different places and spaces
What I see when I see Eyes Skinned (1988, 4 minutes, 4 seconds)
Chitra Ramaswamy
A response to Mona Hatoum's video works by the award-winning non-fiction writer Chitra Ramaswamy
The Geometry of Failure
Sheila Armstrong
In nature, chaos reigns – or does it? Author Sheila Armstrong looks at the wonders of geometry, geology and fractals that can be found across the natural world and in Sonia Shiel's exhibition Medusa In Pieces