Response
Flashes of Light, Echoes of Drumbeats
Rosa Abbott
A response to Clíodhna Timoney’s exhibition Flashes of Light, taking the form of a series of letters to the late writer Mark Fisher
The pause
Jo Burns
Award-winning poet Jo Burns responds to Elizabeth Cope's 2020 painting Sybil with Underground Map / Venus Has Left the Building (Diptych) with a specially commissioned poem
Steel Trap/Sad Black Enby Theory
Diana Bamimeke
Weaving poetry with theory, critic and curator Diana Bamimeke has written a prose poem in response to VISUAL's Speech Sounds exhibition
Tech News: The future is Lipreading?
Louise Hickman
A fictional news report written in response to the exhibition Speech Sounds
Soft Rains Will Come
Ian Maleney
Author and producer Ian Maleney responds to Christopher Steenson's exhibition Soft Rains Will Come, speaking of 'micro joy', 'macro gloom', and the connective power of radio
Am I the last person on earth?
David Toop
In response to Christopher Steenson's exhibition Soft Rains Will Come, David Toop reflects on sound, memory, and the long-distance connections forged by shortwave radio
Handful of Earth
A poem by Róisín Kelly, written in response to Ursula Burke’s exhibition Supplicants
Writer and poet Róisín Kelly looks towards Ursula Burke’s work at VISUAL Carlow to reflect on ideas of community, survival and the loss of sharing collective emotion in this specially commissioned poem 'Handful of Earth'.
THE OVERFLOWING
Sue Rainsford presents the second commissioned response to Woman in the Machine
Art writer and author Sue Rainsford hones in on the works of four artists in Woman in the Machine, using imagination, poetic language and literary references to untangle ideas of extraction and ooze
Nature Through a Screen
Roisin Kiberd on the relationship between technology and the natural world
The first in a series of commissioned responses to Woman in the Machine, tech writer and author Roisin Kiberd considers our relationship with technology, and how we might use it to bring us closer to the world around us.
