Flashes of Light, Echoes of Drumbeats
︎ Response to Clíodhna Timoney’s exhibition Flashes of Light at VISUAL Carlow
︎ December 2022
A text reflecting on various urban and rural geographies, electrification, and the liberatory potential of rave culture. It takes the form of a series of letters to the late writer Mark Fisher, whose text ’Baroque Sunbursts’ was a reference point for Timoney‘s exhibition
︎ visualcarlow.ie
Paper Visual Art reviews
︎ Reviews
︎ 2022–ongoing
︎ Review of Alice Rekab, Family Lines at Douglas Hyde Gallery (online)
︎ Review of Laurent Gault Galalith, curated by Katherine Murphy, at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (print, Vol. 14)
︎ papervisualart.com
Curator of Editorial, VISUAL Carlow
︎ 2021–ongoing
I commission and edit texts in response to VISUAL’s exhibition programme for the Arts & Ideas section of their website.
︎ ‘QUILT’ by Seán Hewitt – in response to the Irish NAMES Project AIDS memorial quilts exhibited as part of Remembering the Future
︎ Richard Proffitt, ‘snaking ‘92’, an experimental, stream-of-consciousness response to Emma Martin’s SHRINE
︎ ‘Nothing is lost, everything is transformed’ – Darran Anderson in response to work by Fiona Hallinan
︎ ‘The pause’ – a poem by Jo Burns in response to work by Elizabeth Cope
︎ ‘Steel Trap/Sad Black Enby Theory’ – a poem by Diana Bamimeke in response to Speech Sounds curated by Iarlaith Ni Fheorais
︎ ‘Tech News: The future is Lipreading?’ – speculative fiction by Louise Hickman, in the form of a news report
︎ ‘The Stream Will Rise’ – Michaële Cutaya in response to Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burcá, One Hundred Steps
︎ Ian Maleney in response to Christopher Steenson, Soft Rains Will Come
︎ ‘Am I the last person on Earth?’ – David Toop in response to Christopher Steenson, Soft Rains Will Come
︎ ‘Handul of Earth’ – a poem by Róisín Kelly in response to Ursula Burke, Supplicants
︎ ‘THE OVERFLOWING’ – Sue Rainsford in response to Woman in the Machine
︎ ‘Nature through a screen’ – Roisin Kiberd in response to Woman in the Machine
︎ visualcarlow.ie
︎ ‘Tech News: The future is Lipreading?’ – speculative fiction by Louise Hickman, in the form of a news report
︎ ‘The Stream Will Rise’ – Michaële Cutaya in response to Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burcá, One Hundred Steps
︎ Ian Maleney in response to Christopher Steenson, Soft Rains Will Come
︎ ‘Am I the last person on Earth?’ – David Toop in response to Christopher Steenson, Soft Rains Will Come
︎ ‘Handul of Earth’ – a poem by Róisín Kelly in response to Ursula Burke, Supplicants
︎ ‘THE OVERFLOWING’ – Sue Rainsford in response to Woman in the Machine
︎ ‘Nature through a screen’ – Roisin Kiberd in response to Woman in the Machine
︎ visualcarlow.ie
Mirror Lamp Press No4: Fetish
︎ Essay
︎ December 2021
‘High-Temperature Visionary
Obsessions: Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Fetishism’ – an essay asking whether fetishism might present a valid aesthetic theory (via Bataille, Sontag and Sunset Boulevard), published by Mirror Lamp Press
︎ mirrorlamppress.com
New Contemporaries 2021: Online Platform
︎ Artist Q&A
︎ September 2021
I was invited to ask six New Contemporaries artists a question about their practice for the 2021 Online Platform. Links to each artist’s page below: