Curator of Editorial, VISUAL Carlow
︎ 2021–2022
I commission and edit texts in response to VISUAL’s exhibition programme for the Arts & Ideas section of their website.
︎ ‘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:
︎: Installation view by Aad Hoogendoorn, 2021The Great Invocation, GARAGE, Rotterdam
︎ Catalogue essays
︎ September 2021
Catalogue texts forThe Great Invocation, an exhibtion exploring art, automatism, spirituality and legacies of Surrealism curated by Pádraic E. Moore at GARAGE Museum, Rotterdam. I wrote a text on each of the participating artists, links to each below:
- Mikala Dwyer
- Madge Gill
- Bertus Jonkers
- Jan Kervezee
- Marc Lamy
- Léo Luccioni
- Linder Sterling
- Emma Talbot
- Suzanne Treister
- Sharon van Overmeiren
- Ewoud van Rijn
︎ garagerotterdam.nl
