A to Z of Resort Life, a project by Maeve Connolly and Fiona Gannon, 2015. Photo: Brian Cregan

Produced by Maeve Connolly and Fiona Gannon, A to Z of Resort Life is a zine devoted to the work of US artist Andrea Zittel. Since the early 1990s, Zittel has used her daily life as the material of her practice, making objects, furnishings and clothing. Some of these objects are inspired by Zittel’s own childhood experiences of holidaying in trailers and recreational vehicles. Most of the artworks are functional things that can be customised by their owners and users, such as her Travel Trailer Units and A-Z Escape Vehicles, and Zittel has also created miniature islands for temporary habitation. The A to Z of Resort Life was produced within the context of Resort Revelations, a residency programme organised by Caroline Cowley of Fingal Arts at Lynder’s Mobile Home Park in Portrane, north county Dublin. It was devised for hardcopy distribution at the Bleeding Pig Festival in Portrane, September 11-13, 2015. A compressed PDF of the zine can be downloaded here.

Image of Support Structures courtesy of Celine Condorelli

Maeve Connolly, ‘The Infrastructural Turn’, Friday 2 October 2015,  1 – 2pm, IMMA

Audio recording accessible via IMMA’s soundcloud

In conjunction with the ARC Programme at IADT 2015-16; IMMA hosted a critical session that caters for postgraduate students and the public. Maeve Connolly (Lecturer, IADT) presented a paper addressing the ‘infrastructural turn’ in contemporary art, media and culture. The session explored definitions of infrastructure developed in art and media theory, referencing recent works by contemporary artists such as Celine Condorelli, Simon Denny, John Gerrard, Melanie Gilligan, Fiona Marron and Andrea Zittel, and also critical texts by Hito Steyerl, whose work is on view in the exhibition El Lissitzky – The Art and State at IMMA.

Fiona Marron, After Automation, 34mins, 2013. HD Video Projection, Production Still, courtesy of the artist.