Image credit: Fergal Brennan, Banners for Pointless Political Campaigns, 2014

Following on from the Proposals in Practice workshop organised at Highlanes Gallery in June 2014, this discussion event will present diverse examples of practice-based art research. Led by Maeve Connolly and Sinead Hogan, co-directors of IADT’s masters degree in Art and Research Collaboration (www.arciadt.ie), the discussion will provide an opportunity to explore the specific challenges and possibilities offered by practice-based art research at postgraduate level.

Venue: Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
Admission is free but places are limited, so should be booked in advance.
Email info@highlanes.ie or telephone the gallery 041-9803311

Biographies

Maeve Connolly’s research explores changing cultures, contexts and economies of art and media practice. She has a background in practice – and a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) – and she is the author of TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television (2014) and The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (2009). Her writing also appears in catalogues on the work of Gerard Byrne, Phil Collins, Anita Di Bianco, Martin Healy, Jesse Jones, Bea McMahon, Niamh O’Malley, Susan Philipsz and Sarah Pierce. She has developed screening programmes for Darklight Film Festival, the Irish Film Institute, LUX, Project Arts Centre and Tate Modern. Her current research interests include transport, infrastructure, media technologies and the art economy.

Sinead Hogan’s research concerns the relationship between aesthetic practices and philosophy. Her BA was in Art practice, with a focus on print, the graphic mark and photography and her postgraduate studies were in Philosophy culminating in a PhD that focused on the ‘dialogue’ between the works of Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, as aesthetic thinking after the critique of presence. She is researching the phenomenology of nihilism, of colour, of the image and the histories of iconography and iconoclasm. She is interested in working with researchers engaging with aesthetics within an ‘other-than-Art’ context, and she’s currently completing a book project titled ‘aesthetics (:) of thinking’.