27/11/12
Backdrops of Fiction: Artists’ talk concerning Wendy Judge’s Souvenir Views
Wendy Judge
In response to Wendy Judge's Souvenir Views: Film and animation lecturer Michael Connerty will present a visual trip (with occasional commentary) through some lunar and post-apocalyptic landscapes. Following this there will be a conversation between Jessica Foley and Wendy Judge. This conversation seeks to expand the surrounding subjects in and around the exhibition Souvenir Views.
Biographies:
Michael Connerty teaches film and animation history in IADT, Dun Laoghaire. He has taught on other areas of visual culture, particularly the history and theory of comics, which is where his energies are currently directed. In the past he has performed numerous roles with Darklight Film Festival, interviewing guests, and curating a number of programmes of animation and experimental cinema. He has written and performed with two of Dublin’s premiere underground rock and roll bands, Female Hercules and Moutpiece.
Jessica Foley is interested in how writing, poetry, film making and installation can be used to critically explore and engage dominant discourses and systems of communication, particularly in relation to education, art, science, engineering and technology. She is interested in developing ways to bring people together to reconsider ideas, words, customs, objects, or whatever, that have become a little bit rigid, a little bit disabling. She is in the second year of PhD research at CTVR/the telecommunications research centre, Trinity College Dublin, where she is studying the early films of Charles and Ray Eames (1950-60) and bringing this research to bear upon my own situated engagement with the ongoing telecommunications research at CTVR. The intention of her research is to come to better terms with concepts, structures, encounters with and realities of communication through generating reciprocal encounters between the fields of art and engineering, where she considers art and engineering both as ways of writing the world.
Wendy Judge is an artist based in Dublin. Solo projects include Great Works at Goethe-Institut Dublin in 2008 and Works of the World United, Thisisnotashop, Dublin in 2009. She has exhibited in group exhibitions such as Dublin Contemporary 2011, and ‘Last’ at Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2012, and was one of a group of artists that represented Thisisnotashop, at the Festival of Independents - No Soul for Sale, New York, 2009, and at Tate Modern, London, 2010. She has been part of Difference Engine since 2009, a group of autonomous artists with exhibitions at Soma, Waterford ,Wexford Arts Centre, CSV in New York, The Substation with Black Mariah/Triskle in Cork, and Cake Contemporary, Kildare and forthcoming at the Oriel Myrddin Gallery in Wales 2013.
Souvenir Views is the first of an ongoing series of exhibitions in the new Pallas Projects/Studios at The Coombe, where invited artists are afforded an extended preparatory period, allowing them to attempt a leap, to consider, experiment and test the relationship between studio and exhibition practice. Wendy worked on-site utilising the gallery space with a lead in time of one month.