Curators’ Talk – Periodical Review #2: Dialogues on contemporary art, discourse & collaboration

Eamonn Maxwell, Pádraic E. Moore, Gavin Murphy & Mark Cullen with Katherine Waugh

Pallas Projects/Studios presents a panel discussion in response to the current exhibition Periodical Review. The exhibition, structured as an editorial review with a critical and discursive position, is a unique, yearly survey of Irish contemporary art practices, that looks at commercial gallery shows, museum exhibitions, artist-led and independent projects and curatorial practices. The panel, chaired by Katherine Waugh and featuring the exhibition’s four curators, will discuss work from around the country, hoping to elucidate dialogues and movements, parallels and divergence within Irish contemporary art practice. They will discuss too the role of discourse, collaboration, improvisation and generosity – from independent initiatives through to individual practitioners and to the museum – and how institutions negotiate and support the interaction and dialogue between established and emerging generations of artists.

Biographies:

Katherine Waugh is a writer and filmmaker living in Galway. She co-directed The Art of Time, a film on the complex temporalities in contemporary art, film and architecture, which has shown internationally in galleries and Film Festivals in New York, Paris, London and most recently in IMMA and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane as part of Sleepwalkers. In 2012 she curated and moderated a symposium for the AV International Arts Festival in Newcastle based on its theme As Slow As Possible (after John Cage) and programmed a series of films for IMMA where she also gave a talk on Time in Contemporary Art and Film. She has written essays for artists’ books and catalogues nationally and internationally, and a recent film installation project – A Laboratory of Perpetual Flux – was shown as part of eva International curated by Annie Fletcher. She is currently engaged in curatorial research with Goldsmiths College London.

 Eamonn Maxwell trained at Camberwell College of Arts and City University, London. From 2004 – 2009 he was the inaugural University Curator at University of the Arts, London. During his tenure he worked with many international and emerging artists. He was the Curator of the Irish Pavilion at 54th Venice Biennale. Since 2009 he has been Director of Lismore Castle Arts.

 Pádraic E. Moore’s practice combines curatorial projects, the production of texts, public presentations and events. Moore graduated with a B.A. in History of Art & English literature from U.C.D. in 2005 and participated on Curatorlab; the postgraduate programme at Konstfack, Stockholm in 2011. Moore was invited curator in residence at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy in 2011 and participated on a curatorial residency at the Israeli Centre for Digital Art in March 2012.

 Pallas Projects/Studios is a not-for-profit initiative, active for over fifteen years in Dublin’s city centre and run by artists Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy. Pallas Projects continues to collaborate with peers to engage and develop current Irish contemporary art, through a continued commitment to solo projects by Irish and international artists, alongside occasional thematic group exhibitions, and initiated exchanges with artists’ groups around Ireland and abroad.