High Heart : In the making—New modes of exhibition with Alice Butler (aemi)

High Heart : In the making—New modes of exhibition with Alice Butler (aemi)

Friday 26th February, 12-1 pm

Devised by IADT students, two online gatherings will take place to accompany their online exhibtion High Heart. The second of these welcomes Alice Butler (aemi) and Maeve Connolly (IADT) who will explore how artists, curators and programmers have adapted to new modes of exhibition.

Biographies:

Alice Butler is co-founder and co-director of aemi, a Dublin-based Arts Council-funded initiative that supports and regularly exhibits moving image works by artists and experimental filmmakers typically in a cinema or event-based context. Previously, Alice worked at the Irish Film Institute where she curated several film seasons and had responsibility for artist moving image programming. Solo curatorial ventures have included ‘The L-Shape’ at The Dock, ‘As We May Think’ at IFI and ‘New Spaces’ with VAI Northern Ireland. Alice has written for Sight and Sound, Vdrome, Paper Visual Art, CIRCA and Enclave Review as well as exhibition texts for Sylvia Schedelbauer, Atoosa Pour Hosseini and Colin Martin. She wrote a survey chapter on the work of filmmaker Pat Murphy and she has lectured or participated in panels on the moving image at Trinity College Dublin, NCAD, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, IMMA and PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image.

Maeve Connolly co-chairs the ARC MA programme at IADT and teaches on the BA in Art. She is the author of TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television (Intellect, 2014) and The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect, 2009). She has contributed to publications such as Expanding Cinema: Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art (Amsterdam University Press, 2020); Everything Is Somewhere Else (Paper Visual Art, 2020); Women in Irish Film: Stories and Storytellers (Cork University Press, 2020); Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989 (Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press, 2019), Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices (Bloomsbury, 2019) and European Women’s Video Art (John Libbey Publishing, 2019). Her writing on art and media practice also appears in magazines and journals such as Art Monthly, Frieze, Journal of Curatorial Studies and MIRAJ.

Part of the exhibition: In the making—High Heart