Periodical Review #8

Bassam Al-Sabah, Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, Basic Talks, Megan Burns, Susan Buttner, Sophie Daly, Robert Dunne, Marie Farrington, Austin Hearne, Sam Keogh, Stephen Loughman, Brian Maguire, Dennis McNulty, Celina Muldoon, Ciara O'Neill, Fiona Reilly, Sean O'Rourke, Seoidín O’Sullivan, Cliodhna Timoney, Lee Welch

Selected by James Merrigan, Aisling Prior, Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy

An artwork is like a book, not made up of individual words on a page – each of which with a meaning – but instead "caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences" Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1969

Periodical Review is an annual survey of recent Irish art, selected in collaboration with invited curators/peers from around Ireland. Each year, Pallas Projects invite two peers – artists, writers, educators, curators – to review and subsequently nominate a number of art practices, selected via an editorial process. Such a review-type exhibition within Irish art practice acts to revisit; to be a reminder, a critical appraisal and consolidation of ideas and knowledge; to facilitate and encourage collaboration, crossover and debate.

Not a group exhibition per se, Periodical Review is a discursive action, with the gallery as a magazine-like layout of images that speak (the field talking to itself). This is the exhibition as resource, in which we invite agents within the field to engage with and re-present what were for them significant moments, practices, works, activity, objects: nodes within the network.

In looking at self-organised exhibitions, off-site projects, commercial gallery and museum shows, performances and publications, Periodical Review looks to share a spectrum of practices, creating dialogue and critical reflection to help develop and support Irish contemporary art as a whole; and to act as an accessible survey of contemporary art for a wider audience, expanding the access to and experience of art practices from around the country.

Previous co-selectors of Periodical Review: RGKSKSRG (Rachael Gilbourne & Kate Strain); Brian Duggan, Sarah Glennie, Jenny Haughton & Declan Long; Daniel Jewesbury & Anne Kelly; Mary Conlon & Paul Hallahan; Matt Packer & Michele Horrigan; Eamonn Maxwell & Padraic E. Moore; Ruth Carroll & Carl Giffney.

Press
The Irish Times, Pallas Periodical Review: a lively look at the state of Irish contemporary visual art.

Event

About

Each year, Pallas Projects invite a number of peers – artists, writers, educators, curators – to cooperatively review and nominate a number of art practices, selected via an editorial process. In looking at self-organised exhibitions, off-site projects, commercial gallery and museum shows, performances and publications, Periodical Review proposes itself as a unique and novel survey of current and contemporaneous practices from around the country. Such a review-type exhibition within Irish art practice acts to revisit; to be a reminder, a critical appraisal and consolidation of ideas and knowledge; to facilitate and encourage collaboration, crossover and debate.

The annual Periodical Review exhibition has since its inception become an important feature of the Irish visual art calendar. Over the previous 9 years it has featured the work of 180 artists, presenting, discussing and championing the work of graduates and early and mid-career artists, alongside some the country's most established and well known contemporary artists. The exhibition has proven to be a touchstone on what is happening in current Irish visual art, drawing plaudits from critics, professional peers and public alike, presenting both a space for discursive critical reflection and an accessible survey of contemporary art for a wide audience.

Education programme

A dedicated schools programme takes place during the run of the exhibition, covering both primary and secondary level. This year online options will be provided. If your school would like to take part, or for more info, please contact: info@pallasprojects.org