The Glass Eye: Artists and Television
Edited by Maeve Connelly and Orla Ryan
Project Press, a division of Project Arts
English
Essays by
Michelle Deignan
Andrea Geyer
Valerie Connor
Brian Hand
Janine Sack
Eva Rothschild
Giordaí Ua Laoghaire and Roger Gregg
Maurice O’Connell
Dennis McNulty
Stuart Purdy
Ania Corcilius
Korinna Knoll
Orla Ryan
Matthew Buckingham
Paperback
96 pages
210mm x 240mm
2020
ISBN 1872493181
This publication is an interdisciplinary publication including art work specifically made for book format, theoretical texts and essays by artists on their work. The Glass Eye involved artists and critics based in Ireland, Germany, Scotland and the USA.
About the editors
Maeve Connolly is a Dublin-based researcher, focused on changing cultures and economies of art and media practice. She is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Film, Art & Creative Technologies at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin, Ireland, where she co-chairs the MA in Art & Research Collaboration (ARC) and teaches on IADT’s BA (Hons) in Art.
She is the author of TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television (Intellect, 2014) on television as cultural form, object of critique and site of artistic intervention, and The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect, 2009), on aspects of the cinematic turn in art. She is also the co-editor, with Orla Ryan, of The Glass Eye: Artists and Television (Project Press, 2000), a collection of artists’ projects exploring the televisual.
Recent publications include catalogue texts on the work of Jordan Baseman, Irina Gheorghe, Barbara Knezevic and Phillip Warnell, and contributions to various edited anthologies, including Theorizing Film through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2019) and Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image (Bloomsbury, 2019).
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Orla Ryan is an artist, independent curator,writer and lecturer. She was born in Dublin and now lives in the South East of Ireland. She studied at St. Martins School of Art, London; NCAD, Dublin; The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York; Dublin City University. Ryan currently lectures part-time at the Wexford Campus School of Art and Design IT Carlow. Her dissertation was assisted by a Government of Ireland Research Scholarship in the Humanities. She was also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to attend The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study program.
Her research interests include the complex temporalities of modernity; history and memory and the relationship to photography and film; comparative approaches to the study of film and moving image installations and locating history through auto-ethnographic practices. Current practice is engaged with the early 20th century and 19th century in Ireland. In researching historical discourses re-looking at Ireland and colonialism there is a continued interest to engage with this topic through a wider global frame. This is evident in the group exhibition curated at the Void Derry Spring Watching Pavilion, 2015, which explored the Vietnamese war, globalization and an earlier refugee crisis which allowed a path of connection to open up between the specifics of that history and the current geo-political situation. Ryan has curated a number of artists exhibitions at the Void including Dinh Q. Lê’s The Colony, 2016, Candice Breitz’s Him+ Her, 2013 (both co-curated with Maolíosa Boyle); Ursula Biemann; Trinh T. Minh-ha; Mairead McClean; Denis McNulty. She has worked collaboratively with Maeve Connolly and Valerie Connor on a curatorial project TV –Project (2000-2002) which included the publication of The Glass Eye (2000).
Working collaboratively with Alanna O’Kelly and Brian Hand as Stormy Petrel/Guairdeall Ryan was awarded a commission from An Post, GPO Public Art Commissions. This project was exhibited as part of the launch of the Witness History Museum and 1916 Centenary at the GPO in April 2016. This work was exhibited in The Vietnamese Women’s Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam, May/June 2016, supported by The Irish Embassy in Hanoi and Culture Ireland. Stormy Petrel/ Guairdeall exhibited their work in Visual, Carlow October- Jan 2017 . This exhibition included a film Have you Forgotten Mr Haynes (2017) funded by Art Links. Her work has also been exhibited in Close Up Cinema, London, Gallerie 50/20, Salzburg; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; CCA, Glasgow; The Context (now CCA, Derry); The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Rear Window, London; Rua Red, Dublin; Downtown Art Festival, New York. Art projects have also appeared in Inter Asia Cultural Studies (vol 14 2013), Je Veux (2003),Charley 1 (2002). Ryan did a residency at the Heinrich Boll Cottage, Achill in 2007.
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