This essay was written by curator and writer Sara Muthi to accompany my solo exhibition ‘Meet me on the astral plane’, showing at the Alley Arts Centre, Strabane, from the 29th November – 22nd December 2021. The visual arts are a twofold process. Step one concerns the artist, their intention to create. Making. Step twoContinue reading “Meet me on the astral plane | Exhibition essay by Sara Muthi”
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The Gasp
I gasped.A gasp is a sudden, involuntary intake of break. The mouth opens. Air is dragged down the opened throat. Resonating within the body, the gasp is a sound of subjectivity as it registers a shocking, sudden, unexpectedly affecting encounter with something seen, felt or done to the body….An acoustic after-affect, it sonorously registers theContinue reading “The Gasp”
Notes from not in the studio
This text was written in lock-down, as part of a research group on the artist’s studio with the Irish Museum of Modern Art That line of Adorno’s, that to write poetry after Auschwitch is barbaric (1949), keeps drifting into my head. I think about it differently now than I did before. A friend of mine,Continue reading “Notes from not in the studio”
Susanne Wawra: Painting memory, subjectivity, emergence
Shortly after the opening of A Vague Anxiety (April-August 2019) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), their first exhibition to specifically show a group of ‘emerging artists’, I arranged to meet Susanne Wawra in the gallery. We’re familiar with each other from college, she having graduated a year ahead of me from theContinue reading “Susanne Wawra: Painting memory, subjectivity, emergence”
Algorithmic Futures; Theorising through Fantasising
How can we theorise the societal and ethical implications of technology which does not yet, and may never, exist? Technological advances and a society increasingly governed by algorithms and big data introduce innumerable potential political and ethical issues for our future. It can be difficult to take many of these potentialities seriously as theoretical concerns,Continue reading “Algorithmic Futures; Theorising through Fantasising”
Dear Chris Kraus,
Dear Chris Kraus, I am moved to write to you in my attempt to think through that which has fixed in my mind after re-reading Aliens and Anorexia, and returning to I Love Dick also, ideas that are difficult to fix into writing. Many of the recurrent compulsions in your writing; female sexuality, putting theContinue reading “Dear Chris Kraus,”
Natalie Pullen 