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S E A S K I N

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Photographing variables ‘L E S E D I T I O N B R A U N & C. - P A R I S’

When recently I was looking at the theatre space in Culín, Dingle, Kerry with Rachel Holstead, arts administrator for our Gaeltacht ahead of an install, she pointed out boxes of books left by the late Daryl Broe in an adjacent corridor, hoping I might find a use for them, urging me to take some [what do we do with what is left behind]. Daryl had worked as a cameraman, reporter, editor among other things in the theatre space. He died last year at home alone, somewhat sadly; it was a number of days before someone found his body. And now some of his books lay waiting …many of which were art and politically related. One particular book grabbed my attention.

It was a small old, dog eared French book on ‘la Sculpture Grecque’ a volume of a collection of books on art ‘les maitres’. I was initially attracted to the rough matt printed pages, thick. I flicked through it and put in my car where it sat for a couple of weeks until one morning while waiting for my daughters at the Kerry School of music I picked it up and poured over the images of the figurative sculptures housed I might add in the various museums around the world, separated, fragmented, a colonial legacy; the various photographers forgotten. I liked how the type was set and how the photographs were framed and laid out by the picture editor and/or designer. Absentmindedly, instinctively and perhaps playfully I started folding the pages in on themselves. I was dividing the images in half vertically, presenting only half the image to juxtapose it to the next page and subsequent pages. I liked the accidental contrasts. It made me think about the original designer and their design decisions; the geometry of the images and how they proportionally suited the page. I began to think about the book and its modular accidents sculpturally, architecturally even, that it could be picked up by anyone, thumbed through, handled and played with. Each holder having a different experience.

The book acted as a book of possibilities; a modular sculptural collage.

Later, just before install, I would come across another of Daryl’s books, this time on Michelangelo , again its texture and image quality I loved. I purposely this time folded the pages in the same manner to present new possibilities. And also with the descriptive text on the left hand page, revealing a dadaist or situationalist type of text.

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F R A G M E N T S f r o m P a r i s

Projections, Interventions and Collaborations during my residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

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Current work and Touchstones as part of my artists residency at the Centre Culturel d’Irlandais, Paris.

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Andrew Duggan is an Irish artist whose lens based works, installations, performances and projects explore the intersections between body, myth and place and the modes of presentation in the public sphere.

His work is concerned with contested, constructed and imagined spaces and trace histories. At the heart of his work is the use of body, material and gesture as way of mediating these ideas.

His work is supported by Ealain na Gaeltachta/Arts Council of Ireland and Culture Ireland and has the support of The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, The Hugh Lane Gallery.

“Duggan walks the fine line between definitions.”-Karlyn De Jongh

Presenting work primarily in the public sphere, he selects spaces for their social, historical and architectural resonance. Working within the context of a defined space, Andrew chooses to collaborate with actors, dancers and participants to explore particular movements, scripts or actions creating new meanings and definitions between person and place.

“ Duggan [makes] subtle visual interventions at various points, either by writing with charcoal on various surfaces, such as the pavement, or by leaving some photographs accompanied by a word or two. ” -Vasilis Karamalegos

https://hellas.postsen.com/local/438886/The-Coastal-Paradox--Prolonged-wandering-in-the-port-of-Syros.html

He has created installations in handball alleys, war memorials, former quarantine outposts and disused creameries and created video pieces in previously used film locations and pre abandoned housing estates. His works feature the US Military, dance artists Jazmin Chiodi and Alex Iseli, Cindy Cummings, sports player Paul Galvin, actor Olwen Fouéré, composer Seán Ó Dálaigh, performance artist Hollie Miller and members the National Folk Theatre of Ireland.

Andrew Duggan has received numerous awards, was the first Irish artist to be awarded the prestigious Arts Council of Ireland's Location One Fellowship in New York City. Other residencies include Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and The Project Arts Centre, Dublin. His work has been selected to be part of the many Culture Ireland international programmes.

“ [Andrew Duggan’s] commissioned works often interrogate art housed in public institutions […] ”- Joanne Laws

“ Born in Cork and raised in Dublin, I live on the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland with photographer Siobhán Dempsey and our three children Oisín, Isolde and Jude. I see the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) as an outlier; a space in which I can push the boundaries of (my) art practice. ”

Andrew Duggan studied at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, under Jo Allen, at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin under Dorothy Cross and Willie Doherty and at the University of Ulster, Belfast under Moire McIvor.

#art #artists on tumblr #studio #andrew duggan #ireland #paul galvin #olwen fouéré #iselichodi #Hollie Miller #folk #national folk Theater #cindy Cummings #Dingle #Kerry #Culture Ireland #arts council of ireland #ealainnagaeltachta #Gaeltacht #Centre Culturel Irlandais #Paris #new york #eyeswalkfestival #Seán Ó Dálaigh #performance art

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A C T O N E

__________ __________

An empty street in a small southern town during the daytime.. Against a wall leans a long wooden stick. It is painted red at marked intervals of 25cm and 50cm. It also has some sports flooring tape at one end.

Next to it hangs a reproduction of Nicolas Poussin’s 1637–38 painting Et in Arcadia ego (also known as Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds). The painting depicts a pastoral scene with idealized shepherds from classical antiquity gathered around an austere tomb.

The shepherds’ staffs in the painting bear an uncanny resemblance to the long wooden stick in the street.

{Passers by in the street stop to examine the scene.}

PASSER BY no 1: [after looking at the reproduction, reading the text and looking back at the stick ]

whats that?

PASSER BY no 2: [mildly put out that they’ve stopped]

What’s what?

PASSER BY no 1: That! [pointing to the stick]

PASSER BY no 2: oh that!... [starting to leave]

That’s Two Meters.

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A R C A D I A I - III

“ Hath not the only love for her made us, being silly shepherds, raise up our thought above the ordinary level of the world, so as great clerks do not disdain our conference ” - Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. 16th century.

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‘Dall_Blind’ V + VI’, 2018

Sourced images on found matchboxes

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Fragmented body

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UNRAVEL_ROIS | 🇮🇪Announcing installation | performance @eyeswalk_festival , Syros, Greece 🇬🇷 / ‘unravel_rois will address the philosophical concept of Eros; exploring the potential of collective memory as a source of disobedience and revolt and point the way to an alternative narratives.’ / Dheineas as saothar sin i gcomhar leis an taibheoir Olwen Fouéré agus leis an ngrianghrafadóir Siobhán Dempsey ar Inis Oírr, an t-oileán is lú de na trí oileáin, le tacaíocht ó Ealaín na Gaeltachta and Áras Éanna i 2012 agus arís i 2015. / #unravel_rois #unravel_rois_Syros #EyesWalkFestival #bodymemory #architecturalmemory #CultureIreland #ealainnagaeltachta #ermoupolis #lazareta #culturalheritage #visitgreece / @ealainnagaeltachta @cultureireland @culture.heritage.gaeltacht @merrionstreet @udarasnag @forasnagaeilge @creativeireland (at Ermoúpoli) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JjDWUDWX7/?igshid=59j2vydml5ts

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‘XY RHOMBUS I, 2019. . . . . #masculine #feminine #masculinefeminine #XY #Rhombus #Durerssolid #Melencolia #hermesgodofborders #bordermarkings #mementomori #geometry #oblique #FragmentedBody #BodyGeometry #BodyArchitecture #Odalisque #MaleOdalisque #CourthouseStudios #photography #sculpture #PlasterofParis #Gypsum #WabiSabi #DisagreeableObject #tanktraps #photographasobject #bodygeography https://www.instagram.com/p/Btvx0Xvng9-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tqev4rj4xf3w

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FLUX video installation | photography | performance . . Dancers: Jazmin Chodi and Alex Iseli. @iselichiodi . Photography: Siobhán Dempsey @siobhansiphone Wardrobe: The National Folk Theatre @siamsa_tire First shown @nationalgalleryofireland Reference: @sirwilliamorpen / / / The main purpose of using the clothes from The National Folk Theatre was to see how the two performers [who weren't Irish] would interact with costumes which were, from an Irish perspective, loaded with folk baggage. I knew they would bring a new and fresh reading of the garments. … #dressing #undressing #instructions #FLUXafterWilliamOrpenstheHolyWell. #theNationalGalleryOfIreland #JazminChodi #AlexIseli. #IseliChodi #tipperarydanceplatform #Dance #Dancers #Folk #TheNationalFolkTheatreofIreland #Venusoftherags #Adonisoftherags #deconstructing #WilliamOrpen #theHolyWell #Connemara #romanticism #ireland https://www.instagram.com/p/BwKSTZBn6Xe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j2s9o58z29o7

#dressing #undressing #instructions #fluxafterwilliamorpenstheholywell #thenationalgalleryofireland #jazminchodi #alexiseli #iselichodi #tipperarydanceplatform #dance #dancers #folk #thenationalfolktheatreofireland #venusoftherags #adonisoftherags #deconstructing #williamorpen #theholywell #connemara #romanticism #ireland

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FLUX video installation | photography | performance . . Dancers: Jazmin Chodi and Alex Iseli. @iselichiodi . Photography: Siobhán Dempsey @siobhansiphone Wardrobe: The National Folk Theatre @siamsa_tire First shown @nationalgalleryofireland Reference: @sirwilliamorpen / / / I was originally incited to make this work when I saw my 6 yr old struggle with a jumper. I wasn't quite sure whether they were trying to take it off or put it on; the back and forth, nearly on or nearly off motion required a pressing result. I was captivated by its sense of urgency. Its an activity we all understand. Of course the action, when it enters the realm of art, is abstract enough to have a myriad of readings but at its core is a physical struggle; a daily effort. … #dressing #undressing #instructions #FLUXafterWilliamOrpenstheHolyWell. #theNationalGalleryOfIreland #JazminChodi #AlexIseli. #IseliChodi #tipperarydanceplatform #Dance #Dancers #Folk #TheNationalFolkTheatreofIreland #Venusoftherags #Adonisoftherags #deconstructing #WilliamOrpen #theHolyWell #Connemara #romanticism #ireland https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv4-6-_HO8_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=754ia59mwbdz

#dressing #undressing #instructions #fluxafterwilliamorpenstheholywell #thenationalgalleryofireland #jazminchodi #alexiseli #iselichodi #tipperarydanceplatform #dance #dancers #folk #thenationalfolktheatreofireland #venusoftherags #adonisoftherags #deconstructing #williamorpen #theholywell #connemara #romanticism #ireland

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The surface of a photograph, writes Graham Clarke in ‘the photograph’, is always flat . . . I beg to disagree. This is an exciting entry point for me to fracture, fragment the body... . ‘PRISM I’, 2018. . #masculinism #masculinefeminine #hermesgodofborders #bordermarkings #Rhombus #Prism #geometry #oblique #invertingthepatriarch #FragmentedBody #BodyGeometry #BodyArchitecture #MaleOdalisque #CourthouseStudios #photography #sculpture #DisagreeableObject #tanktraps #photographasobject https://www.instagram.com/p/BsETQugndGa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=f0l0kl2tnww3

#masculinism #masculinefeminine #hermesgodofborders #bordermarkings #rhombus #prism #geometry #oblique #invertingthepatriarch #fragmentedbody #bodygeometry #bodyarchitecture #maleodalisque #courthousestudios #photography #sculpture #disagreeableobject #tanktraps #photographasobject

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According to the art critic and painter John Berger, images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent. Gradually it became evident that an image could outlast what it represented. . . I’m drawn to the idea that the photograph represents an ‘absence’ of something elsewhere. The image of an explosion has far outlasted the destructive explosion itself. Appropriating the WWII image to create a geometric sculpture... . ‘PRISM III’, 2019 . #appropriation #absence #hole #void #cloudstudy #explosion #WWII #mementomori #Rhombus #Prism #geometry #oblique #JohnBerger #WaysOfSeeing #invertingthepatriarch #masculinism #masculinefeminine #hermesgodofborders #bordermarkings #CourthouseStudios #photography #sculpture #DisagreeableObject #tanktraps #photographasobject #photographassculpture https://www.instagram.com/p/BssoskDnDCH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sjx8yyza3lkz

#appropriation #absence #hole #void #cloudstudy #explosion #wwii #mementomori #rhombus #prism #geometry #oblique #johnberger #waysofseeing #invertingthepatriarch #masculinism #masculinefeminine #hermesgodofborders #bordermarkings #courthousestudios #photography #sculpture #disagreeableobject #tanktraps #photographasobject #photographassculpture

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‘Corp_Admadoireacht’, 2017. Photographs inserted into found school work book. ... This is a recent piece but I’m returning to a preoccupation from some 25 years ago... it seems now more pertinent to visually examine the fundamental definitions of masculinity. In order to create real change, the real inversion of patriarchal systems we {men} need to (re)examine definitions of masculinity. #masculinism #feminism #invertingthepatriarch #BodyGeometry #BodyArchitecture #FrancescaWoodman #IrishLanguage #Education #Schoolbooks #Pedagogy #CourthouseStudios (at Courthouse Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp9-QtQHXSx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jixdwfhmciq0

#masculinism #feminism #invertingthepatriarch #bodygeometry #bodyarchitecture #francescawoodman #irishlanguage #education #schoolbooks #pedagogy #courthousestudios