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Open Discussion: From Process to Practice

Thursday 21 January 2010, 5.00pm, Lecture Room, IMMA. 

As the retrospective of  works by Lynda Benglis draw to a close (24 January 2010), Benglis’s preoccupation with the theme of process throughout her iconic practice of poured sculptures and video from the 1960s to present is used as the impetus to revisits notions of process, materiality and permanency within current artistic production. Chairperson Valerie Connor invites artists, Alibhe Murphy, Tina O Connell and Sam Jury (Artists' Residency Prgramme) to reflect upon the trend of process lead methodologies on a subsequent generation of contemporary art practitioners whose work ranges from object based to  inter- disciplinary in approach. Other panelist to be confirmed.

Biographical Information

Valerie Connor was the commissioner and curator for Ireland's national participation at the 50th Venice Biennale of Art and 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo. She is an adviser to The Arts Council of Ireland and serves on the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. As Visual Arts Director at Project Arts Centre throughout the redevelopment of the building, she programmed projects off-site and for the new gallery, moving into independent curatorial work in collaboration with other producers, artists and local authorities. She has written an op-ed column for Contemporary magazine and has had criticism published in academic anthologies, art periodicals and exhibition catalogues. She exhibited with the artist group Blue Funk and now lectures in photography at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Ailbhe Murphy is an artist and co-founder with sociologist Ciaran Symth, of Vagabond Reviews, an interdisciplinary platform committed to developing forms of critical inquiry and creative practice .She has worked extensively in community development contexts in Dublin. She has a particular interest in collaborative community based practice in the context of urban regeneration and in 2003 developed Tower Songs, a cross city collaborative project which engages with a number of communities in Dublin undergoing profound changes in their architectural, social and cultural landscape via major regeneration initiatives

Tina O’Connell is an Irish artist living and working in London. She studied fine art in the late eighties at Limerick and Chelsea before taking another postgraduate degree in Marseilles. Following a Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture at Winchester, she completed residencies at;La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseilles, 18 St.Arts Complex, Los Angeles and IMMA, Ireland. O Connell’s solo exhibitions include; Templebar Gallery, Dublin, Belltable Gallery, Limerick, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Kunstbunka, Germany, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK, College des Irelandais, Paris, Limerick City Gallery and The Jerwood Gallery, London. She has worked on a number of high profile commissions, and has received many awards, from the Lorne Slade School.

Sam Jury completed a Fellowship at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2002 and has lived and worked in both the USA and Middle East. She is now based in the UK. Recent shows include Art After Dark at the Louise Blouin Institute, London, and Invisible Rays at the Rose Museum, USA. A work from her video series Forever is Never was acquired by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, USA, and will be shown in the museum’s installation space during spring 2010.