e v+ a 2007 — a sense of place

curator: Klaus Ottmann (Germany / USA)

ISBN 978 0946846 917    176 pages (paperback)   24x17cm   250 illus   artist index 

incl. CD of audio artworks

• features 32 Irish and international artists • colour illus, artist’s statement and short biog for each artist • curator’s essay by Klaus Ottmann – “A sense of place” • afterword by Paul M O’Reilly – “Discerning emotions as expressed and aroused” • CD of audio artworks 

EXTRACT

"For art to be experienced or observed, it has to be emplaced, put in place, however temporarily. An national exhibition with an international character such as e v+ a, which is rooted deeply in one place, one history and one culture, yet embraces the right to diversity within its borders, must inevitably focus on the dialectic of emplacement and displacement. The Irish poet Séamus Heaney speaks of the ‘two often contradictory demands’ under which Irish poets labour: ‘To be faithful to the collective historical experience and to be true to the recognitions of the emerging self.’ According to Heaney, the two ways in which a place is known – one is the lived and illiterate; the other, learned and literate – co-exist ‘in a conscious and unconscious tension’ in the artistic sensibility. For three months the city of Limerick will be the limit and the condition of all the art and related events, where the artistic sensibilities of those at home and those displaced will co-exist in conscious and unconscious tension."

— Klaus Ottman

 FEATURED ARTISTS
2-4-page spread per artist (incl colour illus, artist’s statement, biography)

Enrique Martínez Celaya (usa) / Patrick Corcoran (ireland) / Shelley Corcoran (ireland) / David Dunne (ireland) / Melissa Earley (ireland) / Barry Foley (ireland) / Eric Glavin (canada) / Tony Gunning (ireland) / Amy Hauft (usa) / Ashley Holmes (usa) / Ronnie Hughes (ireland) / Eithna Joyce (ireland) / Jesper Just (denmark) / Orla Keeshan (ireland) / Joanne Lefrak (usa) / Miriam Lohan (ireland) / Seán Lynch (ireland) / Anthony McCall (usa) / Conor McGarrigle (ireland) / Margot McLean (usa) / Vanessa Marsh (ireland) / Marie-Louise O’Dwyer (ireland) / Eamon O’Kane (ireland) / Alix Pearlstein (usa) / Christopher Reid (ireland) / Andrei Roiter (russia) / (usa/holland) / Aura Rosenberg (usa) / Matthew Schenning (usa) / Wolfgang Staehle (usa/germany) / Siobhán Tattan (ireland) / Thorns Ltd (norway) / Suzannah Vaughan (ireland)