Not exact matches
How to Flatten a Mountain is an exciting 12 days residency opportunity presented by PhotoIreland Foundation & Cow House Studios, and with the support of OPW, open to emerging and mid-career visual artists whose artistic
practice in whole or
part, makes use of digital and / or analogue
photographic processes.
Taking the form of drawings,
photographic series and video installations, his work consistently invokes the use of systems as generative
part of the artist's
practice, investigating the relationships between aesthetic experience, political beliefs and the formation of meaning.
Of course, a good
part of the artist's wideranging, amiable
practice lends itself very neatly to reproduction, from the transient «One - Minute Sculptures,» 1988 - 97, that brought his work to the attention of a wider public beginning in the late 1980s to his more recent
photographic «instructions» for being idle or politically incorrect.
But despite his
photographic practice constituting an important and lifelong
part of his work it has so far been largely overlooked.
Bracketed chronologically by Rosler's well - known photo - text work The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974/75) and her highly influential essay In, around and afterthoughts (on documentary photography)(1981), this series takes its place alongside Rosler's photographs of airports, roads, shop windows, and public transportation as
part of a career - long
photographic practice.
Another
part of the fair is Photo50, which provides a critical forum for examining some of the most distinctive elements of current
photographic practice, Photography Focus Day that takes place at the Fair on Wednesday 21 January, the Art Projects Film Programme, live performances as well as an extensive program of talks, tours and critical debates.
Forming
part of the collection's ongoing projects showcasing contemporary photography and video art from Africa, the show focuses on how African photographers are engaging with revolutionary and current
photographic practices to respond to ideas and understandings of African diaspora.