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IADT Lecturer Maeve Connolly launches her new book The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen
30-09-2009
Book Launch, Darklight Film Festival 2009 on Friday October 9th at 6.30pm
Darklight and the National Film School at IADT are delighted to co-host the launch of a new book by Maeve Connolly, entitled The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen. Published by Intellect and University of Chicago Press, the book explores the relationship between cinema and contemporary art over the past decade, extending from projected multi-screen narratives to site-specific films and sculptural installations exploring the architecture of the movie theatre. In addition to chapters dealing with theoretical frameworks and the marketplace, the book features illustrated, in-depth critical readings of recent works by twenty-four artists, including Gerard Byrne, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Willie Doherty, Isaac Julien, Jaki Irvine, Shirin Neshat and Anne Tallentire. The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen will be launched by filmmaker Joe Lawlor (desperate optimists).
Book Cover image: Tobias Putrih, Venetian, Atmospheric, 2007. Plywood, OSB plates, scaffolding, PVC curtain,16mm projectors, digital projectors. Installation on the Island of San Servolo for the 52nd Venice Biennale, Slovenian Pavilion.
Courtesy of the artist and Max Protetch Gallery, New York. Photograph by Michele Lamann.
Maeve Connolly is Lecturer in Film and Animation at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin. She co-edited The Glass Eye: Artists and Television (Project Press, 2000) and her writing on art and film has been published in Afterimage, Artforum, Art Monthly, boundary 2, CIRCA, Contemporary, Screen, Third Text and Variant.
Intellect is an academic publishing company based in Bristol whose focus lies in areas of creative media and popular culture. Please contact Sam King (sam@intellectbooks.com) for further info, or to request a review copy. The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen is stocked in the Bookshop at Project Arts Centre and can also be ordered online from www.intellectbooks.co.uk or Amazon.
Title: The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen
Author: Maeve Connolly
Publisher: Intellect
Date: May 2009
ISBN: 9781841502465
Paperback; 230 x 174 mm; 276 pages; 60 illustrations
Price: £19.95 / $40
Darklight Launch price: €20
