Staff Directory
Connolly, Dr. Maeve
Department:
Film and Media / Art and Design
School / Functional Area:
School of Creative Arts
Job Title:
Lecturer in Film and Animation
Contact Telephone Number:
+353 (0) 1 2394927
Email Address:
Maeve (dot) connolly (at) iadt (dot) ie
Academic Qualifications:
PhD, (DCU, 2004)
MA Film and Television Studies (DCU,1998)
BFA (NCAD, 1992)
Member, Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art/International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Area of Expertise:
Artists' film, video and television; site-specific art practice
Currently Teaching:
MA in Visual Arts Practices (www.mavis.ie)
BA in Visual Arts Practices
BA in Visual Arts Practices (ACCS)
Research Interests/Activities:
Artists' film, video and television; site-specific art practice
Professional Practice Interests:
Publications:
Publications:
Books (author) The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen, Bristol: Intellect and Chicago University Press, 2009).
(co-editor) The Glass Eye: Artists and Television, eds. Maeve Connolly and Orla Ryan, (Dublin: Project Press, 2000)
Selected Articles
- (Exhibition Review) Haroon Mirza, ‘Anthemoessa’, Mother’s Tankstation, MAP Issue 22, Summer 2010: 82.
- (Exhibition review) Katie Holten, Hugh Lane Gallery, Artforum, April 2010: 207-208.
- 'A Question Like A Loop', If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution Edition III Masquerade, Magazine 5: Sarah Pierce, Amsterdam: If I Can't Dance, 2010: 5-13.
- (Exhibition review) Fergus Feehily, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Artforum, January 2010, 213.
- (Essay)‘An Alternative Archive: Vivienne Dick and the Future of Irish Cinema’, Between Truth and Fiction: The Films of Vivienne Dick, ed. Treasa O’Brien, London: LUX and The Crawford Art Gallery, 2009: 70-77.
- (Exhibition review) Garrett Phelan, Mother’s Tankstation, Artforum, September 2009, 304-305.
- ‘The Material, The Immaterial, The Shining: Maeve Connolly and Anita Di Bianco in Conversation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art’, in Anita Di Bianco, Ghostwriter, Braunchsweig: Kunstverein Braunchsweig, 2009, 30-35.
- (Exhibition Review), James Coleman, Artforum (summer 2009), 349.
- (Exhibition Review) Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, Project Arts Centre, Artforum March 2009: 254-255.
- (Exhibition Review) "Getting Even: Oppositions + Dialogues in Contemporary Art", Art Monthly 323, February 2009: 22-23.
- (Exhibition Review), Ulla von Brandenburg, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artforum, December 2008: 313.
- Looking Backwards into the Future: Steadicam Cinematography, Narrative Space and Urban Regeneration', The Irish Review 39.1, Winter 2008: 78-92.
- ‘Of Other Worlds: Nature and the Supernatural in the Moving Image Installations of Jaki Irvine’, Screen 49. 2 (Summer 2008): 203-208.
- ‘Emporium of the Senses: Spectatorship and Aesthetics at the 26th São Paulo Bienal’, Third Text 19.4 (July 2005): 399-409.
- ‘The Doubled Space of Willie Doherty’s Re-Run’, Filmwaves 23 (Winter 2004): 8-10.
- ‘Sighting an Irish Avant-garde in the intersection of Local and International Film Cultures’, boundary 2: International Journal of Literature and Culture 31,1 (Spring 2004): 244-265.
Book Chapters :
- ‘A bit of a traveller in everybody: Traveller Identities in Irish and American Culture’, The Irish In Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture, ed. Diane Negra (Duke University Press, 2006) 282 – 317.
- ‘Theorising Irish Animation: Heritage, Enterprise and Critical Practice’ Film History and National Cinema, eds. John Hill and Kevin Rockett (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005) 79-89.
- ‘From No Wave to National Cinema: The Cultural Landscape of Vivienne Dick’s Early Films (1978-1985)’ National Cinema and Beyond, eds. Kevin Rockett and John Hill (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004) 61-76. Selected Catalogue Essays
- ‘Inside the Lighthouse’, House Projects: Artworks, Documents, Analysis, ed. Gavin Murphy (Dublin: House Projects and Atelier Projects, 2008): 61-66.
- ‘Imaginary Spaces, Activist Practices’ in Liz Burns, Jesse Jones et al, 12 Angry Films, (Dublin: Fire Station Artists’ Studios, 2007) 17-23.
- ‘Parallel Worlds: Contemporary Irish Film Cultures’, Alabama Chrome, ed. John Hutchinson (Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2006)




