WE ARE INSISTING
BALLOT BOX, VINYL LETTERING, 02:30 MIN CONTINUOUS AUDIO LOOP.
WE ARE INSISTING ANNOUNCES ‘FORCED TO LEAVE IRELAND, YOU KNOW YOURSELF’ AT INTERVALS OF 2.5 MINUTES, THE DURATION REFERENCING TO THE TWO AND A HALF DECADES SINCE THE LAST ABORTION REFERENDUM IN IRELAND. THE WORK IS INSPIRED BY THE TRIP TAKEN BY TWO ANONYMOUS WOMEN WHO TRAVELLED TO BRITAIN IN AUGUST 2016 FOR AN ABORTION. LIVE TWEETING THEIR JOURNEY, THE WOMEN DIRECTED EACH TWEET TO TAOICEACH ENDA KENNY. ‘FORCED TO LEAVE IRELAND’ IS ONE OF THE TWEETS FROM TWO WOMEN TRAVEL ON THEIR 48 HOUR JOURNEY AWAY FROM HOME.
2017, ATTITUDE PRECEDES FORM, THE LIBRARY PROJECT, CURATED BY HILARY MURRAY, DUBLIN.
ARTISTS: ELLA BERTILSSON & ULLA JUSKE, CHLOE BRENAN. JANINE DAVIDSON, EMMA FINUCANE, RACHEL FALLON & ELEANOR PHILLIPS, ANJA MAHLER, SADBH O'BRIEN, ALISON PILKINGTON AND LEE WELCH.
PRESS RELEASE
Curator Hillary Murray.
ATTITUDE PRECEDES FORM, A MEMBER'S EXHIBITION FROM THE BLACK CHURCH PRINT STUDIO, SHOWCASES THE REMARKABLE WORK BEING PRODUCED BY BLACK CHURCH PRINT STUDIO TODAY. THE EXHIBITION PREMIERES NEW WORK BY MEMBERS OF THE STUDIO, RESPONDING TO THE CURATORIAL QUESTIONS: WHAT ARE OUR GOALS FOR WOMEN IN IRELAND TODAY? AND WHAT CHALLENGES DO WE NOW FACE?
FEATURING PROJECTION, SOUND ART, PUBLICATION, PRINT AND PERFORMANCE WE BELIEVE THIS EXHIBITION WILL EXTEND INTO THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUS AND SERVE AS A POINT OF DISCUSSION LONG AFTER IT CLOSES.
ATTITUDE PRECEDES FORM IS CURATED BY DR. HILARY MURRAY FOR BLACK CHURCH PRINT STUDIO, AND FEATURES WORKS BY ELLA BERTILSSON & ULLA JUSKE, CHLOE BRENAN. JANINE DAVIDSON, EMMA FINUCANE, RACHEL FALLON & ELEANOR PHILLIPS, ANJA MAHLER, SADBH O'BRIEN, ALISON PILKINGTON AND LEE WELCH.
EXHIBITION IS SUPPORTED BY DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL AND THE ARTS COUNCIL.