Postgraduate Performance Studies Department
University of Sydney | friday seminar series | May 1st 2009
with responses by Dr. Paul Dwyer, Chair, School of Letters, Art and Media (restorative justice) and A/Prof Dr Gay McAuley (politics of place & remembering/forgetting in cultural memory)
The future of The Irish Linen Memorial, as commemorative ritual & site-based work.
Linen Memorial Presentation
The Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath’s annual End-of-Year Work-in-Progress seminar, Launceston | 27 November, 2009
The objective: the broad areas of colonial and postcolonial studies about current research project, and to hear responses and suggestions; to gather together unexpected synergies. My Linen Memorial presentation was in the Tamar Valley Centre Room of the Albert Hall. For more information about the Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath (CAIA) research group, please see colonial.arts.utas.edu.au
Cross Cultural Research Centre 2006: Pain, State Violence, Death
Australian National University | 2006
Joint presentation with composer Dr. Thomas Fitzgerald and weaver Monique van Nieuwland
Conference convenor: Carolyn Strange
Contemporary Installation Art from Ireland/Northern Ireland
La Trobe University, Melbourne | 15th Irish Australian Conference | 2007
Irish Studies and Irish History conference
Conference convenor: Dr Jennifer Ridden
Abstract
Contemporary Installation Art from Ireland/Northern Ireland is a methodology by which contemporary practice-led researchers (Visual and Creative Artists) convey socio-political ideas and / or historical research concepts to other academics, scholars and / or a general public audience / readership.
My presentation describes The Linen Memorial as it re-narrates the last 40 years of the Northern Ireland sectarian conflict and commemorates all those killed (dead). Then I describe this artwork – memorial – counter monument / anti monument as it is situated in context with other postmodern art from places emerging from postcolonial conflict. For example, I will discuss the work of other artists to provide a context, such as Doris Salcedo (Colombia, b. 1958; lives part-time in NYC, U.S.A) who commemorates victims of kidnapping and violence in her home country.
Irish Studies and Irish History Conference
Canberra Historical Society
Shamrock-in-the-Bush, Text and Textiles in N. Ireland post colonial Art about Death and Trauma 2005 & The Ryan Tower House as Folly 2007.
Groves Conference on Marriage, the Family and the Community, USA.
Keynote Speaker, Linen Hall Library, Belfast, Northern Ireland | 2008
International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, USA | 2006
Panel presentation with Prof. Dr. Gloria Orenstein.
Cross-Cultural Research conference, Visual Crossings
Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia | 2005
Painter Narelle Jubelin: Needlework from ‘mere to middle’
Conference Convenor Dr. S Kleinert
The Space Between: Fashion, Design, Art of Textiles & Textiles Technology
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia | 2004
Keynote Speaker: Friends of Ireland / Northern Ireland Club Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; accompanying performance by Mirramu Dance Company and Solo Performance with partial memorial installation and panel discussion with Choreographer. 2004
University of Wollongong postgraduate seminar: Creative Arts
Wollongong, NSW, Australia | 2003
University of Wollongong postgraduate seminar: Arts department
The Institute for Social Change and Critical Inquiry, NSW, Australia | 2002
Ecological Arts conference
University of Washington, Washington, USA | 1998
Panel with Cheryl Hahn, independent Curator, and Ann Rosenthal, Artist-Lecturer.
Ecology, Science and Art conference
University of Oregon, Oregon, USA | 1995
Dr. Carolyn Merchant, convenor.
Artist Panel on Environmental Change
University of British Columbia, B.C., Canada | 1994