Illuminism

  • Category

    Writing & Publications

  • Year

    2018

  • Type

    Exhibition Text

  • Artist

    Jennifer Walshe

  • Location

    The Model, Sligo, IE.

The Model presents an ambitious and multi-faceted gallery project combining visual art, literature, film, performance and music, which will see renowned composer and artist Jennifer Walshe working both as curator and creator of Aisteach; the Avant-Garde Archive of Ireland. Aisteach (www.aisteach.org) is an archive of fictional histories that documents the development of experimental ideas and methods in Irish art, music, and literature.

The project, which marks the first major exhibition of Walshe’s dynamic and multi-disciplinary practice in a public museum, will feature films, scores, sound installations, drawings and paintings by Walshe and her distinguished cast of collaborators including Alice Maher, Vivienne Dick, Kevin Barry, Vicky Langan, Danny McCarthy, Mark Garry, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Pádraic E. Moore, Jack Fennell, Electronic Sheep and more.

For this exhibition Pádraic E. Moore collaborated with distinctive repetition to produce a A0 text/poster entitled Illuminism an excerpt of which is visible below: