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Artists Biographies

Gareth Kennedy is an artist from Galway who has produced public art projects and exhibitions nationally and internationally often assembling a diverse constellation of participants around the production and performance of exploratory new material cultures.Gareth was Ireland’s representative at Venice in 2009.

Sean Taylor studied Fine Art at Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland Awarded an MA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in Belfast, and a Postgraduate Scholarship from The Kunstenacademie, Rotterdam, Holland. Worked with American composer Pauline Oliveros and awarded a Deep Listening Certificate from the Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, New York, USA. Currently undertaking a PhD entitled: Acouscenic Listening; towards the development of a Sonically Engaged Collaborative Sound Art Practice. Sean is currently Joint Programme leader MA In Social Practice & the Creative Environment and lecturer in the Sculpture & Combined Media Department at Limerick School of Art & Design.

Fiona Hallinan and Kate Strain are both based in Dublin. Hallinan is the creator of a number of collaborative projects such as Heterodyne, iterations of which have taken place in Paris, Istanbul, and Wicklow; The Hare, an artist run temporary café at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin;Concrete Tiki, a series of site-specific food events at the Irish Museum of Modern Art; and HOMESTAY, hospitality project for Science Gallery, Dublin. Her artwork has been shown at Kerlin Gallery, IMMA, Mother's Tankstation and Brown University. Strain is researching performativity in visual arts practice. Curatorial projects include On Curating Histories, generative lecture series (2015); The Man Who Sat On Himself, group exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2015); The Centre For Dying On Stage #2, public lecture for ‘Performance as Process’ Residency at Delfina Foundation, London, (2015); and Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? group exhibition, at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (2014). Strain also makes up one half of the paired curatorial practice RGKSKSRG.

Dr. Maeve Connolly is a writer and researcher with a focus on changing cultures and economies of art and media practice. Her publications include TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television (2014) and The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (2009), both published by Intellect and University of Chicago Press, and The Glass Eye: Artists and Television, co-edited with Orla Ryan (Project Press, 2000). She has contributed to magazines and journals such as Afterall, Artforum, Art Monthly, Frieze, Journal of Curatorial Studies, MIRAJ, Mousse and Screen, and curated screening programmes for Darklight Film Festival, the Irish Film Institute, Project Arts Centre, LUX, and Tate Modern (forthcoming, September 2014). She lectures at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin, where she co-directs the masters programmes in Visual Arts Practices and Art Research Collaboration.