HANKY DAY: RECENT VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND
A one day symposium presenting interdisciplinary approaches to the visual representation of the conflict in Northern Ireland on the occasion of Amanda Dunsmore’s solo show Keeper.
Saturday 26 November 2005
Faculty of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
In 1972, on Bloody Sunday in Derry, thirteen people were killed by the British Army during what had originally been a peaceful protest. As people tried to help the dying they were themselves fired on and killed. The image of Father Edward Daly holding aloft a white handkerchief as he tried to bring the seventeen year old Jackie Duddy to safety has become one of the most pervasive icons of over thirty years of conflict. Hanky Day brings together artists, filmmakers and critical commentators who have made a significant contribution to the recent representation of political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Speakers include:
Graham Dawson, cultural historian, University of Brighton. He is currently completing a book on cultural memory, the Irish Troubles and the peace process for Manchester University Press, and has published several articles on this theme.
Rita Duffy, visual artist, Belfast, whose work since 1988 has been closely engaged with issues of political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Amanda Dunsmore, visual artist, Limerick. Her work explores concepts linked to social & historical issues using installation, photography, sound and video.
Margo Harkin, filmmaker, Derry. Her current projects include a feature documentary on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and she is also co-developing a drama on the 1980-81 Hunger Strikes in Long Kesh Prison.
Cahal McLaughlin, Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, is a documentary filmmaker whose work has been shown on C4, BBC and RTE. His current research is on recording testimonies from political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Louise Purbrick, History of Art and Design, University of Brighton, and author of 'The Architecture of Containment' in Donovan Wylie, The Maze, Granta, 2004.
The symposium will take place on Saturday 26 November 2005 between 1.30 and 6.00pm in the Performance Space, Grosvenor Building, Faculty of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University. This will be followed by an opening reception for Amanda Dunsmore’s exhibition Keeper at the John Holden Gallery.
Tickets: £20 / £5 students
To reserve a place or for further details please contact Fionna Barber, [log in to unmask] , School of Art and Design History, Manchester Metropolitan University, Righton Building, Cavendish St, Manchester M15 6BG
EXHIBITION:
AMANDA DUNSMORE: KEEPER, John Holden Gallery, Grosvenor Building, MMU, 28 November – 16 December.
Amanda Dunsmore’s recent work draws on the archive of material collected by the artist during a residency at HMP Long Kesh / The Maze during the late 1990s. A central work in this exhibition, Billy’s Museum, documents a secret collection of confiscated objects assembled over many years by Billy Hull, a long-serving warder at the prison. Dunsmore’s film is the only record of the collection which has now been destroyed.
Keeper has also been shown at Triskel Art Gallery, Cork as part of the Visual Arts Program of the European City of Culture 2005 and at the Mus*e Internationale de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge in Geneva.
Further details of Keeper and Amanda Dunsmore’s work can be found at http://www.lit.ie/dunsmore/longk/keepermain.htm
Fionna Barber
Senior Lecturer in History of Art
School of Art and Design History
Manchester Metropolitan University
Righton Building
Cavendish St
Manchester
M15 6BG
0161 247 1943
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