Art That Mattered # 2.
2023
Jane Clarke - A Change in the Air - 2023
Tolka 2022/2023
Rachel Cusk - A spy - on seeing without been seen - Harper's Magazine - 2023
Nick Laird - Up Late - 2023
Jesse Darling - Turner Prize Winner - 2023
Billy Collins - Aimless Love - 2013
Victoria Chang - Obit -2020
Joe Dunthorne - O positive – 2019
2022
Kerri Ní Dochartaigh - Thin Places (2021)
Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These (2020)
Sally Rooney - Beautiful World Where Are You (2021)
Geoff Dyer - The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (2022)
Victoria Kennefick - Eat Or We Both Starve (2021)
Don Paterson - Arctic (2022)
Grace Dyas - A Mary Magdalene Experience. Rua Red (2022)
Darragh Mc Loughlin - Stories of Falling Objects. Áras Éanna (2022)
Atlanta - Donald Glover. (2016 - 2022)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Director - Martin Ritt, (1965)
2021
Áine Mc Bride – Mother’s Tankstation Limited and Douglas Hyde Gallery.
Hiwa K – Hugh Lane Gallery.
Checkout 19 - Claire Louise Bennett (2021)
The Second Place – Rachel Cusk (2021)
Constellations: Reflections From Life – Sinéad Gleeson (2019)
Jakob Von Gunten - Robert Walser (1909)
About Endlessness Roy Andersson (2019)
I was at home but… Angela Schanelec (2019)
Party Scene (Reflections on a Chemsex Crisis) Choreographer Philip Connaughton and
writer/director Phillip McMahon, THISISPOPBABY, Cork Midsummer Festival 15 June.
The Approach – Mark O’ Rowe, Landmark Productions in association with Project Arts Centre and St. Ann's Warehouse, 23 January.
Mental Health & Art
People keep on asking me: when am I going to list all the art and artists that have helped keep me sane? In light of the new Level 5 restrictions and the renewed concern for people's mental health, I cast my mind over the past when art has proved to be a positive intervention. True, it's no 'bleach on the lung' but it provides some help.
So here's a list:
Some of the art and artists that have helped preserve some mental health.
1. How I Got Over - Mahalia Jackson. The back and white grainy version on Youtube.
2. Samuel Beckett- From an Abandoned Work. Sitting in the Galway Library, opened a book at random and started reading. Lifted me right out of the dark.
3. Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slave. I read this and I stopped gambling for 6 months. The book has nothing to do with gambling.
4. John Clare - I Am
5. Donal Dineen - No Disco. During the self-isolating teenage years.
6. Lola Gonzalez – Able and Elio. Temple Bar Gallery.2018.
7. Richard Maxwell and New York City Players.
8. Francis Alys. IMMA. 2010.
9. Rachel Cusk, Maggie Nelson, Deborah Levy, Penelope Fitzgerald.
10. Lars Laumann at Galway Arts Centre. 2009.
11. Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, Catch by The Cure, ‘a catch in the breath…’
12. Geoff Dyer, Ben Lerner, Ismail Kadare.
13. Paul Celan - Assisi
14. Rosanna Cade. Walking: Holding. 2013.
15. Paul Muldoon.
16. Dublin Contemporary 2011, - Doug Fishbone- Elmina, Jonathan Grossmalerman etc
17. Anne Briggs
18. Anocha Suwichakornpon – By the Time it Gets Dark. 2016.
19. Artur Zmijewski, Blindly. 2010. *****
20. Ozu, Hou-Hsiao-Hsien, Hong Sang soo.
