Invitation to Species of Space seminar, Wednesday 12 May 2010

Susan Hapgood is Director of Exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI) and a fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York. Exhibitions and Web projects she has organized include Extension, FluxAttitudes, Neo-Dada: Redefining Art 1958–62, and Video Divertimento. She has also written for journals including Frieze and Art in America. Her recent exhibition, Slightly Unbalanced, showed internationally-known artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Tony Oursler and Cindy Sherman, and travelled in the USA and Canada. It was an exhibition of works by artists who have focused on neurosis of various kinds in their work, using themselves and the people around them as fodder for their investigations.

Elizabeth Hatz is an architect holding an AA Diploma/ SAR/MSA and is Professor of Architecture at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. She teaches also at SAUL School of Architecture, University of Limerick. As head of SAR (Swedish Association of Architects) from 1993-4, Hatz co-founded Fargfabriken, the internationally renowned scene for Art and Architecture in Stockholm and Östersund, in the north of Sweden. Her work was exhibited at Fargfabriken in 2004, at the Art&Science Festival in 2005 and at Lund Art Hall in 2006, with the AKAD event Beginnings. Performances include Dark Light – Architectural Wanderings, video performance at Lund City Hall at the Culture Night 1994 and at the symposium Form Follows Anything, Fargfabriken 1996. Hatz curated the exhibition The Dream Museum at the National Museum in Stockholm and designed the international exhibition Traces of Congo which toured the four Scandinavian capitals from the Etnographic Museum in Stockholm to the National Museum of Copenhagen 2002-2007. Her writings have been published in Sweden, UK and Ireland: for instance, Arkitektur, Tracings (Image of Interiority – Spatial Ambiguities, some reflections on space arising from the paintings of Wilhelm Hanmmershøi, 2003), Architecture Ireland 2008, 2009, des/Ire (Love Letter to the Island of Desire), Gandon Editions, Dublin 2008.

Dennis McNulty is an artist based in Dublin. His installation and sound performance work deals with the friction between the planned and the unplanned especially with respect to urban space. McNulty represented Ireland at the São Paulo Bienal in 2004 and returned in 2008 with the collaborative multidisciplinary project Weightless Days. He was awarded a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2005. Recent shows include, Nothing is Impossible at The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2010), Tulca, Galway (2009), Compendium at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2009), The sound I'm looking for, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (October 2008), Encuentro de Medellin, Medellin, Colombia (April 2007), Landscape 08, The Dock, Carrick On Shannon (July 2008), Your position as much as your environment, Model Arts and Niland Galleries, Sligo,(March 2007). Solo sh! ows include dx/dt at VOID (Derry, 2006) and framework/rupture at Green On Red, Dublin (February 2008), which was accompanied by the seminar AFTERTHOUGHTS. Curatorial projects include I think I remember at Temple Bar Gallery (2009), Underground, Dublin (June 2008), a collaboration with Peter Maybury and Volume at Temple Bar Galley & Studios (January 2009). He has also created soundtracks for the films Seaview (Still Films, 2008), Helen (Desperate Optimists, 2008) and Pyjama Girls (Still Films, 2010).

James Voorhies is Director of Bureau for Open Culture, a curatorial practice and exhibition-making programme for contemporary arts currently associated with Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to that he was deputy director at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. He has curated numerous exhibitions of international art, taught art history for Parsons The New School for Design, San Francisco Art Institute and worked in curatorial departments at the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Beginning fall 2010 he is visiting faculty at Bennington College in North Bennington, Vermont.

Panel of artists from OPEN/INVITED ev+a 2010 - Matters: Caoimhe Kilfeather, Marilyn Lennon, Peter Maybury and Myles Shelly www.eva.ie

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