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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Here's a lockdown inspired take on Bacon's famed triptych by an imagined alter-ego critiqued by the very real Benjamin Robinson. "Emerging from the rubble of lockdown, expunged of civility and absent any semblances of propriety or decency, the work is nonetheless possessed of an insouciant beauty."

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

"The work channels the cultural vacuity into which Ó Raghallaigh says we are being sucked, a death spiral intertwined, intimately and inexorably, with societal breakdown [and] environmental degradation ..." — Benjamin Robinson minorliteratures.com/2025/05/22/t...

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Three Studies for Figures at the Base of an Extinction Event (after Bacon) — Benjamin Robinson

Pádraig Ó Raghallaigh: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of an Extinction Event (after Bacon), 2023, digital photographic triptych, (moulded tissue paper) Pádraig Ó Raghallaigh’s 2023…

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“Unsurprisingly, this brash ignorance of an entire (sub-)domain of art triggered a cauldron of boiling responses from various critics…” – Laurence Counihan in his recent Circa text, ‘Introduction to «an_archaeology_of_the_future»‘ cmag.cc/20691 #VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland

We see a somewhat scribbled ‘mind map’, with words and phrases roughly inside rough circles and rectangles, etc. – phrases like ‘public art gallery’ and ‘This page included quotes quoted in Dyens’s article + not attributed to. As such!’, among much else – and the lot going by looping arrows, etc.; an amazing jumble; at the top of the jumble is ‘C is for…’ in textured cyan, and in the image itself ‘This is cyberspace. Do you still want to know where you are?’ bottom left, and then the image caption – ”This is cyberspace. Do you still want to know where you are?’ From CIRCA Issue 85, Autumn 1998, p. 30, accompanying the Daniel Jewesbury article ‘C is for…’

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Prioni juxtaposes the photographic approaches of René Castro and Manit Sriwanichpoom; photo-based, one looks to the (then) future, the other mocks the (then) present Content warning: some images are upsetting cmag.cc/20843

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The thesis of Amirahvelda Priyono’s new photo essay for Circa, commissioned by Brian Curtin, is straightforward: conflict is similar the world over; not denying the specifics of a struggle, art-related visual imagery is a powerful communicator Content warning: some images are upsetting cmag.cc/20843

Screengrab from the Home page of Circa website; the central image is taken from Priyono’s text; it depicts a deeply disturbing crowd scene, one with also features Manit Sriwanichpoom’s ‘Pink Man’

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"The blank page was the most complete the work could be…" Landers drew from a Circa column in 1999 by Michael Cunningham; while demonstrating the power of less, he also points to one very shocking image… circaartmagazine.net/issues/issue... #VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #CIRCA

CONTENT WARNING: Screengrab of Mick Cunningham’s column from 1999, ‘Information Underload’; embedded in the text is a smallish image, one taken just before the Omagh bomb exploded on 15 August 1998, killing 29 people, including the photographer; the RUC subsequently used the photo with the innocent people in it whited out

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

In Julie Landers‘ ‘Information Underload’, a new text / art project for Circa commissioned by Laurence Counihan, the artist reverse-engineers the ‘bloat’ of her nostalgia as she observes Cork mutate cmag.cc/20800 #VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA

Screengrab of part of the Landers contribution; we see four texts in a slightly wonky layout against a white background; the text read “Fragility Porosity Debris”, “Odlums Factory”, “Silos”, and “A punk, anarchist, vegan fermentation kitchen”; below the texts is an audio track, with a play button on the left, and the timer counter set to “00:00”.

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uɐʅ∀ (𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚖) @alanbutler.info · 10/04/2025

Hi peter. Yeah a lifetime ago. it wasn't the Biennale it was just a show at the museum... Maybe late 2007.... Can't for the life of me remember the work or context. The records on the website don't seem to go back that far.

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Michaële Cutaya @michaelecutaya.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Another exciting contribution to Travelling South an archive project edited by BrianCurtin for CIRCA Art Magazine. Irish feminist art history view from South-East Asia by Nurul Kaiyisah.

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Fascinating new ‘letter’ by Singapore-based Nurul Kaiyisah, in which she juxtaposes a former Ireland and a current South-east Asia. Part of the ‘Travelling South, in Theory’ series commission by Brian Curtin. circaartmagazine.net?p=20639 #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism

Screengrab from the Circa site, showing images from the Kaiyisah article – the shadow of a fiddle player in dark purple, and the first page of ‘Feminist Writings and Art Practice’, an article by Fionna Barber in Circa.

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

New online! An interview with Mike McCormack discussing his new novel, This Plague of Souls - just published by @tramppress.bsky.social. You can read the interview here: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

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An interview with Mike McCormack — TOLKA

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Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Was an absolute pleasure talking to Niamh McCann about her most recent exhibition, Hairline Crack [a dialogue], & her practice in general for @winterpapers.bsky.social 9.

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

If you're visiting Small Publishers Fair this Fri/Sat, here's a web page with links to a downloadable programme, details of the 80+ books that will be launched during the Fair, and a table plan for the artists and presses: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2...

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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 25/10/2023

Locals say the council should have done an ecological survey before cutting away vegetation in Balbriggan’s Mill Pond Park. The park is part of a planned “green corridor”, with landscaping, walk- and cycle-ways, a meadow and a managed wetland. dublininquirer.com/2...

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Locals say council should have done ecological survey before cutting away vegetation in Balbriggan’s Mill Pond Park - Dublin Inquirer

The park is part of a planned “green corridor”, with landscaping, walk- and cycle-ways, a meadow and a managed wetland.

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Today seems like the prime day for us to introduce ourselves here!👋 A bit about us: -Independent bookshop & art gallery in Galway, Ireland -Online at Kennys.ie -Free delivery in Ireland -International shipping from €2 per book -Thousands of books cheaper than Amazon -Thousands of books not on Amazon

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Manila-based Carlos Quijon, Jr was the first contributor to the Travelling South, In Theory CIRCA Project archive commissioned by Dr. Brian Curtin. Below Carlos introduces his intriguing project 'Errant Affinities: Ireland and Southeast Asia'. Image Suzanna Chan. circaartmagazine.net/carlos-quijo...

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Carlos Quijon, Jr.: Errant Affinities: Ireland and Southeast Asia

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Join us for Small Publishers Fair in London this Fri / Sat: 68 UK and international publishers, special exhibition, readings and talks. Fri 27 & Sat 28 Oct (11am-7pm) Fair, exhibition & talks all free Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube) bitly.ws/uHvm

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Archive Project Editor, Bangkok-based Dr. Brian Curtin presents Thái Hà's Did you mishear me misspeak? Prompted by a video installation by Susan MacWilliam, Hà is interested in a politics of mutation for the practices of interpretation and representation. circaartmagazine.net/thai-ha-did-...

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Thái Hà: Did you mishear me misspeak?

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CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

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Thái Hà: Did you mishear me misspeak?

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