Brian Duggan in conversation with Francis McKee, Draiocht, May 2011
To celebrate the screening of Brian Duggan's 'the Measure' in Draíocht this week we are pleased to announce a Special Screening Evening Event, on Wednesday 11th May, 7pm, Draíocht Studio, with artist Brian Duggan & Francis McKee in conversation.
O'MACHINE O'MACHINE is the resolution of a per cent for art commission for Fingal County Council. Artist Brian Duggan has created a two part project for this commission, the first part is a 96 page pocket publication of new fiction, titled 'Three thousand and nine', which features new work by selected Fingal writers, the artist, and includes an afterword by the director of the CCA, Glasgow, Francis McKee. The second part is a digital film 'the Measure'. For this film, Duggan has mapped a curious journey through Fingal, citing E.M. Forster`s 1909 short novella ‘The Machine Stops’ as a guiding text to develop a way of re-looking and re-thinking the landscape and the physical changes that have occurred in the county.
For further information about Brian Duggan and his work, please take a look at his website here: http://www.brianduggan.net/omachine.html
Tickets for the Special Screening are free but limited, please contact Caroline Cowley, Public Art Co-ordinator, The Arts Office, Fingal County Council, Swords, email: caroline.cowley@fingalcoco.ie / ph: 01-8708449.
Francis McKee is a tutor and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art, working on the development of open source ideologies. From 2005 to 2008 he was also curator of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art.
He has curated many exhibitions including This Peaceful War, The Jumex Collection for the first Glasgow International in 2005; Zenomap (together with Kay Pallister), the presentation of new work from Scotland for the Venice Biennale in 2003; and he was one of the curators invited to contribute in Lyon Biennale 2007. Previously, Francis worked as a historian of medicine for the Wellcome Trust and as Head of Programme at CCA.
For the past fifteen years he has written extensively on the work of artists such as Christine Borland, Willie Docherty, Ross Sinclair, Douglas Gordon, Matthew Barney, Simon Starling, Catherine Yass, Joao Penalva, Kathy Prendergast and Pipilotti Rist. A recent collection of essays has been published and he was one of seven writers to collaborate on a sci-fi novel entitled Philip. Selections of his writing are also available on his website www.francismckee.com
