Our Second lecture takes place on Monday, March 31st at 7pm in T1.16.
Tracy Fahey from Limerick School of Art and Design will speak on her work with Memory project and it promises to be a really interesting insight into memory projects within fine art practice.
Forgetting to
Remember: Making Folk Memory Projects in Limerick and Louth
The talk focuses specifically on two projects currently
under way through Tracy Fahey’s fine art collective Gothicise, an open,
collaborative, multidisciplinary network that investigates sites and stories
that are concerned with otherness, the uncanny and sometimes the downright strange
(www.gothicise.weebly.com)
In this talk she will analyse Remembering Wildgoose Lodge, a Louth-based project investigating
individual, family and community memories of a traumatic historical event, and
the different modes of investigation and enquiry guided by this work. There is
also a presentation of a second project now in its genesis that relates
directly to Limerick’s folklore and culture. Titled Waking St. Munchin, this project deals with the alleged city-curse of
Limerick and is being carried out in conjunction with Open House Limerick, Dr.
Niamh Nic Gabhann from the MA in Festive Arts programme in UL and postgraduate
researcher in folklore and fine art, Marian Sheehan. Audience participation and contributions are
warmly welcomed!
The analysis of both of these projects deals with the role
of memory projects within fine art practice, and in particular the different
methodologies employed in social engagement and community negotiation. It also
looks at the wider value of folk memory in constituting community identity and
culture.
Tracy Fahey (bio)
Tracy Fahey is Head of Department in Fine Art and Head of
Centre of Postgraduate Studies in Limerick School of Art and Design. She has
previously worked as Head of Department of Humanities, IT Carlow and Head of
Faculty of Design, Griffith College Dublin. She currently sits on the Board of
the Hunt Museum (2012) and the Limerick Printmakers (2012).
Her main area of research is the Gothic, specifically
Irish Gothic and the Gothic nature of domestic space. She has delivered papers on the Gothic at
conferences in University of Aarhus, Denmark, University of Stirling,
University of Cardiff, University of Northampton, Trinity and All Saints
College, Leeds. In the last year she has
given papers at the Studies in Gothic Fiction conference in San Diego, the
International Gothic Association conference in University of Guildford and the
Art and Geography conference in NUIG.
She is a founder member of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia
(2013) and the Irish Network for Gothic Scholars (2013). In 2013 she both established the LSAD
research centre ACADEmy (Art, Curatorial, Applied Design & Education
research centre) and together with Prof.Donna Lee Brien (Central Queensland
University, Australia) founded CAIRN,
the Creative Australasian Irish Research Network (2013). Her short stories have been published in
several anthologies; Impossible Spaces (2013), Hauntings (2014), Girl at the
End of the World (2014) and Darkest Minds (2014). Currently she is working with Dr. Maria
Beville of Mary Immaculate College on the organisation of a Limerick
conference, Locating the Gothic (forthcoming, October 2014)
In 2010 she founded the Limerick-based collaborative
gothic art practice, Gothicise,(www.gothicise.weebly.com)
who have produced ghostwalk/ghosttalk (2010), The Double Life of Catherine
Street (2011) and A Haunting (2011) and are currently working on two memory
projects, Remembering Wildgoose Lodge (2013 - present) and Waking St. Munchin
(2014).
