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Ciarán Walsh

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  1. Cuttings
  2. Irish Energy
  3. Here is Some Place Else
  4. Ribbon
  5. Rückkehr
  6. Cuttings II & III
  7. this was the source, you know
  8. The Wind on the Heath
  9. The Sickness
  10. Vortices
  11. Fragments of Unknown Teachings
  12. The Ghost of an Image
  13. A Time for Superlatives
  14. He Cried in a Whisper, at Some Image, at Some Vision
  15. The Reading Room
  16. It’s Just a Shadow Away
  17. Travelogue Art Zine
  18. Orgone Energy
  19. Iris Stream
  20. Sweet Futures
  21. Hedgeschool
  22. Forgotten Zine Archive
Ciarán Walsh

Highlights:

Irish Energy
(curatorial work)




Irish Energy was an exhibition of contemporary Irish artists in Berlin (Germany) in 2024 that departed from Joseph Beuys’ relationship to Ireland to touch upon topics of landscape, ecology, shamanism, magic and socio-political agency. I was involved in the initial curatorial work for the exhibition: including drawing up the conceptual framework, and identifying and inviting the artists, in partnership with co-curator Sheena Malone. Due to a clash of my own commitments, Malone went on to realise the final exhibition as sole curator.


Here is Some Place Else
(documentary video)




Here is Some Place Else is a short documentary-style video work made in 2023 that unfolds the social and personal narratives hidden in landscape. The video work uncovers the disappeared village of Tzschelln, demolished in the late 1970s to make way for a surface mine, and surveys the contemporary site, undertakes memory work with former inhabitants, and visits the storeroom of a historical museum, exploring along the way lost places, the idea of home, and the manifestations of memory.


The Reading Room
(curatorial work)




The Reading Room (2010-12) was a curatorial project that had the aim to maintain, archive and represent products of contemporary art practices evolving within printed and published formats. With over 75 artist’s publications and related projects, it established long-term reading rooms in Berlin & Birmingham, and numerous temporary manifestations elsewhere.