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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. He Cried in a Whisper, at Some Image, at Some Vision
  14. The Reading Room
  15. It’s Just a Shadow Away
  16. Travelogue Art Zine
  17. Orgone Energy
  18. Iris Stream
  19. Sweet Futures
  20. Hedge School
  21. Forgotten Zine Archive
Ciarán Walsh
The Sickness, Book One
2017
Novella, 120 pages, digital offset print, paperback




First commissioned by curator ︎︎︎Elisa Rusca for the group exhibition Into the Mu at Kunsthalle Bratislava, the work utilises the format of paperback science-fiction so as to examine ideas of information control, memory and mourning, performed identity, and the materiality of bodies. The dystopian narrative of the book involves a mysterious global pandemic in a near-future scenario. A starting point in the conception of the novella was a story about the American actor Karl Malden including his original Serbian name (Sekulovich) in many of his productions. The Sickness, Book One was designed and published by ︎︎︎TFGC Publishing (Düsseldorf). This work is in the permanent ︎︎︎‘Book Lovers’ collection at MuHKA, Antwerp. In 2022 I participated in an online reading of two sections of the novella at the event ︎︎︎Reading Artist’s Books, organised by Regine Ehleiter.

Copies of the novella are still available.
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This work was produced with financial support from Carlow County Council’s Individual Arts Act Grant and Kunsthalle Bratislava.