Join us for an evening talk, as part of a series of talks in tandem with the exhibition Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: The Dream Pool Intervals; programmed with curator Sara Muthi.
These Thursday evening talks and performance-lectures feature artists working at the intersections of critical research, performance and experimental writing, whose practices explore how bodies, histories, and images are shaped by the structures—both visible and invisible—that surround them.
‘Structures of Clothing’ with artist Joseph Noonan Ganley
Thursday 19 June, 6.30-7.30pm
Responding to the facades of clothing in Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s exhibition, Noonan-Ganley will discuss a range of clothes from his artworks and the structures by which they are inhabited. The talk will feature clothes of the medieval christian heretics the Cathars, clothes made by the English-American couturier Charles James (1906-1978), as well as those of radical Austrian designer Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985) exploring how they are experienced through museum archives, fashion magazines, photography, film, sexuality, and science fiction.
Free, book on Eventbrite or come on the day, subject to availability.
Joseph Noonan-Ganley is an Irish artist from Co. Clare. His videos, sculpture, photography, textiles, and writing explore how identity is collaboratively made by openly manipulating the leftover material from other people’s work and experience. His video installation Our Bed—about the making of improvised beds after the infamous 1972 plane crash in the Andes—was exhibited at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, and shortlisted for the CIRCA Prize, in 2023. The Cesspool of Rapture, 2017—revealing zips as methods of composition through the dresses and words of English-American couturier Charles James (1906-1978)—was included in GAZE film festival at the Irish Film Institute, Dublin, 2023. A collection of his writing, The Cesspool of Rapture, Artist’s Texts 2012-2024 was published by Ma Bibliothèque in 2024.
Free, book on Eventbrite or come along on the evening, space is limited.
