Join us for an evening talk, as part of our public talks series 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.
‘Sweating Bullets’ with artist, writer, and educator Frank Wasser
Thursday 3 July, 6.30-7.30pm
Sweating Bullets is a performance-lecture by Frank Wasser, titled after Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint by PowerPoint creator Robert Gaskins. Building on Wasser’s ongoing research of the expanded lecture format, the presentation will take shape as an anthology of gestures performed through the artist’s body and a constellation of image and text. These gestures will act as conduits through which questions are raised about how contemporary institutions—particularly museums and universities—continue to sustain colonial violence, often in implicit ways embedded within their structures, designs, and modes of address.
Dr. Frank Wasser is an Irish artist, writer, and educator based in London and Vienna. His interdisciplinary practice spans performance, sculpture, writing, and lecture-based works, often exploring themes of class, colonialism, and the institutional structures that shape art education and display. Wasser’s work has been presented at institutions including Tate Modern, Jerwood Arts, Salzburger Kunstverein, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. He holds a BA in Painting, an MFA in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and he recently completed a DPhil in Fine Art at the University of Oxford. Wasser is currently an artist in residence at Tate Britain Library in collaboration with Askeaton Contemporary.
Free, book on Eventbrite or come on the day, subject to availability.
