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URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/residency-exhibition-maitiu-mac-cartha
 igh-at-triskel-sample-project-space
SUMMARY:Residency & Exhibition | Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh at Triskel Sample P
 roject Space
DESCRIPTION:Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh is a visual artist\, researcher and MTU 
 Crawford Graduate. Their current research grows from their connection to r
 ural queer existence in Ireland. This project examines (de)colonial queer 
 loneliness / identity performativity in contemporary culture and how it is
  informed by our history. Over the last forty years\, we have seen a rapid
  shift in queer positionality in Ireland arriving at a point of queerness 
 being synonymous with words like “new” and “radical”. With this pr
 oject\, Maitiú looks back at Irish history and questions how colonial occ
 upation and persistent Roman Catholic hegemony has purged\, burned and shi
 pped off so many queer stories and histories. How can you fully know your 
 identity when you are denied its lineage and how is heteronormative cultur
 e able to utilise this against us? This research fits into the wider conte
 xt of their practice which looks at mechanisms of group assimilation\, sel
 f-annihilation\, and ascension within isolated queer\, white and Irish com
 munities. Maitiú’s work is formalised through bio-installation\, print\
 , sound and video.\n\nSince completing their MA in Artistic Research in 20
 23\, they have been awarded a residency in Casino Display (LUX)\, been sho
 rtlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards 2023 and selected to exhibit as pa
 rt of “Person\, Presence\, Perception”\, an all island of Ireland trav
 elling exhibition with the OPW and NI Department of Finance. Recently\, th
 ey presented their work as a part of Radio Solstice in Cork Midsummer Fest
 ival 2024 and have been awarded the Agility Award 2024.\n\nThis residency 
 and subsequent solo exhibition will build upon the artist’s current focu
 s on rural queerness and agricultural processes in Ireland. During this re
 sidency\, they will focus on the history and effects of loneliness on rura
 l queer experience and how it is connected to ideas of sterility\, communi
 ty monoculturalism\, homogeneity\, White guilt and queer assimilation into
  dominant heteronormative culture. This work is an extension of Maitiú’
 s research into Irish agri-policy and how it is informed by the histories 
 of colonisation\, globalisation and western superiority.\n\nThis project a
 ims to reclaim queer Irish presence and identity performativity through th
 e voice and tradition of na coainte (nomative plural of coaineadh). Growin
 g from their existing material practice\, there are three elements to this
  research. The first is an ongoing research publication commissioned by Ba
 d Penny Publishing (Den Haag\, NL). As material research for this\, Maiti
 ú is continuing exploration of bioplastics made with lubricant and workin
 g with Dr. Declan Tuite to create a queer motet or polyvocal monastic chor
 al piece.\n\nThe residency will coincide with the Cork Pride Festival.\n\n
 Triskel Sample Project Space is a new partnership between Triskel and Samp
 le-Studios that will provide a visual arts project space for artists\, esp
 ecially emerging and mid-career artists\, to test ideas and to develop new
  work that can be seen by the public. This offers tangible career developm
 ent and audience engagement opportunities to artists on their ‘home turf
 ’ where they have a safe space to develop new ideas\, within which risk-
 taking is possible.
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Munster - Cork
LOCATION:Triskel Arts Centre\, Tobin Street\, Off South Main Street\, Cork\
 , Cork\, T12WYYO\, Ireland
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