Invisible Knowledge

Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick St Mon-Sat 10am-6pm Until Mar 2 galwayartscentre.ie

Born in Derrymore, Co Clare, Áine Phillips is one of a relatively small band of contemporary Irish artists who have shown a consistent commitment to performance in both live and recorded work. Remarkable for the intensity of feeling she brings to her practice, Phillips has explored in particular the iconography of femininity as it relates to the realities of experience within inherited structures that determine political, religious and gender identities. Helena Walsh has noted that Phillips sets about “subverting the ceremonies of Catholic Irish culture. Through her performance she speaks of desire and overcoming entrapment.”

Invisible Knowledge surveys her collaborative works over the past few years with artists in Ireland, the UK and Europe, among them Alex Chase White (whose The Lost Runway is above). It coincides with a documentary publication.

There is also a seminar on artistic collaboration – dauntingly titled “All Collaborators will be Shot!” – today from 10am to 5pm at Muscailt, Áras Na Mac Léinn Building, NUI Galway. AIDAN DUNNE

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