Lecture by Anthony Haughey

Galleri Image and Aarhus Academy of Art are pleased to invite you to a lecture by
the Irish artist, photographer and researcher Anthony Haughey

Welcome to the lecture at Hovedbiblioteket of Aarhus, October 5 from 13.00-15.00

Citizenship and Contested Space: Dialogical Art Practice, Post Conflict and Migration

Anthony Haughey will discuss his work as a socially engaged artist, curator and writer. He is based in the Republic of Ireland and has been working on post-conflict situations over the last decade specifically in relation to Northern Ireland and the Balkans where the destruction and recovery of archives has been one of the features and legacies of conflict, as well as the displacement and forced migration of communities faced with unimaginable violence. His project, Disputed Territory includes a series of interventions using found photographs, and a sound/video installation piece, Resolution. For this work, Haughey focuses on the massacre at Srebrenica where an estimated 8000 Muslim men and boys 'disappeared' despite their being under the protection of the UN. Haughey worked directly with members of the International Centre for Missing Persons in Bosnia to produce the video piece and soundscape using researched testimonies from individuals who survived near death experiences during the conflict in Bosnia and Kosovo. He has received several awards for this series.
For more recent work he uses relational and dialogical aesthetics to explore new identity formations, citizenship, migration and contested spaces in Ireland and Europe. Often working collaboratively with other artists and filmmakers alongside asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers. This has resulted in video installations, art interventions, television broadcasts, and performances such as How to be a Model Citizen (2009) with the Global Migration Research Network - a diverse group of migrants who have worked with the artist for more than four-years.
Selected exhibitions in the last two years include, Encounter: Dublin, Lisbon, Hong Kong and Seoul at the Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Disputed Territory, Novosibirsk International Photography Festival, Novosibirsk Museum, Siberia, and Singapore International Photography Festival. Prehistory of the Crisis ll, Project Arts Centre, Dublin and Class of 73', an installation, at Gallerie Arena, Les Rencontres d'Arles. In 2010 he exhibited a participatory video, Guest, at Crawford Gallery, Cork, and he has been invited to produce a video projection in an industrial harbour in Galway, Ireland for the arts festival, TULCA 2010, where he will launch a new artist's book. He was a guest curator for Ireland's inaugural Festival of Photography, where he produced the exhibition and publication, Fragments From a Broken World in the National Photographic Archive, Dublin
Anthony Haughey is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Media at the Dublin Institute of Technology and at the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice (http://www.ctmp.ie where he is a PhD supervisor. He recently completed a three-year research fellowship at the Interface Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design at the University of Ulster, Belfast where he completed his own PhD. Chapter contributions include, 'Imaging the Unimaginable' in Projecting Migrations, Transcultural Documentary Practice (2007) eds. Grossman & O'Brien, pub. Wallflower Press and 'Dislocations: Participatory Media with Refugees in Ireland and Malta' in eds. Skartveit & Goodnow, Changes in Museum Practice, New Media, Refugees and Participation (2010). pub. Berghahn. He is an editorial advisor for the photographic journal Photographies published by Routledge.
He recently began working on a project with the curatorial collective Kuratorisk Aktion (DK).
www.anthonyhaughey.com (site currently being reconstructed) http://www.ctmp.ie/staff_detail.php?id=181

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