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Systems Failure
No full textSystems Failure
A solo exhibition of new work by Anna Macleod developed in conversation with curator Liz Burns.
The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Co Leitrim. Ireland. 12th February – 17th April 2010.
The works for the exhibition Systems Failure include drawings, prints and small constructions that examine the delicate balance that exists between need and aspects of failure rooted in the relationship between humanity and land use. The work seeks to question the relationship between scientific and technological interventions into eco systems and the alienation of the individual from the environmental consequences of climate change.
Water is the emotive tool used here to explore the fragile ecologies between source and consumption.
The exhibition was accompanied by a text by Fiona Fullam, ‘Failure of Systems’ available for download from www.annamacleod.comhttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/fagallery/1004/thumbnail.jp
Patents in History: Studies in the Patterns and Institutions of Technological Change and Transfer Four-year project financed by the British Academy (2003-2006). Project Leader: Professor Ian Inkster, University of Nottingham Overseas partner leader: Dott. Anna Guagnini, Università di Bologna
No full textMeetings already held:
“Patents in History”, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, London, 11-13 September 2003,
“Biography and prosopography of patentees. An international study circa 1500-1900”, Second Workshop of British Academy Network, Bologna, 20-22 settembre 2004
“Inventing Patents, 1400-1900”, Session of the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Amsterdam, 7-10 October 2004. Convenors: Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna) and Christine MacLeod (University of Bristol); Chairman: Ian Inksters (University of Nottingham)
“The role of patents in technology transfer (1500-1900), Third Workshop of The British Academy Network, CSIC
Madrid, 19-22 September 200
Antoinette’s Story : An Introduction to an Early Child Development Model of Care and Post-natal Home Visiting Scenario
No full textMacLeod, Anna & Betker, Claire (2012). Antoinette’s Story: An introduction to an early child development model of care and post-natal home visiting scenario. Vancouver: Human Early Learning Partnership with the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
An Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
No full textAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Selection of work by Anna Gerber
No full textVarious journals and magazines Anna Gerber has contributed to. Anna Gerber is a graphic designer and writer based in London.
She is the author and designer of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics (Laurence King, 2004) and co-editor and co-designer
of Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006) with Anja Lutz. She writes regularily for magazines such as Print, Eye, Creative Review, Varoom and Idea Magazine and her work has also been published in shift!, dot dot dot and +rosebud.
She teaches at the London College of Communication on the BA Graphic Design and MA Design Writing Criticism programmes. She has also held workshops and lectures across the U.K. (including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum), as well as in India, the U.S., Australia and Malaysia.
Anna Gerber is currently engaged in research and developing projects relating to sustainability and how it applies to graphic
design as well as exploring contemporary graphic design in India
Water Conversations: Pearls of Rain, Mongolia
No full textWater Conversations: Pearls of Rain. Mongolia 2012
LAM 360º – 2nd Land Art Mongolia Biennial curated by Anna Brietzke, Orna Tsultem, Fumio Nanjo
Locations: Ikh Gazriin Chuluu (Dundgobi) (45°29\u2733.24 N, 107°13\u2728.50 E) and National Mongolian Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbataar, Mongolia.
Participation in LAM 360º was funded through a Travel and Training Award in Visual Arts from The Arts Council, Ireland.
The project ‘Pearls of Rain’ takes as its starting point survival techniques of water gathering in arid landscapes.
Using three systems of water collection the process based work attempted to ‘mine’ water from the desert environment. At a sacred site within the desert landscape I constructed a mobile structure that operated variously as a sculpture, as a site for discussion and exchange about the importance of water and as an object of redemption in the water stressed environment. Dew gathering failed in the dry atmosphere of the desert, rainwater harvesting was a slightly more successful collection system following some evening rain and seven solar stills yielded three litres of water. A solar powered fountain placed within the rainwater harvester mobile structure brought the sound of water to the desert environment.
The solar stills were dug in the formation of the ‘Plough’ of the Ursa Major constellation, the largest constellation in the northern hemisphere and a navigational tool for nomadic herders.
In conversation with a nomadic herder Batsuuri at his summer grazing location in Gurvansaikhan country I learned that his migratory route is defined by water and grass. In recent years one local spring has disappeared as a result of mining activity in the region. Batsuuri thinks this way of life is too risky and he doesn’t want his children to continue the traditional nomadic lifestyle.
Image credit: Anna Macleod.
‘Pearls of Rain’ is an edition of WATER CONVERSATIONS, a long-term visual art research project that initiates local discussions, interviews, and exchanges on the politics, traditions and practices surrounding water use in a variety of global regions. Articulated as a series of actions, small sculptures, posters, drawings, public interventions and site specific works the project explores the complex interstices between landscape, science and technology, culture and geopolitics.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/fagallery/1000/thumbnail.jp
Building a Commons; Methods of Repair in Sensitive Regions
No full text‘Building a Commons’ methods of repair in sensitive regions.
Anatomy of Integration. Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2012 Latvia
Location: Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia, 5th October – 27th November 2012
Curated by Aigars Bikše, Ivars Drulle, Inese Baranovska
‘Building a Commons’ methods of repair in sensitive regions explores conflict management in Northern Ireland through an interview with a community activist Barney Devine who has worked in interface areas of Northern Ireland since 1980’s.
Anna Macleod has positioned this interview within a series of glass engravings made during the peace talks in Northern Ireland that led up to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement in 1998. The Good Friday Agreement set out a framework for the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly with cross community voting and a power-sharing executive. The glass engravings are adapted drawings from old medical texts that describe surgical methods of repair and healing.
In the interview, Barney Devine talks about the slow and gruelling process of building relations between community groups who do not recognise each others legitimacy, have different and multiple understandings of identity, history, culture and language, the historical background to the conflict in Northern Ireland and how, following decades of intercommunity violence activists such as he attempt to deal with the deep post conflict traumas that resonate in communities in Northern Ireland.
In the European context, can anything be learned from the post conflict process in Northern Ireland?
With thanks to Barney Devine for sharing his knowledge and expertise on Northern Ireland and to Padraig Cunningham for camera and editing.
For more images and information on this work including a transcript of the interview, please see www.annamacleod.com.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/fagallery/1003/thumbnail.jp
Water Conversations: Paani Bachao, India 2010
No full textWater Conversations: Paani Bachao! (Save Water!) India 2010
A collaborative project by artists Anna Macleod (Irl) and Carol Hummel (USA)
Locations: Shimla, Jammu, Srinagar, New Delhi and Jaipur, India, 2010.
Paani Bachao! (save water) is an ongoing project that posits a ubiquitous poster image into public spaces in varying global locations to examine attitudes to water as an element for life.
Initially inspired by a ‘conserve water’ image produced by Dublin City Council in Jan/Feb 2010 shown on LED screens on the major traffic arteries into Dublin City, the Paani Bachao! poster image seeks to explore the agency of an image operating in public spaces across diverse communities and provide a locus for transcultural discursive exchange about an essential global question. Water becomes an emotive tool to discuss personal histories and innovative ideas associated with the element of water.
The public interventions of the Paani Bachao poster are continually reconfigured and informed by the specifics of the location be it an academic forum, public street, water pumping station or artisan colony.
The image for the Panni Bachao! poster was drawn by Orissan artist Kshitish Dass.
Paani Bachao! project was part of Art Karavan International, 2010, an international visual art project initiated by Inder Salim of Peripherals, a Delhi based Arts Organisation. Participation in Art Karavan International was funded through a Travel and Training Award in Visual Arts from the Arts Council of Ireland.
‘Paani Bachao!’ is an edition of WATER CONVERSATIONS, a long-term visual art research project that initiates local discussions, interviews, and exchanges on the politics, traditions and practices surrounding water use in a variety of global regions. Articulated as a series of actions, small sculptures, posters, drawings, public interventions and site specific works the project explores the complex interstices between landscape, science and technology, culture and geopolitics.
For more images and information www.annamacleod.comhttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/fagallery/1001/thumbnail.jp
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