Breathing Factory - New work by Mark Curran in Chicago

 

A project by Mark Curran (IADT lecturer) is presented as a solo installation in the Main Gallery of the DePaul Chicago

 

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14th, 5-7 PM Show continues until March 19th, 2010.

 

In 2005, the Republic of Ireland was defined as the 'most globalised economy in the world' (IDA 2006) with full employment. In 2010, the prognosis is for close to 15% unemployment.

 

THE BREATHING FACTORY critically addresses the role and representation of labour and global labour practices in Ireland's newly industrialised landscape as manifest in manufacturing and technology. Global industrial practices are characterised by ‘fleeting alliances’ (O’Riain 2000); transient spaces as capital moves when and as required. In such an ephemeral and global context, the project focuses specifically upon the Hewlett-Packard Manufacturing and Technology Campus, part of a cluster formation of multinational technology complexes, in Leixlip in the east of Ireland. Following nine months of negotiation regarding access and completed over a 20 month period, the work is the result of a practice-led doctoral research project incorporating ethnographic practices in its undertaking. 

 

The installation includes photographs, text-based work, digital video projection, artefactual and sound archival material in its full presentation.

THE BREATHING FACTORY (2006) published by Edition Braus, Heidelberg with the support of Belfast Exposed Photography, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Gallery of Photography, Dublin.

 

 

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Mark Curran (b. 1964) is and artist and educator who lives and works in Berlin and Dublin. He is an Associate Lecturer in Photography at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire (IADT-DL) and a PhD Candidate through the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, DIT.