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HAIKU REVIEW: Still (the) Barbarians

Remembered only For the early catalogue In Irish. Plus app.       EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial:  Still (the) Barbarians Pio Abad, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Kader Attia, Kostas Bassanos, Eric Baudelaire, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Tiffany Chung, Criodhna Costello,  Jonathan Cummins, Godfried Donkor, Samuel Erenberg, Theo Eshetu, Mary Evans, Tom Flanagan and Megs Morley, Liam Gillick, Yong Sun Gullach, Carsten Höller, Dorothy Hunter, Jeremy Hutchison, Joanna Hutton, Alfredo Jaar, Michael Joo, Journal Rappé, Kapwani Kiwanga, Abdoulaye Konaté, Syowia Kyambi, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Leung Chi Wo, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Alice Maher, Bradley McCallum, Naeem Mohaiemen, Pádraic E. Moore, Otobong Nkanga, Uriel Orlow, Ulrike Ottinger, Alan Phelan, Johannes Phokela, Sarah… Read More »

Haiku Review: GOBO

Haiku Review: GOBOby Ella de BurcaArtBox, Dublin6 February – 14 March 2015 Haiku review by Fujimoto Ryouji Through windows unhingedStacked sculpture, on screen, blindedPeru and Casement

Haiku Review: Tree Works

Haiku Review: Tree Worksby Nigel CookeThe Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin31 May – 17 July 2013 By Fujimoto Ryouji Heads and blobs and streaks…(’bout time something big was shown) And small scenes ground them.

Haiku Review: This Situation

Haiku Review: This Situationby Tino SehgalIrish Museum of Modern Art, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin12 April – 19 May 2013 
By Fujimoto Ryouji “Wwwwweeeelcome” audience.Or actors? The stage is inquestion. Meta-script.

Haiku Review: Tentamen

Haiku Review: Tentamen Lucy Andrews, Alan Butler, Joseph Coveney, Niall de Buitléar, David Eager Maher, Aoibheann Greenan, and John O’Connell 13 North Great Georges Street, Dublin 25 – 27 October 2012 By Fujimoto Ryouji Talent from Dublin got together and made a haunted house of sorts

Haiku Review: Becoming

Haiku Review: Becoming Alice Maher Irish Museum of Modern Art, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 6 October 2012 – 3 February 2013 By Fujimoto Ryouji Innocent  bodies, dreamlike, she directs nature with haunting appeal

Haiku Review: Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V

Haiku Review: Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V By Anthony Antonellis. Curated by Nora O’ Murchú Steambox, Dublin 17 August – 1 September 2012 By Fujimoto Ryouji   Net ‘new aesthetic’ Pinwheel of Death: reified Turrell in the back

Haiku Review: Dogs

Haiku Review: Dogs  Adrian McGrath, Ben Reilly, Bridget O’Gorman, Cassie Kirby, Christian Jankowski, Isabel Nolan, Magnhild Opdøl, Michael Beirne, Michael Durand, Rachael Corcoran, TINKEBELL and Vanessa Donoso-Lopez. Curated by Rachael Corcoran Ormston House, Limerick 4th – 26th May 2012 By Akiko Tochikura ‘Twas a real dog show… Not a looker in the bunch. Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.

Haiku Review: entrance, entrance

Haiku Review: entrance, entrance Alan Butler, Gabriele Beveridge, Juliette Bonneviot, Mick Peter, and Peles Empire (Katharina Stoever and Barbara Wolff).  Curated by Isobel Harbison Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin 13 April – 02 June 2012 By Fujimoto Ryouji A wall by Xerox frames confounding art, includes wood occupy dog.

Haiku Review: A MacGuffin and Some Other Things

Haiku Review:  A MacGuffin and Some Other Things Lucy Andrews, Işıl Eğrikavuk, David Hall, Alice Rekab, and Judith Scott.  Curated by Vaari Claffey Project Arts Centre, Dublin 12 April–16 June 2012 By Fujimoto Ryouji Massive upturned tent Below: monitors, headphones Hanging things above

Haiku Review: The Horse Show

Haiku Review: The Horse Show Robert Armstrong, Katherine Boucher Beug, John Byrne, David Chancellor, Peter Curling, Conor Fallon, Anita Groener, Tim Flach, Maïder Fortuné, Nevan Lahart, Paddy Lennon, Nick Miller, Janet Mullarney, Perry Ogden, Michael Quane RHA, Simon Reilly, Dermot Seymour, Max Streicher and Hazel Walker Galleries II and III, Royal Hibernian Academy 13 January – 25 March 2012 By Fujimoto Ryouji Contemporary equine public engagement… It actually works.