Maeve Connolly, Imagining the TV Studio: Experimental Histories and Futures

In recent years, the TV studio has figured prominently in contemporary art, whether used as a shooting location, repurposed as an exhibition space or restaged within the gallery, in works by Gerard Byrne, Celine Condorelli, Michelle Deignan and Olivia Plender, amongst others. Maeve Connolly​’s talk examines why and how the meaning of the TV studio has changed since the 1970s, addressing its initial importance as a space of imagined experimentation, in the work of artists such as Peter Donebauer, John Hoppy Hopkins, Otto Piene, Aldo Tambellini and Stan VanDerBeek, and also exploring its future as a potential context and setting for collaboration.

Maeve Connolly is a Dublin-based writer, lecturer and researcher whose work centres on concepts and forms of publicness in contemporary art, culture, and media.

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