The Yeatsian Legacy:
Talks Series 2010 at IT Sligo
Understanding Cultural Difference
PHIL COLLINS
Hatest Grits
**Please Note Change of Time and Date**
Tuesday 23 March, 2010. 11.45am
IT Sligo, Room A0005 (opposite main reception). Free Admission.
Relating to performance-based and conceptual approaches to video and photography, the art of Phil Collins investigates the nuances of social relations in various locations and global communities. Collins employs elements of popular culture, and sometimes operates within forms of low-budget television and reportage-style documentary to address the camera as an instrument of both truth and deception. In recent years he has worked in places such as Baghdad, Belgrade, Bogotá, Jakarta, and Kosovo, repeatedly underlining the unpredictable transferences that occur between the producer, the participant, and the viewer.
Phil Collins is an artist based in Glasgow and Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Tramway, Glasgow (2009), Aspen Art Museum (2008), Dallas Museum of Art (2007), Tate Britain, London (2006), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006), sala rekalde, Bilbao (2006) and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (2006). Recent group exhibitions include The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2009), Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2009), Life On Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2008), Double Agent, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2008), and Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London (2006).
Curated by Ronnie Hughes
Talks Series 2010 details: (071) 9111826 www.sligoarts.ie/peaceIII
The Yeatsian Legacy Project is delivered by Sligo Arts Service, IT Sligo and partners. The project is supported by the PEACE III Programme, managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by Sligo County Council on behalf of Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee.
