CIRCA 125 CONTEMPORARY VISUAL CULTURE IN IRELAND AUTUMN 2008 | ¤7.50 £5 US$12 | ISSN 0263-9475 c . ISSN 0263-9475 Contemporary visual culture in circa Ireland ____________________________ ____________________________ 2 Editor Subscriptions Peter FitzGerald For our subscription rates please see bookmark, or visit Administration/ Advertising www.recirca.com where you can Barbara Knezevic subscribe online. ____________________________ Board Circa is concerned with visual Graham Gosling (Chair), Mark culture. We welcome comment, Garry, Georgina Jackson, Isabel proposals and written Nolan, John Nolan, Hugh contributions. Please contact Mulholland, Brian Redmond the editor for more details, or consult our website ____________________________ www.recirca.com Opinions Contributing editors expressed in this magazine Brian Kennedy, Luke Gibbons are those of the authors, not ____________________________ necessarily those of the Board. Assistants Circa is an equal-opportunities Gemma Carroll, Sarah O’Brien, employer. Copyright © Circa Madeline Meehan, Kasia Murphy, 2008 Amanda Dyson, Simone Crowley ____________________________ ____________________________ Contacts Designed/produced by Circa Peter Maybury 43 / 44 Temple Bar www.softsleeper.com Dublin 2 Ireland Printed by W & G Baird Ltd, tel / fax (+353 1) 679 7388 Belfast
[email protected] www.recirca.com Printed on 115gsm + 250gsm Arctic the Matt ____________________________ ____________________________ c ____________________________ ____________________________ CIRCA 125 AUTUMN 2008 3 Editorial 26 | Letters 28 | Update 30 | Features 32 | Reviews 66 | Project 107 | (front cover) Ben Craig degree-show installation 2008 courtesy the artist Culture night 2008 c . Circa video screening Circa screens the selected videos from the open submission Curated by Lee Welch, artist and co-director of Four Gallery, Dublin, videos will be shown in the Atrium of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin on 19 September 2008.