Tina Kinsella

Dublin, Ireland Email: [email protected] Web: https://ncad.academia.edu/TinaKinsella/https://tinakinsella.wordpress.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-tina-kinsella/21/4b9/131

Teaching & Research Profile

Investigating the relationship between art practice, process and theory, my research institutes conversations between Psychoanalytic Theory, Philosophy, Affect Theory and Gender Theory to explore the intersection of subjectivity, aesthetics, ethics and politics in contemporary Visual Culture, Art Practice and Performance.

I am a lecturer and thesis supervisor for the M.Phil Gender and Women‟s Studies, Centre for Gender and Women‟s Studies, TCD, MA Sexuality Studies, DCU, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD and School of Creative Arts, DIT. In addition I am a Visiting lecturer on the MA Art Process, Crawford College of Art, Cork.

Education

October 2009- PhD Visual Culture January 2013 Funded by an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Research Scholarship National College of Art and Design, Dublin/Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) (Awarded by National University of Ireland) External Examiner: Professor Griselda Pollock (Director of Research/Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds). Title: „Bracha L. Ettinger‟s Matrixial Theory and Aesthetics: Matrixial Flesh and the Jouissance of Non-Life-in- Life‟ This doctoral research placed Ettinger‟s Matrixial Theory and art practice in conversation with Maurice Merleau- Ponty‟s ontology of flesh and Jacques Lacan‟s Other Jouissance to develop two key concepts: Matrixial Flesh and Jouissance of Non-Life in Life which were advanced as critical contributions to the ethico-aesthetic ontology of the embodied subject.

October 2007- M.Phil Gender and Women’s Studies September 2008 Centre for Gender and Women‟s Studies, Trinity College Dublin Thesis Supervisor: Catherine Marshall, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Thesis Title: „Aosdána and the Female Visual Artist‟ (Awarded First)

1990-1991 MA Greek Drama University of Nottingham, UK

1987-1990 BA (Hons) Classics and Philosophy University of Nottingham, UK

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Employment

2014-Present Lecturer in Sexuality Studies MA Sexuality Studies, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies/School of Nursing, Dublin City University Modules: „Theoretical Perspectives in Sexuality Studies‟, „Doing Sexuality Studies Research‟ Thesis Supervision

2014-Present Lecturer in Critical Theory School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology Modules: „Vision and Spectacle‟; „Psychology of Space‟; „Design Now‟; „What is the Topic?‟; „Whose History?‟ Co-taught „Thesis Preparation‟ Thesis Supervision

2013-Present Lecturer in Gender Studies M.Phil Gender and Women‟s Studies, Centre for Gender and Women‟s Studies, Trinity College Dublin Modules: „Gender Theory‟; „Gender, Identity, Art‟; „Research Methodologies‟; „Thesis Preparation‟ Thesis Supervision

2013-Present Lecturer in Irish Cultural Studies School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin Modules: „Introduction to Irish Cultural Studies: Irish Visual Culture‟

2011-Present Lecturer in Visual Culture School of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin Modules: „Gender and Identity in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture‟; „Embodiment and Practice: Affect, Gesture, Performance‟; „Practice and Process: Embodiment, Gesture, Affect‟; „Visualising Space in Contemporary Culture‟; „Contemporary Philosophies of Art and Design‟; „Philosophy Now!‟

Visiting/Invited Faculty

June 2015 Faculty Member International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), Post Conference Training/Summer School, Dublin City University Workshops on Sexualities, Gender, Art and Identity One week post conference training for graduate and postgraduate students following the IASSCS conference on „Literacies and Sexualities in Cultural, Fictional, Real, and Virtual Worlds: Past, Present, Future Perfect?‟

May 2015 Faculty Member Economy and Society Summer School, Blackwater Castle, Castletownroche, Co. Cork Organised by University College Cork and Waterford Institute of Technology Workshops on Libidinal Economies Interdisciplinary summer school designed to develop theoretical and empirical research skills of doctoral students/early stage researchers.

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2015 Visiting Lecturer MA programme in Department of Foreign Languages Université de Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria Study Days on psychoanalytic theory, cultural and visual studies

2013-Present Visiting Lecturer MA Art Process Crawford College of Art, Cork Studio Based Study Days on embodiment, feminism, gender and queer theory, psychoanalysis, affect theory and art practice

Previous Employment

2013-2014 Lecturer in Women’s Studies Women‟s Studies Outreach Programme, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin Module: „Visual Culture and Masculinities‟

2013 Panel Member Central Queensland University, Australia School of Creative and Performing Arts Member of panel assessing Ph.D student for candidature review

2013 Lecturer in Education School of Education, Dublin City University Module: „Developing a Research Perspective: Methods and Methodologies‟

2013 Tutor School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin Module: „Studies in Modernism‟

Postgraduate Thesis Supervision

Andrew Flynn, „A Theoretical Discourse Analysis of Medico-Legal Regulation of Ex-Gay Identities in the USA‟, M.Phil Gender and Women‟s Studies, Centre for Gender and Women‟s Studies, TCD, co-supervised with Dr. Catherine Lawless (Awarded First with Distinction) Rachel Barry, „An Investigation of Male Teacher Participation in Relationship and Sexuality Education in Irish Post-Primary Schools‟, MA Sexuality Studies, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies/School of Nursing, DCU (In Progress) Una Finegan, „An Exploration into the Social Construction of Sexual Consent Among University Students in Ireland‟, MA Sexuality Studies, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies/School of Nursing, DCU (In Progress) Hollie Patton, „Imaging the “I”: Placing the Visual Subject with Immanuel Kant‟s Philosophy of the Senses‟, M.Phil Gender and Women‟s Studies, Centre for Gender and Women‟s Studies, TCD (In Progress)

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Undergraduate Thesis Supervision

Alan Delmar, „Disrupting Otherness: Exploring Body Art Through Maurice Merleau-Ponty‟s Theory of the Flesh’, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded First with Distinction) Renèe Helena Browne, „Repetition in the Work of Gregor Schneider: A Psychoanalytic Reading‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded First) David Dalton, „Homelessness: Dynamic Dispositioning Modes and Cognitive Capture‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded First) Ann-Marie Delaney „The Hysteric, the Ruin and Nature: Three Pathological Ontologies of the Other‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded First) Johanna Kavanagh, „Self/Other Interactions Through the Paradigm of Smell‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded First) Robert James Murphy, „Making and Subverting Meaning: The Art Practice and Process of Joseph Kosuth‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded First) Frances O‟Dwyer, „Tacita Dean and Emily Richardson: Exploring Two Work‟s Through Martin Heidegger‟s Concept of Care‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded First) Loraine Cross, „The Visual and Literary Hermeneutics of Hughie O‟Donoghue and Paul Ricoeur‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded Upper Second) Aine Farrell, „An Exploration into the Need for Complete Understanding: A Journey into a New Language and Reconsideration of Materiality‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded Upper Second) Siobhan Fitzsimons, „Advertising in Relation to Female Body Hair and its Removal in Ireland‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded Upper Second) Paul Kinsella, „A Psychoanalytic Investigation into the Work of Oliviero Toscani‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded Upper Second) Chloe Phipps, „Toddlers, Tiaras and Twerking: New Feminism and the Exploitation of Childhood‟, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD (Awarded Upper Second) Geraldine Carton „Nomophobia, Narcissism and Digital Detoxes: The Culture of self-Presentation in an “Always On” Society‟, School of Creative Arts, DIT (In Progress) Tammy Deighan, „Play and Childhood: Examining the Social Construction of Gender‟, School of Creative Arts, DIT (In Progress) Ellen Fitzpatrick, „Gender Representation in Dance: A Study of Masculinity in Twentieth Century Ballet‟, School of Creative Arts, DIT (In Progress) Barry McCabe, „An Analysis of Sex in Two Films by Lars Von Trier: Antichrist and Nymphomaniac’, School of Creative Arts, DIT (In Progress) Kim Pidgeon, ‟The Phenomenon of the No Make-Up Selfie‟, School of Creative Arts, DIT (In Progress)

Publications

Commissioned Catalogue Essay „Sundering the Spell of Visibility: Bracha L. Ettinger—Abstract-Becoming-Figural, Thought-Becoming Form‟ in artist‟s book edited by Professor Griselda Pollock for exhibition of Ettinger‟s artworks at 14th Istanbul Biennial, September-November 2015 (Forthcoming), 2015.

Book Aesthetic Othereities: The Philosophies of Bracha L. Ettinger, Queer Aisthesis Series, edited by Michael O‟Rourke, Punctum Books (Under Contract), 2015.

Journal Article „A Copoietic Aesthetics of the Prebirth Scene: Reconsidering Ontology with Francesca Woodman and Bracha L. Ettinger‟, Philosophy of Photography Journal (In Submission), 2015.

Journal Article „Sticky Subjects—From Crypt to Transcrypt: A Response to Dragan Kujundžic‟s Frozen Time, Liquid Memories (1942-2012)‟, InterKulturalnost (Forthcoming), 2015.

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Commissioned Catalogue Essay „Painting the Feminine into Ontology: On the Recent Works of Bracha L. Ettinger‟, commissioned catalogue essay, Medusa-Butterfly, exhibitions of artworks by Bracha L. Ettinger, Museo Leopoldo Flores (Toluca, Mexico)/Galería Polivalente (Guanajuato, Mexico), 2014.

Magazine Article „Towards a Desideratum of Art‟, Critical Bastards Magazine, Vol VII, 2012.

Commissioned Catalogue Essay „you are only one thing among many, and whoever sees things that way heals his heart ...‟, commissioned catalogue essay for Liminality exhibition/installation by Ciara McMahon, NCAD Gallery, Dublin, 2011.

Book Chapter „Colonising Kahlo: Frida Kahlo and the Transcultural Encounter‟, Transcultural Encounters Amongst Women: Redrawing Boundaries in Hispanic and Lusophone Art, Literature and Film, edited by Patricia O‟Byrne, Gabrielle Carty and Niamh Thornton, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010.

Exhibition Review „James Hayes: Looking into the Light of Dark Matters‟, Enclave Review, Vol 2 (Autumn), University College Cork Press, 2010.

Journal Article „The Banal and the Evident: Pornography, Technology and the Market‟, The Trinity College Journal of Postgraduate Studies, 2008-2009, 2008.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

„Spaces in the Grain: Shocks in the Maternal in the Work of Frida Kahlo and Bracha L. Ettinger‟, Motherhood and Creative Practice Conference, London South Bank University, June 2015.

„Resisting Pathologies of Individualism: Some Thoughts on Affective Community‟, 5th International Conference Social Pathologies of Contemporary Society, Erasmus University Rotterdam, October 2014.

„Surrealism to Subrealism‟, Subrealism: A Series of Events on the Work of Bracha L. Ettinger, Maynooth National University of Ireland, October 2014.

„We Are Frightened That Somebody Might Think We Are Animals: An Exploration of Animality and Sexuality in the Artworks of Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington and Bracha L. Ettinger‟, 3rd Biannual Irish Sexualities Conference, DCU, March 2014.

„Enjoying Liminal Pleasures? The Jouissance of Non-Life in Life in the Photography of Francesca Woodman‟, Between Bodies/Bodies Between International Conference, Maynooth National University of Ireland, April 2013.

„Maternal Taboos and the Feminine Real: The Artwork of Frida Kahlo and the Matrixial Theory of Bracha L. Ettinger‟, Reimagining Birth International Research Symposium, Humanities Institute UCD, July 2013.

„Non-Life as the Possibility for Life: Resisting Technologies of Power Through Bracha L. Ettinger‟s Theorisation of Matrixial Transubjectivity‟, Biopolitics, Society and Performance International Conference, TCD, November 2012.

„Queering and Querying the Virgin: Iconography and Iconoclasticism in the Art of Frida Kahlo‟, Transitions and Continuities in Contemporary Chicano/a Culture International Conference, University College Cork, June 2011.

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„A Matrixial Gaze That Does Not Kill‟, 4th Annual Conference of Sibéal Irish Postgraduate Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Limerick, November 2011.

„Making Subjects/Making Meaning: Can the Encounter with the Work of Art Effect Societal Change?‟, Beauty Will Save the World Conference, Bristol University, September 2010.

„The Problematics of the Erotic: Intimacy and Exposure in Artistic Performance‟, 4th Global Conference, The Erotic IV: Exploring Critical Issues, Salzburg, November 2009.

„Colonising Kahlo: Frida Kahlo and the Transcultural Encounter‟, WISPS IX (Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies), DCU, November 2009.

Public Lectures, Discussions & Events

Invited Chair and Discussant „Conversation with Artist, Sean Hillen‟. at Commemoration, Contexts and Concepts Conference, President of Ireland‟s Ethics Initiative, University College Cork, September 2015.

Invited Presentation „The Voice Emerges From the Body; the Speculum is Inserted into the Body; Architecture Surrounds the Body‟, lectures, discussion and film screening with Sarah Browne (Artist), Jesse Presley Jones (Artist), Dr. Lisa Godson (NCAD) and Dr. Linda Mulcahy (LSE), Northern/Irish Feminist Judging Project: The Embodied Subject, Green Street Courthouse, Dublin, April 2015.

Invited Lecture „Reconsidering Ontology: Subjectivity as Affective Encounter‟, Sociology Society, Waterford Institute of Technology, March 2015.

Chair „What is This Thing Called Gender?‟, public discussion with Professor Lilian Alweiss (TCD), Muireann O'Dwyer (UCD), Jasbinder Garnermann (Chair, Jung Institute) and Broden Giambrone (Director of the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland), The Metaphysical Society of Trinity College Dublin, McNeill Theatre, TCD, March 2015.

Introducer and Chair „Welcome Address for Professor Judith Butler‟ at Vulnerability and Resistance Revisited: Public Lecture by Professor Judith Butler, Edmund Burke Theatre, TCD, February 2015.

Invited Discussant „Butoh and the Body‟, roundtable discussion with Ambra Bergamasco (Butoh Dancer), Fergus Byrne (Artist) Trevor Knight (Composer) and Katherine Waugh (Film maker, Curator) at Moving Bodies: Butoh Film Festival, New Theatre, Dublin, February 2015.

Invited Lecture „Michael Haneke‟s Das Weiße Band: An Ethico-Aesthetic Encounter?‟, Department of German, Maynooth National University of Ireland, December 2014.

Invited Presenter „Eros as Transgression in Love: A Matrixial Perspective on Pedagogy as an Aesthetic Practice‟ at 3rd International Conference on Intercultural Understanding, Université Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria, November 2014.

Invited Presenter „The hand is another thought: On the Poetic Aesthetics of Painting‟ at Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland (SWIP-I) Annual Conference, TCD, November 2013.

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Invited Introducer and Chair „Introduction to Professor Lauren Berlant‟ at Pedagogics of Unlearning Conference, TCD, September 2014. „From Theoryworking to Artworking‟. Invited discussant with artist Oliva Hassett, deAppendix Gallery, Blackrock, Dublin, June 2014.

Invited Discussant „The Art and Life of Egon Schiele‟ roundtable discussion with Dr. Franz Smola (Director, Leopold Museum, Vienna), Howard Tangye (Central St. Martin‟s) and Alan Phelan (Artist), „Talking History‟, Newstalk FM, February 2014.

Invited Presenter and Panellist „What is Psychoanalysis?‟ at What is? Public Conversation Series with Dr. Francis Halsall (NCAD), Dr. Declan Long (NCAD), Irish Museum of Modern Art, January 2014.

Invited Discussant „Theoryworking and Artworking‟, public discussion with Olivia Hassett (Artist) at deAppendix Gallery, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, June 2014.

Invited Discussant „The Art and Life of Frida Kahlo‟ roudtable discussion with Professor Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds), Dr. Rebecca Breen (University of Essex), Sean Kissane (IMMA) and Pascal Petit (Poet), „Talking History‟, Newstalk FM, December 2014.

Invited Gallery Talk „we are frightened that we might also think we are animals, which we are‟ at exhibition events for Leonora Carrington: A Celtic Surrealist, Irish Museum of Modern Art, November 2013.

Invited Respondent „Optimistic Attachments: Response to Professor Lauren Berlant‟s Cruel Optimism’ at Fantasies of the Good Life: Reading Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism, intensive interdisciplinary seminar with Lauren Berlant organised by The(e)ories: Critical Theory and Sexuality Studies, Humanities Institute UCD, June 2013.

Invited Respondent „Remembering Freud and Others: Response to Dr. Rob Weatherill‟s Forgetting Freud’ at Psychoanalysis in Culture, Society and Politics: Reading Rob Weatherill’s Forgetting Freud - Is Psychoanalysis in Retreat? Seminar with Weatherill’, The(e)ories: Critical Theory and Sexuality Studies, Humanities Institute UCD, March 2013.

Presenter ‘Sticky Notes: A Response to Professor Dragan Kujundžic‟s Frozen Time, Liquid Memories‟ at Irish premiere of Professor Dragan Kujundžic‟s (University of Florida) film Frozen Time, Liquid Memories, followed by discussion with Dr. Eamonn Dunne (TCD), Dr. Carol Owens (Psychoanalyst) and Michael O‟Rourke (ISSH Skopje) and Professor Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University), June 2013.

Introducer „Jamieson Webster: The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis‟ at Faith of the Faithless, public lectures by Professor Simon Critchley (New School, New York) and Dr. Jamieson Webster (City University New York/Psychoanalyst), Unitarian Church, Dublin, March 2012.

Invited Discussant „Amongst Objects‟, public discussion with Teresa Gillespie (Artist) at Amongst Objects exhibition/installation, The Joinery, Dublin, April 2012.

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Invited Speaker „A Matrixial Topography of Liminality‟ at Deep Mappings of the City Seminar, NCAD, December 2012.

Invited Public Seminar „The Truth of the Subject is in its Strangeness and Excessiveness‟ at Liminality exhibition/installation, NCAD Gallery, Dublin, February 2011.

Invited Discussant „Sites of Liminality‟, public conversation with Ciara MacMahon (Artist), Dr. Silvia Lloefler (NCAD) and Fiona Loughnane (NCAD), Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD, February 2011.

Event Organisation

Organiser Vulnerability and Resistance Revisited: A Public Lecture with Professor Judith Butler, organised in conjunction with the Centre for Gender and Women‟s Studies, TCD, Robert Emmett Theatre, TCD, February 2015.

Organiser Melancholia 2014, international seminar with guest speakers Professor Caroline Bainbridge (University of Roehampton), Dr. Bice Benvenuto (New School of Social Research) and Professor Judy Gammelgaard (University of Copenhagen). Co- organised with Dr. Noreen Giffney (Birkbeck University of London), Dr. Anne Mulhall (UCD), Dr. Emma Radley (UCD) and Dr. Eve Watson (American College Dublin) with the Humanities Institute UCD, , National Museum of Ireland, November 2014.

Organiser and Curator Subrealism: A Series of Events with Bracha L. Ettinger, week-long series of events incorporating exhibition of Ettinger‟s work including masterclass with Ettinger, conference, and postgraduate symposium. Co-organised and co-curated with Dr. Moynagh Sullivan (Maynooth National University of Ireland) and Michael O‟Rourke (ISSH Skopje), Illuminations Gallery, the School of English, Media and Theatre Studies, Maynooth National University of Ireland and Boston College Dublin, October 2014.

Organiser Frozen Time, Liquid Memories‟, Irish premiere screening and discussion of film by Professor Dragan Kujundžic (University of Florida) with Dr. Eamonn Dunne (TCD), Dr. Carol Owens (Psychoanalyst) and Michael O‟Rourke (ISSH Skopje) and Professor Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University). Co-organised with Michael O‟Rourke (ISSH Skopje). National University of Ireland, June 2013.

Organiser Faith of the Faithless, public lectures by Professor Simon Critchley (New School, New York) and Jamieson Webster (City University New York/Psychoanalyst). Co-organised with Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin, Unitarian Church, Dublin, March 2012.

Funding & Awards

2009-2012 Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship.

2010 Student Bursary National College of Art and Design, for attendance at Theory and Philosophy Summer School (TAPSS), Organised by University College Cork, Department of Philosophy and Sociology.

2010 Student Bursary TAPSS Committee, for attendance at Theory and Philosophy Summer School (TAPSS), Organised by University College Cork, Department of Philosophy and Sociology.

2009 Arts Council of Ireland New Projects (Production) Award for Umbilical.

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2009 Culture Ireland Travel Bursary for attendance at premiere of Where is the Black Beast? Ribeirão Preto Bienalle, Brazil.

2007 Arts Council of Ireland New Projects (Development) Award for Umbilical.

Artistic Practice

Umbilical, Conceptual Director of multimedia artistic project funded by Arts Council Ireland with Professor Benjamin Dwyer (Composer/Performer, Middlesex University), Dr. David Farrell (Artist/Photographer, IADT) and Sayoko Onishi (Butoh Dancer/Choreographer). Project premiered at Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, November 2012.

Where is the Black Beast? Artistic Director of documentary on the Crow poems of Ted Hughes, with Professor Benjamin Dwyer (Composer/Performer, Middlesex University) and Michael O‟Dwyer (Film Maker). Project premiered at Ribeirão Preto Bienalle, Brazil, September 2009.

Professional Activities

Member of Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Ireland. Member of Performance and Philosophy Working Group

Skills & Interests

Fully proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Good Knowledge of Apple Mac Pages and Keynote. Informal training in library and database research. Former engagement in acting/performance. Qualified ITEC (International Therapy Examination Board) massage/aromatherapy therapist. Other interests include horse riding (Association of Riding Club of Ireland medallist), Bikram Yoga, film, crime as literary, visual and culture genre, poetry, Spanish/Hispanic Culture and Arts. Currently working on translation of Sonetos del Amor Oscuro, poems by Federico Garcia Lorca. Languages: Spanish (O‟ Level as conversational/reading ongoing endeavour).