Abortion remains one of the most politicized issues globally and whilst some countries such as the USA continue to experience restrictions to access to abortion, Northern Ireland stands out as having enacted historical positive change in abortion law, from an almost complete ban throughout the Twentieth Century to decriminalization achieved in 2019.
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TURNING THE TIDE: PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS & RESISTANCE FROM THE ARCHIVE OF ROSE COMISKEY
by: Orla Fitzpatrick , June 25, 2022
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This symposium examined how feminist and queer art and visual culture challenged Northern Irish art and society since 1968. The period is one in which wider political developments relating to gender and sexuality evidence both the challenges that women and LGBTQ+ people have faced in gaining equality and the energy of groups that fought for it. Complicating much of the current discourse around Northern Irish art after 1968, which is often dominated by examinations of the impact of ‘the Troubles’, this symposium sought to nuance this discussion by highlighting the complex and various approaches to political art making that formed a significant part of Northern Irish practice. Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories explored the ways in which attention to gender and sexuality can help us rethink the writing of Northern Irish art history.
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Artist and activist Emma Campbell’s photo series When They Put Out Their Hands Like Scales; Journeys (W.T.P.O.T.H.L.S; Journeys) was photographed in 2012 as she travelled from Belfast, Northern Ireland to abortion clinics in Liverpool, Manchester and London. Campbell created images of the journeys rather than the women who make them because she wanted to avoid “making photographs of victims.”73 Rather than using photography to fetishise the photographed person by reducing her to a single image without context, she establishes what Ariella Azoulay, in her theorisation of photography, conceives as a social relation. Azoulay’s approach to photography has less to do with the photograph itself than with the set of relations within which it is produced and consumed. These are relations between the photographer, the person who is photographed, the location, and a viewer who is summoned to take responsibility for what she sees in the image.74
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Belfast School Of Art PhD Researchers and the MAC present, Thinking as Praxis in a Radically Altered World.
The MAC is delighted to present this online knowledge-sharing event led by seven final-year PhD researchers at Belfast School of Art: Emma Campbell, Alessia Cargnelli, Niamh McConaghy, Jane Morrow, Jingshu Tang, Sarah Tehan and Jan Uprichard.
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Global Policy Review of Abortion in the time of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Radical Abortion Care in a Pandemic Briefing Report 1, April 2021
Emma Campbell, Phyllis Ndolo, Lilian Kivuti, Krestein Mwai, Fiona K. Bloomer, Brian Chiluba, Roy Lukama
School of Applied Social and Policy Sc. & Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
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We are delighted to share the news that Array are one of five artist collectives that have been nominated for the Turner Prize which will be held in Coventry as part of the UK City of Culture 2021 celebrations. The shortlist also includes: Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical and Project Art Works.
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