Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Essomenia





This next issue of The Fold will be part of an exhibition, taking place in Dun Laoghaire in September 2011 entitled ‘Essomenia’. Essomenia is a hybrid term derived from an obsolete word from the 1700’s – essomenic – which refers to the future predicting quality of nature of objects and individuals. For example “crystal balls are essomenic”.

The Fold
Issue: 6
The Future

For The Fold: The Future, we have invited Jonathan Carroll, Brian Fay, John Graham, Wendy Judge, Stephen Loughman, Bea McMahon, Padraic E Moore, Isabel Nolan, Marcus Oakley to contribute works. The issue also includes work selected from an open callout to final year and postgraduate art students – by Aideen Carroll, Andrew Carroll, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarity, Paul Doherty, Kevin Gaffney & Sally – Anne Kelly, Sam Keogh, John Ryan, David Thomas Smith. Alongside these we have additional contributions by Rachael Gittins, Alison Pilkington and Cora Cummins.


What does it mean to be future orientated – to be a futurist in the 21st century?
The future has been a subject of both melancholic and optimistic (and even ecstatic) contemplation, inspiration, anxiety and joy for generations of artist’s philosopher’s, writer’s, designers, politicians, activists and visionaries – as well as, of course – the populace at large.
Is the notion of hopeful visions of the future viable? Has the time passed when the future can hold positive possibilities? Or nowadays is ‘the future’ just a matter of modernist nostalgia? Can and should we hope again – even these compromised commoditized times?
Many see glimmers of possibility for change amongst the rubble of collapse. In the current context of of global market collapse; government upheavals; and international protest, The Fold opens its pages to reflections, predictions or fantasies of what the future means to the current generation of art students and artists?
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Special thanks due to:
Dun Laoghaire County Council Arts Office
Jason Oakley
Brian O’Kane at The Tearooms, Peoples Park
Saoirse Higgins
Oonagh Young

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