One Year-Long Research Project / first
/ GARETH KENNEDY
In September 2013 ar/ge kunst inaugurated its One Year-Long Research Project, which invites one artist for a series of short residencies over the course of one year. The project begins with a public lecture and culminates in a solo exhibition.
The first artist is Gareth Kennedy (Ireland, 1979).
Invited for his work on expressions of ‘folk’ culture, Kennedy has undertaken an investigation of the troubled history of folklore and visual anthropology in the South Tyrol.
Talk con Gareth Kennedy on 24th September 7pm at ar/ge kunst, Bolzano.
Gareth Kennedy’s solo exhibition Die Unbequeme Wissenschaft (The Uncomfortable Science) opened on the 19 September and run through 15 November 2014.
Biography
Gareth Kennedy is an artist from the west of Ireland. His work explores the social agency of the handcrafted in the twenty-first century and generates ‘communities of interest’ around the production and performance of new material cultures. Deploying an anthropological approach as an operational aesthetic, these works draw on the particular social, cultural and economic histories of a location. Outcomes typically include architectural or designed structures, hand-crafted objects, as well as live performative events which bring these physical entities to life within specific public contexts. Kennedy has produced and shown work both nationally and internationally. His practice to date includes public art commissions, educational projects, exhibitions, residencies and collaborations. In 2009, he co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale along with artist Sarah Browne. Kennedy also works on another, distinct artistic practice called Kennedy Browne in collaboration with Sarah Browne.