Northern Irish artist Sandra Johnston deals in her performances and video works with the aftermath of trauma. In her multipart video work »That Apart« she uses improvisation processes to examine states of physical reaction that arise in relation to a specific situation and in the moment of making. Mairéad McClean works mainly with found film footage and archive material. »No More« and »Broadcast 32172« refer to the internment policy of Northern Ireland’s then Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, who introduced imprisonment without trial. McClean’s father, a civil rights activist, was among those arrested and interned in the notorious Long Kesh camp. Tracing the paths of agricultural exports and those of the plastic explosive Semtex from former Czechoslovakia to Northern Ireland during the period of the civil war in the 1970s, the film »Group Portrait with Explosives« by Declan Clarke interweaves the historical-political narratives of these two places with personal recollections of South Armagh in the late 1970s and early 1980s where the artist spent much time in childhood. In her work »Für eine aufstrebende Zukunft« (For an Emerging Future), Susanne Bosch creates a collage from newspaper reports about processions commemorating the Battle of the Boyne, juxtaposing this annual event with quotations from Hannah Arendt or current headlines on the Black Lives Matter movement as a way of highlighting other values of social humanity. Mark Clare’s video »Territorial Integrity, Self-determination« takes the viewer on a Black Taxi Tour through Belfast’s neighbourhoods, while the driver explains the various highly politically-charged murals. Eoghan McTigue’s multipart photographic work »The Glass Album« consists of contact prints made from broken glass plate negatives. The aerial photographs showing the coastline of Donegal and Northern Ireland refer to historical photographs by James Glass from the late 1870s. The contact sheets record the landscape as well as the damage. There is a sense of the landscape being scarred and broken, fractured and distant
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