BRACKET
BEA MCMAHON
14 May 2011
Bea McMahon in conversation with Chantal Pontbriand for the launch of her publication Bracket.
We are delighted to mark the end of Bea McMahon's residency and exhibition at Flat Time House with the launch of a new artist's publication and a conversation with Chantal Pontbriand.
Bea McMahon and Chantal Pontbriand will discuss the new work Cats and Mats, produced for Flat Time House, as well as some of the wider themes of the artist's work.
The event will begin at 5pm, with the conversation at 5.30pm. Please email [email protected] to book a place as numbers are limited due to space.
Copies of the publication Bracket will be available to take away.
Bea McMahon is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Recent group and solo presentations of her work include Unbuilding at the Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow; The Yvonne Rainer Project at the British Film Institute, London (screening programme); Nothing is Impossible at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; and the Curated Visual Art Award Part II at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, curated by Mike Nelson. Before undertaking her MA in Visual Arts Practice in Dun Laoghaire College of Art, Design and Technology, she studied Theoretical Physics at Trinity College and University College, Dublin. She is represented by Green On Red Gallery, Dublin.
Chantal Pontbriand, until recently Head of Exhibition Research and Development at Tate Modern, is living in London and working as an art consultant, critic and curator.
She founded PARACHUTE contemporary art magazine in 1975. Her work is based on the exploration of questions of globalisation and artistic heterogeneity. She has curated numerous international contemporary art events: exhibitions, international festivals and international conferences, mainly in photography, video, performance, dance and multimedia installation. From 1982 to 2003, she was president and director of the FIND (Festival International de Nouvelle Danse), in Montreal.
She recently curated the exhibition HF|RG [Harun Farocki/Rodney Graham] at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2009, Higher Powers Command (after Sigmar Polke, 1968), for the Lhoist Collection in Belgium, and The Yvonne Rainer Project, at the BFI Gallery in London, both in 2010.
Selected publications: Performance, Text(e)s & Documents (ed., PARACHUTE, 1980), Genevieve Cadieux. Canada XLVI Biennale di Venezia(commissioner, 1990), Fragments critiques (Jacqueline Chambon, 1998), Communaute et Gestes(PARACHUTE, 2000), Dance: Distinct Language and Cross-cultural Influences (ed., PARACHUTE, 2001) Art et Psychanalyse : Sur ma maniere de travailler (co-ed. with Herve Bouchereau, PARACHUTE, 2002),PARACHUTE, Essais choisis 1975-2000 (ed., La Lettre volee, 2004). Among her upcoming books :PARACHUTE: The First Twenty-Five Years, JRP/Ringier, and an anthology of her essays from 2001 to 2010 on the Common and the Contemporary.
