VISUAL CULTURE
Aoife Mac Namara: Profile
A curator and writer working in collaboration with a team of artists, writers and performers, Aoife Mac Namara is Director of the AHRC Spaces Buildings Make project, Programme Leader for the MA Film and Visual Culture and a member of the SSHRC Informal Architectures research group. Building on her interest in photographic and postcolonial theory – and on the histories of ordinary or commonplace buildings – her curatorial and written work explores the potential of practitioner-led inquiry (in the visual, performing and electronic arts) as a prospective research method in fields of architecture and spatial culture. Recent curatorial work includes projects at the Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture and the City (2006); the Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada (2004); the Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada (2004); the Letterkenny Arts Centre, Ireland, (2003); the Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland (2002) and MoDA, London, UK (2001). Recent publications include, ‘Railway Lands: Writing Alongside the work of Eric Walker,’ in Aoife Mac Namara and Emily Falvey, Railway Lands, Ottawa: The Ottawa Art Gallery, 2005; ‘Curating Derry: Monuments in the Present Tense’, in Anthony Kiendl (ed) Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture, and Interpretation, Banff: The Banff Centre Press, 2004; ‘The Only Good One is a Dead One’, in Christiane Meyer-Stolld (ed), Das innere befinden : das Bild des Menschen in der Videokunst der 90er Jahre, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2001. Her book, Bungalow Blitz: Another History of Irish Architecture, was recently published by the Walter Philips Gallery/Banff Centre Press in 2006.