Wednesday Lectures | Maeve Brennan | 13th of March
Maeve Brennan, member and co-founder of Sharna Pax ( a film collective working across the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual art) likes to look at the historical and political resonance of sites and materials. She usually brings this work together with the use of moving image and installation works. I personally did not enjoy this lecture. It is not something that caught my attention or wasn't something that I could not relate to my own practise at the time but now looking back as I write this I see a slight similarity where she incorporates materials of specific sites and I have been doing this recently. I have been taking elements of my home and agricultural environment and trying to add them into my work.
Like I mentioned before Brennan examines the historical and political resonance of materials and places. Even though her work did not appeal to me I do appreciate how Maeve Brennan creates the intimacy through proximity with her subjects, gathering anecdotal evidence to animate sites and narratives. This is something I could use to contextualise my work adding more weight to my subject matter/ narrative of my work.
Like I mentioned before Brennan examines the historical and political resonance of materials and places. Even though her work did not appeal to me I do appreciate how Maeve Brennan creates the intimacy through proximity with her subjects, gathering anecdotal evidence to animate sites and narratives. This is something I could use to contextualise my work adding more weight to my subject matter/ narrative of my work.
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