Jennie Guy
Reading Ensemble III
HD Video; 42m57s; 2012.
Between January and March 2012, I invited the librarians at the National Irish Visual Artists’ Library (NIVAL) to recommend texts from their archives to be included in a video project based on the act of reading. I then filmed a group of NCAD students reading these texts out loud within the library over the course of a day.
Reading Ensemble III; Video Still.
This video was staged within Document!, an exhibition celebrating 120 years of visual arts documentation in Ireland at the NCAD Gallery in April, 2012. The readings featured in the video included:
1. Sara reads about what Americans might expect on a visit to Ireland
2. Stephane reads about the first lions in Dublin zoo
3. Laura reads about love and soup
4. Frank reads about Dutch recommendations for Ireland’s craft industry
5. David reads about Blue Funk
6. Hannah reads about The Debt
7. Jonah reads about David Hendricks’ establishment in Ireland
8. Ebby reads Oliver Dowling’s letter to Barbara Dawson
9. Greg reads about an automated handwriting apparatus
10. Miles reads about the first days of Arthouse
11. Sara reads Liz Burns and Artur Zmijewski’s views on participation
12. Stephane reads about Dada and ephemera
13. Laura reads about the start of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art
14. Frank reads about the social role of Virginias in the Balkans
15. David reads about the post of Visual Arts Coordinator in Cavan
16. Jonah reads about an innate need for visual expression
17. Ebby reads about national identity, globalisation, and consumerism
18. Greg reads about photographic ways of representing space
19. Miles reads about why there have been no great Irish artists
Reading Ensemble III; Video Still.
Reading Ensemble III; Video Still.