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Cleary Connolly’s

multi-disciplinary exploration of the art and science of looking

Cyclops Helmet with Neil McKenzie

METAPERCEPTUAL HELMETS

2014–2019

The Colour of Time,

Junction Festival, Clonmel, July 2018

 
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Afterimage commission for CÚRAM, NUIGalway, 2018.

Joining the Dots, German Gymnasium, Kings Cross, Lumiere London 2016

 
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Pratiques, 5 Permanent installations Mediathèque de Sorgues. 2010

Particles or Waves?

St. Patricks College,

Cavan, 2014

Our first video work Touchy was part of a long series of subversive performances that we made during the 1990s. Old enough to be interesting again…


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlGaTEOTeNc

SELF-IMPRESSIONS at the Tate Modern

London, March 2018

Real Time Rolling Shutter with David Monaghan and Conor Gallagher, 2012

Anne & Denis With Guillaume Dumas at Théâtre La Reine Blanche, Paris, Oct. 2019.

Cleary Connolly guests on France24, April 2013.

ON SIGHT

4 Permanent stereoscopic installations

Lough Lannagh, Co. Mayo. 2012

L’Ecole du Regard

Ecole Du Breuil

Paris 2015

Scenes Du Boulevard

Series of 24 short videos

2002

THE ECO SHOWBOAT: AN ECOLOGICAL FLOATING ARTS LAB CONNECTING COMMUNITIES ACROSS IRELAND TO BUILD A ZERO CARBON FUTURE 2022-2023

http://www.connolly-cleary.com/Home/joining-the-dots.html
http://www.schooloflooking.org/SoL/France24.mp4

This series of ten permanent installations evoke Derrigimlagh’s historical legacy - the Marconi Station and Alcock & Brown’s transatlantic flight - of which almost no physical trace remains in the wild landscape.

Pourquoi pas toi ? 

Pompidou Centre, Paris, 2008-2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUyRhA6gfPo&feature=youtu.be

EQUILUMINANCE

Project with Patrick Cavanagh & David Byrne

Governor’s Island, NYC, 2017

JOINING THE DOTS

Light installation, German Gymnasium, Lumiere London 2016

Less Than Thirteen Barbican, London, 2017

METAPERCEPTION CLUB,

Centre Culturel Irlandais,

Paris, 2015

Metaperceptual Helmets at the Dead Zoo, National Museum, Dublin, 2014

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TIME IS A DIMENSION

Video installation

2013

THE ABSENT ARCHITECT

Casino at Marino

2013

 
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METAPERCEPTUAL HELMETS, 2014-2019: the wearer becomes a hybrid creature -  part human, part machine, part animal, but also part work of art - contemplating the world from a new perspective

EQUILUMINANCE

Project with Patrick Cavanagh & David Byrne

Governor’s Island, NYC, 2017

 

THE MUSIC BOX - Installation by Cleary Connolly - FITZGERALD PARK, CORK DEC 9th 2022 - JAN 21 2023

SCHOOLS: many of our installations are the result of school projects

LIGHT: several installations work with lighting

CAMERAS: many of our installations work with cameras and computers

MACHINES FOR LOOKING: most of our installations are set up to look at a specific environment

VIDEO: most of our earlier artworks were made with moving images

CHANGE YOUR STRIPES, Lumiere Derry, 2013

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Paris based artists, Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly have shown in the Pompidou Centre, the Barbican and the Tate Modern. Their work involves collaborations with scientists, artists and the public, taking many forms but focusing always on the act of looking, a conversation with the eye of the beholder. Since 2017 they have been practicing under the name “The School of Looking” to reflect this overarching programme of their work.

 

There is a growing awareness that the arts community is uniquely placed to develop conversations around climate change and to generate positive creative action. Collaborating with 40 artists across the country, Anne & Denis navigated Ireland’s inland waterways aboard the Mayfly, flagship of the Eco Showboat project, meeting artists, activists, scientists and communities to spark climate action. In 2022 they travelled south to north from Limerick to Enniskillen using only solar power. In 2023 they undertook a zero carbon journey to the east - along the Shannon, Grand Canal and Barrow - from Askeaton on the Shannon’s Atlantic estuary to Howth Harbour on the Irish Sea…

INVISIBLE LIGHT at Hamburg Planetarium, 25 September - 2 October 2024 (photos by Fred Dott)

Making of DANCING DOTS - Spring 2024, Deansrath, South Dublin County

DANCING DOTS (video) Commissioned by South Dublin County Council, 2024

 
http://www.schooloflooking.org/InvisibleLight/InvisibleLight.html
 
http://www.schooloflooking.org/EcoSHOWBOAT/