Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim
A selection of materials by Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim (see mocksim.org) and one or two other items. O'Connell's work has been shown in project spaces, established locations such as the Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), Lighthouse (Brighton, UK) and Wandesford Quay Gallery (Cork City, Ireland). An early project,Contra-Invention, had been invited to Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles was later part of From Here On at Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona and beyond. He was subsequently invited to join international grouping ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative. More recently O'Connell won a Develop Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant in 2019. Support from the Arts Council of Ireland (a Commissions Award and Touring and Dissemination funding) facilitated the production of new work for a solo exhibition at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, which took place in September and October of 2022, and will travel to Wexford Arts Centre in 2023, and Highlines Gallery, Drogheda in 2023/24. Triggered by the new work, philosopher of aesthetics John Roberts, has recently written a book entitled, Art, Misuse and Technology: Micheál O'Connell's 'System Interference'.