Dirty Art Department
Coilin O'Connell+
Cóilín O’Connell is a mixed media artist who uses documentation, archives and publishing as a method for creating (science) fictions, garden-variety mythologies and subjective representations.
Beginning with an impulse to create an archive of surface scans of Neolithic stone monuments led to the gradual amassing and production of a collection of photos, videos, books, and drawings. Following in the mould of obsessive UFO enthusiasts, amateur archaeologists and treasure hunters with a desire to find explanations, value and meaning. It became clear that a space was needed to present the collection and as with any museum it reveals as much about the social environment it is located within, the hang ups of the curator and our methods of processing the past, present and imaging the future..
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