Gerard Byrne, Judith Wilkinson, Declan Clarke, Doireann O’Malley, Duncan Campbell

SCREENINGS, CURATORS’ TOUR + IN CONVERSATIONS WITH IRISH ARTISTS
January 10 + 11, 2025

Curated by Judith Wilkinson and Gerard Byrne
Language: English
Admission: free
The exhibition is open on Saturday, January 11, 2025 until 8 p.m.

PROGRAM

Friday, January 10, 2025, 7 p.m.
SCREENING + Q & A
Declan Clarke: If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up, 2024
Film, 116 minutes, Language: English

Declan Clarke will be available for questions after the screening. An in-depth discussion between him and Gerard Byrne will take place the following day, Saturday, January 11, 2025, at 3 p.m.

The latest film If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up by artist and filmmaker Declan Clarke looks at the working relationship between the Irish author Samuel Beckett and the German theatre director Walter Asmus. Beckett and Asmus met in the early 1970’s and worked closely together for the last fifteen years of Beckett’s life. In 1988 Asmus directed what has come to be regarded as the definitive version of Beckett’s landmark play Waiting for Godot at The Gate theatre, Dublin. The film reflects on their developing relationship through the written communications Beckett sent to Asmus: at first succinct and professional but progressively more personal. The true depth of their connection is more extensively relayed through the theatre notes that were developed as Asmus directed Beckett’s work through the 1970’s and 80’s. Finally, the film considers what remains through time of a legacy built on performance and interpretation. When the original actors have departed the stage, what remains? The film received the Mention Spéciale du Jury de la Compétition Internationale at FID Marseille IFF, 2024.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

2 p.m.
CURATOR'S TOUR
with Judith Wilkinson and Gerard Byrne

afterwards
BREAK
with drinks, hot and cold snacks

from 3 p.m.
ARTIST CONVERSATIONS
The artists Doireann O'Malley (they/them), Duncan Campbell and Declan Clarke will present works in which they refer to Samuel Beckett's teleworks, films and theatre plays in different ways. The program begins with a conversation between Declan Clarke and Gerard Byrne about Clarke's latest film If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up, which will be screened at the Kunstverein the previous evening. The discussion includes film clips enabling visitors who have not seen the film to fully engage with the conversation. 

3 p.m
CONVERSATION
Declan Clarke, Gerard Byrne on Clarke's film If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up
4 p.m.
PRESENTATION + CONVERSATION WITH FILM EXCERPTS
Doireann O'Malley, Judith Wilkinson
5 p.m.
CONVERSATION WITH FILM AND TELEVISION EXCERPTS
Duncan Campbell, Judith Wilkinson
6 p.m.
OPEN DISCUSSION

About the artists

Declan Clarke’s film work focuses on themes of modernity, conflict and the human stories behind major upheavals in 20th century history. He uses a personal viewpoint to tell complex historical narratives. He was awarded, among other things, with the PS1 Award for 2002-2003.

Doireann O'Malley (they/them), who won the Berlin Art Prize in 2018, is a trans-disciplinary artist based between Berlin and Ireland. Their research-led practice experiments with collaborative methodologies, meditative and visualization practices, writing, auto-theory, formalized through technological emphasis on Film, Virtual Reality, AI, 3D and Video installation.

The artistic research projects of Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell deal with a wide range of subjects including Northern Irish politician Bernadette Devlin, the DeLorean car project, and German economist Hans Tietmeyer. His films are concerned with these histories and how they impact the present.

Funde by
Zeitgeist Irland 24, einer Initiative von Culture Ireland und der Botschaft von Irland in Deutschland