Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Declan Clarke

Declan Clarke is an Irish video and photography artist that was a visiting artist this week in college. He talked us threw his residencies and artworks in regard to video and narrative video.

We'll Be This Way Until the End of the World, 2008 is a video piece by Clarke. This is piece is dedicated to Daniel O' Connoll, as he films a sculpture dedicated to him on O'Connell street in Dublin. the sculpture of four female figures with wings, have gun shot wounds from the Easter Rising of 1916.  the entry wound is  so smooth it looks like it could be part of the sculpture to remember the hard ship of the Irish people where as the exit hole is so jagged it also gives this feeling as well.

Clarke also made a series of Videos where he changed monuments in a humorous way. Washing's Done, 2002 is a piece done in front of the Washington Monument. He did many other pieces like this, the Wellington Monument in Phoenix Park and Plinth in Bucharest and showed them all together on old TVs at an exhibition he did.