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Issue 113, Autumn 2005 Editorial Update and Obituaries Front cover: Eva Rothschild: installation shot, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2005; courtesy Douglas Hyde Gallery Purchase a PDF-format, downloadable copy of this issue. Click here.

Feature articles

Maeve Connolly: Abstraction and dislocation in recent works by Gerard Byrne What are Gerard Byrne’s artworks about? Maeve Connolly takes us here through their raison d’être. Valerie Connor: Roger M. Buergel: Correspondences Roger M. Buergel, curator of Documenta 12, talks about power, art, politics, and philosophy. Valerie Connor elaborates on his influences and speculates on why he feels making exhibitions is useful.. Tim Stott: Fiat ars - fiat mundus Jochen Gerz’s National Memory Grove in Ballymun, Co. Dublin, challenges both how we deal with the past and how art intervenes in the community. Tim Stott reports on the many issues involved. Lucy Cotter: Cork Caucus: where do we go from here? Lucy Cotter takes a look at Cork Caucus’ contents and discontents. Alan Phelan: Exhibiting in Dublin - closed shop, open door or back alley? How do artists whose work is not accepted as commercial get shown in Dublin? Alan Phelan looks at the problems and possibilities.

Project

Sarah Browne: Ten things I wish I made as artworks

Reviews

Cork: Superbia 2 at St. Columba's National School Dublin: Offside and Offside Live at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane Venice: The 51st Venice Biennale Portadown: Orange Segments and Seeing Orange at Millennium Court Arts Centre Kilkenny: Michael Beirne at Butler Gallery London: 'Conquering England' at the National Portrait Gallery Limerick: Tom Molloy at Limerick City Gallery of Art Dublin and Derry: Rhythm-A-Ning at Walton's New School of Music and Context Gallery Dublin: Eva Rothschild at Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin: Eurojet Futures at Royal Hibernian Academy Belfast: Cecily Brennan at Ormeau Baths Gallery Cobh: Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein at Sirius Dublin: Finola Jones at Temple Bar Gallery Various locations in Northern Ireland: In Place of Passing

Art-college life: two new Circa surveys

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