Sarah Pierce
Birdcalls
Birdcalls (Dublin 2014) after Louise Lawler.
KEVIN ATHERTON
SVEN ANDERSON
DAVID BEATTIE
KARL BURKE
GERARD BYRNE
JOHN BYRNE
OISIN BYRNE
DECLAN CLARKE
OLIVER COMERFORD
GARY COYLE
DAVID EAGER MAHER
BRIAN FAY
FERGUS FEEHILY
AURELIEN FROMENT
MARK GARRY
DAVID GODBOLD
JAMES HANLEY
MARTIN HEALY
ASTUSHI KAGA
SAM KEOGH
STEPHEN LOUGHMAN
RONAN MCCREA
PAUL MCKINLEY
DENNIS MCNULTY
CIARAN MURPHY
PHILLIP NAPIER
SEAMUS NOLAN
LIAM O’CALLAGHAN
MARK O’KELLY
ALAN PHELAN
GARRETT PHELAN
JIM RICKS
WALKER & WALKER
LEE WELCH
FRANK WASSER
Sarah Pierce lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Since 2003, she has used the term The Metropolitan Complex to describe her project. Despite its institutional resonance, this title does not signify an organization. Instead, it demonstrates Pierce’s broad understanding of cultural work, articulated through working methods that often open up to the personal and the incidental. Characterized as a way to play with a shared neuroses of place (read ‘complex’ in the Freudian sense), whether a specific locality or a wider set of circumstances that frame interaction, her activity considers forms of gathering, both historical examples and those she initiates. The processes of research and presentation that Pierce undertakes highlight a continual renegotiation of the terms for making art: the potential for dissent and self-determination, the slippages between individual work and institution, and the proximity of past artworks.