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Form Ever Follows Function at Illuminations Gallery

Opening Monday 4 February and running until 8 March 2019, Form Ever Follows Function is a joint exhibition by gorse and The Pickled Body literary journals at Illuminations Gallery in Maynooth University, featuring specially commissioned digital works by contributors to the journals, and a display of physical material.


Illuminations Gallery is a digital-visual exhibition space in the Departments of English and Media Studies at Maynooth University. It brings together work in the visual arts and in academia, celebrating innovation, ideas and creativity. The gallery space is built around eight LED screens, placed back-to-back in custom-designed cabinets. Supplemented by two display units which can exhibit physical artefacts, and a website which extends the gallery space, Illuminations aims to provide opportunities for education, investigation, and enlightenment – in and beyond the university.

Form Ever Follows Function is curated by myself on behalf of gorse along with Dimitra Xidous and Patrick Chapman of The Pickled Body in response to a longstanding invitation by Illuminations Gallery director Colin Graham. Exploring the spaces between the digital and the physical in writing, art, composition, dissemination and publishing, Form Ever Follows Function includes the following digital pieces:

  • Sean Hayes (TPB) & Michael Naghten Shanks (g + TPB): 'The Art of Friendship'. Video, with audio based on a script inspired by and appropriating interviews and articles about the Japanese rent-a-friend industry.
  • Kimberly Campanello (g + TPB): 'Form Ever Follows Function'. Video with audio track of original poetry.
  • Clare Archibald (g): 'Memories of Contort'. Video, stills & motion, with spoken audio. "The vocal and harmonica are first-take with some background noise. This represents some of the spaces in between words and the digital and the written".
  • Imogen Reid (g): 'From Text to Textile'. PowerPoint presentation. Introduction/Statement and series of images – "treated book pages, overprinted and hard to read".
  • Ria Czerniak-LeBov (TPB) & Fiona Brennan: 'Etching in Memoriam'. Video.

In addition to the digital works, there are two vitrines with displays of objects produced at various points by each of the journals. The gorse vitrine includes a range of ephemera (pencils, playing card, bookmark, postcard, folded index, badges) as well as a full numbered GOR publication list on one side, and a copy of each of the 10 issues of the journal published so far and of Gorse Editions No. 1 (Subcritical Tests by Ailbhe Darcy & SJ Fowler) on the other.

Admission to Illuminations Gallery is free at all times.

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A launch event takes place on Wednesday 6 February at 6.30pm featuring a short discussion between Dimitra Xidous, Ria Czerniak-LeBov and Fiona Brennan. Admission free, all welcome.

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