[Anne Tallentire]
This, and other things 1999-2010
17th February – 3nd May
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal HospitalMilitary RoadDublin, Ireland
www.imma.ie

This, and other things, 1999–2010, a major overview of Anne Tallentire’s practice over the last ten years will include her most recent projects Nowhere else, The Readers and Document (all 2010), alongside the earlier works, Drift: diagram ix (2002–10), Instances (1999) and Manifesto (… instead of partial object) (2004), made in collaboration with artist John Seth.

Nowhere else invites the viewer to navigate a collection of hundreds of images depicting peripheral glimpses of daily life and detritus taken from sites identified by overlaying a chart of the night sky onto a map of London. This work refigures earlier pre-occupations with interrogating the apparatus of mapping and naming and plays upon the relationship between the specific and the general; social control and urban occupations.

Whereas much of Tallentire’s work has made use of staging and recording her own actions, in Drift she solely documents the actions of others in 21 short video sequences that portray various routine activities carried out in association with the maintenance of a city’s infrastructure. For Drift: diagram xi, Tallentire has collaborated with Irish architect Dominic Stevens to present an eight-screen video installation encased within a freestanding scaffolding structure.

The Readers, a text work developed specifically for This, and other things attests to the identities, activities and interests existing alongside the shared day to day work practices of those who work in the museum.

Instances contemplates the passing of time in relation to perception and meaning and was produced when Tallentire represented Ireland at the 1999 Venice Biennale. In three parts this work consists of a video projection which depicts, in real time, dawn breaking over a nondescript city landscape, a series of improvised actions and a single image video loop.

Since 1993, Tallentire has also worked on many collaborative projects with John Seth, under the collective name ‘work–seth/tallentire’. A version of their work Manifesto 3 (… instead of partial object) (2004) reconfigured specifically for the space at IMMA exploits the ordering and disordering of things and the juxtaposition of action, object and image.

Finally this play between image and object is further explored in Document a new work that questions the relationship between things.

A fully-illustrated catalogue designed by Åbäke accompanies the exhibition with new texts by Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Vaari Claffey, Independent Curator; Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, and an interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

The exhibition is supported by the University of the Arts, London, and the British Council.