New Cartographies, Nomadic Methodologies

Maria Parsons is a senior lecturer in the Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. Her research interests are in gender, the body, contemporary critical theory and popular and digital cultures. She has published in the fields of gothic and horror and queer studies. Anne Goarzin is Professor of Irish literature and culture at the University of Rennes 2 France and a member of the research group CRBC (EA 4451). Her research focuses on Irish literature and the visual arts and on contemporary critical theory. She is the chair of the French Society for Irish Studies (SOFEIR) and of GIS E.I.R.E, a research network for Irish studies.

Introduction: New Materialist Encounters Anne Goarzin and Maria Parsons


Part I Artistic Intra-actions


Force of Nature: Earth Stories (a Conversation with Lisa FitzGerald) Siobhán McDonald


Diffractive Practice: Supercollisions in Art and Science (a Conversation with Maria Parsons) Sinéad McDonald


CONTAGION Rachel Gallagher, Jack Hogan and Moira Tierney


The Plurality of Existence in the Infinite Expanse of Space and Time Clodagh Emoe


Part II Bodies, Performance, Memory


‘Dirty matter’: New Material Terrains in Irish Poetry Anne Karhio


Material Bodies: Three Performance-Based Interventions in the Irish Landscape Lisa FitzGerald


‘Choreographies of becoming’ in Mia Gallagher’s Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland (2016) Fiona McCann


Part III Shared Places and Diffracted Voices


Fractured Liminality in Kabosh’s Green and Blue and Lives in Translation Eva Urban-Devereux


Narrative 4 Story Exchanges: Fostering Empathy Marie Mianowski


Performing Jazz and Sharing Creative Spaces: An Interview with David Lyttle Fabrice Mourlon