This event forms part of a series of discussions that Celina will be offering with experts in a wide range of disciplines and practices, to shed light on the themes of her exhibition ‘The Gate, or this disk of the sun will turn to the disk of the moon and our children sold for silver’.
Each discussion will be followed by a mindful performance, Swan Cloud, A Ceremony for Souls by artist and educator Angela Monks McDonagh
Celina Muldoon is an artist based in the Northwest of Ireland. With live performance at the core of her practice she uses moving image, installation, sound and AI to develop large scale environments within which audiences engage with the socio-political structures and the body. Muldoon has exhibited nationally and internationally and has received multiple funding awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. She has participated in prestigious international residencies including the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and the International Curatorial Programme in New York.
Kate Antosik-Parsons is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research traverses the boundaries across the humanities and social sciences. Kate is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Studies in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin on the cross-border HEA-funded North/South Reproductive Citizenship project (2022-Present). She was previously a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Studies on the HSE- Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy (SCHPP) funded Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion Care (UnPAC).
From April 2019 to February 2020 Kate was the L’Internationale Researcher for NCAD’s performance art in Ireland in the 1990s project conducted as part of L’Internationale’s ‘Our Many Europes’. This research contributed to the Aftereffects and Untold Histories, Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s (NCAD, April – May 2021). She is also a research associate of the UCD Humanities Institute. Her interests include feminist politics, gender and sexuality, modern and contemporary art, embodiment, memory, performance studies, Irish studies and literary and cultural studies.