Limerick, Ireland
Hilary Gilligan, 200 Years Ago, live performance, site-specific installation

Hilary Gilligan

b. 1963, Canada

Visual art production in space between the fixed reference points of fine art, public art, documentary

Media – photography, video, audio, installation, performance, community

Time-based – employs image, sound, devices, fabric, popular cultures, site, place

Form – factual, narrative, artist integral to artwork, metaphor, cathartic, therapeutic

Relates/reflects – issues, personal, social, social condition, personal conditioning

Generates – possibility for alternative, continued discourse

Location – non-gallery confined, functions in a non-art context, parallel concerns of different practices

(Text: EV+A 1998 – Circus ZZ)

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