PhotoIreland Festival 2013 catalogue

New Irish WorksDublinNational Photographic Archive21 Jun- 3 Aug / Mon-Sat 10am-5pm / Sun 12-5pmOpening: 6pm-9pm Thu 4 JulDorje de BurghNothing Lasts Forever(Excess, secrets, ghosts andendings)Inertia. The city as one giantsprawling suburb. Nothing LastsForever exists as the account ofan attempted description of theexperiencing of a hyper-mediatednow seemingly defined only bythat which J.G. Ballard describedas ‘a kaleidoscope of competingfictions’. Great changes areoccurring, History even. Butso slowly that it feels almostabstract and unreal. Absorbed,obscured and elsewhere.Barry W HughesMetastaticThe Conqueror (1956) directed by Dick Powel and starring John Wayne andSusan Hayward was shot on location at Snow Canyon State Park in Utah,USA during May-August of 1954. Snow Canyon is located 220 km downwindof Yucca Flats, Nevada where above ground atomic testing lasted from1951-1953. Encouraged by an article in the November 10, 1980 issue of Peoplemagazine, it was widely rumoured that the director, leading stars andninety-one of the crew died of cancer as a direct result of radiation falloutremaining in the area. However, contemporary and subsequent testing of thearea for any hazardous material and possible health risks have consistentlycontradicted the rumours, and data collected in the Snow Canyon area in Mayof 1954 indicated that the amount of radiation present was at backgroundlevels and therefore harmless.Metastatic follows the narrative of the film from opening shot to climaxand closing shot. Exploiting the camera and TV screen’s natural distortions ofcolour and pixilation, or visual noise, the resulting images seem to buzz withthe supposed radioactivity believed to have been present during the filming ofThe Conqueror. The title relates to both metastasis as a Greek word meaning‘displacement’ and a secondary cancerous growth formed by transmission ofcancerous cells from a primary growth located elsewhere in the body, as wellas the static electrical charges commonly associated with TV screens.Dragana JurisicYU: The Lost CountryOnce upon a time, in a farawaypart of Europe, behind sevenmountains and seven rivers, therewas a beautiful country calledYugoslavia. - Slavenka Drakulic.“There proceeds steadily fromthat place a stream of eventswhich are a source of danger tome,” wrote the Anglo-Irish writer,Rebecca West in 1937. Realizingthat it was “a calamity”, toknow nothing of an area “whichthreatened her safety” was sheembarked on a journey through“That place” –Yugoslavia. Theresult was Black Lamb and GreyFalcon. Initially intended as “asnap book” it spiralled into half amillion words, a portrait not justof Yugoslavia, but also of Europeon the brink of the Second WorldWar, and widely regarded as oneof the masterpieces of the20th century. The Yugoslaviathat West visited in the late 1930s14 15