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Dr Mark Curran

Dr Mark Curran holds a practice-led PhD from the Centre of Transcultural Research & Media Practice (now SEPR), TU Dublin, one of the first in the Republic of Ireland, is Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Photography & Visual Media and a Postgraduate Supervisor.

From 2011-2021, he was Visiting Professor on the MA Visual & Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. In 2021, Curran was an invited Research Associate, ARCHIVO Research Network (Portugal) & University of Arts London (UAL)(UK). From 2006-2008, Visiting Faculty, Postgraduate Summer Programme, Steinhardt School for Cultural Studies, New York University.

Publications

Title	Year
‘Interview: Mark Curran’, in Paper Visual Art (PVA) Journal, Vol. 16, (PVA/Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin 2024)	2024
La Région Humaine: 20 ans de Photographie Documentaire (Éditions Loco/ Bleu du Ciel/Ministère de la Culture, France, 2021)	2021
Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN (2003-2009): An audio-visual ethnography of a globalized present (Lausitz, Eastern Germany) by Mark Curran, in Irish-German Studies, Holfter, G., Byrnes, D., Conacher, J. (eds) Vol. 11, 185–202 (WVT Verlag, Triers 2020)	2020
‘SOUTHERN CROSS: Documentary Photography, the Celtic Tiger and a Future yet to Come’ in E. Smith, E. & Workman, S. (eds.), Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture, New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (Palgrave MacMillan 2019)	2019
‘Artist’s Project: The Market Has a History, But No Memory by Mark Curran‘, in In the Mind but Not from There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art, Moreno, G.(ed.) (Verso 2019)	2019
‘In conversation with Mark Curran on Multivocality as a Representational Strategy’ in Why Exhibit? Positions on Exhibiting Photographies, Sikking, I & Rastenberger, A-K. (eds) (Fw:Books, The Netherlands 2018)	2018
Space of Flows: Krakow Photomonth 2018 (Krakow, Poland 2018)	2018
MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM (Project Projects, New York 2017)	2017
I Stood Before The Source (Blackwood Gallery/University of Toronto 2016)	2016
#DataRush/Pulse, NOORDERLICHT 2015 (NOORDERLICHT, Groningen, the Netherlands)	2015
‘Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN: Re-representing the ‘wounded’ landscape of the Lausitz, Eastern Germany’ in Photographies, Wells, L. + Bright, D. (eds.)(Routledge, London, UK)	2013
FACTORY:Mass Production (FORMAT 2013, Derby, UK)	2013
‘Capital at Work: Methodology in THE MARKET’ in Perspectives: Anthology of IADT Research, Kirwan, G. (ed.)(IADT, Dublin, Ireland)	2013
Migrations: PhotoIreland 2012 (PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland)	2012

Exhibitions

Title	Year
National Photography Collection Tour – Glór, Ennis, Ireland	2023
THE MARKET – Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany In Our Own Image: The Politics of Place – Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Selected Works: National Photography Collection – Draíocht,Ireland The Institutional – PhotoIreland, Dublin Castle, Ireland Collection Bleu du Ciel – Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France	2022
National Photography Collection – Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, Ireland	2021
MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM – New School/Parsons, New York City, USA Taxed To The Max – NOORDERLICHT,Groningen, The Netherlands CAPITAL – National Centre for Photography, Ballarat Biennale, Australia	2019
Space of Flows: KRAKOW PHOTOMONTH (Invited – Main Programme) Krakow, Poland We Only Want The Earth: Contemporary Irish Artists Adobe, San Francisco, USA	2018
THE MARKET – Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France Spectacle & Scaffold: Contemporary Photography & Mapping Networks, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, North Carolina, USA Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM, Oakland, California, USA	2017
I Stood Before The Source, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada	2016
Periodical Review #5, Pallas Projects + NCAD Gallery, Dublin, Ireland	2016
The Economy of Appearances by Mark Curran, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland	2015
#DataRush, NOORDERLICHT 2015, Groningen, the Netherlands 2015 – Photoville, New York City, USA	2015
THE MARKET – Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France	2014

Reseach Projects

Incorporating multi-media installation, centrally informed by visual anthropology, he has undertaken a cycle of long-term projects critically addressing the predatory impact of migrations of global capital. Includes SOUTHERN CROSS (1999-2002), The Breathing Factory (2002-2006) and Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN (2003-2009). These have been extensively exhibited and published alongside presentations at conferences and symposia.

His multi-sited transnational project, THE MARKET (2010-) focuses on the functioning and condition of the global markets and the central role of financial capital. Installations include, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2014), Noorderlicht, Netherlands (2015 & 2019), Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto (2016), Athens Biennale (2017), Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon (2017), Krakow Photomonth (2018), Ballarat Biennale, Australia (2019), Museum of Capitalism (Oakland 2017 & New York City 2019), Photo Museum Ireland (2021), PhotoIreland (2022) & Villa Heike, Berlin (2022).

Conferences/Symposia include Photographers’ Gallery, London (2012), Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)(2013), Abbey Theatre, Dublin (2014), McGill University, Montreal (2014), University of Bern (2015), Boston University (2016), CAA, NYC (2017), Royal Anthropological Institute, London (2020), University of South Wales (2021), Aalto University, Helsinki (2022) & University College Cork (2024).

Lectures/Conferences

Title	Year
‘Abstraction, Studying Up and the Re-Representation of Financial Capital’, Invited Speaker, Documentary Futures: New Ecologies, Science and Aesthetics, University of South Wales (UK) & Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland)	2021
‘Normalising Deviance and the construction of THE MARKET (2010-’, Panel, Encountering the City, Anthropology & Geography: Dialogues Past, Present & Future, Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Annual Conference, London, UK	2020
‘Normalising Deviance & the construction of THE MARKET’, Panel, The Role of Art in the Age of Financial Crisis, College Arts Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, USA	2017
‘Normalising Deviance and the construction of THE MARKET’, Panel, Post-Society and Financial Exsanguination, THE SOCIAL – 4th International Association for Visual Culture Biennial Conference (#IAVC2016), Boston University, USA	2016
‘Normalising Deviance and the construction of THE MARKET’, Panel (invited), Global Capitalism + The Challenge of Well-being In The World, Annual Conference of the Swiss Anthropological Society, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland (November 14th – 14th)	2015
‘Normalising Deviance and the construction of THE MARKET’, Panel (invited), INFINITI conference on International Finance, University of Ljubljana + Trinity College Dublin, Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 8th – 9th)	2015
‘Slap, Bang in the Middle: Re-representing THE MARKET’, Keynote, Mapping The Frontiers of Financial Capital: Art, Anthropology + High Finance, Royal Anthropological Institute + University of Sussex, London, England (April 25th)	2015
‘The Normalisation of Deviance : Constructing THE MARKET’, Keynote, SOUND VISION ACTION 2014 McGill University, Montreal, Canada, (November 14th – 15th)	2014
‘The Normalisation of Deviance : Constructing THE MARKET’, Keynote, The Theatre of Memory, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (January 16th – 18th)	2014

Awards + Achievements

Title	Year
Berlin/Bezirkskulturfonds, Bezirksamt Lichtenberg Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland	2022
Government of Ireland Bursary, Culture Ireland	2019-2017
Commission, North East Photography Network (NEPN), University of Sunderland & NOORDERLICHT 2015 (Groningen, Netherlands)	2015
Deutsche Börse Photography Award 2016 nomination for The Economy of Appearances from Christiane Monarchi, Editor, Photomonitor.co.uk	2015
Commission, North East Photography Network (University of Sunderland) + NOORDERLICHT	2015
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland	2013
Prix Pictet (International Award for Photography) nomination for THE MARKET by Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland	2013
Government of Ireland Bursary, Culture Ireland	2012

Other

Research Blog: https://lockout2013.wordpress.com
Vimeo Profile: https://vimeo.com/user6725215

Overview

Department: Film + Media
Job Title: Lecturer + Year Tutor
Academic Qualifications: BA, Dip. Ph., MPhil, PhD
Area of Expertise Photography, Multi-media, Moving Image, Installation, Visual Ethnography, Publication, Web-based Narration

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