Joining the Dots, Cork Street, Tralee, Kerry, 2012
Time is a dimension like any other, Digital video. Dublin 2013
Cleary Connolly guests on France24, April 2013 (video)
Run River Run
Galway University Hospital
2016
We Can Fly
Commission for two special needs schools
Ballina, 2010
Luas Carol.
Sound by JP Renoult/Dinahbird
40’00”, 2009
The Observer Effect
(film)
2008
12345SIX
with Jean Philippe Renoult
2009
Change Your Stripes
Derry, 2013
Hall of Mirrors
Farmleigh/LCGA/Solstice, 2012
Joining the Dots,
Hotel de Ville, Paris
2016
Joining the Dots, German Gymnasium, Kings Cross, Lumiere London 2016
Real Time Rolling Shutter with David Monaghan and Conor Gallagher, 2012
Our first video work, Touchy was part of a long series of subversive performances that we made during the 1990s. Old enough to be interesting again?
You’ll come and find the place
With JP Renoult. 2008 03’27”
Particles or Waves?
St. Patricks College, Cavan
2014
Scoil Nioclais
Cork, 2017
Questions
With David Byrne setting up Theatre of the Mind Governor’s Island, NYC, 2017
SELF-IMPRESSIONS at the Tate Modern, London. Institute of Philosophy/University of London, March 2018
School of Looking MIC & Donoughmore NS 2018
Cyclops Helmet with Neil McKenzie
La perception dans tous ses états,
with Guillaume Dumas
Théâtre La Reine Blanche
Paris, 8 Oct. 2019.
RVB
Video installation
with sound by Dinahbird
2004
THE GREAT LEAP 2010—2017
Moving Dublin
60’00”, 2007
Dutch Wax
Installation
Dublin Contemporary
2011
“Less than Thirteen”with Sir Simon Rattle. Barbican/LSO 2017-2018
SOLAR ELECTRIC RIVERBOAT CONNECTING COMMUNITIES ACROSS IRELAND TO BUILD A ZERO CARBON FUTURE
The Colour of Time
Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2018: Cleary Connolly present three interactive artworks, exploring our perception of colour and time, and a series of workshops
Portrait of Professor Abhay Pandit, Scientific Director of CÚRAM. Extract from Afterimage, 2018.
Metaperceptual Helmets, 2014–2019
MARCONI STATION INSTALLATIONS
This series of ten permanent installations evoke Derrigimlagh’s historical legacy - the Marconi Station and Alcock & Brown’s transatlantic flight - of which almost no physical trace remains in the wild landscape.
Usbek & Rica n°16 Summer 2016
Psycle Path
2007
Scientific paper published in 2017
Equiluminance Wheel
Equiluminance Helmets at the Tate Modern 2018
A Staircase
Permanent installation at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2021—
Paddy McEneaney & Diane Henshaw speak in the Pangolin Pavillon
Carrybridge, Co. Fermanagh
DE PROFUNDIS (film)
Exploring the Erne riverbed with biologist Rachel O’Malley.
PILGRIM ROAD MOVIE (film)
Exploring the medieval road through Offaly’s peatlands with artist Kevin O’Dwyer
Our Worlds
Permanent Installation
St Finnachta’s NS, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare. 2019
1. Regards indiscrets - 1’ 55’’
2. au point mort - 2’ 13’’
3. RDV - 2’ 55’’
4. Somnambule - 1’ 33’’
5. Payant - 1’ 46’’
6. noctambule - 1’ 28’’
7. Le Couloir - 0’51’’
8. Concrete - 2’ 14’’
9. Les feuilles mortes - 2’ 01’’
10. Ark - 1’ 59’’
11. Boulevard de quoi - 2’ 17’’
12. Barbès Bombay - 2’ 32’’
13. Ressort - 2’ 27’’
14. Papillons - 2’ 44’’
15. Paris Dakar - 2’ 06’’
16. Les Mains - 3’ 16’’
17. Le Déluge - 2’ 53’’
18. Chien et Loup - 2’ 25’’
19. Axe Rouge - 2’ 34’’
20. mixte - 2’ 22’’
21. Mort d’une Blonde - 1’ 32’’
22. Celibataire - 2’ 14’’
23. hommes machines - 2’ 18’’
24. Soixante Douze - 3’ 05’’
CLOT January 2018
29 May 2013
Para-Perceptual Helmets
(projects 2015—2019)
Exo-Perceptual Helmets
(projects 2015—2019)
Look Both Ways
Android/iOS App
2013
Meeting President Michael D. Higgins and Sabrina Higgins
with daughters Salammbo and Lotti
Áras an Uachtaráin, 2012
Hall of Mirrors
Plan, Solstice
2012
Change Your Stripes
Durham, 2012
Hall of Mirrors
Limerick City Gallery of Art
2012
Inverse Universe / Dutch Wax
Dublin Contemporary
2011
Testing first prototype of Inverse Universe helmets for Dublin Contemporary 2011
R is a murder story (extract)
V is a nature story (extract)
R is a children’s story (extract)
With Rhys McClenaghan and Nora Hickey M’Sichili, during shooting of a scene for “A Staircase” at CCI Paris, July 2024
INVISIBLE LIGHT at Hamburg Planetarium, 25 September - 2 October 2024 (photos by Fred Dott)
Making of DANCING DOTS (video) Spring 2024, Deansrath, South Dublin County
DANCING DOTS (video) Commissioned by South Dublin County Council, 2024
The Truth
2005
Yokohama Triennale
The fresh water crisis is one of the many ecological crises that lie, almost invisible, just ahead of us, and it is one of the most startling.
Fresh water only makes up around 2% of the water on the planet. Of that 2%, only 0.5% - so, one ten-thousandth of all the water on the planet - is surface water in the form of reservoirs, lakes, wetlands, rivers and canals. As the atmosphere warms up, more of this water will evaporate into the air. More moisture in the air may mean more precipitation, but this is likely to be violent, torrential rainfall. Water from heavy rainfall floods the land, eroding soil, damaging crops and infrastructure, paralysing activity, before finding its way rapidly to the sea - where it ceases to be fresh.
The crucial battle will be to slow down the air/land/sea water-cycle that distils fresh water from the salt sea, distributes it over the land and lets it percolate slowly back to the coast. But instead we see this cycle accelerating. The quicker the water gets back to the sea, the more damage it does to the land. The longer the water can be kept inland - in liquid form and on the surface preferably - the more good it does for the land, for us and for the planet. This is partly about global temperature: since 1940 the land surface air temperature has risen at twice the rate of the global average temperature. Air temperatures above wetlands are significantly lower than air temperatures above dry land.
But more crucial will be the preservation of fresh water as a resource. Our society needs more and more fresh water and, in the coming years, there will inevitably be more and more droughts. On a global scale, we will not be able to stop the volume of fresh water from falling: most of it will flow directly into the sea from melting ice caps. The inevitable decline of groundwater is something that we can’t do much about either. But we can manage and develop surface water and in particular our inland waterways - reservoirs, lakes, canals and rivers - which will play a crucial role in making the greatest use of the fresh water that remains.
Paris based artists, Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly have shown in the Pompidou Centre, the Barbican and the Tate Modern. Their work involves collaborations with scientists, artists and the public, taking many forms but focusing always on the act of looking, a conversation with the eye of the beholder. Since 2017 they have been practicing under the name “The School of Looking” to reflect this overarching programme of their work.
Cleary Connolly are leaving the boat behind in 2025 to explore freshwater environments beyond the navigable waterways in Ireland…
