DABF24 Book Launch | A L T A R (Part II)

This launch is a free two-part event. Booking is required for each part of the launch.

Milk Wilson's essay ‘We that Swarm Among the Living and the Dead’ was commissioned for A L T A R and read on a wild stormy night in Goldenbridge Cemetery. Mick returns to interrogate the spatial segregation between the communities of the living and those of the dead. Presenting the body as both a living ensemble of self and not-self, Mick’s essay reflects on the uncanny realization of the self as multitude and asks what does a recognition of our immanent movement towards the crowd of the dead imply?

A L T A R publication is realised and edited by Clodagh Emoe and Donal Lally, and designed by Alex Synge, working under the studio name The First 47. A L T A R features photographs by Kate-Bowe O’Brien and David Conway and film stills by artist/filmmaker Jenny Brady and Barry Lynch. A L T A R was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, Architecture Project Award in 2022 and supported by Common Ground, Dublin Cemeteries Trust, IMMA, NCAD and TU Dublin.

Light refreshments will be served 5–5.30pm.

The proceeds from A L T A R publication go to Médecins Sans Frontières.

Mick Wilson is an artist, educator and researcher based in Gothenburg and Dublin. He was Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Ireland (2007-2012) and Chair of the SHARE, a network of 40 higher arts education institutions across 30-plus countries. He is currently Professor of Art, Director of Doctoral Studies at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and co-chair of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary.

This event is part of the extended programme of Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF). A centre for contemporary artist books, DABF offers unique artist publications and titles from creative, small and independent publishers, both Irish and international.

DABF24 is proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and RTÉ Supporting The Arts.