Ahead of a weekend of screenings for DISSOLUTIONS, aemi is pleased to present ‘Take Your Seats…’, a panel discussion devised with Paper Visual Art and featuring writers from their recently published collection, In The Good Seats exploring the allure of film as an art form and the idiosyncrasies of the cinema space.

Taking this 2024 New Yorker article about modes of attention and a mysterious collective called ‘The Order of the Third Bird’ as a springboard, the panel, including film artists Jenny Brady and Fiona Hallinan, NCAD lecturer Francis Halsall and writer & documentary producer Ian Maleney, will discuss what it means to engage with artist and experimental film as part of a festival and what distinguishes the audience experience from solitary viewing.

Book a place at the panel discussion HERE

This event is free and places can be reserved via the Eventbrite link on this page. To attend screenings at DISSOLUTIONS you must book a day or weekend festival ticket. Day or weekend festival ticket holders can attend discussions/masterclasses without having to book a place via Eventbrite.

SPEAKER BIOS

JENNY BRADY
Jenny Brady is an artist filmmaker based in Dublin, exploring ideas around speech, translation and communication. Her films have been presented at LUX, The New York Film Festival, Viennale, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Docs Ireland (with AEMI), This Long Century, MUBI, Essay Film Festival, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, TENT Rotterdam, EMAF, Videonale, Camden International Film Festival, Massachusetts, BFI London Film Festival, Images Festival, Toronto, November Film Festival, London the Irish Film Institute, Project Arts Centre, EVA International, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Whitechapel gallery and Tate Liverpool. Her works are distributed by LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices and the ideas that surround them.

FIONA HALLINAN
Fiona Hallinan is an artist, researcher, filmmaker and, alongside curator Kate Strain, co-founder of the Department of Ultimology, based between Brussels, Belgium and Cork, Ireland. Her doctoral research at LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven, (scheduled for defense in November 2025) explores the coming-into-being of Ultimology, a practice of paying attention to endings as a tool for transformative discourse, through gathering knowledge of modes of attending to death such as the wake as guiding frameworks. Her film Making Dust premiered at the IFI Documentary Festival, Dublin in 2023 and has screened at numerous festivals including the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam. She has written for a number of international publications, including the Encyclopaedia for Radical Helping, published by Thick Press. She is a current recipient of the Irish Arts Council Bursary Award.

FRANCIS HALSALL
Francis Halsall is a lecturer in Visual Culture at National College of Art and Design, Dublin, where he is co-director of the master’s programme Art in the Contemporary World. He works on ideas of systems and their cultural and philosophical significance. He recently published the book Contemporary Art, Systems, and the Aesthetics of Dispersion (Routledge, 2023).

IAN MALENEY
Ian Maleney is a writer from Offaly. His first collection of essays, Minor Monuments, was published by Tramp Press. He is the editor of Fallow Media.