For PhotoIreland 2021, AEMI presents ‘To be consumed in totality’, a screening programme curated with and featuring work by artist filmmaker Kevin Gaffney, looking at how we grow and consume food, and spend our time waiting for change, connection and satisfaction.

The seven artists’ works depict orchards being cared for in a desert, wild boars devouring a multi-tiered cake, a state-mandated flour consumption quota, all-consuming relationships, online identities and the sexually charged language of advertising. ‘To be consumed in totality’ explores the tension between our experience of natural and constructed realities through a wide range of processes and materials, including 16mm experimental film, fiction, documentary and archival footage.

‘To be consumed in totality’ screens here from July 1st to July 31st, available to audiences globally free of charge

Film info

Jennifer Mehigan, Fantasy Flesh 2.0, 25 minutes
Lana May Fleming, It’s not really about strawberries. Is it?, 46 seconds
Kevin Gaffney, A Numbness in the Mouth, 17 minutes 32 seconds
Vicki Thornton, The Centre and the Circumference, 7 minutes
Bryony Dunne, The Orchard Keepers, 24 minutes
Viktoria Schmid, Food Films, ‘alphabet soup and coffee’, 3 minutes 48 seconds
Greta Alfaro, In Praise of the Beast, 15 minutes

Event: watch-along & post-screening discussion

Join aemi and PhotoIreland on Wednesday 14 July at 6:15pm for watch-along of the programme #KevinGaffney, followed by a live Q&A with Kevin Gaffney at 8pm, booking available here

Event update

Watch the PhotoIreland Festival talk again here

Images:

Jennifer Mehigan, Fantasy Flesh 2.0, 2018, video, 25 min, courtesy of the artist

Lana May Fleming, It's not really about strawberries. Is It, 2019, video, 46 seconds, courtesy of the artist

Vicki Thornton, The Centre and the Circumference, 2011, 16mm film with optical sound, 7 mins, courtesy of the artist

Viktoria Schmid_Food Films 'alphabet soup and coffee', 2010, 16mm, silent, 8 min (3 min 48 sec excerpt), courtesy of the artist

Bryony Dunne, The Orchard Keepers, 2014, 24 min, courtesy of the artist

Greta Alfaro, In Praise of the Beast, 2009, Single channel video, HDV, colour, sound, 16.9, 14 min 58 sec, courtesy of the artist

Kevin Gaffney, still from A Numbness in the Mouth, 2016, 4K video, 17 mins 32 sec, Irish with English subtitles, courtesy of the artist