CIRCA 128 Summer 2009

Features Making connection: on the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland at the 2009 Venice Biennale | David Hughes What to expect from the two pavilions from this island All academic | Gemma Tipton A look at the 'new' RHA in Dublin Kathy Prendergast in interview | Coline Milliard The London-based artist discusses her practice Letter from Havana | Yuneikys Villalonga Between the Bienal and the embargo, how does art work in Cuba? The loneliness of East Germany | Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes A critical look at 'Ostalgie' in some recent art in Ireland Reviews Belfast: The Performance Collective | Slavka Sverakova Belfast: Sandra Johnston: Breathing backwards | Michelle Browne Belfast: Four single works of art | Slavka Sverakova Cardiff: Dragana Jurisic: Seeing things | David Trigg Cork: Ciara Moore: The Ivory tower project | Gemma Carroll Cork: Grin and bear it: cruel humour in art and life | John Kelly Coventry: Brigid McLeer: Isoli [cont.] | Cherry Smyth Dublin: Wendy Judge: Works of the world united more…great works | Gemma Tipton Dublin: Peter O’Kennedy: Situation | Jessica Foley Dublin: David Beattie: Tools and objects | Donal Maguire Dublin: James Coleman | Susan Thomson Galway: Aideen Barry: Of hypothetical evolutions of [an]other | Michaële Cutaya Limerick: ev+a | Fergal Gaynor London: Duncan Campbell: Bernadette | Conor Carville