aemi tour: Spirit Messages
April 2024
Spirit Messages brings together exciting new moving image work by Irish and international artists. Alongside a variety of other concerns, the artists featured in this programme employ a diverse set of creative strategies to reveal an interconnected world, one in which the medium is not just the message but the means through which the paranormal can engage our attention. From folk tales to esotericism, poppers training videos, horror flicks and sci-fi, the films in Spirit Messages draw from an eclectic array of sources to suggest that the idiosyncratic forms of communication we adopt are often choices that are as subversive as they are functional.
Ross McClean, Echo, 2023,
Amanda Rice, The Flesh of Language, 2023
Niall Cullen, The Dog Who Became a Frog, 2023
Jamie Crewe, False Wife, 2022
Luis Arnías, Terror Has No Shape, 2021
Dan Guthrie, Coaley Peak (A Fragment), 2021
aemi (Artists' & Experimental Moving Image) is a Dublin-based initiative that supports and regularly exhibits moving image works by artists and experimental filmmakers.