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= Clare Langan = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clare Langan is an Irish artist and film maker whose work has been shown all over the world, including at MoMA in New York, Tate Liverpoo l and The Irish of Museum of Modern Art to name a few. Many of the films are in both public and private collections, and have won awards at film festivals such as Oberhausen and Kino Der Kunst.

Contents

 * Early life and Education
 * Work
 * Career
 * Publications
 * Awards
 * References
 * External links

Early life and Education
Clare Langan studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and with a Fulbright Scholarship, completed a film workshop at NYU. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from The National University of Ireland. In 2019 she became a member of Aosdana. She has represented Ireland in numerous international Biennales, including the 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2002 Brazil; The Liverpool Biennial – International 2002, Tate Liverpool: Sounds and Visions, Art Film and Video from Europe, 2009, Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv; Singapore Biennial 2008, curated by Fumio Nanjo touring to Dojima River Biennale 2009, Osaka Japan; Busan Biennale 2010, South Korea. In 2003 Langan presented A Film Trilogy at MoMA in New York and at the RHA, Dublin.

Work
Langan's work bring to mind anticipatory and speculative fabulations: a type of fiction that not only manages to unfold new worlds, but also brings forth possibilities that are already contained in our own world.

“In science fiction it’s always about now,” advocates Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, adding: “What else could it be about? There is no future. There are many possibilities, but we do not know which one we are going to have.” Science fiction has always been about the present, as Langan's The Heart of a Tree (2020) perfectly illustrates. Trees are the breath of life, the living partners without whom human life would not be possible. Life in a treeless planet would mean a continuing attempt to grow trees again. Nothing would be more vital, if not sacred. The Heart of a Tree is about the very possibility of life in a damaged planet.

For the last 20 years, Langan's films deal with existential issues, where humanity and our relationship to the planet and climate have always been at the fore. Her first trilogy – Forty Below (1999), Too Dark for Night (2001), and Glass Hour (2002) – were shot in a drowned world; in the town being consumed by the desert, and across a molten volcanic landscape. With Langan's 2015 film Flight from the City made for the late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, the camera was turned from focus on the landscape, to focus on humanity itself. Since then the work has combined elements of choreography, landscape, performance with music being a crucial element of the works. The Heart of a Tree was jointly shot by Langan and Oscar nominated cinematographer Robbie Ryan. Its is the 20th film of Langan's that they have collaborated on.

Langan has made films in Namibia, Iceland, at Skellig Michael, in the sky above the city of Dubai, and on the largely abandoned island of Montserrat. Langan started shooting in the late 1990s on 16mm film using hand-painted glass filters that operated like eyelids, later moving to unusual film stock, including black and white infra-red. Now, she is working in digital, still making provoking, urgent art about human fragility and resilience.

Career
The Floating World premiered at Kino Der Kunst in 2013, where it was really well received by the jury and the audience. The jury members included Cindy Sherman, Isaac Julien, Amira Casar, Defne Ayas and Heinz Peter Schwerfel. The film went on to win the Prix Videoformes 2014 | Conseil Général du Puy de Dôme at VIDEOFORMES 2014, Clermont-Ferrand, France. It was exhibited as a 3-screen installation in VISUAL Center of Contemporary Art in 2015, and has since been exhibited in Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany and The Tom Tomson Art Gallery, Canada, where she also exhibited The Winter of 13 Storms, (2016/17). The Heart of a Tree then had its world premiere at Kino Der Kunst in October 2020.

Her film Metamorphosis (2007) won the Principle Prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany. In 2007 it was exhibited at the Lyon Biennale; Houldsworth Gallery, London; Loop, Barcelona; NCA Gallery, Tokyo; Pratt Art Gallery New York and the Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona. Langan's State of Suspension (2012) was shown in Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, and The Rubicon Gallery, Dublin. She participated in the Glen Dimplex Artists’ Award 2000 at The Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Her film Flight from the City premiered at the B3 Biennale of the Moving Image 2015 in Frankfurt, before touring to Beijing and Shanghai. Jóhann Jóhannsson went on to use Flight from the City to launch his 2016 album Orphee.

In 2017, she exhibited her film The Human Flock at Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford. The film travelled to Dirimart, Istanbul in July 2018, as part of The Best of Kino der Kunst curated by Heinz Peter Schwerfel. Other exhibiting artists include AES+F, Oliver Pietsch, Pierre Huyghe, Lola Gonzalez and Yael Bartana. Her film The Winter of 13 Storms was exhibited at the B3 Biennal of the Moving Image Frankfurt 2017 curated by Kelly Gordon.

In 2019, she had retrospective show at The Dock, Carrig on Shannon featuring a number of recent and older works, including The Winter of 13 Storms, 2017 and A Film Trilogy 1999-2002 from the IMMA Collection. It also included the 3-screen film installation River (2015), with a selection of music curated by Gary Sheehan, director of The National Concert Hall. In 2019, her work was also included in, Of Music and Making, Solstice, Navan; Moving Women, Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, Shaping Ireland, The National Gallery of Ireland, The Gifts of Tony Podesta, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington. Recent festivals include Ritratti Di Poesia, Poetry Festival, Rome alongside the poets Kate Tempest and Ingrid de Kok, and Physical Cinema Festival, in Reykjavk. In 2020, her film The Heart of a Tree premiered at Kino Der Kunst, Munich. The Heart of a Tree was then part of Lightmoves Film Festival, Limerick in 2021 before being part of Fondazione In Between Art Film in 2022, where Teresa Castro, associate professor in Film Studies at the University Bonne Nouvelle, examined the film in a wider conversation, imagining humanity's future amidst the major threats posed by the environmental crises facing the world.

In 2021, her film Flight from the City was screened as part of Artist Film International (AFI) which included 21 partner organisations including Whitechapel Gallery, London, Para Site, Hong Kong and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. In 2022, Clare's film River screened as part of Living Canvas, Dublin City's new cultural initiative by IPUT which establishes new ways of exhibiting artworks in large scale outdoor installations.

Most Recently, a still from her film The Heart of A Tree won The Progressive Vision Curtin O' Donoghue Photography Prize as selected by The RHA Annual Exhibition 2022. She was also interviewed by John Kelly in The Works Presents which is now available to view via RTE Player. Her most recent show TERRA INFIRMA, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany, exhibits The Heart of a Tree, The Floating World and Flight from the City (Photographs and Films).

Her films and photographs are in a number of international public and private collections including IMMA, The Arts Council of Ireland, The OPW, the Tony Podesta Private Collection, Washington, and the Hugo and Carla Brown Collection, UK. She has done numerous public art commissions including NUI Maynooth, Castletown House and Rathmines Swimming pool.

Click here for full list of exhibtions via website.

Photography books by the artist

 * 2013-15, The Floating World, Carlow: VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, 978-1-907537-12-7
 * 2004, Essays by Patrick T. Murphy and Aidan Dunne, A Film Trilogy, Dublin: The Royal Academy
 * 2002, Too dark for night, Representing Ireland at the 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo Brazil, Dublin: Arts Council of Ireland
 * Forty Below, Dublin: The Green On Red Gallery, 0-9524564-8-6

Photography books with contribution by the artist

 * 2021, In Conversation with Cristin Leach, Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith (ed.), And Now With Feeling, Winter Papers, Vol.7, Dublin: Arts Council of Ireland, Curlew Editions, 978-0-9933029-6-1
 * 2018, Texts by Jack Rasmussen, Klaus Ottmann, Susan Fisher Sterling, Kathryn Wat, The Gifts of Tony Podesta, American University Museum, 978-1-7321553-2-9
 * 2011, Noel Kelly and Sean Kissane, Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts, Arts Council of Ireland, 978-1-907683-11-4
 * 2010, Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Gwangalli Beach, 2010
 * 2009, Sounds & Visions: Artists’ Films and Videos from Europe, The Last Decade, Milano, Silvana Editoriale
 * 2008, Representing Art in Ireland, Cork, The Fenton Gallery, 978-0-9544843-8-5
 * 2008, Singapore Biennale, Singapore, National Arts Council Singapore, 978-981-08-1684-1
 * 2009, Paysage – Video: Dialogue avec les collections #2, 978-2-905985-69-9
 * 2005, World Without End, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Australia, 1-920805-11-7
 * 2005, Irish Museum of Modern Art: The Collection, 1-903811-48-1
 * 2002, Catalogue, Shimmering Substance, Bristol, Arnolfini, 0-907738-71-0
 * 2022, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Ltd, 0-953671-4-5

Awards

 * 2022, Winner of The Progressive Vision Curtin O’ Donoghue Photography Prize, RHA Dublin
 * 2019, Elected as a member of Aosdana, The Arts Council Ireland
 * 2017, Awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art from The National University of Ireland
 * 2014, Prix Videoformes, Conseil Général du Puy de Dôme at VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand
 * 2007, Premier Prize, Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany
 * 1992, Fulbright Scholarship to attend NYU Film New York
 * 1994 - Present, Numerous Film Project Funding, Visual Arts Bursaries from The Arts Council of Ireland & The Irish Film Board, Ireland