Kerry Guinan
About Kerry Guinan
Kerry Guinan, PhD, is an artist and researcher affiliated with the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPim). Her interdisciplinary practice spans installation, performance, participatory art, and networked art, with a sustained focus on critically exposing social and spatial relations within globalised systems. Her Postdoctoral project at CAPim, ‘Sensing Scales in Political Aesthetics,’ explores the capacity of artistic practice to conceptualise and make sensible political phenomena that operate at extreme spatio-temporal scales, such as high-turnover, globalised, production chains, international, tele-communication networks, and deep-time, geological activity.
Guinan completed her practice-based PhD at the Limerick School of Art and Design, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS), where she developed a critical methodology informed by Gothic Marxism, socially engaged art, and Brechtian theatre, to represent and reconfigure long-distance social relations in globalised production chains.
Guinan is the author of The Impact and Instrumentalisation of Art in the Dublin Property Market (2016), a monograph published with support from Fingal County Council. She was awarded the Arts Council of Ireland’s prestigious Next Generation Bursary Award in 2018, and in 2019, served as curator of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Ireland’s largest annual festival of contemporary visual art.
Recent projects include Cosmic Debris (2024), a residency and exhibition at the National Space Centre and Greywood Arts, (IE); Apocalypse Anxieties, a group exhibition Guinan curated in the Luan Gallery (IE) in response to a local, Cold War-era nuclear bunker; and The Red Thread (2022), a live installation at The Complex, Dublin, in which sewing machines were operated remotely—in real time—by garment workers based in Bengaluru, India.