Episode 2 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution with Dr Alice Rekab

The National Library of Ireland

In Episode 2 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution we are joined by Dr Alice Rekab for a conversation about flags and song in the context of their artistic practice and Julie’s research at the National Library. Dr. Alice Rekab is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin. Their practice is concerned with expressions and iterations of complex cultural and personal narratives. Alice takes their own mixed-race Irish identity as a starting point from which to explore experiences of race, place and belonging. Over the last ten years Alice's practice has centred around collaboration and interdisciplinary work from which they produce film, performance, text, image and sculpture, creating new intersectional narratives and objects for gallery based exhibition and large scale public commission. Their projects include Family Lines, a solo exhibition and multi-platform project with Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin (2022), Ricochet #14, a solo presentation at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2023), Concealed in the Half Light at Catalyst Art Centre Belfast (2021) and Truth Flags Identity, a temporary public art work commissioned by Temple Bar Gallery+Studios for Dublin Culture Night 2020. The music for the Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution is “Saharakungoh” by Fehdah. Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution is created by Dr Julie Morrissy as part of the Poet-in-Residence programme at the National Library of Ireland, supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023. Sound and production are by the Museum of Literature Ireland. Sources: Antille, Martine, dir. Dreaming Rivers. Sankofa Film & Video, 1989. Gillis, Liz. Women of the Irish Revolution. Mercier Press, 2016. ---, and Mary McAuliffe. Richmond Barracks 1916: We Were There: 77 Women of the Easter Rising. Four Courts Press, 2016. “Introduction: What are Spomeniks?”. Spomenik Database, www.spomenikdatabase.org/what-are-spomeniks McCoole, Sinead. No ordinary women : Irish female activists in the revolutionary years, 1900-23. UP Wisconsin, 2003. O’Brennan, Lily. “Easter Week Experiences”. The Irish Press, 13 Apr. 1939, p. 5. ---. “1916: The Surrender”. An Cosantóir, Jun. 1947. Rpt. in The Evening Herald, 15 Apr. 2006, p. 8. Rekab, Alice. Breaking Emmet’s Block. 2017, Grange Road Plaza, The Pearse Museum, Dublin, South Dublin County Council, www.alicerekab.com/work/emerge-w85fd ---. Isatu at rest. 2021, FAMILY LINES: Billboard Series, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, www.thedouglashyde.ie/event/family-lines-billboard-series/ ---. FAMILY LINES PROJECT. 2021-22, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, www.thedouglashyde.ie/exhibition/family-lines-project/ ---. Migration Sings. 2020, featuring Khalilu Gibrill Daneil Conteh, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, https://vimeo.com/458995819 ---. Truth, Flags, Identity. 2020, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/events/public-art-commission-alice-rekab-truth-flags-identity santiago, nibia pastrana. “the lazy dancer / la ballerina vaga”. 2013, www.nibiapastrana.com/lazymanifesto Twilight City. Directed by Reece Auguiste. Black Audio Film Collective, 1989.