Dialogical Art and Productive Failure: Interview with Aisling O' Beirn in Dialogical Interventions

Dialogical Interventions is a publication edited by Martin Krenn which evolves around the practice of dialogical art. Part 1 of the 168 pages book consists of essays by Suzana Milevska, Martin Krenn, Boris Groys and many more. Part 2 is comprised of interviews and student projects presented with collages of Krenn. O' Beirn is one of the artists interviewed for the book.

In O' Beirn's interview she discuss socially engaged practice, the relationship between art and science, the role of failure in creativity in relation to a range of works such as ‘Another Day in Futile Battle Against the Second Law’ (2016), Boolean Logic’ (2015), ‘Structures Invisible to the Naked Eye’ 92011), Nicknames Map, Belfast’ (2014) and ‘Transforming Long Kesh/Maze (2016 – 2019 collaboration with M. Krenn).

Martin Krenn's information on the book below

Dialogical Interventions

• Current theory on dialogical art
• Introductory contributions by renowned art theorists, interviews on current key projects of socially committed art in the international field, and artist insertions on dialogical art projects

Aims and Scope
How can art change society? What aesthetic quality does dialog bring to art? What is the role of autonomy in dialogical art? Dialogical Interventionsinvestigates how dialogical art moves between the poles of social engagement, aesthetic autonomy and social change. Essays by international authors and interviews with socially and politically engaged artists and collectives focus on the relevance of dialogical and interventionist practices and their role in mediating new forms of knowledge and experience through art, thus opening up new prospects for this exciting arena of activity. Between the individual texts, artist insertions document social artistic practices on a visual level.
Essays by: Mary Jane Jacob, Boris Groys, Suzana Milevska, Barbara Putz-Plecko, Martin Krenn
Interviews with: Gerald Bast, Aisling O’Beirn, Gluklya, Renate Höllwart, Elke Smodics (trafo.K), Florian Malzacher, Alastair McLennan, Christina Varvia　(Forensic Architecture), Selda Asal
Projects/Interviews by: Liliane-Sarah Kölbl, Cornelia Kolmann, Nora Licka, Nina Kugler, Lea Jank, Ariana Joya Mc Manus, Shobha Untersteiner, Tanja Happel, Rosie Benn, Marius Fischer, Johanna Folkmann, Eve Sherl
(Martin Krenn 2019)