It’s hard to resist a good ghost story.
Galway artist Louise Manifold certainly found that the people of Askeaton, Co. Limerick, really liked her 5-minute video “Phantom.”
“It wasn’t a regular art audience,” she said of those who gathered in the community center in 2009. “But the piece was quite accessible.”
Manifold also got a good response in Brooklyn more recently, where she has just completed a six-month residency at the International Studio Curatorial Program.
At the beginning of her two-week residency with Askeaton Contemporary Arts, she researched a local angle for her piece and came across a Dec. 7, 1913 New York Times report headlined “Many Hauntings in Ireland Told Of,” with the sub heading “Clergyman Who Asked for Ghost Stories Gets More Than He Can Use.”
Galway artist Louise Manifold certainly found that the people of Askeaton, Co. Limerick, really liked her 5-minute video “Phantom.”
“It wasn’t a regular art audience,” she said of those who gathered in the community center in 2009. “But the piece was quite accessible.”
Manifold also got a good response in Brooklyn more recently, where she has just completed a six-month residency at the International Studio Curatorial Program.
At the beginning of her two-week residency with Askeaton Contemporary Arts, she researched a local angle for her piece and came across a Dec. 7, 1913 New York Times report headlined “Many Hauntings in Ireland Told Of,” with the sub heading “Clergyman Who Asked for Ghost Stories Gets More Than He Can Use.”