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Manifold’s ‘Phantom’ taps into Irish esthetic by Peter McDermott, Irish Echo USA.

20/5/2011

 
Louise Manifold - Irish Echo
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.”


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