In Conversation: Gerard Byrne and Brian Dillon
19 February 2025
Watch artist Gerard Byrne discuss his moving image work: Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli - Film inside an image currently on display at Towner until 21 April 2025.
Gerard was joined by writer Brian Dillon, they talk about Gerard’s work, its relationship to early image making technologies and dioramas.
About the speakers
Gerard Byrne is an artist based in Dublin. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including at Documenta 13, several Venice biennales, and at many other biennials and museums globally. His practice is represented by several galleries internationally, including Lisson gallery. He is Professor of Film at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt. Most recently, with Judith Wilkinson, he co-curated “On Television, Beckett” a definitive survey of Samuel Beckett’s 20 year collaboration with SDR television, at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart.
Brian Dillon is an Irish writer based in London. His books include Affinities, Suppose a Sentence, Essayism and In the Dark Room. His writing has appeared in such publications as frieze, Art Review, the Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books.
This is a recording of an online event that happened on Wednesday 19 February 2025, to accompany the exhibition Gerard Byrne Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli - Film inside an image