Sleepwalkers

Six contemporary artists joined by leading curators and cultural critics research
and question the role of museums, curating and collecting in Sleepwalkers,
an exhibition catalog from the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Employing
the space of the public gallery as a field for reflection and debate, the artists
Clodagh Emoe, Sean Lynch, Gavin Murphy, Linda Quinlan, Jim Ricks and Lee
Welch used the galleries as a place for research over a two-year period (2012 14),
each developing a solo installation and a section of the catalog investigating
its changing role. Sections devoted to the artists works are interspersed with
essays by English philosopher Simon Critchley and Belgian political theorist
Chantal Mouffe among others, who add to this lively contemporary debate their
own questions regarding the role and definition of galleries, museums and
collecting in the 21st century.