VISUAL Carlow: Woman In The Machine

The second of our commissioned responses to Woman in the Machine comes from Sue Rainsford, an art writer and author of two novels: Follow Me to Ground and Redder Days. In a recent talk, Rainsford spoke of not wanting to directly describe or ‘translate’ an artwork into writing, but rather responding interpretatively: to use language to dig deeper into the work and tease out threads, ideas and references which could be explored, or to bore into the emotional core of a work. In ‘THE OVERFLOWING’, her response to Woman in the Machine, Rainsford hones in on the works of four artists, using imagination, poetic language and literary references to untangle ideas of geofeminism, extraction, and its possible counterpoint, ‘ooze’.

Install shot of Barbara Knežević, TOUCH TECHNE in Woman in the Machine. Photo credit: Aisling McCoy