WELCOME TO GOTHIC IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE. Tracy Fahey

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1 WELCOME TO GOTHIC IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE Tracy Fahey

2 WHAT IS THE GOTHIC? Roots, themes, tropes

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5 Recent Publications Fahey, T (2019) The League of Gentlemen: Contemporary Folk Horror in The Horror Reader Simon Bacon ed. (Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing) Fahey, T (2018) The Banshee Lives In The Handball Alley. Limerick as Folk Gothic heterotopia in Supernatural Cities: Exploring the Urban Mindscape, ed. Karl Bell (Boydell and Brewer) Fahey, T. (2018) Possession, Aideen Barry (2011): Suburban/Domestic Gothic in The Gothic Reader: The Gothic in 28 Texts ed. Simon Bacon (Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing) Fahey, T. (2018) A Woman s Place : the Irish Gothic suburbs in contemporary art practice in Imagining Irish Suburbia eds. Eoghan Smith and Simon Workman, (Cork University Press) Fahey, T. (2017) Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: Gothic Stories Recalled and Retold in Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory (Peter Lang Publishing) Fahey, T. (2017) In Between Days; Domestic Liminality in the work of Aideen Barry in Between Places and Spaces: Landscapes of Liminality (Rowman & Littlefield) Fahey, T. (2016) Alfred Kubin ( ) in Lost Souls, eds. Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice Murphy, (McFarland) Fahey, T. (2016) Haunted by the Ghost; From Global Economics to Domestic Anxiety in Contemporary Art Practice in International Gothic in the Neo-Liberal Age, eds. Linnie Blake & Agniezska Soltysik Monnet (Manchester University Press) Fahey, T. (2015) Making Gothic: A/r/tographic attempts to integrate theory and practice in UNESCO Observatory refereed e-journal, special edition of Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts, eds. Clare Hall, Anne Harris and Mary Ann Hunter

6 Recent Papers Women Who Can t Seem To Get Out Of The House : A case study of Irish contemporary Gothic art. (International Gothic Association conference, July 2018) Irish Ecogothic: The Reanimation of Folk Traditions in Irish Contemporary Culture. (Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the Ecogothic conference, November 2017, Trinity College Dublin.) Gothicising Limerick. (Supernatural Cities: Gothic Cities conference, April 2017, Limerick School of Art and Design) Keynote speaker: Wildgoose Lodge was a cursed story : Revoicing vernacular narratives Temporal Discombobulations: Time and the Experience of the Gothic conference, University of Surrey, t August Crossing the Threshold: The Folk Gothic Home in Irish Contemporary Art (New Crops Old Fields 2: (Re)Imagining Irish Folklore conference, Queen s University Belfast, June 2016) The Banshee Lives In The Handball Alley. Limerick as Folk Gothic heterotopia. (Supernatural Cities: Exploring the Urban Mindscape conference, University of Portsmouth, 30 April 2016) Irish Folk Gothic: Spaces of Folklore in Contemporary Art Practice. (Reflected Shadows: Folklore and the Gothic, a joint conference of The Folklore Society and Kingston University. April 2016, Kingston University) Revealing and Revoicing: Patient Narratives in Contemporary Irish Art (Institutions & Ireland: Medicine, Health, and Welfare conference, Trinity College Dublin, February 2016) What Lies Beneath: Unveiling Occluded Patient Narratives (What Lies Beneath, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, October 2015) The Persistence of Legends; Folklore and the Ethnographic Art Practice of Michael Fortune (Why Folkloristics? conference Uppsala University, Sweden,June 2015) Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: Gothic Trauma Recalled and Retold (Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory conference, Radboud University Nijmegen March April 2015) The Locality of Loss; Memory Projects and Community Narratives co-delivered with Dr. Niamh Nic Ghabhann (The Literature of Loss, Mary Immaculate College, February 2015)

7 New Music For Old Rituals (2018). Short story collection. (Kent: Black Shuck Books) The Unheimlich Manoeuvre (2016, 2 nd edition 2018). Short story collection. (The Sinister Horror Company) The Girl In The Fort (2017). Novel. (Leicester: Fox Spirit) Short fiction published in twenty-one anthologies: Uncertainties III; Hauntings; The Girl At The End Of The World; Where Dreams and Visions Live; Drag Noir; In An Unknown Country; Into The Woods; Piercing The Vale; Dystopian Express; Onyx Neon Horror Shorts; Faed; Now Playing In Theatre B; Darkest Minds; Tales From The Lake; Impossible Spaces; Imposters; Uncertainties III; Women in Horror Annual 2; Spooky Isles Book of Horror; Mrs. Rocheste s Attic; Cold Iron.

8 Projects (2015) Death Café Limerick (2014) Waking St. Munchin ( ) Remembering Wildgoose Lodge (2011) A Haunting (2011) The Double Life of Catherine Street (2010) ghostwalk/ghosttalk

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26 Roots of the Gothic

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28 Medieval Gothic and its influence

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33 The Gothic Revival

34 Dracula (Stoker) The Monk (Lewis) The Castle of Otranto (Walpole) Vathek (Beckford) Frankenstein (Shelley)

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41 Why the current prevalence of Gothic?

42 like Frankenstein s monster, these revivals seldom take exactly the same shape they possessed before. The notion of revival can be seen to imply a reappropriation and reinvention of previous forms rather than a straightforward repetition. (Spooner 2006: 11-12).

43 The Gothic vision presents a dark picture of haunted, insalubrious and unresolved circumstances, situations that remain thoroughly at odds with optimistic or forward-looking cultural frameworks. (Williams 2013: 423)

44 Gothic: Transmutations Of Horror In Late Twentieth Century Art, the 1997 Exhibition at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Sensation: Young British Artists From The Saatchi Collection, the 1997 Exhibition At The Royal Academy Of Arts, London. (Catalogue Covers)

45 Gothic presents contemporary art that displays a strong pre-millennial fascination with the dark and uncanny side of the human psyche and attempts to relocate it within the context of a revival of Gothic sensibility in many cultures today (Grunenberg 1997: 217)

46 Gothic contains our fears so we can live in safety (Spooner 2006: 9)

47 Roots of Gothic Gothic Media Gothic Bodies Urban Gothic Space and Experience Irish Gothic The Uncanny Gothic in Contemporary Culture Psychogeography The Abject The Other Monstrosity