Gothicise is a Limerick-based interdisciplinary collaborative art practice established in 2010 by Dr. Tracy Fahey.
It adheres to principles of social engagement and is informed by Gothic theory. The membership is a floating membership, dictated by the projects engaged in.
Gothicise attempts to make the local universal, through investigating Gothic themes through regional contexts. Gothicise makes myths, artworks, writes and curates experiences using Gothic tropes and themes as a way of exploring the otherness of site, history and experience.
Gothicise is lost in space and time; it revisits the past, and attempts to reconstruct scenarios from an invented visions. It can be relied on to be an unreliable narrator. It delights in recreating, with ceremony and solemnity, sites, episodes and situations that play with the truth and flirt with the ridiculous. However, its activities, no matter how joyful, are tinged with a sense of melancholy at the inevitable passage of time; despite attempted reconstructions, the past and re-imagined past alike recede, to create an instant and mournful nostalgia. “In the psychoanalytic Gothic, we intensely desire the object that has been lost[1]”
[1] Bruhm, S. (1999) ‘The Contemporary Gothic: why we need it’in The Cambridge Companion to the Gothic. Ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. (London: Cambridge University Press)
The principal director is Tracy Fahey; other members are listed here.
The Double Life of Catherine Street - Gothicise and friends. Friday 13th May 2011