If Capitalism Is Short, My Shots are Long
Declan Clarke Talks to Shirley Read
MuseumsEtc (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-912528-40-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book, an exclusive interview with Berlin-based, Irish artist and filmmaker Declan Clarke, provides a detailed insight into the creative process of an artist at a key stage in his career. Clarke is a master communicator and storyteller - always open, amusing, inspiring - and highly readable.
Ranging from his early formative experiences at art college to his work on his most recent, award-winning films, the interview ranges over those issues of fundamental concern to almost any artist: instinct, research, colour, form, collaboration, career, funding, creativity, technology, politics... and the dogs of Bucharest.
The interview is illustrated by images of Clarke at work researching and shooting his films.
Thread-sewn, OTA binding, with flaps.
Cover: Callisto Pearl 250gsm.
Text: Olin: Rough Soft White 120gsm.
Ranging from his early formative experiences at art college to his work on his most recent, award-winning films, the interview ranges over those issues of fundamental concern to almost any artist: instinct, research, colour, form, collaboration, career, funding, creativity, technology, politics... and the dogs of Bucharest.
The interview is illustrated by images of Clarke at work researching and shooting his films.
Thread-sewn, OTA binding, with flaps.
Cover: Callisto Pearl 250gsm.
Text: Olin: Rough Soft White 120gsm.
Reviews / Votes
Declan Clarke's skill is to weave the personal into the political and vice-versa, and to show that the two are inextricably related.TATE
Declan Clarke shows how indeed timing is everything in words and still images as he discusses his journey, research processes and approach to filmmaking. Always political, with a literary and emotional depth to his work, Clarke communicates an artist's vision of analogue film that allows past, present and future to connect for potent, tangible moments before they drift apart.
Prof. Sarah Perks, Centre for Culture & Creativity, Teesside University
A critical - and uniquely frank - conversation about left-wing politics, class, the moving-image and cinema.
Valentine Umansky, Curator International Art, Tate Modern
This engaging interview offers an intimate glimpse into the mind of a celebrated artist and filmmaker, covering everything from his creative process, the politics around it and the unexpected stories behind his work. In dialogue with photographs documenting the artistic process, and filled with humour and insight, the book invites us into a great journey about how the work is made.
Rosa Barba, writer and filmmaker
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 monochrome images
Dimensions
Height: 140 mm
Width: 209 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
202 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912528-40-0 (9781912528400)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Declan Clarke is an artist and filmmaker whose work has been shown widely in institutions around the world including Tate Britain, PS1 MoMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art and Kunsthalle Tubingen. His film Saturn and Beyond won the Georges de Beauregard International Award at the FID Marseille in 2021.
Shirley Read is a curator, writer and tutor in photography. She interviews for the British Library's Oral History of British Photography archive and is the author of Photographers and Research (Routledge) and Exhibiting Photography (Focal Press).
Shirley Read is a curator, writer and tutor in photography. She interviews for the British Library's Oral History of British Photography archive and is the author of Photographers and Research (Routledge) and Exhibiting Photography (Focal Press).
Content
Declan Clarke talks to Shirley Read. Dublin, March 2023
Making the Work: Photographs
Making the Work: Photographs