Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions

Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions presents five immersive installations that pay attention to multiple ways of knowing, sensing, feeling and interacting with the world. Overlapping Magisteria is the second edition of a multi-year partnership that supports ambitious projects by contemporary artists, and transforms ACCA’s galleries with major new works by Robert Andrew, Mimosa Echard, Sidney McMahon, Sam Petersen and Isadora Vaughan.

Curated by Max Delany and Miriam Kelly, the works in Overlapping Magisteria draw on various social, cultural, technical and material forms, unsettling the lingering divide between nature and culture towards more complex realms of knowledge and experience.

This catalogue features a curatorial introduction by Max Delany and Miriam Kelly and five feature texts by guest writers Robin M Eames, Ellen Greig, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Tim Riley Walsh and Marion Vasseur Raluy addressing the work of each exhibiting artist and accompanied by full colour installation images of the exhibition at ACCA.