I.A.T.
Anne Cleary was born
in 1965 in Tullamore and
Denis Connolly was born
in 1965 in Dublin (Ireland).
They both live in Paris.
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IAT was created in 1996 by
Anne Cleary and Denis
Connolly. Their signature
was inspired by McCarthyist
senator George Dondero,
who described avant-gardists
as "international art terrorists".
They started out in
performance and happening before their work turned to
digital video. Despising
all static attitudes to art, IAT
is dedicated to the destruction
of the artistic institution
through merciless and
wanton farce.
They expose the roles played
by institutions in the controll
of the liaisons between art
and public, thus creating
havoc in the artistic world,
with its tranquil galleries
and calm museums.

TOSSER
Colour video, 11 min 25, 2000

In the Palais Royal courtyard, around the Daniel Buren well, adults and children chat and throw coins.


RVB
Colour video, OVER 60MN. 2005.

R, is a murder story, V, is a story about nature and B, is a childrens story. Filmed over 3 years, all these videos takes place in the artist's building on the boulevard Barbès in Paris. Putting together 3 différents point of view and times, each chronicle's subject is a couple in his oun unicity :
René & Claire, two shop's owners, Véra & Igor, two birds from Japan, Bo & Lotti, the both twins children of the artists.

Scènes de boulevard
1. Regards indiscrets - 1’ 55’’
2. au point mort - 2’ 13’’
3. RDV - 2’ 55’’
4. Somnambule - 1’ 33’’
5. Payant - 1’ 46’’
6. noctambule - 1’ 28’’
7. Le Couloir - 0’ 51’’
8. Concrete - 2’ 14’’
9. Les feuilles mortes - 2’ 01’’
10. L’Arch - 1’ 59’’
11. Boulevard de quoi - 2’ 17’’
12. Barbès Bombay - 2’ 32’’
13. Ressort - 2’ 27’’
14. Paris Dakar - 2’ 44’’
15. Papillons - 2’ 06’’
16. Les Mains - 3’ 16’’
17. Le Déluge - 2’ 53’’
18. Chien et Loup - 2’ 25’’
19. Axe Rouge - 2’ 34’’
20. mixte - 2’ 22’’
21. Mort d’une Blonde - 1’ 32’’
22. Celibataire - 2’ 14’’
23. machines mens- 2’ 18’’
24. Soixante Douze - 3’ 05’’
Colour video, 2002
Nomination, International PRICE VIPER festival 2002.
Nomination, International price BACKUP festival 2002.

24 hours – 24 films, stories, performances, both musical and comical, choreographies, incidences, experiments... The day to day life of the boulevard, ordinary and extraordinary, liberally mixed with the performance of Cleary and Connolly - is recorded by cameras and microphones to produce a series of short films on the limit of fiction and reality.

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TOUCHY SERIE:

I. The Guggenheim
Colour video, 11 min 48, 1998

II & III. Met & Whitney
Colour video, 9 min 8, 1999
Jury price, Biennale of Video Art, Sofia, 1999

IV. Bilbao
Colour video, 10 min 31, 1999
Jury price, Biennale of Video Art, Sofia, 1999

V. Wissen ist Macht
Colour video, 6 min 13, 1999

VI. Beuys
Colour video, 8 min 34, 1999

VII. Beinahe Nicht
Colour video, 8 min 24, 1999

This serie consists in filming with a hidden camera the inside of museums and western institutions (from the Guggenheim in New York to the National Gallery in Berlin). The behaviour in these museums creates situations bordering on the forbidden. In reply, the museum attendants intervene, and the confrontations are often touched with violence.