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"MUC 72" sits somewhere between lens based contemporary art and documentary film-making. Two temporal positions from one location are represented; one from the time of the Munich Olympics in 1972, the other a contemporary view of the ?Olympic Village?. The work explores the slippage between these different positions and points to issues regarding memory while refusing to represent the spectacular, the iconic.

Jamie Buckley (b.1980) is an Irish artist who lives and works in Munich. He completed a Master of Fine Art (MFA) in June 2012 with First Class Honours at the University of Ulster in Belfast. In 2005 he completed a BA in Fine Art at the Limerick School of Art and Design with First Class Honours. Buckley works predominantly in digital video. His works are often installed as single or multi-channel projections. Navigating significant historical locations and the memory attached to them, Buckley questions the position and formulation of their representation in terms of the hidden driving motives informed by political and social realities. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally; most recently his work was shown at Bloomberg New Contemporaries as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2012.