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Wed Feb 02, 2011

The Art in the Contemporary World Day-ennial Friday 4th Feb 2011

Prior to our intensive tourist travels around our home city, here is a breakdown of the schedule of visits and events that will occupy us on Friday 4th:

MA Art in the Contemporary World: Day-ennial schedule, 2011

10am: 'Between Honey and Ashes' Miroslaw Balka / SI Witkiewicz, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College.

11am: 'When Flanders Failed', curated by Stephen Brandes & The Institute of Special Afflictions Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Ely Place.

12pm: 'Someone Else's Life: Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, Callum Innes, Jaki Irvine': Kerlin Gallery, with introduction from gallery director David Fitzgerald.

1pm: Hugh Lane Gallery: lecture by Thomas McEvilley , ‘Recent Developments in the Social Situation of Art’

2.30-3pm lunch break

3pm: 'The Geneva Window: Dara Birnbaum, Steven Claydon, Lewis Klahr, Mark Leckey and Elodie Pong' curated by Isobel Harbison, The Lab, Foley St.

4.15pm: 'We'll Be This Way Until The End Of The World': Declan Clarke, Mother’s Tankstation

6pm:Annika Strom in conversation with Declan Clarke, Temple Bar Gallery.

7.30pm: 'Working my way back to you': Stephen McGlynn & Bláthnaid Ní Mhurchú, The Joinery, Stoneybatter

Posted by: Declan Long on Feb 02, 11 | 11:10 pm | Profile

Tue Nov 23, 2010

British Art Show 7

Find more videos like this on artreview.com

And here's Martin Herbert's short but typically eloquent and engaging review:
http://www.artreview.com/forum/topics/british-art-show-7-in-the-days

Posted by: Declan Long on Nov 23, 10 | 7:14 pm | Profile

Sat Nov 20, 2010

Destroy All Rational Thought

Full version here:
http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs_rational.html

Posted by: Declan Long on Nov 20, 10 | 7:22 am | Profile

Mon Sep 06, 2010

NEW SEMINAR: The Body and its Systems: Phenomenology, Technology and Modernity

The purpose of this seminar is to explore phenomenological accounts of technology as they pertain to the body. In doing so it will interrogate the way in which bodies are situated within, and extend throughout, systems of potential, meaning and intentionality. Participants will explore the ways in which the body is historically configured and mediated; in other words how the body is framed and understood according to the historically specific technologies and systems of meaning within which it is embedded.

Suggested readings include (but are not limited to):

M. Heidegger, ‘The Question Concerning Technology’
M. McCluhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
G. Harman, Tool Being
M. Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media
D. Ihde, Technology and the Lifeworld
A. Feenberg, Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory
G. Deleuze, Cinema 1 and 2
Petitot, Varela et al, Naturalizing Phenomenology

1st session: 30th Sept. 2010 in the Gradcam Seminar room (time TBA). Sessions will be every three weeks.

For more details on the gradcam seminars see: http://www.gradcam.ie/seminars.php

Details will be posted here during the duration of the seminar, including primary and secondary readings. This will also provide the opportunity for online discussions.

For further details or to join the discussion contact the seminar leader Francis Halsall: halsallf@ncad.ie

Posted by: Francis Halsall on Sep 06, 10 | 11:47 am | Profile

Thu Sep 02, 2010

Norbert Schwontkowski in conversation with Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, at Kerlin Gallery, Thursday 10 June, 2010

Posted by: Declan Long on Sep 02, 10 | 10:46 am | Profile

Fri May 28, 2010

Art and cinema: A day of discussion and screenings at the Irish Film Institute

Pics from Art and Film: A Day of Discussion and Screenings (MA ACW and IFI) May 8th, 2008

Sarah Pierce

Sarah Pierce and Andreas Bunte

Sarah Pierce, Andreas Bunte, Declan Clarke

Declan Clarke

MA ACW and public audience during presentations by Aurelian Froment and Jaki Irvine

Declan Long, Aurelian Froment, Jaki Irvine

Aurelian Froment

MA ACW and public audience during presentations by Desparate Optimists and Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell and Sarah Glennie

Christine Molloy

Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy, Duncan Campbell, Sarah Glennie

Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy (Desparate Optimists)

Photos by Miranda Driscoll (MA ACW)

Posted by: Declan Long on May 28, 10 | 4:45 pm | Profile

Tue Feb 02, 2010

Capitalist Realism

Here is the place to continue our discussions resulting from Mark Fisher's recent visit. To get the ball rolling, I've posted this topic, to which we can respond to via the comments section. I've posted a paper, Aesthetics and the Good Society, on the main page which MAY be one way into a conversation.

Posted by: Francis Halsall on Feb 02, 10 | 3:01 pm | Profile

Wed Dec 16, 2009

MA ACW 2009: snapshots

Henk Slager, curator of Shanghai Biennale 2008, at the MA ACW / GRADCAM roundtable 'Of Publics and Pedagogies', Irish Pavilion, Venice 2009.

Francis Halsall (Co-ordinator MA ACW) and Edia Connole (MA ACW), at the MA ACW / GRADCAM roundtable 'Of Publics and Pedagogies', Irish Pavilion, Venice 2009.

Fiona Kearney (Director, Glucksman Gallery, Cork), Mick Wilson (Dean, Gradcam) and Henk Slager, curator, 7th Shanghai Biennial 2008, at the MA ACW / GRADCAM roundtable 'Of Publics and Pedagogies', Irish Pavilion, Venice 2009.

Declan Long (Co-ordinator, MA ACW), Glenn Loughran (Gradcam) and Caroline Campbell (MA ACW) at the MA ACW / GRADCAM roundtable 'Of Publics and Pedagogies', Irish Pavilion, Venice 2009.

Elena Filipovic, independent curator, at the MA ACW 'Curating in the Contemporary World' Seminar, June 2009

Declan McGonagle (Director, NCAD), Polly Staple (Chisenhale Gallery) and Elena Filipovic (independent curator), at the 'Curating in the Contemporary World' public Seminar, June 2009

Edel Horan and Paula Barrett (MA ACW) with Francis Halsall and Declan Long (Co-ordinators MA ACW) and Elena Filipovic (independent curator), at the MA ACW 'Curating in the Contemporary World' Seminar, June 2009