The National Sculpture Factory is programming a day-long conference on Saturday 3 November in Cork exploring the impact of globalisation on artistic practice. Speakers and audience will examine the phenomenon of international visual art event-culture such as biennials, and look at how the internet, travel and economics affect the way that artists work and are mediated. The conference will also explore Irish visual art culture as a peripheral and postcolonial nation and look at the influence of contemporary migration. This conference picks up some of the themes of our 2005 project Cork Caucus: on art politics and democracy ( www.corkcaucus.org ), examining the relationship between social and cultural change.
Speakers include:
Dr. Brigitte Franzen (curator for Germany’s Skulptur Projekte Münster 07)
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith (writer/critic/curator)
John Byrne (writer and curator of Site Gallery, Liverpool)
Lucy Cotter (writer and critic, specialist on post-colonial theory and Ireland)
Monika Sapielak (director of Art Polonia)
Anaele Diala Iroh (Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, DIT)
Katie Holten (artist)
Art/not Art (commissioned art group)
Benjamin de Burca (Catalyst Arts, Belfast)
Curator and writer, Declan Long, will chair the proceedings.
Followed by evening social event: Salon du Chat
7-9pm in Offquay Restaurant, Cork School of Music
Chat without the chit from an extensive menu of starters, mains and desserts including topics such as ‘Collective Creativity’ and ‘ Ireland as the Brain of Europe’, possibly with a side dish of ‘The Periphery is the Centre’. The salon has been experienced previously at Daghdha’s Mamushka night in Limerick and at Electric Picnic’s Leviathan Tent and celebrates the art of conversations with a nod to online chatrooms, 19th century bohemian Paris and Irish pub conversations.
The seminar Do you Speak Art? (or where are you coming from?) is open to the general public as well as cultural practitioners and costs €20 (or €15 for NSF members). This price includes entrance to the day’s conference and coffee/tea breaks + the wine and light snacks at Salon du Chat from 7pm-9pm.
Contact treasa@nationalsculpturefactory.com to book your place NOW.
Presented in conjunction with CIT Cork School of Music & Hochtief.
