A resource for news and writing on contemporary visual culture by participants and alumni of NCAD's MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World.
Running in IMMA from 24 March – 13 April, the RFR project is run by ACW alumni Hannah Tiernan, Brendan Fox, and Aoife Banks
Dates: from 16/09/2021 to 23/10/2021 Free, digital and open-air event. Venue: Instituto Cervantes (Dublín) – Auditórium Located in the digital…
Seoidín O’Sullivan in conversation with Dobz O’Brien, Programme Manager at the NSF, about GRAFT and her wider artistic practice. About…
Image: Boudica, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 110 cm (detail) The Complex presents new work by Rónán Ó Raghallaigh,featuring a…
Thursday 5th August – Thursday 9th September 2021 Launch Event: Late Night Art Thursday 5th August 4pm to 7.45pm Golden…
Nadia J. Armstrong is an Irish artist and writer who is currently studying on the ACW MFA programme at NCAD.…
Solstice presents a significant exhibition of work by Irish artist Isabel Nolan ‘A delicate bond which is also a gap’.…
Laragh Conroy, Gráinne Murphy, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh Return GalleryGoethe-Institut Irland 37 Merrion Square East Dublin 2 18 May–11 June 2021…
‘Foreignments’, an interactive webapp commissioned in partnership with The Lab Gallery, DCC, deals intimately with the process of acculturation. The…
A publication produced through the module My Fair Lady: Radical Publishing and the Shaw Collection, led by Nathan O’Donnell, as…
Great article in the Irish Times by Michael Cronin about Adrian Duncan’s latest book Midfield Dynamo. Cronin Praises Adrian’s work…
On Thursday 6th of May 7pm – 8pm Researcher, Artist and ACW Alumni Hannah Tiernan will present her paper on…
REOPENING 1ST-30TH JULY: A three-part exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Irland’s Return Gallery curated by Art in the Contemporary World (ACW).…
Leila Anglade, Alison Lowry, Alex Pentek, Belinda Quirke As part of RE/MAINS OF THE DAZE: an exhibition in three courses…
Nadia J. Armstrong, Tom Creed, Catherine Fay, Anna Maye, Katharina Steins. In developing their response to Les Immatériaux, the NOUVEAUX…
Simon Bhuiyan, Brian Cooney, Kristen Olson, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha After the Century focuses on research conducted around The Short Century…
Monday, March 8th Only! • Available from 9 AM ET & 2 PM GMT • free tickets here! Two Miles…
Seoidín – artist and educator who works with ACW, has two very recent publications available in the Dublin Art Book…
m u d r o o m is an experimental ambient audio installation, transformed into a one-hour virtual livestream featuring…
A rich and growing list of thought, sight, sound, text and performance. Built by the ACW community and added to weekly.
A season of propositions, performances, experiments and scenarios by the MFA Art in the Contemporary World.
Sue Rainsford is a fiction and arts writer. Her practice is concerned with explicit fusions of critical and corporeal inquiry, as…
Featuring ACW tutors Declan Long, Francis Halsall and Rachel O’Dwyer. Tune into the latest Podcast on DDR where they discuss…
Return Gallery, Goethe- Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Opening 15 January 2020 | 6 – 9pmExhibition runs till…
|| Open Call || This exhibition will explore the many different systems that form our contemporary networked society. The Science Gallery Dublin and curatorial team welcome proposals that highlight, investigate and test these systems, or offer alternative ones for an uncertain future.
Calling artists, designers, technologists, activists, journalists (citizen, alternative and mainstream), hackers and pranksters, academics and engineers to propose exhibits, workshops, interventions or projects that will help us untangle the many complex systems, both visible and invisible, that surround us.
Book launch event: 12th December 2019, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios at 6pm.
Every Single Morning by Martina O’Brien will be introduced by Clíodhna Shaffrey, with readings by Francis Halsall and Karen E. Till.
Join ACW for the Open Day of Naschaus: The Uncertain School. Inspired by the Bauhaus, this transgenerational school is founded on three educational pillars: Creativity, Criticality, Compassion. It is a space to cultivate resilience, adaptability, ambivalence, and absurdity. Our Open Day will feature a drop-in programme of engaging workshops, activities and tours, open to all ages, instilling values of critical thought and creative expression.
13 November 2019 – 4 January 2020 Return Gallery – Goethe Institut Irland Featuring Harun Farocki, with new work by…
NCAD is delighted to present Critical Practices: Making, Writing, Curating, Educating, a two day symposium bringing together artists, designer-makers, curators, researchers,…
Friday October 25th at Medialab Prado, Madrid – 6pm ACW Graduate María del Buey will take part in the 11th…
Engage Art Studios present the CIRCA Art Magazine Writers’ Choice Graduate Exhibition: Mateja Smic, “Aesthetics of a Split Subject” Engage…
Return Gallery, Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square Dublin 2 Opening 20th September, 2019 6.30 – 9pm Exhibition runs through 31st…
A recap on Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Earwitness Theatre at the Chisenhale Gallery, London. The show marked the artist first solo…
Alan Butler has been examining the implications of new media, the internet and the politics of appropriation for over a…
TYPECAST x David Booth Exhibition Launch & Artist Talk Opening 14 June 2019 at 18:00 – 21:00 Runs until 29…
1) ACW is delighted to welcome Dan Adler as this year’s ACW/ IMMA fellow. During his time in Dublin Dan…
NCAD ACW masters students are currently developing a publication containing a 16 part dossier under the theme of Co-Habitation and…
In April The Lilliput Press will be launching ACW alumni Adrian Duncan’s debut novel entitled ‘Love Notes from a German…
We are pleased to announce the launch of The Art in the Contemporary World Podcast, a show about art ideas…
Feargal Ward and Adrian Duncan’s film Floating Structures follows a researcher travelling across Europe, exploring an array of buildings and…
NCAD is looking to appoint a researcher on a 60 day contract from February to September 2019 to conduct research…
In February 2003, Los Angeles-based sound artists Ultra-red began a year-long project in the Ballymun area of Dublin, commissioned by…
Art in the Contemporary World work with the RHA for Learning and Public Engagement, Futures Series 3, Episode 2 with…
Why do artists write? And do they approach the task of writing differently? The Art in the Contemporary World MA/…
A New Occult and Encounters with the Invisible Man A review of Furtive Tears, 4 October 2018 – 6 January…
Photo Credit: Louis Haugh Make Haste, Slowly Return Gallery Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. A collectively curated, scripted,…
ACW in conversation under Liam Gillick’s Discussion Island at the Return Gallery. Photo by: Louis Haugh Goethe Institut Irland 37…
From the IMMA website:“Join Johanne Mullan, Curator, Collection who introduces The final chapter, Chapter Four: Protest and Conflict. This chapter…
Ongoing exhibition at the RHA gallery in Dublin, running until April 24. Featuring artists Miriam O’Connor, Laura Fitzgerald, Orla Barry,…
A protest will be held this Friday against the National Gallery’s choice to award their café contract to Aramark. Aramark…
19th-28th February 2021, NCAD Gallery – LINK Aoife Banks, Dominique Crowley, María del Buey, Brendan Fox, Seanán Kerr, Gráinne Murphy,…
