10 October 2024, 5pm Students from NCAD’s Art in the Contemporary (ACW) World Master’s programme host a thesis launch event…
A SOD STATE
EOGHAN RYAN The Gallery | 13/04/2024 – 27/04/2024 Exhibition Run: 13 April – 27 April Preview: 12 April 6pm –…
MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World -Postgrad Futures 2024/25
This webinar will be hosted by Dr Francis Halsall and Dr Declan Long. Zoom details will be sent out the week…
RHA Ashford Gallery – Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past – John Graham
6pm on Thursday, 15 February – Exhibition Opening RHA Ashford Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2Exhibition Opening 15 February at…
Black Church Print Studio : Unlimiting the Edition
12 – 30 January 2024The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Ailbhe Barrett / Maya Brezing / Niamh Flanagan…
Esther Urlus Special Screening
This evening there was a special screening in the Harry Clarke theatre by Esther Urlus of 6 of her 16mm…
PRAXIS Artist Union of Ireland
PRAXIS Artists’ Union of Ireland is a trade union for artists of all disciplines across Ireland, committed to advocating for…
TULCA Contributing Artists Announced
ACW alumnus Paul Roy is one of the selected contributors for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2023. The official launch of the…
The End of Art, Again: Systems and the Aesthetics of Dispersion.
Francis Halsall and Rachel O’Dwyer in Conversation
To mark the publication of Contemporary Art, Systems and the Aesthetics of Dispersion (Routledge, 2023) please join us for a…
New publication from Francis Halsall: Contemporary Art, Systems and the Aesthetics of Dispersion
ACW Co-Director Francis Halsall has just had a new book published by Routledge. Contemporary Art, Systems and the Aesthetics of…
MA Art in the Contemporary World Scholarship 2023/2024
A tuition fee scholarship is available for an incoming student to the MA Art in the Contemporary World 2023/2024 academic…
ACW Alumni Shortlisted for 2024 Venice Biennale
Huge congratulations to all the Art in the Contemporary World course alumni on the curatorial teams shortlisted to represent Ireland at…
Glossaries for Forwardness, Marie Farrington
Glossaries for Forwardness is a multi-platform project by Marie Farrington, examining convergences between landscape and memory through the architecture of…
Intangible Atmospheres: MFA ACW Exhibition
“(…) in an installation it is the body in its entirety which is asked to participate through its sensations, through…
Spring Term Guest Lecturers at ACW
MA ACW is delighted to welcome John Wilkins and Carol Ballantine to contribute tothe spring program. They are both experts…
Chaosmotechnics? Art, Media, Techniques, after Deleuze and Guattari
Chaosmotechnics? Art, Media, Techniques, after Deleuze and Guattari is a day-long symposium organised by the School of Computer Science and…
Geomancy / Oscillation at Graphic Studio Gallery
Geomancy / Oscillation is a dual exhibition taking place at Graphic Studio Gallery in Temple Bar from the 28th of…
Little Republics – Preparations and Elements
ACW alumnus Adrian Duncan’s solo show Little Republics- Preparations and Elements is currently taking place in the Irish Architectural Archive…
States of Alteration
This Wednesday 18th of January sees this year’s MA ACW class launch their publication ‘States of Alteration’ in the foyer…
NEW YIN ART
NEW YIN ART
Love you my sweaty, Curated by Sara Muthi
Love you Sweaty Ella BERTILSSON, Susan BUTTNER, An Gee CHAN, Michelle MALONE, Alison PILKINGTON Curated by Sara MUTHI, Winner of…
Publishing Workshop with Nathan O’Donnell
This Monday the 12th of December an editing and publishing workshop will take place with Nathan O’Donnell, a co-editor of…
Caesura at Unit 44
Caesura is a new exhibition featuring Charlotte Foley, Isabel English and ACW student Leda Scully, reflecting on the properties of…
New Publication from PVA: well I just kind of like it, ed. Wendy Erskine
well I just kind of like it is a new publication from Paper Visual Art, an Irish publisher of contemporary…
New Book by ACW Alumnus Adrian Duncan
The book launch of Little Republics: The Story of Bungalow Bliss by Adrian Duncan:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launchlittle-republics-the-story-of-bungalow-bliss-by-adrian-duncan-tickets-433513158527 This project began as his ACW thesis.
Rónán Ó Raghallaigh in Visual Artists’ News Sheet
Rónán Ó Raghallaigh graduated in 2021 from Art in the Contemporary World MFA. He was interviewed by Barry McHugh about…
Sub/Plot. SO Fine Editions. Opens April 30th. Featuring new works by artists ACW student Ria Czerniak-LeBov alongside Richard Lawlor and…
REWIND << FASTFORWARD >> RECORD : Revising the Rainbow (RFR)
Running in IMMA from 24 March – 13 April, the RFR project is run by ACW alumni Hannah Tiernan, Brendan Fox, and Aoife Banks
The Zone By Maria Del Buey
Dates: from 16/09/2021 to 23/10/2021 Free, digital and open-air event. Venue: Instituto Cervantes (Dublín) – Auditórium Located in the digital…
Graft: Seodín O’Sullivan in conversation.
Seoidín O’Sullivan in conversation with Dobz O’Brien, Programme Manager at the NSF, about GRAFT and her wider artistic practice. About…
Rónán Ó Raghallaigh, Vae Victis
Image: Boudica, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 110 cm (detail) The Complex presents new work by Rónán Ó Raghallaigh,featuring a…
Alison Lowry’s The Bystander Effect
Thursday 5th August – Thursday 9th September 2021 Launch Event: Late Night Art Thursday 5th August 4pm to 7.45pm Golden…
Nadia J. Armstrong Award.
Nadia J. Armstrong is an Irish artist and writer who is currently studying on the ACW MFA programme at NCAD.…
A delicate bond which is also a gap Isabel Nolan
Solstice presents a significant exhibition of work by Irish artist Isabel Nolan ‘A delicate bond which is also a gap’.…
Set the Darkness Echoing
Laragh Conroy, Gráinne Murphy, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh Return GalleryGoethe-Institut Irland 37 Merrion Square East Dublin 2 18 May–11 June 2021…
Performing Acculturation
‘Foreignments’, an interactive webapp commissioned in partnership with The Lab Gallery, DCC, deals intimately with the process of acculturation. The…
Not Bloody Likely: a tabloid testimonial for Bernard Shaw
A publication produced through the module My Fair Lady: Radical Publishing and the Shaw Collection, led by Nathan O’Donnell, as…
Midfield Dynamo
Great article in the Irish Times by Michael Cronin about Adrian Duncan’s latest book Midfield Dynamo. Cronin Praises Adrian’s work…
Activism and the Archive: live panel discussion
On Thursday 6th of May 7pm – 8pm Researcher, Artist and ACW Alumni Hannah Tiernan will present her paper on…
RE/MAINS OF THE DAZE: an exhibition in three courses
REOPENING 1ST-30TH JULY: A three-part exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Irland’s Return Gallery curated by Art in the Contemporary World (ACW).…
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Leila Anglade, Alison Lowry, Alex Pentek, Belinda Quirke As part of RE/MAINS OF THE DAZE: an exhibition in three courses…
NOUVEAUX IMMATÉRIAUX: inhuman symposium for the new sublime
Nadia J. Armstrong, Tom Creed, Catherine Fay, Anna Maye, Katharina Steins. In developing their response to Les Immatériaux, the NOUVEAUX…
After The Century
Simon Bhuiyan, Brian Cooney, Kristen Olson, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha After the Century focuses on research conducted around The Short Century…
Two Miles of Earth for a Marking Stone
Monday, March 8th Only! • Available from 9 AM ET & 2 PM GMT • free tickets here! Two Miles…
Seoidín O’Sullivan – New Publications
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
m u d r o o m is an experimental ambient audio installation, transformed into a one-hour virtual livestream featuring…
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A rich and growing list of thought, sight, sound, text and performance. Built by the ACW community and added to weekly.
ANTI-VIRUS UPDATE: A HURRY THROUGH WHICH KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS PASS*
A season of propositions, performances, experiments and scenarios by the MFA Art in the Contemporary World.
Upcoming Creative Writing Workshop with Sue Rainsford
Sue Rainsford is a fiction and arts writer. Her practice is concerned with explicit fusions of critical and corporeal inquiry, as…
New Podcast, Ep03 – Ends: on Dublin Digital Radio
Featuring ACW tutors Declan Long, Francis Halsall and Rachel O’Dwyer. Tune into the latest Podcast on DDR where they discuss…
Rush: Decolonising Research
Return Gallery, Goethe- Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Opening 15 January 2020 | 6 – 9pmExhibition runs till…
Open Call: SYSTEMS, Science Gallery Dublin
|| 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: Martina O’Brien ‘Every Single Morning’
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.
NASCHAUS: The Uncertain School
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.
Sideways Movement and Other Attempts on the Boundary
13 November 2019 – 4 January 2020 Return Gallery – Goethe Institut Irland Featuring Harun Farocki, with new work by…
Critical Practices: Making, Writing, Curating, Educating.
NCAD is delighted to present Critical Practices: Making, Writing, Curating, Educating, a two day symposium bringing together artists, designer-makers, curators, researchers,…
María del Buey at 11th En Red Symposium: “Of Body and Experiment”
Friday October 25th at Medialab Prado, Madrid – 6pm ACW Graduate María del Buey will take part in the 11th…
Mateja Šmic at Engage Art Studios, Galway
Engage Art Studios present the CIRCA Art Magazine Writers’ Choice Graduate Exhibition: Mateja Smic, “Aesthetics of a Split Subject” Engage…
With-Hold, Exhibition by Padraig Cunningham at the Return Gallery
Return Gallery, Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square Dublin 2 Opening 20th September, 2019 6.30 – 9pm Exhibition runs through 31st…
Silence is the Master by Orlaith Phelan
A recap on Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Earwitness Theatre at the Chisenhale Gallery, London. The show marked the artist first solo…
Interview with Alan Butler by Seanán Kerr, ACW student
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
TYPECAST x David Booth Exhibition Launch & Artist Talk Opening 14 June 2019 at 18:00 – 21:00 Runs until 29…
Opening: Pauline Oliveros, Software for People @ The Goethe Institut
ACW Events April 2019
1) ACW is delighted to welcome Dan Adler as this year’s ACW/ IMMA fellow. During his time in Dublin Dan…
ACW24 -TBG+S
NCAD ACW masters students are currently developing a publication containing a 16 part dossier under the theme of Co-Habitation and…
ACW Alumni Adrian Duncan’s New Novel, Love Notes from a German Building Site.
In April The Lilliput Press will be launching ACW alumni Adrian Duncan’s debut novel entitled ‘Love Notes from a German…
The Art in the Contemporary World Podcast
We are pleased to announce the launch of The Art in the Contemporary World Podcast, a show about art ideas…
Floating Structures
Feargal Ward and Adrian Duncan’s film Floating Structures follows a researcher travelling across Europe, exploring an array of buildings and…
Research Opportunity – L’Internationale in partnership with NCAD
NCAD is looking to appoint a researcher on a 60 day contract from February to September 2019 to conduct research…
Ultra-red, Archiving the Debt
In February 2003, Los Angeles-based sound artists Ultra-red began a year-long project in the Ballymun area of Dublin, commissioned by…
You, Me and Everything In Between workshop conducted by ACW students in the RHA
Art in the Contemporary World work with the RHA for Learning and Public Engagement, Futures Series 3, Episode 2 with…
Free event on artists’ writing at Dublin Art Book Fair – Tuesday 27th November
Why do artists write? And do they approach the task of writing differently? The Art in the Contemporary World MA/…
Review: Furtive Tears by Niamh McCann at The Hugh Lane Gallery by Brendan Fox (ACW)
A New Occult and Encounters with the Invisible Man A review of Furtive Tears, 4 October 2018 – 6 January…
Make Haste, Slowly at the Return Gallery
Photo Credit: Louis Haugh Make Haste, Slowly Return Gallery Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. A collectively curated, scripted,…
Liam Gillick in conversation with the MA Art in the Contemporary World
ACW in conversation under Liam Gillick’s Discussion Island at the Return Gallery. Photo by: Louis Haugh Goethe Institut Irland 37…