Art In The Contemporary World
A contemporary art resource featuring news and writing by participants and alumni of the MA (Art in the Contemporary World) at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin.
Public Lecture, by Amelia Groom: Dense and Broken, on rocks, writing and pareidolia.
6pm, Friday November 10th Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD, Thomas Street, Dublin.
This Autumn IMMA and NCAD will be joined by Dr Amelia Groom …
Events, Exhibitions, Residency, Writing »
Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts
Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts
Autumn Residency programme at Cow House Studios
30 October – 10 December 2017
Participating Artists: Angela Jerardi, Charlotte Lagro, Martina O’Brien, and Rowan Lear
Residency Curators: Kelley O’Brien & Dr Francis Halsall
Cow House Studios is thrilled to announce Angela Jerardi, Charlotte Lagro, Martina O’Brien, and Rowan Lear as the recipients of their 2017 Autumn Residency. With the generous support of Wexford County Council & The National College of Art & Design, Cow House Studios presents Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts, a 6-week residency that will explore and develop methods of giving aesthetic forms to real-life, situations. This residency was conceived in the spirit of meaningful exchange between practice and theory and as an outcome of ongoing collaborative projects between residency curators, Francis Halsall and Kelley O’Brien investigating social relations through the lens of systems.
You can read more about the residency, curators and participating artists on Cow House Studios website… http://www.cowhousestudios.com/rising-hill-local-systems-global-contexts/
Image: Rowan Lear, She gestured meaningfully with the pistol, (2016-continuing), performance, video, images, drawings and décollage, exploring technological gesture, gendered labour, and the relationship between the body and the apparatus. Above: Hands ‘remembering’ the gestures of photographing with different cameras.
“There’s art that challenges you, and art that’s simply not for you”
ACW student Sara Muthi and writer for in:Action, an Irish Live art review platform, shares her latest response to Martin O’Brien’s performance at the Dublin Live Art Festival.
“…for most of us, art is not …
Ghost-haunted land Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland by Declan Long
ACW’s Course Co-ordinator Declan Long’s latest book; Ghost-haunted land Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland
Description of book and purchase link below.
Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 – the formal end-point of …
LOST STATE – Hugh McCabe & Suzanne Walsh at Draíocht Arts Centre
LOST STATE
Hugh McCabe & Suzanne Walsh
Curated by Sharon Murphy
19 October – 4th November
Opening event including performance by Suzanne Walsh at 7pm on Thursday October 19th 2017
Gallery 2, Draíocht, Blanchardstown
LOST STATE is a collaborative mixed-media exhibition …
Lines Tell Lies by Marie Hanlon at The Source Art Centre
Marie Hanlon
Lines Tell Lies
The Source Art Centre, Thurles Co. Tipperary
Sept 9th – Oct 26t
Double Vision is part of Marie Hanlon’s exhibition Lines Tell Lies at The Source Art Centre, Thurles. The work creates an interplay …
FIX17
FIX17
International Live Art Biennial FIX17
Thursday the 5th to Monday the 9th of October
Programme Detailed Below
Catalyst Arts is pleased to present the highly anticipated International Live Art Biennial FIX17, happening from Thursday the 5th to Monday …
Lost in Papancha, Ways of Escape
Lost in Papancha, Ways of Escape
Michelle Hall
Exhibition Dates: Sept 28-Oct 21
ArtBox is delighted to announce the opening of artist Michelle Hall’s solo exhibition ‘Lost in Papancha, Ways of Escape’. This body of new work by …
RESISTANCE IS FERTILE STEP 1, ‘REFUGE IN FAUXTOPIA’
Location: Auditorium Van Abbe Museum
Time: 14:00 – 17:00
Convened by: Vaari Claffey with Sam Keogh
Presenters: Vaari Claffey, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Sam Keogh, Dr Tina Kinsella, Our Table – Michelle Darmody Lucky, Seamus Nolan, Grace Weir
Accompanied by Sarah …
HyperNormalisation
Paper Visual Art Journal will host an event at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, to discuss some elements of the recent work by British filmmaker Adam Curtis, particularly his 2016 essay-film Hypernormalisation. We have invited …
Martin Creed Visits NCAD
Art in the Contemporary World is delighted to host this event.
Martin Creed was born in 1968 in Wakefield and grew up in Glasgow. He learned violin from the age of three, changing to piano and …
“Altered Environments” Kathleen O’Leary
“Altered Environments” Kathleen O’Leary
Leitrim Sculpture Centre: Friday 31st March, 5-8pm
Refreshments served at 5 pm, Everybody welcome
Continues until Friday, 13th April 2017
Exhibition statement: ‘Altered Environments’, is an artist-in-residence exhibition that has been created through a montage …
Áine Mc Bride, Habitat HQ
ÁINE MC BRIDE, Habitat HQ
Monday, March 13 – Friday, March 24, 2017
This off-site project will take place in the concourse surrounding the Edmund Burke Theatre on the lower floor of the Arts Building, Trinity College. …
Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts
Cow House Studios Autumn Residency, 2017
With the generous support of Wexford County Council & The National College of Art & Design, Cow House Studios presents Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts, a …
Call for Submissions for /Glitch Festival Sedimentary Structures Gallery Talk
Invited Participants: Current students & previous graduates at University of Ulster, NCAD’s ACW & ADW and IADT’s ARC.
Deadline for Pitch Proposal: March 3rd, 2017
Deadline for Text: May 2nd 2017
Email: deirdre@mart.ie your text or short proposal …
Symposium: Intentionality and the Human
Intentionality and the Human: A One Day Symposium (run in association with the University of Newcastle and the British Society for Phenomenology)
Admission Free
About the Symposium
The aim of the symposium is to explore the phenomenological …
HEED FM – GARRETT PHELAN
22 OCTOBER – 18 NOVEMBER 2016
LISTEN LIVE RIGHT NOW TO HEED FM ON WWW.HEEDFM.COM
BROADCASTING ON DUBLIN 94.3 FM.
DAB/DAB+ (Dublin and Cork only)
24 HRS | 28 DAYS
Left: HEED FM – Dylan Kirwin, Scarecrow, Digital print, 2016.
Right: …
Lecture: Martin Waldmeier – Speaking in Tongues
Tuesday 15 November, 6.00 – 7.00pm, Lecture Room, IMMA
Image: Luis Camnitzer, Insults, 2009, installation at MARCO Vigo. Photo courtesy MARCO Vigo
Why do so many in the art world speak such an opaque and impenetrable jargon? …
The Centre For Dying On Stage: Performance Date & Times
The Centre For Dying On Stage
Performance by artists Jessica Foley, Marjorie Potiron & Lisa Hoffmann, Steven Randall, and Alex Mirutziu AKA The Artist and Himself at 29 (TAH29)
at Wexford Arts Centre
on Saturday 12 November 2016, …
RDS Visual Art Awards
ACW alumnus Michelle Hall has received the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award at the year’s RDS Visual Art Awards. The Exhibition is free to attend and runs at the RDS Concert Hall from Wednesday, October 26 to …
IMMA/ACW fellow Martin Waldmeier
We are delighted to welcome our new IMMA/ACW fellow Martin Waldmeier.
MA Programs, Art in the Contemporary World at National College of Art and Design, Dublin, working in collaboration with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin will …
Paper Visual Art Journal Publication Launch
On Thursday 13 October, Paper Visual Art Journal will launch two new publications at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios from 7 p.m: Paper Visual Art Journal, volume 7 and the supplement Having a Kiki: Queer …
Recent Posts
- IMMA & ACW Fellow Amelia Groom
- Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts
- “There’s art that challenges you, and art that’s simply not for you”
- Ghost-haunted land Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland by Declan Long
- LOST STATE – Hugh McCabe & Suzanne Walsh at Draíocht Arts Centre