19 to 20 May

We can change the world with digital technology, but how will that technology change us?

A bold, exciting, and innovative international conference focusing on the cultural impacts of the digitisation of society and human experience. Featuring speakers from the worlds of technology, film, arts, culture and creative industries, attendees will come face to face with the digital society, with the people who are making it happen, the artists who are trying to find meaning in it, and the academics, and policy makers who are trying make sense of it. You too will have a chance to participate in the debate.

This 2-day conference brings a panoply of speakers from Ireland, Europe and North America to share radical thinking about the digital society. Technology speakers include Glyn Darkin and Ronan Laffan; institutional speakers include Steve Woodall from the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, Lean Benson from the National Gallery of Ireland; artists include Paula Kehoe, Ian Keaveny, Siobhan Clancy, Leah Hilliard, plan b performance, Cate Field, Joanna Hopkins, Alexandra Jonsson and many more. Economist and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin will appear via video link from Washington DC, and an evening panel featuring novelist Julian Gough and Paul McBride will be chaired by Seán Rocks, of RTÉ’s Arena programme. The evening entertainment will be provided by Kieran Quinn (piano), Seamie O’Dowd (guitar) and Joe Kelly (bodhran).

Day two will include focus groups where people can share their views on each of the conference’s four main themes: Art for What’s Sake, Digital Human, Networked Personality and Manifesto.

Tickets here: ballinaartscentre.ticketsolve.com

digitaltransformations.org

25 April, 1 to 2pm

Join Void DIrector Mary Cremin as she brings visitors on a private tour of our current exhibition by Rosa Barba – ‘between objects in the waking world’. Mary will guide you through the show and discuss its themes and how it relates to the past two exhibitions ‘Where History Begins’ and ‘Every Day Words Disappear’ which are themed around the past, present, and future. She will also answer any questions that you may have.

You can book by emailing hello@derryvoid.com or phoning 028 7130 8080 – or just call in on the day.

Void, Patrick Street, Derry, BT48 7EL Northern Ireland
T: +44(0)28 7130 8080
E: hello@derryvoid.com
W: derryvoid.com/rosa-barba.php

Wednesday 18 April, 5.30pm.

This event will take the form of a walk through of Charles Harper’s current exhibition, which is a retrospective of the artist’s work spanning the last 60 years. A selection of works will be highlighted and discussed.

Free event.

Also showing until 22 April:
Dorothy Smith, Land Marks, RHA Ashford Gallery, Hennessy Programme
Alex Pentek, Folded Space, RHA Foyer & Atrium.

Royal Hibernian Academy
Ely Place, Dublin 2
T: (01) 661 2558
E: info@rhagallery.ie
W: rhagallery.ie

29/04/2018 at 1pm

An artist talk by Sam Winston

 Award-winning artist and writer Sam Winston will be talking about his collaboration with Oliver Jeffers on their New York Times bestselling book A Child of Books. Winston will be discussing the joys and pitfalls of collaboration, how they found new approaches to storytelling and why writing is a visual art.

We are delighted to feature one of Sam’s illustrations from A Child of Books (by Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffers, courtesy of Walker Books) on this year’s programme cover.

Age Recommendation: Aged 10+

For information on how to book please see the event page here

Galway Arts Centre

47 Lower Dominick Street

Galway

Tuesday, 24 April, 9:30am to 5:00pm

Artquest and DACS present Spaced Out – a one-day conference that looks at the changing use of artists’ space in a wider urban context: from new uses for traditional studio spaces, the impact of rising domestic space costs, innovative business space use and how virtual spaces are used to exhibit, make and sell work.

The conference will explore the political and economic currents that are changing available spaces, and imagine the impact on future practice, culture and society.

The conference is for delegates from across the arts, design, architecture, development, education and other creative and policy-driven fields.

General Entry + The New Economy of Art book (incl. VAT): GBP 42.00 + GBP 2.24 fee

Book Tickets here: billetto.co.uk/e/spaced-out-tickets

Central Saint Martins, 1, Granary Building, Granary Square, Kings Cross, N1C 4AA London

17 April, 6.30 to 7.30pm

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is delighted to present artist Jaki Irvine who will show and talk about the works she has created during the course of her time working from a studio at TBG+S. This will include excerpts from her film Se Compra: Sin E(2014); Shot in Mexico: on the impossibility of imagining numbers of dead and disappeared (a photo-wall work for Deutsche Bank, Dublin, 2015); If the Ground Should Open – commissioned by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, (2016) and more.

Using video installation, photography, music composition and writing, she explores the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us, a process which, for Irvine, has both philosophical and political implications.

Jaki Irvine lives and works in Dublin and Mexico City. Over two decades, she has built a substantial and highly acclaimed body of film and video art that is profoundly concerned with the limits of human knowledge and experience. Irvine’s engrossing, elliptical narratives are at times composed of fragments of everyday life – mundane incidents that, viewed via Irvine’s singular, assiduously selective gaze, become occasions of heightened strangeness.

Free admission, click here to book your ticket.

Thursday 12 April, 11 to 6.30pm

Third Space Galway will expand its Galway-based programme over the course of the day to establish a new international dialogue with artistic practitioners from the Netherlands and Great Britain, and initiate exciting working partnerships with artists, activists and leading researchers in Galway, NUI Maynooth and most crucially local stakeholders within the Galway community, working in partnership with Galway City Community Network.

TSG has invited internationally renowned artist, urban activist and curator Jeanne Van Heeswijk (jeanneworks.net/) and acclaimed A Field of Wheat artists Anne-Marie Culhane and Ruth Levene (fieldofwheat.co.uk/) to Galway to participate in events comprising of a symposium, workshops, consultations, and food presentations which explore our local community and food systems and foster an atmosphere of conviviality and community around these issues in a local context.

TSG has also invited Irish artist, curator, philosopher and experimental food producer Niamh McDonnell to present on her practice which opens new ways of thinking across food sovereignty and performative models of artistic and political engagement. TSG will invite diverse arts, community and cultural stakeholders to participate in the symposium and in extended conversations and presentations. TSG has invited curator, writer and filmmaker Katherine Waugh to moderate the Galway discussions and presentations and to explore some of the more challenging philosophical and political issues embedded in the various artistic practices and community initiatives on the day.

Curated by Martina Finn, this event was initiated as part of a Food Sovereignty Ireland collaboration with leading NUI Maynooth researcher Alistair Fraser, author of Global Foodscapes: Oppression and Resistance in the Life of Food, whereby the artists will also take part in the Food Sovereignty Festival in NUI Maynooth on April 14th.

The event is free, all are welcome throughout the day and at the closing food event at Nun’s Island.

For further information contact thirdspacegalway@gmail.com or visit thirdspacegalway.ie

21 April 3pm to 5pm

Dublin Castle announces the grand finale of their Making Majesty programme. As the exhibition comes to a close, it’s an apt time to consider Dublin Castle’s position in terms of history, politics and society. While Dublin Castle itself is often viewed as a bastion of British rule for hundreds of years, the exhibition focused on the motivations behind the building’s grand regal designs, something we often forget about today. Given the current focus on independence-related events from a century ago and Brexit-related events right now, this Banter panel discussion will look at the responsibilities and challenges of dealing with Dublin Castle’s past in 2018.

Speakers:

• Diarmaid Ferriter (Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD, author, broadcaster and columnist at The Irish Times).
• Martina Devlin (writer and columnist at The Irish Independent)
• John Gibney (Royal Irish Academy historian and author of Dublin – A New Illustrated History)

Host:

• Jim Carroll (journalist, editor of RTE Brainstorm, and producer of Banter)

Tickets cost €5
On sale now here

This panel discussion is part of Dublin Castle’s Making Majesty programme.

11 April, 6pm

The Douglas Hyde Gallery is pleased to share details of this upcoming talk by sociologist Dr Anne Byrne, titled Objects and Subjects: How Ancestor Stories Find Us. Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology in National University of Ireland, Galway, Dr Byrne has an enduring interest in the obscure and everyday stories, individual and community biographies of early 20th century Ireland as held in objects and artefacts.

Dr Byrne has been invited to share her research in the context of the exhibition The Artist’s Eye: Liliane Lijn. Lijn’s film Look a Doll! My Mother’s Story (1998 – 2000) is currently on show in Gallery 2. The work, which dates from a relatively recent stage in the artist’s career, has its roots in a limited edition self-published book by the artist, Her Mother’s Voice (1996 – 1998). Following a disturbing dream, Lijn began to interview her mother, who endured persecution and forced migration as a result of the anti-Semitism and violence of Europe in the years leading up to World War II, and whose escape to America brought a painful loss of identity and sense of self. Look a Doll! My Mother’s Story continues the project of generational dialogue through filmed interviews with her mother, who was then experiencing the early stages of dementia, cut with photomontage and archival footage.

As always, admission is free and all are welcome. No booking necessary.

The Douglas Hyde Gallery
Trinity College, Dublin 2
T: 01 896 1116
E: dhgallery@tcd.ie
W: douglashydegallery.com

Friday 13 April, 1pm

The Trans Live Art Salon will be presenting a post-mortem of a year of work as a collective and an introduction to playful community organization and ethical curation as an anti-capitalist art practice.

The Trans Live Art Salon is a collective of trans and gender non-conforming artists in Dublin, originating from a residency programme at Live Collision International Festival. The Trans Live Art Salon is carving a space for trans and gender non-conforming people to feel safe, work together as a community, and learn from each other. The collective’s aim is to bring trans-narrated trans narratives to the fore, to elevate work by trans artists, and open dialogue about the ways that trans people are (mis)represented in the media and in art.

Trans Live Art Salon: Dámhín Mckeown, Aidan Wall, M, Robyn McQuaid-O’Dwyer, Llaura McGee.
facebook.com/transliveartsalon

Admission is free but spaces are limited to 50 so please arrive promptly to avoid disappointment.

Basic Talks ~ Trans Live Art Salon is part of a multi-site programme of exhibitions, residencies and public programmes looking at institutional attitudes, community spaces and education.

E: basicspacedublin@gmail.com
W: basicspace.ie

Gallery 18
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1
T: + 353 1 222 5550
E: info.hughlane@dublincity.ie
W: hughlane.ie

12 April, refreshments from 6pm, speakers begin at 7pm.

Short presentations exploring the theme of light from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Speakers include: Louise Clavin, Architect, Dr. Brian Espey, Professor in Astrophysics, Trinity College, Brian Kenny, Light Projection Artist, (Lightscape), Michael Cleary Gaffney, Psychology PHD researcher in night light, Helen Mac Mahon, Artist.

Free event, book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/limelight-ii

Kindly sponsored by the School of Multidisciplinary Technologies, College of Engineering and Built Environment, DIT

Rm 380,
DIT Bolton Street,
Dublin 1

Join exhibiting artist Siobhán McDonald for a Book Launch and In Conversation event with art writer / curator Catherine Marshall at Taylor Galleries from 6pm on Thursday 5 April 2018.

A full-colour catalogue for the exhibition ‘Crystalline: Disappearing Worlds’ designed by Oonagh Young and including texts by Helen Carey, Catherine Marshall and excerpts from ‘Approaching the Glacier’ by Tim Robinson will be launched at the event. McDonald and Marshall will then discuss the show, as well as McDonald’s work practices and ongoing research concerns. ‘Crystalline: Disappearing Worlds’ continues till Saturday 7 April 2018. No booking required, all welcome.

Taylor Galleries, 16 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
T: 01 6766055
E: taylorgalleries@gmail.com
W: taylorgalleries.ie

The Collecting the ‘Now’ conference, presented by the Irish Museums Association, will examine how museums can ensure that their collections capture contemporary cultural changes and shifting perspectives, moving on in some cases from the collected object.

Over this two-day conference, 17 speakers from organisations such as the V&A museum, the Museum of London, National Gallery, IMMA, and National Museums Northern Ireland, will aim to explore new, conceptual, collaborative and participatory ways to collect which will produce more imaginative and diverse museum collections and exhibitions for the future.

Please note this is a rescheduled event, originally due to take place in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh on the 2-3 March 2018 and postponed due to the adverse weather conditions.

Dates: 10 – 11 May 2018
Times: 10:30 – 16:45, 9:00 – 16:45
Location: RDS Dublin
Fee: €33/£29 – €140/£125
Booking: irishmuseums-annualconference2018.weebly.com/

Wednesday 25 April, 6 to 7.30pm

Hosted by ARC (Art and Research Collaboration programme, IADT) and The LAB, this event explores some of the experimental practices, ideas and strateges that are central to The Expanded Field, an exhibition and residency project investigating the multifaceted nature of the Munster region, curated by Askeaton Contemporary Arts and Lismore Castle Arts.

A keynote presentation will be made by Aurora Tang, Los Angeles-based curator, researcher and Programme Manager of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) and will mark CLUI’s first engagement with Ireland. The evening also features contributions by Michele Horrigan (curator, Askeaton Contemporary Arts), Paul McAree (curator, Lismore Castle Arts) and writer and critic Maeve Connolly.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation, founded in 1994, is a research and education organisation interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the surface of the earth, and in finding new meanings in the intentional and incidental forms that we individually and collectively create. CLUI believe that the manmade landscape is a cultural inscription, that can be read to better understand who we are, and has produced dozens of exhibits on land use themes and regions, for public institutions all over the United States, as well as overseas.

The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin
askeatonarts.com