This is a reminder concerning this evening’s meeting of Eye and Mind, this time in association with Art Trail and the Crawford College of Art and Design. As part of the events accompanying the ArtTrail festival, a roundtable will take place in the Crawford College of Art lecture theatre on Wednesday 18th November, 6-8pm. Please note the change of time, date and venue from our usual slot at the Glucksman. The subject of the roundtable (following that of Art Trail more broadly) is ‘Locality,’ and I am delighted to announce the following participants:
Stephen Brandes is an artist whose work is particularly engaged with cartographic practices and has been described as a kind of ‘absurdist travelogue,’ combining fantastical elements with deadpan humour and dry social commentaries. Stephen represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2005.
Maureen Considine is an artist from and based in Cork, whose work uses lens based media to explore social formations in the city. Exhibiting widely, Maureen also completed a residency at the Cork Film Centre which culminated in an exhibition of new work at the Triskel Arts Centre in 2006.
Kieran Keohane is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at UCC, whose research interests include the sociological analysis of urban life. His most recent book, co-authored with Carmen Kuhling, is entitled Collision Culture: Transformations in Everyday Life in Ireland (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2004).
Each participant will deliver a short presentation on how their work relates to the issue of locality; I will then moderate a conversation between our speakers before opening the discussion out to the audience. I would also like to offer my thanks to Chris Clarke at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery for organising this great line-up of speakers – it is much appreciated.
Hope to see you there,
Ed
