events

 

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On this page there is information about forthcoming events and previous events organised and/or co-organised by the Graduate School. If you would like to collaborate with the School in realising a research event or project, please contact us at aidan.mcelwaine(at)gradcam.ie

The school works to generate many public events ranging from small-scale and intimate roundtable events with audiences of 10 to 20 people; workshops with audiences of 10-40 people; public seminars and symposia with audieneces of 40 to 100 people; international conferences with audiences between 100 and 200 people. The school also produces exhibitions and other poublc art events. The basic purpose of the school in generating this broad range of activity is to create contexts within which peer networks of researchers can form and forge new dialogues, networks and collaborations. Many events are generated by seminar groups building upon the exchange of perspectives developed through the fortnightly meetings of the ten or more seminar groups now meeting regularly in the school.

 

 

forthcoming

 

  • 'speaking matters' [autumn/spring 2009-2010]

    This is an ongoing series of talks, symposia, seminars and conferences across the GradCAM network.

     

  • 'after the economy' [autumn/spring 2009-2010]

    This is an ongoing series of seminars exploring key concepts in the contemporary political economy of culture.

     

  • 'art research: purposes and publics' [15-19 February 2010]

    This major international conference, with its accompanying exhibitions, marks the second birthday of the Graduate School and provides an opportunity for international exchange among creative arts and media researchers from a wide spectrum of disciplines and backgrounds, including Ireland, Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Italy, Portugal, and from further afield beyond the EU 27. This event follows upon the inaugural GradCAM conference The State of Play in May 2008.

     

 

previous events

 

The School commenced the delivery of its programme from February 1st 2008.

 

 

some activities in the first 12 weeks of operation

 

may 8th + 9th 2008

arts research: the state of play 2008

conference announcement

 

Thursday 8th and Friday 9th May 2008

Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland

 

Much of the discussion of research and arts practices has tended toward a debate about essence and epistemology. But what are people actually doing? Where are the excitement and engagement of artists, musicians, designers, architects, performers, curators being actualized and demonstrated? What is the state of play among arts researchers? More conference information here...

 

 

april 4th 2008

talking curators:
reviewing 10 years of curatorial discourse.

 

 

This seminar will take place in the context of the presentation of the Curating Degree Zero Archive at the West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, on Friday 4 April from 2.00 – 5.00pm. The specific focus of the seminar will be the question of the future possibilities of curatorial discourses after the explosion of curatorial debates in the 1990s and 2000s. The seminar will use the opportunity provided by the presentation of the curating degree zero archive in Ireland to explore the current state of curatorial practice and the progress of the debate on curating over the last decade.

 

 

march 31st 2008

contemporary art and philosophy seminar

Dr. Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield led a seminar examining the intersection of contemporary art and contemporary philosophy with particular attention to the construction of question of the 'political' and of the 'aesthetic'. The work of Ranciere and Lyotard provided a point of departure for the discussion which examined the contested construction of the 'political' in the theorising of art.

 

Dr. Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield in discussion with Dr. Paul O'Brien (GradCAM Fellow at NCAD spring semester 2008).

 

(Short extract from the informal seminar discussion that followed on from the formal presentation.)

 

Dr. Dronsfield is Reader in Theory & Philosophy of Art at the University of Reading and sits on the executive of the Forum for European Philosophy at the London School of Economics, and on the board of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art). He has published various papers in the area of continental philosophy, on art and on ethics especially. Currently he is writing two books: one on Derrida and the visual and another on Heidegger's Philosophy of Art. He was a researcher at the theory department of Jan van Eyck Academie from 2004 until 2006.

 

 

march 10th 2008

formal launch of the graduate school:
project arts centre.

 

Michael Kelly, Chairmain of the HEA, and Prof. Colm O Briain, Management Board Chair at the launch of the Gradaute School in Project Arts Centre, March 10th 2008.

 

Prof. Colm O Briain, Chair of the Board of Management of the Graduate School introduced Michael Kelly, Chairman of the Higher Education Authority, to speak on the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions as part of the official launch of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media on March 10th at the Project Arts Centre.

 

 

Dr. Kerstin Mey, University of Ulster and Nollaig O Fionghaile, Development Manager, Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, at the launch event, Project Arts Centre, 10th March 2008.

 

 

feb 28th + 29th 2008

art in the life world

 

 

Tone Olaf Nielsen delivered a fascinating critical overview paper on Danish cultural policy and cultural politics: "The Culture War that Broke the Arm's Length Principle: The Transition from Social Democratic to Neoliberal Cultural Policy in Contemporary Denmark"

 

This conference - Art In The Life World - has been curated by Aisling Prior of Breaking Ground and was Chaired by the Dean of the Graduate School at her invitation. The Graduate School researchers participated in the full programme. Tim Stott, research scholar at the School, gave a paper entitled "Just Playing: Unbinding and Belonging" starting from the premise that the State is intolerant of forms of unbinding or belonging that cannot be identified or accounted for in some way. Examining questions which are crucial to thinking through the experience of the lifeworld in its relation with systems of either bureaucratic-administrative or economic control and to the tactical potential of artistic practice in its negotiations with the same, Tim's paper asked: "What, then, is a form a co-belonging without representation? In what way can we belong and unbind at the same time, operations which, after all, seem to be exclude each other? Can we understand belonging as an expression of our unity only insofar as that unity is undone?" In his paper Tim used examples of animal-human play, child’s play, rule-making and negotiation on the field of play, and argued that "we can understand play or playfulness as a peculiar mixture of both unbinding and belonging, and that if we are to answer the questions above, our thinking must begin with play and the radical equality of its initial address to the world."

Presenters and respondents at the Conference included: Aisling Prior, Amanda McDonald Crowley (EYEBEAM New York), Prof. Tony Bennett, Maeve Connolly (MAVIS Dublin), JJ Charlesworth (Art Review, London), David Tung (Long March, Beijing), Tone Olaf Nielsen (Copenhagen), Declan Long (NCAD, Art in the Contemporary World, Dublin), Dr. Paul O'Neill (Situations, Bristol), Sarah Tuck (CREATE), Dr. Aislinn O’Donnell, Mitsuhiro (Mitch) Yoshimoto (Tokyo Arts Consultant), Dr. Daniel Jewesbury (UU), Maria Lind (Bard, New York) and Sarah Pierce (Metropolitan Complex and MAVIS Dublin).

Part of the School's participation will entail the production of a critical evaluation of the conference-form as an instrument of practice and research communications across a numbe rof different professions and discioplines.

 

 

David Tung described The Long March project in his presentation.

 

 

JJ Charlesworth preparing to deliver his paper on the question of autonomy.

 

 

feb 8th 2008

welcome event: first funded phd scholars


The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media will be formally commencing the delivery of its first PhD studies programme in February 2008. The first cohort of full time funded PhD students will commence their studies at the School from Feb 1st 2008. A small informal reception took place in the Graduate School at Johns Street West, just off Thomas Street, at 1:00 pm on Friday, February 8th, to welcome the new research students and mark the first week of their studies. This also provided an opportunity to meet the GradCAM team including the academic development and services staff, the fellows, as well as colleagues from the collaborating institutions.