Event overview
Ireland’s post-crisis future to be debated through cultural contributions
Through an exploration of cultural, political, economic, historical, literary and ethical perspectives, The Future State of Ireland will seek to visualise a new post-crisis Ireland. A programme of contemporary art focused on crisis, resilience and endurance will intersect the conference schedule.
The keynote conversations will draw out the key themes that The Future State of Ireland aims to address, featuring highlights including:
- Leading intellectuals Professor Roy Foster (University of Oxford), author of ‘Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970–2000’; Fintan O’Toole, Literary Editor of The Irish Times, and author of ‘Up the Republic!: Towards a New Ireland’; and Dr Elaine Byrne, author of ‘Political Corruption in Ireland 1922-2010: A Crooked Harp?’.
- A screening of Kennedy Browne’s ‘How Capital Moves’, a body of work taking as its point of departure the movement of a US multinational company from Limerick to Lodz in 2009. The artists will also be discussing the social relevance of their work and the ideas and interests underpinning their practice.
- Representation from Troubling Ireland - a cross-borders think tank for artists and curators -whose participants detect, destabilise, un-think and potentially transform the notion of ‘Ireland’ and its relationship to the global world order.
· Artist and academic Anthony Haughey will engage in a conversation about his photographic work that straddles the beginning, middle and end of a boom, bust and austerity cycle, exploring Ireland's shifting demographic during the 'Celtic Tiger' years to an emerging 'new Ireland'.
- Filmmaker Treasa O’Brien and researcher Mary Jane O’ Leary presenting on a film project which asks why the Irish, in comparison to their European counterparts, have not mounted a major resistance to austerity, bank bailouts and its debt crisis. It is a film, they claim, that will be watched by the next generation in order to understand the legacy that history gives to them.
Dates & times
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17 Nov 2012 | 8:00am - 7:00pm | |
18 Nov 2012 | 9:00am - 6:00pm |
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