Thursday 18th April, 7.30pm

 

The conversations aim to create dialog and to provoke critical thinking around art and culture and the contested ‘value’ of culture in society. The title of the programme aims to give the artists presenting, a guide to frame the presentation of their work and talk about their art practice and how that connects with the world they live in. It provides an opportunity to talk about their unique approach to their practice, how it has changed and developed. How does the work interrogate the world you live in and what has been the driving force in making work?

The format for the evening of the talk will be two different artists giving a 20 minute presentation; one artist will be from outside the county and the other will be a local artist. Afterwards there will be a discussion with both artists and a Q&A with the audience chaired by Bernadette Hopkins. We will be asking artists from different disciplines to present showing diversity in art forms and practice.

Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny
Admission Free / Everyone Welcome

 

 

18 April

Eve Olney

Dr Eve Olney is an activist, educator, curator and practice-based researcher who works across Architecture, Cultural Studies and Media Practice. She is a member of Athenian-based urban activist group, Urban React, https://urbanreact.wordpress.com/. She has produced multiple cultural and social projects (both nationally and internationally) that are concerned with precarious living conditions and is currently developing a co-living housing scheme in Ireland. Her work is published across national and international forums and her public talks focus on cultivating alternative practice-based approaches to revealing and rupturing oppressive neoliberal structures.

Aodán McCardle

Aodán McCardle is a painter, a poet, gardener, tattooist, designer, maker, father, he has delivered babies warm in the dark and wrapped the dead in white hospital cotton. He is a co-editor at Veer Books. His PhD is on Action as Articulation of the Contemporary Poem though physicality and doubt are the site of meaning and the stance respectively where the action operates. His way into collaboration was as part of London Under Construction LUC. His current practice is improvised performance/writing/drawing as a finding out.