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Visual Arts Workers Forum ‘Work It!’ April 20th 2011
April 7th, 2011 — 5:56pm
PRESS RELEASE
Wednesday 20th April 2011, 10.30am – 5.30pm
Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Visual Arts Workers Forum and Project Arts Centre present Work it. – part two in a series of networking
forums organized by, and for, all of us working to evolve the Visual Arts in Ireland.
You are warmly invited to join us!
Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Visual Arts Workers Forum and Project Arts Centre present Work it. – part two in a series of networking
forums organized by, and for, all of us working to evolve the Visual Arts in Ireland.
You are warmly invited to join us!
A day of sharp presentations and debate, developed to encourage vital communication and networking
among visual arts workers – a cardiovascular work out for the sector.
Please note, there is a small fee for the event – all proceeds from ticket sales go to fund the independent
speakers’ participation at Work it. VAWF is an independent, non-profit organisation.
Tickets are limited so early booking is advised, online at www.projectartscentre.ie or by
calling (01) 881 9613. Tickets are €10 for independent practitioners / €25 for those institutionally affiliated.
A light lunch will be included, with tea, coffee and finishing with a drinks reception.
Work it. is a day-long event organized around the following sessions:
among visual arts workers – a cardiovascular work out for the sector.
Please note, there is a small fee for the event – all proceeds from ticket sales go to fund the independent
speakers’ participation at Work it. VAWF is an independent, non-profit organisation.
Tickets are limited so early booking is advised, online at www.projectartscentre.ie or by
calling (01) 881 9613. Tickets are €10 for independent practitioners / €25 for those institutionally affiliated.
A light lunch will be included, with tea, coffee and finishing with a drinks reception.
Work it. is a day-long event organized around the following sessions:
Session 1- What’s new Pussycat? (11.00am – 12.15pm)
Challenge and innovation: more than ever, visual arts workers are facing the need to change, to adapt to
new operating systems, budgets and policies, and to find creative solutions to formidable problems. Often
reluctant to accept change, institutions are also undergoing self-inflicted surgery to try to grow artistically
while shrinking economically, and to constantly step away from the coalface to consider communications,
audiences, and the potential reach of contemporary art. This session aims to bring to light the most
prominent problems facing three Visual Arts Workers, and the most creative, inventive, commonsensical or
absurd ways forward that might help to inspire all of us working in the sector. Challenge and innovation –
sometimes real innovation is born through adversity.
Challenge and innovation: more than ever, visual arts workers are facing the need to change, to adapt to
new operating systems, budgets and policies, and to find creative solutions to formidable problems. Often
reluctant to accept change, institutions are also undergoing self-inflicted surgery to try to grow artistically
while shrinking economically, and to constantly step away from the coalface to consider communications,
audiences, and the potential reach of contemporary art. This session aims to bring to light the most
prominent problems facing three Visual Arts Workers, and the most creative, inventive, commonsensical or
absurd ways forward that might help to inspire all of us working in the sector. Challenge and innovation –
sometimes real innovation is born through adversity.
Chair: Tessa Giblin (Curator, Project Arts Centre, Dublin)
Speakers: Michele Horrigan (Curator, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Limerick), Theo Sims (Director,
Context Gallery, Derry)
Speakers: Michele Horrigan (Curator, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Limerick), Theo Sims (Director,
Context Gallery, Derry)
Chow & Chat (lunch)
Session 2 – We’re here? Then why are we so quiet? (1.00 – 2.15pm)
Action and unity: The National Campaign for the Arts kick started in 2010 amidst fear and worry about the
financial future of the arts in Ireland. The campaign is lobbying to ensure the arts are on local and national
government agendas and recognized as a vital part of contemporary Irish life. How can visual arts workers
respond positively to the challenges facing the arts? Do we need to unite with other lobbying groups or fight
our own corner? This session proposes to highlight key questions through debate.
Action and unity: The National Campaign for the Arts kick started in 2010 amidst fear and worry about the
financial future of the arts in Ireland. The campaign is lobbying to ensure the arts are on local and national
government agendas and recognized as a vital part of contemporary Irish life. How can visual arts workers
respond positively to the challenges facing the arts? Do we need to unite with other lobbying groups or fight
our own corner? This session proposes to highlight key questions through debate.
Chair: Sarah Glennie (Director, Irish Film Institute, Dublin)
Speakers: Tania Banotti (Chief Executive, Theatre Forum, Dublin), Dylan Haskins (Founder, Exchange
Dublin), Mary McCarthy (Director, the National Sculpture Factory, Cork), Isabel Nolan (Artist)
Speakers: Tania Banotti (Chief Executive, Theatre Forum, Dublin), Dylan Haskins (Founder, Exchange
Dublin), Mary McCarthy (Director, the National Sculpture Factory, Cork), Isabel Nolan (Artist)
Session 3 – Ethical Attitudes (2.30 – 3.45pm)
Contemporary art constitutes a vast, unregulated sector, and although Ireland’s market is still at an early
stage in development, the institutional, freelance and self-employed arts workers of Ireland have little in the
way of codes of best practice. This session aims to prise apart attitudes to fiscal transparency, the use and
advantages of contracts, the relationship of the visual arts in Ireland to the international art market, and the
problems and pitfalls of working within an unregulated system. If your ethical attitude within the visual arts is
of your own making, what do workers today find important to fight for – for artists, for stakeholders, and for
themselves?
Contemporary art constitutes a vast, unregulated sector, and although Ireland’s market is still at an early
stage in development, the institutional, freelance and self-employed arts workers of Ireland have little in the
way of codes of best practice. This session aims to prise apart attitudes to fiscal transparency, the use and
advantages of contracts, the relationship of the visual arts in Ireland to the international art market, and the
problems and pitfalls of working within an unregulated system. If your ethical attitude within the visual arts is
of your own making, what do workers today find important to fight for – for artists, for stakeholders, and for
themselves?
Chair: Ruairí Ó Cuív (Public Art Manager, Dublin City Council)
Speakers: Valerie Connor (Freelance), Rosie Lynch (Independent Curator), Mick Wilson (Dean, The
Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin)
Speakers: Valerie Connor (Freelance), Rosie Lynch (Independent Curator), Mick Wilson (Dean, The
Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin)
Programme for the Day
10.30 Morning Glory (coffee and greetings)
11.00 Welcome
11.10 – 12.15 What’s new Pussycat?
12.15 – 1.00 Chow & Chat (lunch)
1.00 – 2.15 We’re here? Then why are we so quiet?
2.15 – 2.30 Give me a Break (15 minute recess)
2.30 – 3.45 Ethical Attitudes
3.45 – 5.00 Open Discussion
5.00 – 6.00 Have we met? (drinks and nibbles)
10.30 Morning Glory (coffee and greetings)
11.00 Welcome
11.10 – 12.15 What’s new Pussycat?
12.15 – 1.00 Chow & Chat (lunch)
1.00 – 2.15 We’re here? Then why are we so quiet?
2.15 – 2.30 Give me a Break (15 minute recess)
2.30 – 3.45 Ethical Attitudes
3.45 – 5.00 Open Discussion
5.00 – 6.00 Have we met? (drinks and nibbles)
Join the Forum!
For more information, please see http://visualartsworkersforum.blogspot.com
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Work it. is the 2nd meeting of Visual Arts Workers Forum, initiated at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary
Art, Carlow, by Carissa Farrell and Emma-Lucy O’Brien. Work it. has been developed by Tessa Giblin
(Project Arts Centre, Dublin), Rachael Gilbourne (independent artist/curator, Dublin), Anne Lynott
(Curatorial Fellow, MAVIS, Dublin), Emma-Lucy O’ Brien (VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow)
and Ruairí Ó Cuív (Dublin City Council).
For more information, please see http://visualartsworkersforum.blogspot.com
—————————————————————————————————————————–
Work it. is the 2nd meeting of Visual Arts Workers Forum, initiated at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary
Art, Carlow, by Carissa Farrell and Emma-Lucy O’Brien. Work it. has been developed by Tessa Giblin
(Project Arts Centre, Dublin), Rachael Gilbourne (independent artist/curator, Dublin), Anne Lynott
(Curatorial Fellow, MAVIS, Dublin), Emma-Lucy O’ Brien (VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow)
and Ruairí Ó Cuív (Dublin City Council).
