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Public lecture series 2011
Fintan Cullen
Materiality and Display: Ireland in America at the end of the Nineteenth Century
4pm Friday, 4 February
Lecture Room G6, School of Art Design and Printing
Dublin Institute of Technology, 41 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1
Fintan Cullen is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham. He has written extensively on aspects of Irish art and Irish representation and the talk he will give at DIT is part of a new book to be published in the next year on aspects of the politics of display as they affected Ireland in the nineteenth century.
The book will be entitled Ireland on Show and he is interested in the tensions involved in the display of an art of union in the nineteenth century and an art that represented a growing sense of indigenous nationhood.
This paper looks at two examples of Ireland on show in the United States in the late nineteenth century: the still-life work of the Cork-born painter William Harnett and the display of Ireland at the Chicago World Fair in 1893.
All are welcome to this free event, but places are limited.
Please book by email: indiscussionadp@gmail.com
in|discussion This public lecture series is a forum to discuss contemporary issues and current research in typography, art, design, material culture, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, society and technology. The series marks the launch of the BA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Art Design and Printing DIT: http://bavacs.blogspot.com/
Updates on the lecture series at:
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Public
lecture series 2011
Aoife Monks
Playing Dead: Ghosts, Skulls, Corpses, Wigs and
Ashes in Performance
6.30pm Wednesday, 23 February
Lecture Room G6, School
of Art Design and Printing
Dublin Institute of Technology, 41 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1
Aoife Monks is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College,
University of London. She is the
author of The Actor In Costume
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), co-editor of Contemporary
Theatre Review journal (Routledge), and is currently a visiting research
fellow at the Long Room Hub in Trinity College, Dublin. She has written
extensively on the material and visual aspects of contemporary theatre practice
and is currently working on a project that examines Stage Irishness in the 19th
Century, and during the Celtic Tiger period.
The paper she will
give at DIT is part of her wider work on theatre costume and acting. Asking:
“what should ghosts wear in performance?” the paper will examine the role of
objects and costumes in representing the dead onstage. Thinking about the
history of staging ghosts in the theatre, the paper will turn its attention to
the ways in which twentieth century artists have employed objects and costumes
in order to access the dead onstage.
Looking at objects such as skulls, wigs, armour, ashes, masks, puppets
and tracksuits, this paper will investigate the peculiar work of acting in
bringing the dead back to life in performance.
All are welcome to this free event.
To secure your place, please book by email: indiscussionadp@gmail.com
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This public lecture series is a forum to discuss contemporary issues and current research in typography, art, design, material culture, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, society and technology. The series marks the launch of the BA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Art Design and Printing DIT: http://bavacs.blogspot.com/
This public lecture series is a forum to discuss contemporary issues and current research in typography, art, design, material culture, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, society and technology. The series marks the launch of the BA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Art Design and Printing DIT: http://bavacs.blogspot.com/
Public
lecture series 2011
Colin Graham
‘Motionless
Monotony’: New Nowheres in Irish Photography
4pm Friday, 1 April
Lecture Room G6, School
of Art Design and Printing
Dublin Institute of Technology, 41 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1
Colin Graham
lectures in English at NUI Maynooth. He is the author of Ideologies of Epic and Deconstructing
Ireland, and co-editor of The Irish
Review. He has written on art and photography in many journals, including Third Text, Cultural Studies, Journal of
Visual Culture in Britain, Source
and Circa.
This lecture will trace a journey
in and around Dublin, and then in to the midlands of Ireland, following
photographers and artists who have recently travelled in and catalogued new
Irish nowheres. Their work can be seen as akin in the methodology to the
‘psychogeographic’ walking and writings of Iain Sinclair, with the intention
‘to vandalise dormant energies by an act of ambulant signmaking’.
This fascination with dead space
inhabited by living people will be discussed in recent projects by Anne Cleary
and Denis Connolly (Moving Dublin),
Mark Curran (Southern Cross), Dara
McGrath (By the Way), Simon Burch (Under a Grey Sky), Martin Cregg (Midlands) and Jackie Nickerson (Ten Miles Round). The lecture will
discuss the ways in which these photographic projects seek out the traces and
marks of human activity, even when it is part of the eradication of the
landscape, and find these traces to be the faint marks of presence.
All are welcome to this free event.
To secure your place, please book by email: indiscussionadp@gmail.com
in|discussion
This public lecture series is a forum to discuss contemporary issues and current research in typography, art, design, material culture, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, society and technology. The series marks the launch of the BA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Art Design and Printing DIT: http://bavacs.blogspot.com/
This public lecture series is a forum to discuss contemporary issues and current research in typography, art, design, material culture, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, society and technology. The series marks the launch of the BA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Art Design and Printing DIT: http://bavacs.blogspot.com/
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Public lecture series 2011
Brian O’Connor
Mimesis and Modernism
4pm Friday, 6 May
Lecture Room G6, School of Art Design
and Printing
Dublin
Institute of Technology, 41 Mountjoy
Square, Dublin 1
Brian O’Connor is Associate Professor of Philosophy
at University College Dublin. He is the author of Adorno’s Negative Dialectic (2004), Adorno: The Routledge Philosophers (2011) and of papers on the
German Idealist and Critical Theory traditions. He is the editor of The Adorno Reader (2000) and (with Georg
Mohr) of German Idealism: An Anthology
and Guide (2007).
The idea of mimesis appears,
like the word itself, to be a category of an earlier and long past period of
European culture. Identified with realist imitation it could have no apparent
place within the defiantly non-representational art of modernism. Yet we find
in the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno an effort to explain modernist art’s
capacity to stand in critical relation to society as grounded in its mimetic properties.
This paper will reconstruct and critically evaluate Adorno’s innovative
thesis, exploring, in particular, his notion of the ‘authentically’ aesthetic
expression of social reality that is not an imitation of that reality.
All are
welcome to this free event.
To secure
your place, please book by email: indiscussionadp@gmail.com
in|discussion
This public lecture series is a forum to discuss contemporary issues and current research in typography, art, design, material culture, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, society and technology. The series marks the launch of the BA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Art Design and Printing DIT: http://bavacs.blogspot.com/
This public lecture series is a forum to discuss contemporary issues and current research in typography, art, design, material culture, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, society and technology. The series marks the launch of the BA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Art Design and Printing DIT: http://bavacs.blogspot.com/
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