Dreams of Freedom?
Conversations on Aesthetics, Ethics & European Democracies
Fri 8th & Sat 9th March
The National Sculpture Factory
Presents
Dreams of Freedom?
Conversations on Aesthetics, Ethics & European Democracies
On Art & Public Space, Aesthetic Resistance, Social and Political Transformation, Demonstration, Democracy and European Hybridity.
Venue :
Upper Gallery
Crawford Art Gallery
Emmett Place
Cork City.
FRIDAY 8th
10:00 – 1:00 Artists’ use value in the age of social and political unrest.
This session will involve a number of the United States of Europe artists and will be chaired by curator Anna Bitkina (Russia)
USE Artists
Anna Konik (Poland)
Maria Lusitano-Santos (Portugal)
Kennedy Browne (Ireland)
Reinigungsgesellschaft (Germany)
1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 3:15 Uncommon Grounds: Art in a Borderline Democracy.
This section will include a lecture by
Augustine Zenakos
(Greek journalist, curator and previous co-director of the Athens Biennial).
3:15 – 3:30 COFFEE
3:30 – 5:00 Common or UnCommon. (Presentations + Panel)
Liz Burns (Firestation) ‘ The act of troubling’
Rosie Lynch (Commonage) ‘Locating Enclosures, finding critical points in a community context’
Augustine Zenakos
Chaired by Daniel Jewesbury.
END
SATURDAY 9th
10:00 – 11:15 “Art, the Public Sphere and Social Transformation”
Dave Beech (Artist, Lecturer, Art Critic)
11:30 – 1:00
Propositions for a Future State.
Presentations by
Daniel Jewesbury. Artist, Curator, Writer. (N. Ireland)
Stephanie Feeney, Academic. (England) The Future State
Anthony Haughey, Artist, Lecturer. (Ireland) Contesting Citizenship: Collaboration and Dialogue
1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 3:00
The E.U Project – The right to have rights.
Dr. John O’Brennan (Political scienctist, Maynooth.
‘The European Union in a time of crisis: multiple and inter-locking vectors of ‘democratic deficit’ and why legitimation matters’.
Dr. Agnes Czajka (Sociologist, UCC)
‘Notes on the Arab Spring: Enacting Citizenship and Staging Democracy’
3:30 Panel
Dave Beech
Dr. John O’Brennan
Dr. Agnes Czajka
Augustine Zenakos.
Anthony Haughey.
END
Associated event
As part of the USE exhibition we will be screening
Jean-Charles Hue’s The Lord’s BMW
at the
Triskel Christchurch,
Tobin St
Cork
Friday 8th 8:30pm