re : public exhibition and series of events, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios

5 February - 13 March

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios is pleased to present re : public, an exhibition and series of events through which the crucial question will be asked - can something happen in public again?

In collaboration with GradCAM, the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media in Dublin, and guest curator Daniel Jewesbury, the gallery at TBG&S will become a forum where the public can meet with a range of artists and thinkers to reconsider the troubled relationship between art and society. The project aims to look again at preconceptions concerning 'publicness', and to debate whether there is even anything left that we can call a 'public sphere'. After the fiasco of the property crash, participants have been invited to look again at the role played by architecture and urban planning in the construction of physical public space. In a world controlled by globalised markets that are loyal to no nation can we still talk of meaningful democratic participation in the political public sphere? And if so, is there any room, or any need, for the involvement of artists?

Further Information
A full list of events and detailed calendar for this project is available at http://www.gradcam.ie/re_public.php or see TBG&S website http://www.templebargallery.com/2009Programme/1001republic.htm