Event: Verge publication symposium, Mon 19 April, GMIT

Date: Monday 19 April 2010, 2.30pm - 6pm

The aim of this symposium is to consider the form and content of a new
visual art publication, VERGE. The publication is intended as an alternative to urban-based visual arts publications and contains articles from writers, artists and poets on issues relating to rural arts and profiles of pertinent projects.

Each speaker in the symposium has particular knowledge to bring to this discourse - visual arts practice, art history, sociology, agriculture, heritage and critical theory. It is intended that they bring an external perspective to the publication and stimulate an open interrogation of the direction and dissemination of future research at the institute.

Panelists:

• Jay Koh, artist
• Megs Morley, artist/former Public Arts Officer Galway City Arts Office
• Pat Cooke. Director of the MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management (UCD), Michaele Cutaya, freelance writer/artist.
• Dr. Anne Byrne School of Political Science and Sociology (NUIG)Dr. Aine Macken Walsh, Teagasc Rural Economy Research Centre
• Jenny Haughton, Public Arts Policy Advisor, the Arts Council
• Catherine Marshall, art historian. Currently on secondment from the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Joint-Ed.Vol. V R.I.A. Irish Art and Architecture.

Chair:      

• Deirdre O'Mahony, artist/lecturer (GMIT)

Further Information
To book a place email: deirdre.omahony@gmit.ie
Venue: Theatre 1000, New Building, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Campus, Skerrit Roundabout, Galway.