Fireside Conversations

Author:

Fire Station Artists' Studios

Description:

Fireside Conversations is a response to a series of talks hosted by the Fire Station Artists' Studios that explored key facets of their work in the areas of collaborative and socially engaged arts practice, studio provision and arts and disability. The book contains transcripts of these talks as well as critical responses by five invited writers who locate this work within a wider critical framework.

Includes a conversation with Polish artist Artur Żmijewski on his essay The Applied Social Arts, US curator Mary Jane Jacob's discusses her long term work with communities in the city of Charleston. UK architect Jeremy Till critiques what he terms the 'pseudo participation' models endemic within architecture. ACME Studios discuss their very successful public-private partnerships in the UK  proposing alternative models of studio provision. Noëmi Lakmaier and Sabine Gruhn discuss their ongoing collaboration, involving a re-appropriation of their bodies as material objects and explorations of the disabled self.

Writers: Sarah Browne, Alan Phelan, Susan Thomson, Gemma Tipton, Sarah Tuck.

Publisher: Fire Station Artists Studios

ISBN: 978-0-9538055-6-3

Funder/Commissioner: Fire Station Artists studios.

Available from:  Fire Station Artists Studios, 9-11 Lwr Buckingham St, Dublin 1.
Contact: Jessica on +35318069010 email: artadmin@firestation.ie

Price: €10 inc. p&p