Open Forum: ‘Kick Starting the Core’
As part of the launch of the latest Printed Project issue ‘Circulation’, Visual Artists Ireland (VAI) will host an open forum ‘Kick Starting the Core’ on Monday 10th December at 6.30pm in the Banker’s Club on Stephen Street Upper, Dublin 8.
Presentations will be made by:
Garrett Phelan - Visual Artist
Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev - Adjunct Lecturer in Finance with Trinity College, Dublin
Noel Kelly - Chief Executive Officer/Director Visual Artists Ireland
While any type of discussion relating to economics can be said to be very timely at present, this discussion is being convened in advance of the announcement of the budget for two specific and very constructive purposes.
Firstly - ‘Kick Starting the Core’ aims to move discussion on from mere recognition and diagnosis of the uncertainties of the economic situation, to providing a platform for the consideration and proposal of positive steps and measures that can be taken to in relation to supporting the visual arts and associated cultural sectors in Ireland. Secondly - ‘Kick Starting the Core’ aims to provide a platform for advancing discussion and actions relating to arts and culture role as a precondition and driver for Ireland’s ongoing societal and economic health.
‘Circulation’
In the light of the recent crash in the global financial system, this issue of Printed Project takes a timely look at the notion of ‘circulation’ - not only circulation of goods, bodies, knowledge, ideas, images and money, i.e. the movement of certain forms - but also, and maybe more so, an idea of circulation as a form in itself.
Curator/editor Katya Sander has taken her cue from a number of recent sociologists and anthropologists, who have sought to understand and describe the market “as one form of circulation central to western imaginary of modernity”. As Sander notes “along with the market as one such matrix for western modernity, the notion of the public sphere and the idea of the nation state can also be understood as seminal forms of circulation for western modernity and the ways in which it is understood and imagined.”
