Conference
Post-Conference Material
Shifting Ground
New Perspectives on Art and Rural Culture
Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland
Thursday 19th – Saturday 21st October, 2006
A CONFERENCE TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE RURAL CONTEXT
Fidelma Mullane
Vernacular Architecture in Clare
New thinking about art & rural living
Re-negotiating relationships; Public Art in the rural context
Adam Sutherland
Grizedale Arts
Arts and Agro-ecology
or how can culture and creativity be tools to preserve a living rural world?
A possible ideological background of one’s interest in farmers
Site-specific art in South Africa and Cumbria
Memory and Displacement in Three Communities
Countering the Public?
On the Conditions of Art Production in a World in Fragments
Transcripts from Discussion Groups;
- Art & Sustainability
- The Cultural Landscape
- The Intersections of Local and Global
- Aesthetics and the Vernacular
Final discussion (chaired by Ed Carroll of City Arts/ Blue Drum)