Research
Papers and Presentations
A collection of papers, essays and presentations from various contexts, relating to aspects of art, culture and rural contexts.
The non-metropolitan; a site of resistance; text of a talk given by Fiona Woods at PS2, Belfast as part of URBAN/ACT: RURAL RESISTANCE, June 2nd 2008.
Shifting Ground Seminars
From November ’05 – May’06, GMIT conducted a series of public seminars to stimulate and provide a focus for discourse on contemporary rural art practice.
- Once Again Comrades; Amnesia, Memory and Public Art - Gavin Murphy
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Re-negotiating the polarity of global/local - Ann Mulrooney
- The Trouble with Beauty; Ethics, Aesthetics and Ecology and the Rural Landscape – Deirdre O’ Mahony
- The view from the hedge and the view from the hill; how are we managing our heritage? - Paul Gosling
- Conflicting Interests & Interesting Conflicts; Curatorial Strategies in the context of the Rural - Fiona Woods
Are You Ready for the Country? A Seminar report by Fiona Woods first printed in Visual Artists’ News Sheet, May/June 2006