Bridging Perspectives: Navigating the Interplay of Visual Artists, Curators, and Art Institutions

Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)'s Get Together 2024 features café chats, networking opportunities, speed curating, specialist clinics and a broad lineup of speakers led by renowned artist and keynote speaker, Joan Jonas. 

Panels will bring together practitioners from both at home and abroad, exploring visual arts practice through the lens of the environment, doomscrolling, exhibition making, catalogue preparation, contemporary feminism, and many other relevant topics. These include:         

• Aestheticisation of the Damaging Effects of Social Media and Doomscrolling - explores internet culture with an emphasis on the aetheticisation of doomscrolling and understimulation as a counter response. 
• The Porous School of Collections - focuses on programming of museum collections that take them outside the museum and exhibition formats. Rooted in contemporary discussions on restitution of objects, accessibility and inclusion of access to objects.                          
• Art and Ecology Interface: Curating in the Landscape -  explores curating art in natural landscapes to connect people with ecology and foster belonging. Outdoor exhibitions, like sculpture trails and land art, blur the line between art and science, encouraging environmental awareness and responsibility through engagement with nature.        

Registration: €35 - €60.