Aftereffects and Untold Histories conference programme
Please note that this programme may be subject to change
A major conference at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, organised in partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Arts Council
All events take place in the NCAD Gallery and Lecture Theatre, 100 Thomas Street unless indicated.
Thursday 2nd April 2020
Optional pre-conference tours and events
14.00 Visit to Cultivating Stories, Åsa Sonjasdotter's new exhibition at the Project Arts Centre (39 Essex St E, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 RD45). This is an opportunity to meet the artist and curator, Lívia Páldi.
15.30 Visit to the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Military Rd, Kilmainham, Dublin 8) to see the current show on its own archives with a focus on the 1990s - see here. With curator Johanne Mullan.
OR
14.00-16.00 A hurry through gaps: between perception, longing and revolt. A performative workshop at the Goethe Institut Irland (37 Merrion Square E, Dublin 2, D02 XK52) led by ACW MFA student Brendan Fox and featuring artists including Nigel Rolfe. Conference attendees who wish to attend this intimate activation of artistic research are very welcome. Please note the 2 hour duration.
18.00 Aftereffects and Untold Histories conference opens with welcome from Sarah Glennie, Director NCAD / Annie Fletcher, Director IMMA
Followed by ‘Flames Breath Forth’, a performance lecture from artist Maria Fusco.
Friday 3rd April 2020
9.00 Registration
9.30 Welcome
09.40 Brian Connolly, title tbc
10.20 Artur Tajber, OrientAction / OccidentAction
11.00 Saskia Holmkvist, Back Translation
11.40 Rereshment break in the Gallery
12.00 Mick Wilson, Leah Hilliard and Niall Sweeney in conversation about LGBTQ+ activism / art in Dublin in 1990s
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Sabine Gebhardt Fink ‘Performance Art in Switzerland in the 1990s: Institutional critique and queer/feminist positions’
14.40 Andre Stitt, ‘Performance in Wales: nation states, altered states, and republics : 1990-present’
15.20 Claudia Madeira, ‘Changes in Performance art in the 1990s in Portugal: the impact of art market and the integration on the European Community’
16.00 Rereshment break in the Gallery
16.20 Speakers from L’INTERNATIONALE network discuss about their current activities and plans under the Our Many Europes framework
18.00 Performance and Education - actions by past and current NCAD students
18.30 Conference dinner for all speakers in the Luncheonette.
Saturday 4th April 2020
10.00 Kateřina Štroblová, ‘For the Higher Quality of Humanity Actions and Performances of the Rafani Collective (in the Czech Republic)’
10.40 Mari Lanamets, ‘Hanno Soans in the urban space of Tallinn in the late 1990s'
11.20 Rereshment break in the Gallery
11.40 Joanna Krakowska., ‘Shades of Pride, Types of Bitches and Other Offences. The Role of Performance and Theatre in the Rise of Binary Society in Poland After 1990’
12.20 They Come Then, The Birds - a performance by Amanda Coogan TBC
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Hannah Tiernan, The LGBT Theatre of Project Arts Centre through the 90s: Reaction, Representation and Legacy
14.25 Siobhan O' Gorman, ‘The Dying/Reborn Body in the Space of Technology - on the operating theatre group since 1990s’
15.05 Kevin Atherton, ‘”A Guide to ‘Gallery Guide”: A Re-Entering of a Virtual Reality Performance’
15.45 Refreshment break in the Gallery
16.00 Round Table - Performance Artists - an Intergenerational Conversation, chaired by Sara Muthi - speakers to TBC
17.00 FINISH
