Critical Voices in October
Spiegeltent Talks
The 10 free talks, which are part of the ESB Dublin Fringe Festival, are at the Spiegeltent, Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street, Dublin 1. All are welcome to come and enjoy, listen and participate in this series of debates and discussions.
Wednesday 1 October, 1pm at the Spiegeltent
Cut Loose - Where am I? Beyond the venue - what is the artistic value of off site work?
Panelists forming part of this discussion will be from visual arts, dance and theatre backgrounds including Mark Garry, Curator of the Fringe Festival's visual arts programme; Vallejo Gantner, Director of ESB Dublin Fringe Festival; Karl Shiels, Artistic Director of Semper Fi and David Bolger, Artistic Director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre.
Chaired by: Willie White, Director of Project, Dublin.
Thursday 2 October, 1pm at the Spiegeltent
When you get caught between the white cube and New York City.
What and where is the context for contemporary Irish visual arts? What direction are artists looking towards - Boston or Berlin, London or New York?
Panelists will consist of contemporary Irish visual artists including Declan Clarke, artist and curator; Ciara Healy, Dublin-based practising visual artist and Enrique Juncosa, Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Chaired by: Valerie Connor, Irish Commissioner, 2003 Venice Biennale and the 2004 Sao Paulo Bienal.
Monday 6 October, 1pm at the Spiegeltent
Play Making - Contemporary Irish writing, where is it? New forms, invention, innovation, are these on the agenda?
Panelists include Gavin Quinn, Theatre Director; Ali Curran, Director of The Peacock Theatre and Biljana Srbljanovic, writer of Family Story Belgrade, which will be read by Biljana as part of the Playing Politics Weekend (4 and 5 October, Dublin Theatre Festival).
Chaired by: Loughlin Deegan, Literary Manager, Rough Magic.
Wednesday 8 October, 1pm at the Spiegeltent
Different Trans - The role of translation in culture and the relationship between audiences and translation.
Panelists include Paul Brennan, co-founder of POC Productions with Diarmuid de Faoite and Director of their second production, Paris/Texas which features in this year's Fringe Festival; Dr Michael Cronin, Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University (DCU) and Rachel West, freelance theatre director.
Chaired by: Brian Hand, Curator of Critical Voices 2.
Thursday 9 October, 1pm at the Spiegeltent
Empire Strikes Back - Politics and activism in culture in Ireland.
Panelists include Fintan O'Toole, Chief Theatre Critic of The Irish Times and Donal Toolan, actor, activist and journalist focusing on issues pertaining to disability and equality for over a decade. He is currently a member of the executive of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, the Commission on Democracy and the Information Society Commission. In the Fringe Festival he is performing in Broadcast - a piece devised in collaboration with Vici Wreford Sinott.
Chaired by: Dr Roddy Flynn, Chair of the MA programme in Film and Television Studies, School of Communication, DCU, Dublin.
Friday 10 October, 1pm at the Spiegeltent
Festivities - What should a festival be in a community? How do you measure its success?
Panelists will be made up of directors of festivals in Ireland, including Vallejo Gantner, Director of ESB Dublin Fringe Festival; Fergus Linehan, Director, Dublin Theatre Festival; Dominic Campbell, Artistic Director, Saint Patrick's Festival and Jack Gilligan, Director, Dublin Writers’ Festival and Arts Officer with Dublin City Council
Chaired by: Deirdre Falvey, Arts Editor, The Irish Times.
Other Critical Voices Activity in October
The public interview with Arthur Miller which was scheduled for Sunday 5 October has been postponed.
Critical Engagement
Is a week-long series of events hosted by Irish Theatre Magazine in association with Critical Voices, the Arts Council, Dublin Theatre Festival, Temple Bar Properties and the School of Drama at Trinity College. The programme, beginning on 6 October, will bring together leading international and Irish critics to observe and comment on productions in the Dublin Theatre and Fringe Festivals, and will also invite these critics to step back from, discuss, and analyse their work as critics. Critical Engagement expands upon the magazine’s International Critics’ Forum, which, in its three-year history, has become an important date in the Festival calendar.
For more details E-mail: conference@irishtheatremagazine.com.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Dorothy Walker Memorial Lecture 2003 "Out of the Archive and into the Street" with photography historian, Abigail Solomon-Godeau.
Critical Voices and AICA have invited Professor Abigail Solomon-Godeau to speak in Dublin on Saturday 18 October. The Professor is a photography historian, a critic of contemporary art, and an art historian specialising in 19th-century French art, feminist and critical theory and contemporary art. She has recently received both a University of California President's Research Fellowship and a J. Paul Getty Fellowship. The venue for her talk on 18 October will be Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Parnell Square, Dublin 2 from 2pm-5pm. Admission is free but seats are limited. Ensure a place by contacting Sheila Dickenson at sheila.dickinson@ucd.ie.
Keith Rowe
i+e in association with DEAF, Critical Voices and the Austrian Embassy (Dublin) presents Keith Rowe (tabletop guitar) in The Sugar Club, Leeson St, Dublin 2 on Wednesday 22 October at 8pm. Keith Rowe has been a major figure in improvised and experimental music for almost four decades, both as a soloist and a member of many groups. Martin McCabe will interview Keith Rowe about the role of the visual arts in his music.
Art Spiegelman
Critical Voices in association with Dun Laoghaire College of Art, Design and Technology presents a public interview with Art Spiegelman on Thursday 30 October. Art Spiegelman was born in 1948 and has been a cartoonist since he was a teenager. In 1992 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his creation of the two-volume classic comic book, Maus published in 1986 and 1991. Maus has since been published in 20 different languages. In November of 1992, Spiegelman became a contributing editor and artist for The New Yorker magazine and his work has appeared on many of the covers since then. Since the attack on the World Trade Centre, Spiegelman has been working on a new project about the atrocity. He recently resigned from The New Yorker in protest at the US media's coverage of the war on terror. Location: City Centre, Dublin (venue TBC), Date: Thursday 30 October 2003.
Critical Voices 2 is under the curatorship of Brian Hand and the project management of Iseult Dunne.
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