MA Art and Environment Launch Event

Programme

Friday 9th October

• 1.45 - 2.00 > Programme Co-ordinator: Glenn loughran

> Introduction: Archipelagic Art Education

• 2.00 - 3.00 > Keynote: Nicolas Bourriaud

> Patterns of the Anthropocene: Exclusions and inclusions in

contemporary art.

Coffee Break / Discussion

• 4.00 - 5.00 > Prof. Elizabeth de Loughrey

> Island Imaginaries In the Anthropocene

• 5.00 - 6.00 > Jonathan Pugh - Prof. David Chandler

> Anthropocene Islands: A Critical Agenda for island Studies in the

Anthropocene.

• 6.00 - 7.00 > Artist. Sean Connolly

> After Oceanic

The  MA Art and Environment (MAAE) combines post-studio art practice, interdisciplinary research, virtual teaching, Island Studies and community engagement.  Taking contemporary art’s relationship with environments (ecological, spatial, political, economic) as its object of study, the MAAE instructs students in artistic practices shaped by ‘archipelagic thinking’ (a decolonial spatial discourse that emphasises relationality and locality) and structured by a unique three part curriculum focused on  Mapping, Sensing, and Hacking. Where Mapping gathers historical and empirical knowledge, Sensing promotes sensorial and aesthetic engagement with materials, systems, and environments. Hacking then encourages imaginative, site-specific interventions (or ‘hacks’) that excavate, repurpose, or recompose elements of the environment. 

Located in the West Cork Archipelago and the West Cork Arts Centre (Uillinn) the MAAE is supported by a team of artists, lecturers, and researchers in the Dublin School of Creative Arts (TU Dublin), by community workers and technicians in the Sherkin Island Development Society (SIDS) and by an international, interdisciplinary network of peers and colleagues. With long distance learning central to the archipelagic reach of the course, virtual learning and in particular virtual environments will also be an aspect of study and Delivery on the course.

For more information on the course go to: www.art-environment.com