Art Walk: January 2025
22 January 2025, 2pm
Enjoy an afternoon of art in the city. We will introduce you to exhibitions and arts organisations in Temple Bar which you can later explore at your own pace.
DABF23: VAN Special Issue, Orit Gat in conversation with Isobel Harbison
14 December 2023, 6pm
Recipient of inaugural VAN Guest Editor Award 2023 Orit Gat discusses art and literature with art critic and writer Isobel Harbison.
Visual Artists Ireland is thrilled to publish the November-December 2023 special issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. As recipient of the inaugural VAN Guest Editor Award 2023, London-based art critic and editor Orit Gat has developed a themed issue on the relationship between art and literature. For Dublin Art Book Fair 2023, Orit will be in conversation with writer and contributor, Isobel Harbison, to address some of the critical and timely themes arising from this special issue.
The Visual Artists’ News Sheet is Ireland’s dedicated bi-monthly publication for the visual arts. Published by Visual Artists Ireland, The VAN extends back to 1980, having previously been called the SSI Newsletter and published by the Sculptors’ Society of Ireland.
Orit Gat is a writer and art critic living in London. She is a contributing editor at The White Review and Art Papers, and has written about contemporary art, culture, digital culture, and sports for magazines including Frieze, ArtReview, LA Review of Books, and Paper Visual Art, among others. Orit previously worked as an editor at e-flux, Rhizome, BOMB Magazine, and Modern Painters. She now teaches writing at the Royal College of Art and is at work on her first book, If Anything Happens, an essay on football, love, and loss.
Isobel Harbison is an art critic, an art historian and lecturer at Goldsmiths, where she teaches critical studies and histories of modern and contemporary art. Interested in the relationship between art, media and politics, Harbison has been writing since 2004 for art magazines including Afterall, Art Monthly, Art Review, Frieze and for cultural and literary journals including the London Review of Books, Tolka and The White Review. Harbison published her first monograph, Performing Image, with the MIT Press in 2019. She is currently researching her second book.
This event takes place as part of Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic, sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
Image description: In a narrow room with wooden floorboards and peach-coloured walls, a black split-flap display board is suspended from the ceiling by two heavy chains. The words on the signage are supposed to read: 'Shut Mouth, Words Come From Ears'; however, some of the letters have become jumbled and this statement is no longer legible.