Frank Sweeney Screening Series
07 October — 04 November 2025, Tuesdays | 6pm
A screening series curated by exhibiting artist Frank Sweeney, selected in the context of his new film installation, Go Ye Afar.
Free Space | ACW: Heterotopia
10 October 2024, 5pm
Further Information
A special thesis launch from NCAD's Art in the Contemporary World Master's Programme with readings from student's research topics on heterotopic spaces.
This is a free event. Booking is required.
Students from NCAD's Art in the Contemporary (ACW) World Master's programme host a thesis launch event at the Pumphouse, Dublin Port, a former graving dock and the site of current Temple Bar Gallery + Studios exhibitions Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home. The evening will be a presentation of a 'cultural heterotopia' where the students from the class of 2024 will read excerpts from their research topics in this heterotopic space. Coined by Michel Foucault in 'Of Other Spaces', the term 'heterotopia' describes a parallel space which can be a cultural, institutional or discursive space that is somehow 'other': disturbing, intense, incompatible, contradictory or transforming. Heterotopias are worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting what is outside.
The project themes assimilate to the Port and the exhibitions, interrogating art and its place within the context of the future, AI, horror and war, drawing parallels with the work of exhibiting artists Yuri Pattison and Liliane Puthod.
With readings from Aibhlin Clabby, Amber Coen Collins, John Graham, Marina Leganowska, Siún Nic Suibhne, and Inka Rumniak.
ACW provides a broad student-led approach to the study of contemporary art practice and discourse. The programme offers an opportunity for focused engagement with the varied challenges of today’s most ambitious art, bridging the relationship between theory and practice by creating exciting study options for artists, curators and writers.
This event is supported by Free Space at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Free Space creates opportunities for artists to access space in the city for peer learning, artist exchanges, project development and presentations.
Event location information: This event takes The Pumphouse, Alexandra Road, Dublin Port. There is on-site parking and an accessible bathroom. For further details on accessibility please contact TBG+S Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin.
