08 December 2017
Melissa Rachleff Burtt and Maeve Connolly will have an exchange about the legacy of Allan Kaprow and his influence on artist-run spaces and artists today.
Friday 8 December 2017 | 6pm
Studio 6
FREE Admission, click here to book your ticket.
***Due to an unforeseen change in travel circumstances we have had to move Melissa Rachleff Burtt and Maeve Connolly's conversation to Friday 8th December at 6pm. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and hope that you can still make this event.***
Melissa Rachleff Burtt and Maeve Connolly will have an exchange about the legacy of Allan Kaprow and his influence on artist-run spaces and artists today. In light of Otobong Nkanga’s exhibition The Breath from Fertile Grounds which is opening in the gallery at 6pm, this talk will focus especially on Kaprow's 1972 Happening, Baggage and Otobong Nkanga's 2007-08 re-conceptualization of the work.
This event is a collaboration between Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, IADT ARC programme, Orthogonal Methods Group (OMG) at the CONNECT Centre in Trinity College Dublin, and Pallas Projects/Studios.
Melissa Rachleff Burtt is clinical associate professor, NYU and curator of, Inventing Downtown: Artist Run Galleries in New York City, 1950-1965. She spent 8 years as a program officer at the New York State Council on the Arts from 1999-2007. Previously, Rachleff Burtt was associate curator at Exit Art and head of adult and community programs at the Brooklyn Museum. She has written on the subject of photography, art, and art management for a variety of publications. Her essay, "Do It Yourself: A History of Alternatives" was published in Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010, by MIT Press in 2012.
Maeve Connolly is a Dublin-based researcher, focused on changing cultures and economies of art and media practice. She is a Lecturer at IADT, where she co-directs the MA in Art & Research Collaboration (ARC) and also teaches studio modules on the BA in Art. She is currently a visiting research fellow at CONNECT – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications – in Trinity College Dublin.
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