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"Mapping Spectral Traces IV: Maynooth and Dublin"

Ómós Áite/The Space & Place Research Collaborative announce:
Mapping Spectral Traces IV: Maynooth and Dublin

International artists, scholars, and urban professionals 'map' unacknowledged/unseen pasts to imagine more socially just futures. Presentations, performances, artwork, and excursions move through haunted spaces in Ireland, the U.K., the U.S., Japan, Guyana, and beyond.

See the poster for the event here.

Day 1: Wednesday, May 25 (NUI Maynooth, IONTAS Bldg, Second Floor, NIRSA conference room)

9:00: Welcomes and Overview: 'Mapping Spectral Traces'
9:15-10:00 am: Session One: 'Therapeutic Landscapes and Places of Healing'
10:00-10:50: Session Two: 'Groundedness, Rootedness and Thinking Place through Art'
10:50-11:15: Discussion
11:30-12:00: Session Three: 'PLaCE Performance work'
1:00-2:15pm: Session Four: 'Irish Ghost Estates'
2:30-3:45: Session Five: 'Migrating Presences and Haunted Pathways'
4-5:15: Session Six: 'Spectral Matter'
5:15-6pm: Keynote Panel and Open Discusssion (with Frank McDonald, The Irish Times and Gini Lee, Landscape Architecture, Queensland University of Technology)
6-7pm: Reception and Book Launch

Day 2: Thursday, May 26 (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Lecture Room and Artists Studios)

9:30-10:30am: Session One: '20 Years Celebrating Irish Art at IMMA'
10:30-11:30: Session Two: Artists in Residence Studio Visits
11:30: Performance Sculpture: IMMA Baroque Gardens
12:30-1:15: Session Three: 'GradCAM: Public Art Programmes and Residencies'
1:15-2:00: Session Four: 'CREATE: Socially and Community Engaged Collaborative Art Projects'
2:00-3pm: Panel Discussion: The Future of Socially Engaged Creative and Research Practice
3:15-5:30 Excursion: 'Colonial and Postcolonial Spectral Traces in Dublin'
Begins at: Christ Church Cathedral (Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Dublin)

Day 3: Friday, May 27: (Boston College-Ireland, 42 St Stephen's Green)

10am-1pm: Open Discussion: 'Reflections, Challenges and Future Possibilities'

Day 4: Saturday, May 28

Excursion: Irish holy wells and archaeological sites

Limited space; registration required! Please contact: nirsa@nuim.ie

MSTIV international symposium generously sponsored by:
ISSP; NIRSA NUI Maynooth; Geography NUIM; Centre for Irish Studies NUI Galway; GradCAM; PLaCE UWE-Bristol; Land2; IMMA; CREATE; DJCAD UDundee; Queensland UofTechnology; UMinnesota Imagine Fund.