Saturday 12 August at Photo Museum Ireland

This symposium with the artists featured in the exhibition will consider how the spaces and structures we inhabit define our understanding of home on the island of Ireland. These discussions are an opportunity to engage with diverse representations and artistic points of view around some of the most challenging issues in Irish life today.

2.00pm – 2.10pm Welcome address: Trish Lambe, Photo Museum Ireland
2.10pm – 3.00pm Keynote Lecture: Clare Gallagher
Artist and educator Clare Gallagher will present the research for her upcoming publication Subversive Mothers, Disturbing Domesticity, which explores modern ideas of home in western culture through a feminist lens, focusing on women’s domestic practices and experiences. It suggests the mother as a subversive figure and presents home as the site for possibilities of resistance to patriarchal expectations and demands upon women. The book is scheduled to be published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2024.

3.00pm – 4.30pm Artists’ Panel Discussions

Panel 1: Home & Family
Niamh Crowley, Ciarán Óg Arnold, Ciarán Dunbar, Shannon Ritchie & Clare Gallagher will discuss their diverse representations of issues around ‘home’ ranging from the personal to the wider social context.

Panel 2: Migration & Displacement
Anthony Haughey, Vera Ryklova, & Tatiana Evonuk will address issues of migration and displacement, touching on the complexity of representing diverse or contested identities within a shifting global context.

Panel 3: Institutions & Housing
Joanne Mullin, Jamin Keogh, Niamh Smith, Luke Ryan, Caleb Daly & participants from STILL SOMEBODY – Voices for Change will consider where and how we live, reimagining the histories of housing provision to reflect on the direct and negative effect these issues continue to have on Irish society.

Biographies for all the featured artists can be found here.