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Today at 1pm

In Detail: Sabine Kriebel
Dr. Sabine Kriebel (Art History, UCC) will present a talk on work in the exhibition Thingamajig: the Secret Life of Objects. Dr. Kriebel’s research interests are focused on twentieth-century German art, the history and theory of photography and montage, aesthetics and politics, the temporalities of art, and reception aesthetics. She is currently completing a book project Revolutionary Beauty, an in-depth analytical account of the radical 1930s photomontages of John Heartfield.

This series of In Detail presentations invites students and lecturers from the University College Cork Art History programme to present public discussions on specific works and items in the exhibition Thingamajig: the Secret Life of Objects (22 January – 9 May 2010). This collaborative programme offers audiences and participants the opportunity to experience the exhibition’s various objects of social documentary and local history as visual artworks in their own right and to explore how we choose to collect and communicate the stories behind them.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery


1pm, Thursday 04 March

Perspectives: What Isn’t Art
Brendan Earley
How do we decide what is an artwork and what isn’t? Why do some objects seemingly belong in an art gallery while others may look out of place? And how do artists use materials and ideas that are apparently unrelated to art in making their work? This series of lunchtime talks invites artists, critics and curators to explore these questions in relation to their own art-making and exhibition practices.

Brendan Earley’s practice addresses notions of the everyday alongside the futuristic, employing readymade objects, pre-fabricated materials and obsolete technologies. Earley received a Fulbright scholarship to attend Hunter College, New York City and graduated with a Masters in Fine Art in 1999, before returning to Dublin. Exhibitions include Artist Space (New York), Ars Electronica (Austria), Perspective OBG (Belfast) and Futures RHA (Dublin). Earley is currently studying for his PhD in National College of Art & Design, Dublin and recently won the Curated Visual Arts Award.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery

5pm, Thursday 04 March


Talk: Dr. David J. Butler on Masonic Painting
Masonic Tracing Boards came into being in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, their contents reflecting the reality of Freemasonry at the time of its greatest expansion, where Brethren in Lodges were experimenting with methods of communicating the Masonic message to each other and perfecting new rituals. Accompanying the exhibition Thingamajig: the secret life of objects, this talk by Dr. David J. Butler, Provincial Librarian & Archivist for the Masonic province of Munster, will explore the symbolic and historical relevance of painting in the Masonic order.
Free, All welcome
Lewis Glucksman Gallery





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