With apologies for late posting, but I’m posting it now for the record.

Memory – Art – Power is an International Symposium which examines the importance of archiving for cultural validation and development.

Thursday 19 October 2006

Memory – Art – Power brings together five leading cultural practitioners who are involved in the field of archiving to explore some of the fundamental questions around memory building. Why is it that some memories are actively suppressed while others are made deliberately visible? How do we deal with memories that are painful or alien to us? How can we as individuals contribute our own experiences and memories to a wider cultural memory? This symposium looks at how archiving can act as a catalyst in the creation of new forms of production; and furthermore how archive can help us give value to cultural events which have no obvious “outputs” or which have historically been ignored in favour of more mainstream activities.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Welcome – 10.30am
Hugh Maguire, Museums and Archives Officer, The Heritage Council of Ireland

Introduction – 10.45am
Declan Gorman, Chair of CityArts Board

Keynote Speaker – 11.00 am
Helen Johnston, Director, The Combat Poverty Agency, Dublin
The Combat Poverty Agency is a state advisory agency that develops and promotes evidence-based proposals and measures to combat poverty in Ireland.

Questions

Coffee – 11.45 am

Keynote Speaker – 12.15pm
Claire Hackett, Co-ordinator, Dúhas Living History Project, Belfast.
Dúchas is the Falls Road Community Council’s oral history archive, which records the experience of the conflict in West Belfast

Questions at 12.45pm

Lunch – 1.15pm

Case Studies at 2.15 to 4.00pm

Dr Eibhlin Evans – 2.15pm
Eibhlin Evans has published reviews, essays and articles on twentieth century prose and poetry.

Eddie Chambers – 2.45pm
Curator, Artist and Writer, Bristol based Eddie Chambers established the African and Asian Visual Artists’ Archive in 1989, a facility dedicated to documenting the history, presence and work of British based Black artists.

Nuria Verges – 3.15pm
Political Scientist Nuria Verges is involved in Social Movements in Barcelona and its artistic community.

Tea –3.45pm

Open Forum – 4.15 to 4.45pm

Close and Summary by Hugh Maguire

This event takes place at the City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

Admission is free, but booking is recommended. Please contact The Archive at CityArts on 01 6394608 or thearchive@cityarts.ie

Supported by The Heritage Council, Dublin City Council, Interface at The University of Ulster, and Masterphoto.