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Printed Project Issue 11: Venice Launch
'Farewell to Post-Colonialism - Querying the Guangzhou Triennial 2008'
Curator/Editor: Sarat Maharaj / Co-curator: Dorothee Albrecht

Panel Discussion / Launch Event
Friday, 5 June 2009, 12.30 to 2.30pm at Istituto Santa Maria della Pietá, Calle della Pietá, Castello, Venice
(The Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland Exhibition Venue)

'Farewell to Post-Colonialism - Querying the Guangzhou Triennial 2008' was launched in Venice with a panel discussion that explored issues arising from and relevant to the topics and themes addressed in the publication.

You can listen to the panel discussion HERE

Speakers
Sarat Maharaj (Professor of Art History & Theory at Goldsmiths College and Professor of Visual Art and Knowledge Systems, Lund University, Sweden)
Chris Dercon (Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich)
Charles Eshe ( Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven)
Daniel Birnbaum (Rector of the Staedelschule international art academy, Frankfurt and curator of the 53rd Venice Biennale 'Making Worlds')
Homi K Bhabha (Professor of English and American Literature & Language and Director of the Humanities Center, Havard University).
Gao Shiming (Deputy Director of the Advanced School of Art and Humanities, China Academy of Art)


The audience at the PP11 launch discussion event.		L to R: The PP11 launch discussion panel - Sarat Maharaj, Charles Esche, Homi K Bhabha, Noel Kelly (VAI CEO), Chris Dercon and Gao Shiming


Homi K Bhabha speaking at the PP11 launch discussion event		Sarat Maharaj, Charles Esche, Homi K Bhabha at the PP11 launch discussion


Chris Dercon speaking at the PP11 launch discussion		Daniel Birnbaum speaking at the PP11 launch discussion


Distribution of preview copies of PP11 at the launch event		Distribution of preview copies of PP11 at the launch event

Supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The British Council.

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Printed Project: Issue 10 - Liverpool, New York, Dublin Events
'The Art of Living with Strangers'
Editor / Curator: Lolita Jablonskiene

DUBLIN: 6 November 2008
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios

Printed Project 10 was launched at TBG&S as part of the European Council of Artists conference ‘Artists Mobility, Aspiration or Reality?'
The ECA conference, which took place at IMMA (7 – 8 Nov), addressed the subjects of artistic freedom in a globalised world. As part of the conference Lolita Jablonskiene presented a paper entitled ‘The Art of Living with Strangers – The Challenge of Inclusion’.

NEW YORK: 23 – 26 October 2008.
The NY Art Book Fair, Phillips de Pury & Company, 450 West 15th Street at 10th Avenue.

Printed Project exhibited at the NY Art Book Fair, Phillips de Pury & Company, 450 West 15th Street at 10th Avenue. Printed Project’s participation was supported by Culture Ireland.

LIVERPOOL: 20 September 2008. 2 – 4pm
SITE, Hope Street, Liverpool.

‘You’re Not Welcome’ a discussion about the implications for artists and institutions of the UK Home Office’s new points based visa system, was by organised by VAI and Belfast Exposed. The discussion provided pre-launch event / context for Printed Project 10. ‘You’re Not Welcome’ was held as part of the discussion programme of the Liverpool Biennale. Speakers: David Jacques (Artist), Pauline Hadaway (Director, Belfast Exposed, and Yvette Vaughan Jones (Visiting Arts, UK). Chair: Noel Kelly (CEO Visual Artists Ireland).

DUBLIN: Thursday 17 April 2008
Followed by 'Kunstschlampen' (art table quiz) from 8:30pm
Upstairs at Toner’s, 139 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2

LONDON: Saturday 19 April, 2008
Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25 – 28 Old Burlington Street, London W1

BERLIN: Friday 25 April 2008
Bar in der Karl-Marx-Allee 36



Printed Project Issue 9 - launch event Dublin


Printed Project Issue 9 - launch event Berlin


Printed Project Issue 9 - launch event London

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Printed Project: Issue 8 – London Launch
Does Autonomy Matter?
Panel Discussion And Printed Project Launch Event

Wednesday 5 December, 6 -8pm
Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street, London, SE11 5RH.
www.gasworks.org.uk

To mark the launch of Printed Project's eighth edition, edited by cultural commentator Munira Mirza, Gasworks is hosting a discussion event expanding upon the issue's focus on 'artistic freedom –anxiety and aspiration'.

You can listen to the panel discussion here

Key Questions
Have issues of artistic autonomy and independence become less relevant as artists' networks and organisations become more 'professionalised' and forge stronger and stronger links with funding and policy bodies?

What have been the consequences for artists' networks and organisations – along with individual artists – of the increasingly 'instrumentalised' view of art being promoted by the planners and funders of cultural policy and activity? As Munira Mirza notes "artists are accused of not being socially useful. Arts organisations are told they must cater to more disadvantaged groups". And as well as this "the commercial market is also overwhelming, fixing the channels through which artists practice and speak to the public. Should we be concerned about the state of autonomy today or was it ever thus?"

For many contemporary artists the notion of artistic autonomy might be seen as an anachronistic concept that mystifies art practice and distances it from the wider culture. However, has this seemingly laudable stance by artists allowed them to be duped into a subservient relationship to public policy goals and funding criteria?

Panellists
Munira Mirza (Cultural Commentator and Curator / Editor Printed Project)
Andrew Brighton (Writer, Artist and contributing editor for Critical Quarterly)
Sonia Dyer (Artist and Arts Consultant)
Chair: Allessio Antoniolli (Director Gasworks and Triangle Arts Trust)


Munira Mirza		Panel discussion - Gasworks, London

Sonia Dyer		Allessio Antoniolli and Noel Kelly

Panellists:
Munira Mirza (writer & researcher on cultural policy, race and identity -
Curator / Editor of Printed Project issue 8)
Pauline Hadaway (Director, Belfast Exposed)
Padraig E Moore (Writer and Curator)
Chair: Dr. Daniel Jewesbury (Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster
Coleraine).

The panel with contributions from the floor considered:
What are the implications of the increasingly 'instrumentalised' view of art being promoted by the planners and funders of cultural policy and activity – such as art being twinned with notions of regeneration and social development etc? As Munira Mirza notes: "artists are accused of not being socially useful. Arts organisations are told they must cater to more 'disadvantaged groups". And as well as this "the commercial market is also overwhelming, fixing the channels through which artists practice and speak to the public. Should we be concerned about the state of autonomy today or was it ever thus?"

Printed Project - Belfast Exposed

Panel discussion - Belfast Exposed

Daniel Jewsebury, Padraic Moore, Munira Mirza & Pauline Hadaway

www.irelandvenice.com

Printed Project at Venice

Irish Visual Art Publications launch


Jason Oakley		Kim Levin

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Printed Project: Issue 6 – Dublin, Madrid and Berlin Launches
'I Can't Work Like This'
Curator / Editors: Anton Vidokle & Tirdad Zolghadr
Project, Dublin 15 / 16 Feb 2007
ARCO, Madrid 18 Feb 2007
unitednationsplaza, Berlin 24 Feb 2007

Issue 6 of Printed Project was launched in Dublin, Madrid and Berlin. The Dublin launch was specially hosted by Project (15 Feb) along with a public talk (16 Feb) by Anton Vidokle. In Madrid, at the ARCO art fair (Feb18) Printed Project 6 was presented as ‘evidence’ as part of a panel discussion / conference structured by Vidokle and Zolghadr as a ‘trial’. The charge being “collusion with the bourgeoisie other serious accusations”. Hosted at the unitednationsplaza premises, the Berlin launch evening (24 Feb) for Printed Project was animated by Anton Vidokle’s preparation of the Berlin delicacy of curry-wurst; along with a short talk by Irish critic and curator Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith.


Sarah Pierce and Anton Vidokle talking at the Project.	Zolghadr and Vidokle ‘on trial’ at ARCO, Madrid.

Printed Project launch at
UNP, Berlin.

The launch to celebrate the Irish release of Issue 5 of Printed Project.

Printed Project: Issue 5 - Venice Launch
‘another monumental metaphor’
Curator / Editor: Alan Phelan
Ireland at Venice, 9 June 2005

This special edition of Printed Project was commissioned as part of Ireland’s representation at the Venice Biennale in 2005. The publication was launched at the opening of the Irish pavilion and made available exclusively to visitors to Venice between June and September 2005.


Ireland at Venice 2005

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Printed Project: Issue 1 – Publication Launch ‘there once was a west’
editor / curator: Sarah Pierce
Dublin Fish Market, 29 September 2003

Special launch to celebrate the release of the first edition of Printed Project. Included a tortilla cooking competition organised by Basque artist Asier Perez.