mapping spectral traces INTERNATIONAL symposium

ÓMÓS ÁITE / THE SPACE & PLACE RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE

Mapping Spectral Traces IV

              Maynooth and Dublin, 25-28 May 2011

             

                        Photograph: St Joseph’s Holy Well © Connell Foley 2010

International artists, scholars, and urban professionals ’map' unacknowledged pasts to imagine more socially just futures. Presentations, performances, artwork, and excursions move through haunted landscapes of Ireland, the UK, the US, Australia, South Africa, Japan, and beyond.

Ómós Áite and the Space&Place Research Collaborative are delighted to announce the Mapping Spectral Traces IV international symposium, hosted at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) at the NUI Maynooth, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and Boston College-Dublin this year.

The symposium also marks the launch of an Irish-wide collaboration between Ómós Áite, based in the Centre for Irish Studies at the NUI Galway, and the Space&Place Research Collaborative based in the Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth.

The international Mapping Spectral Traces symposia encourage a comparative and transdisciplinary practice of ’curating’ conversations, papers, performances, community workshops, exhibitions and excursions through haunted national landscapes and hosted in particular locales. We believe that there is much value not only in exchanging ideas from those who come from different historical backgrounds and by engaging sensitively with particular cultural and political contexts, but also in the unexpected journey of exploring ideas and projects that emerge from such international encounters and collaborations.

As part of a commitment to socially engaged creative practice, the artists, landscape architects, architects, scholars, urban professionals, curators, media experts and practitioners participating in the symposium have worked collaboratively and individually on projects that ’map’ the unseen and unacknowledged difficult pasts that continue to structure present-day social relations. We anticipate that the explorations, reflections, performances, and exciting conversations over the next few days will contribute to these projects, as well as delve into the myriad ways that spatial imaginaries for the future have been limited by linear temporal narratives - in ways that have excluded social groups and natures - and consider alternative journeys and pathways toward more socially just futures.

For further details on the Space&Place Research Collaborative at NUI Maynooth see:

http://geography.nuim.ie/research/space-place

For further details on Ómós Áite: Space/Place Research Group at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway see: http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/centre_irish_studies/omos_aite.html

Event poster (PDF document, 4mb)
Event Schedule (PDF document)
Event Welcome (PDF document)

• Disclaimer
• Privacy
• Copyright
• Accessibility