To mark the closing of the 2015 degree exhibition, IADT’s BA in Visual Arts Practice students hosted a symposium and tour on the theme of Else[w]here, exploring the attraction and potential (for artists and others) of actual and imagined places, and the experience of moving/working/living between places. Four invited speakers, Helen Carey, Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Kate Strain, Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll, presented informal responses to the theme, providing a starting point for an open discussion. This was followed by tour of the BA exhibition, led by Fiona Gannon and Christopher Mahon, both of whom are students on the ARC MA programme.

Biographies of the speakers are accessible here.

An audio recording of the four presentations and discussion can be accessed via Soundclound here.

Acknowledgements and thanks:

Tours of BA exhibition led by Fiona Gannon and Christopher Mahon. Documentation by Jamin Keogh. IADT Students Union (for access to Chapel venue). IADT staff Geoffrey Perrin, Liam Doona, Andrew Power and Cora Cummins. Thanks to the BA in Visual Arts Practice students involved in devising the event, setting up the venue, making maps, organising lists of works, assisting with audio, designing invitations and invigilating the exhibition, particularly Lucy Jameson, Niall Keville, Jamie Thornton and Cliodhna Timoney.

All photographs by Jamin Keogh.

From left: Kate Strain, Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Maeve Connolly

Alison Hyland and John Drumm, listening to presentations

Audience at the Chapel, IADT Students Union

From left: Maeve Connolly, Marysia Wieckiewicz Carroll, Helen Carey

From left: Sinead Hogan, Kate Strain (distributing questions)

Marysia Wieckiewicz Carroll

Roberta Murray and Jamie Thornton

Responding to the exhibition: Chistopher Mahon and Fiona Gannon

Cliodhna Timoney and exhibition visitors looking at her work.

Niall Keville discussing his work with Kate Strain

Siobhan Mooney looking at work by Camilla Hanney

Donna Carroll looking at work by Simon Slattery