Kilkenny County Council’s arts office in collaboration with the Butler Gallery is launching the sixth in the series of MOOT discussions, debates, and seminars. MOOT is a continuous creative process providing a forum for powerful, focused, and inspirational debates and discussion on a variety of subjects. These events will potentially transform expectations, citing shifts in attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs.
This discussion, like previous events, will be an open format event where artists, curators, academics, and the general public will be invited to question how arts and culture can contribute to addressing environmental and ecological concerns.
This panel discussion will take place on Wednesday, May 20 in Kilkenny County Council arts office, 72 John Street at 8pm and will consist of chairperson Pat Cooke (IRL ), director of cultural policy and arts management at UCD; Paul O’Brien (IRL ) lecturer in aesthetics/ cultural theory in the Faculty of Visual Arts, NCAD Dublin; Rick Faulkner and Christine Keogh (UK ) Chrysalis Arts, an artist-led public art company, training and arts development agency; Heather Peak (UK ) an artist based in Wales who works collaboratively with Ivan Morrison. Together, they investigate their environmental surroundings through their art, and are currently installing work as part of Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 at the Barbican, London.
