25 October,  "Landscapes of Crisis": An Evening of Photography and Literature 

Venue: James Joyce St. Gallery and The Lab, Foley St.

 

In connection to the two-day academic symposium at UCD on "World-Ecology, World-Economy, World-Literature," this cultural evening in Dublin city centre will explore artistic representations of the intertwined themes of environmental and economic crisis. It will feature an exhibition of activist-photography on  social and political responses to economic and ecological crisis in post-Tiger Ireland. The exhibition launch and wine reception in the James Joyce St. Gallery will be followed by two readings in the Foley St. LAB from performance poet Dave Lordan, author of Invitation to a Sacrifice and First Book of Frags, and Mike McCormack,  award-winning novelist and author of Late Forensic Songs. McCormack and Lordan's work is acutely attuned to the challenges of contemporary life in recession-Ireland, whether from the perspective of the urban environment in Dublin, or of the rural environments of the western coast.