Aftereffects and Untold Histories: Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s
Aftereffects and Untold Histories, is a research project and five-week online events programme running from 15th April to 15th May 2021, commissioned by the National College of Art and Design (NCAD).
The Aftereffects and Untold Histories programme of discussions, conversations and performances will examine the intersections of politics and performance in Europe in the 1990s as well as their legacies today.
The Aftereffects and Untold Histories programme is a partnership between NCAD, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL). Aftereffects and Untold Histories is part of NCAD’s contribution to the EU funded L’Internationale project Our Many Europes.
Contributors and speakers in Aftereffects and Untold Histories include artists, curators, writers and academics from Ireland and abroad:
Kate Antosik-Parsons, Kevin Atherton, Judit Bodor, Cecily Brennan (Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment), Brian Connolly, David Crowley (NCAD), Isadora Epstein, Jennifer Fitzgibbon (NIVAL), Annie Fletcher (IMMA), Maria Fusco, Sarah Glennie (NCAD), Sara Greavu, Brian Hand, Léann Herlihy, Leah Hilliard, Saskia Holmkvist, Vida Knežević, Joanna Krakowska, Mari Laanemets, Nita Luci, Johanne Mullan (IMMA), Sara Muthi, Maïa Nunes, Lívia Páldi, Sarah Pierce, Bojana Piškur, Donna Romano (NIVAL), Kateřina Štroblová, Niall Sweeney and Hannah Tiernan.
The Aftereffects and Untold Histories, Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s online programme is curated by Alissa Kleist and Ciara Moloney
Programme events are live, free and open for all to attend. Please note that limited attendance is in place for some events. All will take place online via Zoom or YouTube and can be booked by following this link. Recordings of many of the talks and performances will also be available online after the programme finishes.
Activism and the archive
Sara Greavu, Joanna Krakowska, Hannah Tiernan
Thursday 6th May, 7pm - 8pm
As part of the fourth week of events, Activism and the archive is a live panel discussion event exploring performance art, gender, sexuality and activism chaired by curator Sara Greavu following the presentation of short papers from researcher and artist Hannah Tiernan about the LGBT Theatre of Project Arts Centre through the 90s, and theatre historian Joanna Krakowska on the role of performance and theatre in the rise of binary society in Poland after 1990.