Academic Sessions: Belfast 2007
Taking to the Streets: Art and the Architecture of Security and Control
Convenor:
Liam Kelly, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster l.kelly1@ulster.ac.uk
The cities of Belfast and Derry in Northern Ireland have been heavily fortified and defended and, as such, are where the physical apparatus of the political troubles, in various ways, can best be experienced. Army and police vehicles and helicopters have, over the years, daily paraded or surveyed these cities, while army and police stations became more and more purposefully designed for long-term fortification. These cities have been marked, segregated and intensely surveilled. Temporary barricades between the two rival communities have been erected or dismantled over the years or settled into permanent acceptance as necessary so-called peace lines. A number of artists, both local and international, have responded to this legacy of the physical and emotional environment of division, security and control in the North of Ireland by way of painting, photography, video and installation art practices.
Speakers:
Nicola Mann (Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, USA)
The extraordinary ordinary: A consideration of the phantasmagoria in Daniel Roth’s Cabrini Green Forest (Portal) 2004, as representative of the ‘underground’ characteristics of the Chicago housing project
Liam Kelly (School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast)
Seeing You/Seeing me: Art and The Disembodied Eye
David Brett (University of Ulster) & Alan Jones (QUB)
In Contested Space: Space and Security in Town and Country, Northern Ireland
Aisling O’Brien (University of Ulster)
About Town