Irish Artist-led Archive
An archival project, touring exhibition and online resource conceived and developed by Megs Morley.
The Irish Artist-led Archive - Sustainable Activism and the Embrace of Flux is an archival project, touring exhibition and online resource conceived and developed by Megs Morley, a practicing artist and curator. The project forms an ongoing investigation into artist-led initiatives in Ireland over the last 30 years. Posing an alternative approach, it examines the development of the visual arts in Ireland through one of the most turbulent eras of political, social and economic change. The project uses a variety of live archiving strategies to initiate dialogue and debate about artist-led culture, including roundtable discussions, performance artworks and word of mouth. Through the process of dialogue and exchange, artist-led groups have the freedom to continually develop and engage an evolving representation of their activities, rather than presenting a fixed definition of themselves within a permanent archive.
Essays
Not about institutions, but why we are so unsure of them, by J.J. Charlesworth.
Why an institution of contemporary art(s) like this, and not any other?
Gazetteer
Artist-run spaces and organisations (England, not London)
Artist-led organisations that support networks of emerging art in England outside London.
Coverage
Nought to Sixty in pictures
Photos of the projects, artists and audiences taking part in Nought to Sixty.
Coverage
Salon Discussions
Nought to Sixty includes a series of monthly discussions that address the networks that form and contribute to an emerging scene.