Ciara Rodgers—In Conversation with Aideen Quirke

Ciara Rodgers—In Conversation with Aideen Quirke

1-2pm, Friday 5th June

An in-conversation event with artist Ciara Rodgers and curator Aideen Quirke, discussing Paper Façades make Tender Follies. Bringing her experience as a curator, facilitator, and collaborator working across contemporary art, collective care, and activist methodologies, Quirke will join Rodgers in a discussion expanding on the themes of the exhibition. These include architecture, gendered experiences of urban space, precarity, and the contradictions embedded within the contemporary built environment. Through installation, material experimentation, and spatial intervention, Rodgers’ practice examines how cities shape bodies, movement, and belonging, drawing connections between psychogeography, capitalism, and everyday acts of navigation and resistance. The discussion will offer insight into the conceptual and material processes underpinning the exhibition, and the role of contemporary art in responding to the spaces we inhabit.

Aideen Quirke (she/her) is a curator and artist from Co. Tipperary based in Cork City. She holds an MA Museum Studies from UCC and a BA Fine Art from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design.  Aideen has a background working in curatorial, education, facilitation and production roles. She collaborates with artists to produce new work: contributing, facilitating and participating in theory (reciprocal knowledge production, research and writing); and hands - on practice (fabrication, installation, display methods and mediation). She also works as a facilitator, using textiles and printmaking to make art about collective care and activism.

Free event, but booking is necessary. BOOK HERE