2023: Future Retrospectives offers an opportunity for the arts community, the academic community, the media and the wider public to engage on the pivotal role that art plays in commemoration.  Whether it is to bear witness to unheard testimonies, reflect experience, question history, reframe a dominant narrative or offer imagined alternative histories, art must also question itself and move forward to tell new stories in new ways.

Curated by Róise Goan, the symposium is seen as a future retrospective, with 2016 as a key moment in a decade of centenaries. This frame affords participating artists the opportunity to reflect on their projects with an imagined distance, and also offers the opportunity to question and interrogate the more contested centenaries ahead, using their own work and the context of ART:2016 as a starting point. 

The Symposium will comprise of a series of panel discussions, short lectures, and performances from diverse voices including artists Louise Lowe and Úna Kavanagh, Fearghus Ó Conchúir,  Áine Phillips, Garrett Phelan, Dan Colley and Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin, Architectural historian Dr Ellen Rowley, Professor Emily Mark Fitzgerald and Dr. Mairéad Enright. It will also feature a keynote address by Deborah Shaw, Head of Programming at Britain’s Historic Royal Palaces,  who commissioned the landmark, large scale installation of poppies at the Tower of London, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red.  

The event, will take place at Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Pearse Street, Dublin 2,is free and tickets are available HERE (advance booking is essential).  The event will commence at 9.30am and conclude at 5.45pm.  

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