A mooting for MOOT VI

Wednesday May 20 2009
Kilkenny County Council Arts Office, no. 72 John Street
Doors open at 7.45pm Starting at 8pm
Admission Free

KILKENNY County Council's Arts Office in collaboration with the Butler Gallery is launching the sixth in the series of MOOT discussions, debates and seminars, at 72 John Street, in May 20.

MOOT is a continuous creative process providing a forum for powerful, focused and inspirational debates and discussion on a variety of subject matters. These events will, potentially, transform expectations, citing shifts in attitudes, perceptions and beliefs.
MOOT VI is the second in the current series on art and the environment, investigating ecology and sustainable arts practice more specifically, and the potential role that artists, curators, educators and arts managers play in raising awareness of environmental issues and the ecology.

This discussion, like previous events, will be an open format event where artists, curators and academics and the general public will be invited to question how arts and culture can contribute to addressing environmental and ecological concerns.

The range of environmental concerns facing society at present is vast, but this MOOT will focus on art, ecology and sustainable ways of living and working.
The discussion will be on Wednesday: May 20, in Kilkenny County Council Arts Office, 72 John Street at 8pm and the panel is:
Chairperson: Pat Cooke (IRL) Director of Cultural Policy and Arts Management at UCD, Dublin.

Paul O' Brien (IRL), Lecturer in Aesthetics/Cultural Theory in the Faculty of Visual Arts, NCAD Dublin.
Rick Faulkner and Christine Keogh (UK), Chrysalis Arts, an artist-led public art company, training and arts development agency
Heather Peak (UK), an artist based in Wales who works collaboratively with Ivan Morrison. Together, they investigate their environmental surroundings through their art, and are currently installing work as part of Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009 at the Barbican, London.
MOOT is jointly organised by Mary Butler, Arts Officer, Kilkenny County Council and Jean Tormey, Education Curator, Butler Gallery, and is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland
Further contact:
Mary Butler, Arts Officer mary.butler@kilkennycoco.ie
Niamh Finn, Arts Administrator niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie 056 779 4138
Jean Tormey, Butler Gallery jean@butlergallery.com 056 7761106