collection of minds​

On the Borderlines of the Present

A nomadic reading group in Cork city. 

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This series of monthly reading/screening and discussion groups takes its impetus from the singular event of the Cork Caucus (2005), a critical moment in the Irish cultural landscape which has yet to be fully felt in Ireland. 

 

The reading group sets out to consider the pressing question of how we live now, as most of us become ever more squeezed by the political-economic machine of neoliberalism. Spaces of contestation are hard to initiate and even harder to maintain.

 

While institutional culture may align itself with the priorities of the market, value and meaning are increasingly questioned by the many who find themselves marginalised by dominant narratives. An alternative critical culture seems to be fermenting in the interstitial or in-between spaces produced through the displacements of social and economic adjustment.

 

This reading and discussion group is a joint undertaking by Eve Olney and Fiona Woods, who met through practice-based research projects which they are carrying out in association with the National Sculpture Factory in Cork. 

 

For further details see the website: On the Borderlines of the Present