6pm Wed 8 July – Irish Time
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The 11th edition of PhotoIreland Festival, entitled ON/OFF, combines a programme of online and offline activities and exhibitions, free for all audiences.

Join us for the online launch via Zoom at 6pm tomorrow, with an introduction by Director Ángel Luis González, followed by a performance by Albanian Berlin-based artist Anna Ehrenstein On Decolonising Lens-based Practices.

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SITUATION #202: The Googlified Image
Mario Santamaría: Explore the Non-Imaginary Museum!
6pm Sat 11 July – Irish Time. Book your free ticket here.
The event will be additionally live-streamed via 2020.photoireland.org

In his work The Non-Imaginary Museum, as part of his ongoing Trolling Google Art Project, the Spanish artist Mario Santamaría exposes the problematic of copyright infringements that ultimately resulted in blurred images and thus ruptures in Google Arts & Culture’s promise of endless accessibility and freedom of movement through virtual documentation.

After giving an insight into his practice and over seven years of experience in exploring museums online, join Santamaría on his unexpected, virtual journey around iconic cultural landmarks, copyright violations and other incongruities of the platform.

As part of the current exhibition SITUATIONS/The Right to Look and PhotoIreland Festival 2020: ON/OFF, the curatorial team of Fotomuseum Winterthur in collaboration with PhotoIreland, invited the artists Geraldine Juárez and Mario Santamaría to critically look at the hidden power dynamics behind the Google Arts & Culture Project, as well as the perpetuation and reinforcement of Western capitalist and colonial gazes which continue to shape knowledge formation. What happens if digital curation and art history is left to corporations? At whose advantage and whose expense is the Google Cultural Institute operating?

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Launch 6pm Sat 18 July—Irish Time
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OVER is a new international publication from PhotoIreland that proposes its readers a more wholesome, honest, and critical observation and enjoyment of lens-based, contemporary practices, with visual culture and critical thinking at its core.

Join us for the launch of OVER Journal with contributor Aidan Kelly Murphy in conversation with artist Heather Agyepong, followed by a screening of artist Theo Ellison’s latest work.

The issue is currently available to pre-order exclusively online at thelibraryproject.ie and will be available from The Library Project from the day of launch.

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This year, we are celebrating the 11th edition of the Inspirational Arts Photography Award, and what a year it has been! The graduates have produced their final year project in exceptional circumstances and adapted to new challenges rapidly, with online launches and exhibitions. Congratulation to all 2020 graduates!

Each Inspirational Arts Award finalist receives the opportunity to make their own publication in the TLP Editions series, and all the projects will be presented to the public in October, at Meeting House Square – where this year’s winner will also be announced. The winner will receive a collector’s edition book of their work printed by Inspirational Arts and bound by Barbara Hubert Bookbindery.

Find out more about this year's finalists →