Jim Larkin - Founder of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU)

Jim Larkin - Founder of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU).

‘Commemoration: A Forward-looking Act’Visual Artists’ News Sheet, March/April 2013

Image: The 1913 Tapestry Project', work in progress, January 2013; Courtesy of Cathy Henderson

Exhibitions:

C.C.A Derry-Londonderry, ‘Momentous Times’, (7th September – 2nd November)

Limerick City Gallery of Art, ‘Labour & Lockout..’ (8th August – 1st October)

Gallery of Photography , ‘The Market’ by Mark Curran, (24th August – 1st October)

Gallery of Photography , ‘STILL, WE WORK’, NWCI Legacy Project, (19 – 27th October)

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, ‘The Workers Cafe’, (11th October – 2nd November)

Belfast Exposed, ‘The Market’ by Mark Curran, (August 29th – October 11th)

The Hugh Lane, ‘Dublin Divided’, (26th September – 2nd February)

Seminars:

C.C.A Derry-Londonderry: 7th September & 2nd November

LCGA: ‘Land/Labour/Capital’, 26th – 28th September

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, ‘Empire’, (Harvard University Press, 2001) p.201

“It is a commonplace of the classical literature on Empire, from Polybius to Montesquieu and

Gibbon, that Empire is, from its inception, decadent and corrupt.”

Olivia Plender ‘Words and Laws’ (2012) Installation View , ‘Momentous Times’, C.C.A, Derry , September 2013

Image courtesy of Paola Bernardelli

Anja Kirschner & David Panos, ‘Ultimate Substance’ (2012) Installation View , ‘Momentous Times’, C.C.A, Derry , September 2013

Image courtesy of Paola Bernardelli

Darek Fortas ‘Coal Story’ Installation View, ‘Labour Lockout’, LCGA, September 2013,

Image courtesy of Helen Carey

Sean Lynch ‘DeLorean Progress Report’, (2009- ..) Installation View, ‘Labour Lockout’, LCGA, September 2013,

Image courtesy of Helen Carey

Anthony Haughy ‘DISPUTE’ (1913/2013)Installation View, ‘Labour Lockout’, LCGA, September 2013,

Image courtesy of Helen Carey

“The sea is forgotten until disaster strikes. But perhaps the biggest seagoing disaster is the global supply chain, which – maybe in a more fundamental way than financial speculation – leads the world economy to the abyss.”

Allan Sekula & Noël Burch 'The Forgotten Space' (2010) Essay Film

Aideen Doran (2013)

Aideen Doran ‘Good Luck All Workers’ (2013) Installation View , ‘Momentous Times’, C.C.A, Derry , September 2013

Image courtesy of Paola Bernardelli

Sarah Browne 'Peripherals' (2013), HD Video, Production Still

NWCI Legacy Project: Representations of Women’s Work‘STILL, WE WORK’ at Gallery of Photography (19 – 27th October 2013)

Raqs Media Collective ‘The First Telegram of the Last International’ (2013)

Time Capsule interred on 26th August 2013 to be opened on August 26th 2113 . Image courtesy of Paola Bernardelli

Toril Johannessen ‘Words and Years’, (2010)

Hito Steyerl ‘Red Alert’, (2007)

Mark Curran ‘The Normalisation of Deviance’, (2013) Installation View, ‘Labour Lockout’, LCGA, September 2013,

Image courtesy of Helen Carey

What people don’t understand… is that what happens in the market is pivotal to their lives… not on the periphery…but slap, bang, in the middle…

From telephone conversation with trader (name withheld) Dealing Room, Investment Bank, London, Feb 2013

Mark Curran ‘Bethlehem, Trader, Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX)’, (2013)

Part of ‘The Market’ series

The Future State’s Stephanie Feeney talking to Dr. Angela Dimitrakaki

‘Land/Labour/Capital’ seminar, Occupy Space, September 26th 2013 Image courtesy of The Future State

Deirdre O’Mahony ‘T.U.R.F (Transitional Understanding of Rural Features)’

Installation View, ‘Labour Lockout’, LCGA, September 2013, Image courtesy of Helen Carey

Vivienne Dick ‘Rothach’ (1985)

Megs Morley & Tom Flanagan ‘The Question of Ireland’ (2013), 3-channel film