As part of the FUTURES Meet Up at PhotoIreland in Dublin, 17-19 October 2024, CREAM researcher Lucy Soutter will be introducing the recently released volume The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies within the panel discussion, “Fuelling Culture: Arts Practice and the sum of its parts”.
The panel talk welcomes five professionals from a range of cultural sectors across Europe, to share their experience and gathered knowledge on encouraging cooperation and cultural exchange between arts organisations and artists across Europe and beyond.
We welcome Menno Liauw, Founder and Director of the European photography platform FUTURES and Artistic Director of EXPOSED Photography Festival in Turin; University of Westminster Reader in Photography Lucy Soutter introducing the recently released volume The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies; Emese Mucsi, Curator, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, contributor to The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies and member of the Global Photographies Network; Tiago Casanova, artist and editor at XYZ Books, who will share the motivation behind the new transnational project Intergalactica: books for the culture without borders and the role publishing plays in global connectivity; and Gavin Murphy, artist and co-founder of Artist Run Europe project, exemplifying how artist-run spaces are a distinctive and central part of visual art culture, and how they present a necessary set of alternatives to the art institution.. The panel will be chaired by Ángel Luis González, Director of PhotoIreland.