Launch / Discussion Saturday 15 June, 3 – 5pm

The fourth issue of Fugitive Papers, The Derry Way, will be launched at CCA Derry~Londonderry on Saturday 15 June, 2013. For this issue co-editors James Merrigan and Michaële Cutaya have invited Aisling O’Beirn, Katie Holten, Aaron Kelly, Colin Darke, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Gavin Murphy, Daniel Jewesbury and Miriam de Búrca to contribute essays and artists’ projects. On the day, the editors will present the Fugitive Papers project and have invited contributors to discuss art publications North and South of the border.

In light of a recent discussion on the notions of periphery and centre, we are particularly interested in discussing how publications participate in the production of peripheries. What creative potential can be extracted by cultivating a form of parochial practice and theory? Or is this just a romantic ideal, the pull of the centre being all to great for artists, writers, and curators alike?

Fugitive Papers is an artistic research project to explore ideas about art, writing, criticality and public(s) in Ireland at this time. The project aims at opening critical spaces to think, exchange and debate about art and art-writing through public discussions, printed publications and online. Fugitive Papers works with artists, writers and publics to consider such questions as: Is there a public role for writings on art? What forms of publishing, presentation, distribution might produce new publics? Can we imagine the emergence of new critical publics in Ireland at this time?

Fugitive Papers is funded through a Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.