Visual Arts/Talk • Geology Museum, Trinity College Dublin & Project Arts Centre Gallery • By Sarah Browne & Jesse Jones

Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. (Marshall Sahlins, 1972)

Project Arts Centre presents an event led by artists Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones.

Taking its departure from Browne’s current exhibition, Second Burial at Le Blanc, the discussion will begin in the Geology Museum, Trinity College Dublin with a presentation of extracts from anthropologist Marshall Sahlins’ book Stone Age Economics. Sahlins’ idea of ‘the original affluent society’ proposed a re-visioning of hunter-gatherer societies from being ‘primitive’ to seeing them as practitioners of a refined mode of subsistence, from which much can be learned. The group will then move onwards, via the Central Bank on Dame Street, to Project Arts Centre for a brief discussion focused on themes of economic ritual, invented tradition and obsolescence as explored by the work in Second Burial at Le Blanc.

Attendance is free but places are limited.

To book your place contact the gallery on 01 8819613 ext.146, or email gallery@projectartscentre.ie.

As a precaution, please remember to pack your umbrella, and please note, this will be a recorded event.