Infrastructures

As we look toward new forms of spatial and organisational capacity, we are launching a new public programme: 'Infrastructures'

Join us at 3pm in Galway Arts Centre | Nuns Island Theatre for the launch of Infrastructures, a new public programme at Galway Arts Centre exploring the conditions that make artistic work possible.

Infrastructures brings together artists, curators, architects and researchers to consider how cultural work is produced, shared and sustained, not simply through buildings, but through wider systems shaped by care, labour, relationships and the often invisible work that holds practices and communities together.

This series sits alongside our future strategic development as a way of thinking in public, asking what kinds of infrastructures are needed now and how they might be shaped in ways that are responsive, generous and grounded in the realities of practice. It also explores how an arts centre might operate as a responsive, engaged and imaginative civic infrastructure into the future, embedded within the cultural, social and political life of its context.

Launch event
The Infrastructures series opens with a talk by Andrea Phillips:
Contemporary Art and the Production of Inequality: Propositions for Change.

Professor Andrea Phillips reflects on the structural inequalities that shape contemporary art and the conditions through which cultural work is produced and circulated.

Andrea Phillips is a writer and organiser working in the expanded field of contemporary visual art. Over the past three decades, she has worked closely with artists and institutions in the UK and internationally, developing a body of political and conceptual writing grounded in long-term engagement with the field. Her work addresses the financial, class-based, gendered and racialised inequalities embedded within contemporary art institutions, while remaining closely connected to the practices and communities that sustain them.

She is Professor of Cultural Politics at Northumbria University, and has previously held professorships at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and Goldsmiths, University of London.