106.5 FM, re:public, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, March 2010.

 A  programme of events asking the question, can something happen in public again?

In collaboration with GradCAM, the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media in Dublin, and guest curator Daniel Jewesbury, the gallery at TBG&S became a forum where the public can meet with a range of artists and thinkers to reconsider the troubled relationship between art and society. The project aims to look again at preconceptions concerning ‘publicness’, and to debate whether there is even anything left that we can call a ‘public sphere’. After the fiasco of the property crash, participants have been invited to look again at the role played by architecture and urban planning in the construction of physical public space. In a world controlled by globalised markets that are loyal to no nation can we still talk of meaningful democratic participation in the political public sphere? And if so, is there any room, or any need, for the involvement of artists?

106.5 Fm  ran for 2 days as part of re:public in Templebar Gallery, Dublin. With the aid of multiple microphones and an extendable antenna, all the sounds of the gallery’s activities were broadcast live on FM radio throughout the duration of the project.

The full schedule of re:public events and participating artists can be found here