Inspired by our exhibition The Ignorant Art School: Outside the Circle x Belfast artist, curator and researcher Dr Alessia Cargnelli will host a free talk considering anti-establishment (feminist) archives as tools for teaching community building and liberation. 

Starting from bell hooks‘ foundational work Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of freedom, as well as Cargnelli’s current research on feminist archival practices within and beyond the island of Ireland, participants will collectively discuss the power of community-led archiving, and how these practices enable marginalised voices to have direct agency on their own stories and heritage. 

Dr Alessia Cargnelli (she/her, b. 1990 in Trieste, Italy) is a visual artist and researcher based in Belfast and currently a Research Ireland Post-doctoral Fellow at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), in collaboration with National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL). Alessia moved to Belfast in 2016 to work as co-director of Catalyst Arts (2016-2018). She holds a PhD at the Belfast School of Art focused on Irish feminist-led women-artists’ advocacy groups, and she was post-doctoral researcher at the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL). Alessia is co-founder of Soft Fiction Projects and a member of Array Collective.

Alessia’s interests expand towards alternative forms of education, feminist-informed methodologies, artist-led collaboration, self-organisation, and activism – with a particular interest to the second wave feminism in Italy and the island of Ireland.

This event is free, but places are limited – reserve your spot here.

Accessibility

This event takes place in our Hub on the ground floor of the gallery, with step-free ramp access. There is a wheelchair-accessible bathroom on the ground floor.

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