Kim Crowley is a curator based in Cork City. Her practice is concerned with expanded artist publishing as curatorial practice. Kim’s research explores publishing as public-meaning-making, looking at the possibilities of dissemination both within and beyond the traditional bound object. She is interested in exploring collaborative and generative ways of working while interrogating the function and experience of the exhibition space.
Kim Crowley will establish a curatorial research ‘office’ called the Office of Work (OOW) in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space. The OOW looks to research and interrogate ideas around art making and labour.

Working in the arts can be precarious for many artists and creatives, with people having to take on low paid, short-term jobs to survive and fund their practice. Many artists are dependent on yearly funding cycles and participating in short term projects. Kim is researching the relationship between art and work, looking at precarity and investigating the importance of support networks. During the residency her research will explore how repeated and shared movements, gestures and experiences can work as an antidote and have a lasting positive impact.

The Office of Work will mirror the aesthetics of a traditional office, a nod to the need for creatives to enter environments adjacent to their practice. A questionnaire will be circulated that can be filled out in the space, or online for people who can’t visit the space in person. There will also be an opportunity to ‘book’ appointments to visit the space where she will initiate one-to-one conversations with people about their attitudes and experiences of work. During the residency she will create textual and visual scores that respond to ideas of work and precarity. Visitors to the Office will have the opportunity to activate these scores and add to them.
The residency will culminate in an exhibition of materials gathered and recorded.

Kim is interested in pushing the boundaries of what an exhibition can be and the forms it can take. She will utilise curatorial methodologies where exhibition making is a process. She wants to utilise the exhibition space as a gathering point, a place of possible encounters and experiences.

Triskel Sample Project Space is a new partnership between Triskel and Sample-Studios that will provide a visual arts project space for artists, especially emerging and mid-career artists, to test ideas and to develop new work that can be seen by the public. This offers tangible career development and audience engagement opportunities to artists on their ‘home turf’ where they have a safe space to develop new ideas, within which risk-taking is possible.

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