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.

Office of Work is a project by Kim Crowley that investigates the relationship between art, work and labour by looking at precarity and the importance of support networks.

Working in the arts is precarious for many, with people having to take on low paid, short-term projects to survive and fund their practice. Many people in the arts are dependent on yearly, unpredictable funding cycles with a focus on production and creating fully-formed ideas. Often people are working full time or part time in environments adjacent to their creative work. Does this sound like you?

Are you constantly working, thinking about work, or else feeling guilty about not working? Are you tired, stressed but yet hopeful? What drives you to keep going? How do you sustain a creative practice while under precarity?

Visit the Office of Work and meet with your assigned case-officer Kim Crowley. If you would like to book a specific appointment time email contactofficeofwork@gmail.com

The residency will culminate in an exhibition of materials gathered.

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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