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 (OOW) is a project established by Kim to investigate the needs of artists and arts workers in Cork City. It is particularly concerned with how creative practice can be sustained under conditions of precarity. Over the last few weeks, artists and arts workers in Cork City have been booking appointments with their assigned Case Officer, Kim Crowley. From April 16th – May 2nd, the OOW cordially invites you to an exhibition which will present the materials and information gathered through these exchanges.

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?

For any queries, 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

Exhibition

Thurs 16 April – Sat 2 May

The Office of Work (OOW) has been established to investigate the needs of artists and arts workers in Cork City. It is particularly concerned with how creative practice can be sustained under conditions of precarity. Over the last few weeks artists and arts workers in Cork City have been booking appointments with their assigned Case Officer, Kim Crowley. This exhibition presents the materials and information gathered through these exchanges.

Workshop: How to ‘Excel’ at the Office of Work

Sat 18 April | 12:00 – 13.30
Details: A creative writing workshop using Excel
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873662944/events

Ordinarily Excel is used to track productivity, project management and budgeting. This workshop uses the excel template as a platform for creating collaborative writing. The rigid structure of Excel becomes part of the work, encouraging experimentation with form and fragmentation. Participants will engage with texts that have informed the Office of Work’s research, build a word bank and collaboratively create a piece of text.

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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