National Sculpture Factory publications

des/IRE; designing houses for contemporary Ireland – 2008
Cork Caucus: on art, possibility and democracy - 2006
Maria Eichhorn/ Publishing the fact that something will remain unpublished - 2005
Croon - 2005
Echo - 2002
FIS - 1999

des/IRE; designing houses for contemporary Ireland – 2008

des/IRE; designing houses for contemporary Ireland, was a conference which took place in May of 2007 and was devised by the National Sculpture Factory. Its aim was to take an interdisciplinary look at the hidden factors driving contemporary housing design and gather a wide range of views on how we can create better places to live. The book is intended to not only reflect the complex and diverse contributions from the conference, but to broaden the debate even further by offering newly commissioned essays and perspectives on housing.

Editor:                    Gemma Tipton
Publisher:               Gandon Editions

Price    
General:                 €20
NSF Members:       €10

Cork Caucus: on art, possibility and democracy - 2006

Cork Caucus: on art, possibility and democracy is a publication commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland, containing newly commissioned critical and theoretical essays on thematic and dialogical issues that emerged from the National Sculpture Factory’s project/event Cork Caucus (corkcaucus.org) during 2005 in Ireland.   Although published in 2006, the book has only now become available for purchase.

Editors: Shepherd Steiner and Trevor Joyce
Visual Editors: Can Altay and Dobz O’Brien

Price    
General:                 €35
NSF Members:       €25

Background
Represented in Cork Caucus: on art, possibility and democracy, are the discussions, presentations, commissions and events that took place as part of the event itself through edited transcripts and full-colour visual essays.

As well as contributing to practice-based and academic studies on contemporary art, it is a unique addition to new thinking about contemporary art and culture, in particular as it relates to democracy and political thinking.

Contributors to the book include:

Vito Acconci, Jan Verwoert, Fergal Gaynor, Eamonn McCann, Shane Cullen, keri Jones, Ibon Aranberri, DAE, Haegue Yang, WHW, Lukas Einsele, Cemeti Art Foundation, Kunci Cultural Studies Centre, Catherine David, Smain Laacher, Eoghan McTigue, Jeremiah Day, Natasa Petresin, Gerald Raunig, Bik van der Pol, Surasi Kusolwong, Static, Sarah Pierce, James Elkins, Simon Sheikh, Ashley Hunt, Phil Collins, TNWK, the International Necronautical Society, finger, Sarat Maharaj, Paul O’Neill, Maria Eichhorn and more.  With keynote lectures by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Chantal Mouffe.

www.nationalsculpturefactory.com   www.caucus.org    

Maria Eichhorn/ Publishing the fact that something will remain unpublished - 2005

This book is by Berlin-based artist Maria Eichhorn, and was commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory, Ireland, as part of Cork Caucus (www.corkcaucus.org), a project that took place in Cork City, Ireland, over twelve months as part of European Capital of Culture in 2005.

This beautifully designed book was published in May 2006 and contains only one mysterious sentence, “Publishing the fact that something will remain unpublished" in Irish, English, and German, which runs through the book at a rate of one letter per page. The meaning of the sentence only becomes apparent when leafing through the book, letter-by-letter, and word-by-word. The book was designed by the artist working with the graphic designer Judith Schalansky and was published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Köln, without the name of the artist or of the publishing house. It is 18 × 11.7 cm, 160 pages, unpaginated, hardcover with jacket, no place, no year.

Maria Eichhorn lives and works in Berlin. Much of her work involves collaborating with others, often groups of people. Her work often addresses social and political issues and utilises the gathering of information and the creation of a space for dialogue and information sharing.

Price:                          €10 
NSF Members:             €5

Croon - 2005

This publication was produced by Meridian Theatre Company in collaboration with the National Sculpture Factory, to document an interdisciplinary collaboration between visual artist Daphne Wright, and playwright and theatre director Johnny Hanrahan.

Echo - 2002

The National Sculpture Factory has been involved with the Pépinière Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes Programme for over a decade.  The range of work and projects which they realised during their residency culminated with an exhibition at the Sirius Arts Centre entitled Echo.

FIS - 1999

Fís is the title for a project which involved the collaborative skills of architects and sculptors.  The concept of the collaboration was initiated by the National Sculpture Factory as part of its development programme.  In partnership with the Architectural Association of Ireland, the object of the project was to initiate and nurture contacts between architects and sculptors.  The process sought to provoke the instincts, thought processes, education that underlies the training and making of both architects and sculptors and sought to bring those to bear in collaborative problem solving.

For further information, please contact:
Treasa O'Brien
Programme Manager
National Sculpture Factory
Albert Road
Cork City
+353 (0)21 4314353
treasa@nationalsculpturefactory.com

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