Touchy Feely

Is socially engaged and relational art too sentimental?

WED JAN 25, 5.30PM

OPENING PARTY + PECHA KUCHA TALKS

We invite you to have a drink to open the Touchy Feely exhibition and hear all participating Touchy Feely artists give a Pecha Kucha style talk, introducing their practice and relating it to the theme of Touchy Feely, in under 10 mins.


THURS JAN 26, 5.30PM

NANCY MAURO-FLUDE “The Poetics of Fire” PERFORMANCE + SARAH RODIGARI PRESENTS: “We will walk with our own feet we will work with our own hands part 2” + AMY SPIERS PRESENTS: “Too comfortable?: Socially Engaged Art and Antagonism.”


FRI JAN 27, 5.30PM

DEBATE/DISCUSSION PANEL: “Art should be instrumentalised to make a better world”

Artists and writers, including Andrew Harper, Paula Silva, Amy Spiers, Catherine Ryan and Sally Rees, will heartily debate whether art should be utilised to create social change.

SAT JAN 28, 5.30PM

CWA-CBD BRANCH PRESENTATION +
TOUCHY FEELY DEBRIEF + CLOSING PARTY


SUN JAN 29, 5.30PM

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS DINNER (VENUE TBA)

TOUCHY FEELY EXHIBITION OPEN JAN 25 – 28, 1 – 5PM

All events at Inflight ARI, 100 Goulburn Street, Hobart