The changing world of women and work - Launch of NWCI Legacy Project

Published: Thursday, March 14, 2013

The National Women's Council of Ireland launched the Legacy Project, an innovative arts project that explores the changing world of women and work from past to present. The project launch took place as part of SIPTU's One Struggle conference on 9th March.

The Legacy Project aims to challenge mainstream representations of women and work and to look instead at the alternatives. There are four core commissions led by artists, whose ongoing work chimes with the interests of the Legacy Project.   

The commissions will involve the unpacking of historical and contemporary ideas about work, society, and economy as well as advocacy and legacy building. An interest in the role of writing and the photographic image in making and breaking the status quo runs through the artists' ways of working. For some, this happens mainly in the research process, while in others this is at centre of the completed work.  

These commissions aim to create another kind of public dialogue that will amplify the advocacy work of the NWCI, the membership, interested communities and individuals.  They are about the contribution artists make to our knowledge of the world. 

Curator of the project is Valerie Connor. The artists are Miriam O'Connor, Sarah Browne, Anne Tallentire and Ailbhe Murphy/Vagabond Reviews

The final product of the proejct will be a portable exhibition that will be launched in September 2013.

More information is available on www.nwcilegacyproject.com