Ikon Gallery documentation March 18, 2012

  Exhibition views now online of How to Use Fool’s Gold at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, including views of the new site-specific work for the gallery, How to Use Fool’s Gold (Pyrite Radio). Photographs throuughout by Stuart Whipps.    

Stitches and Hos at Ikon Gallery February 23, 2012

Next week Stitches and Hos will be holding a practical workshop for adults at Ikon Gallery, looking at the themes and ideas in the current Sarah Browne exhibition in a fun and informal way.  Activities are led by Stitches and Hos, a motley crew of enthusiasts for all things knitted, crocheted and stitched who run [...]

How to Use Fool’s Gold at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham February 9, 2012

  Ikon presents the first UK solo exhibition by Dublin-based artist Sarah Browne, a survey of film and sculptural works, including the artist’s entry for the 2009 Venice Biennale. Using ‘the economy’ as the basis for her artistic practice, Browne works with small communities of people, documenting resourceful forms of exchange such as gifting, subsistence, [...]

To Have / To Own at Kunsti Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland December 1, 2011

Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland, 4.12.2011–31.1.2012 Tuesday — Sunday 11 a.m. — 5 p.m. Thursday 11 a.m. — 8 p.m. Monday closed A group show organised by Platform Dragos Alexandrescu (FI/RO) & Sarah Browne (IE) Maria Nordbäck (FI) & Brynhild Bye (NO) Stefan Constantinescu (SE/RO) Kane Do (DE/US) Audun Eriksen (NO) Maria Ångerman [...]

The Common Sense of Stones – performative lecture with Jesse Jones at Commonage, Callan, Co. Kilkenny August 3, 2011

  S E M I N A R _06 August Sarah Browne, Jesse Jones, Oliver Lowenstein, Patrick Lydon, Martin McCabe, Mark Price, Eyal Weizman Commonage Seminar brings together prominent thinkers in the realm of art and architecture. The seminar will reflect on ways in which ‘the commons’ has become a site of resistance and also [...]

The Original Affluent Society – Event Documentation June 21, 2011

Thanks to all participants who took part in this event. The first day’s discussion focused on the sociology of gift economies, and moved to discussing art objects as a kind of public gift that engaged with the possibilities and difficulties that entails. What if a gift is unwanted by a public? Can reciprocity be forced? [...]

Second Burial at Le Blanc: Interview on Culturefile, Lyric FM June 17, 2011

Interview with Regan Hutchins (Friday June 10th) available as a podcast here. Culturefile, RTE Lyric FM, produced by Soundsdoable, Dublin.

The Original Affluent Society at the Geology Museum, Trinity College, Dublin June 13, 2011

  The Original Affluent Society By Sarah Browne & Jesse Jones 16 June 2011, 1pm – 2pm Geology Museum, Trinity College Dublin & Project Arts Centre Gallery Project Arts Centre presents a very special event led by artists Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones. Taking its departure from Browne’s current exhibition, Second Burial at Le Blanc, [...]

Second Burial at Le Blanc: Exhibition Images June 8, 2011

Press for Second Burial at Le Blanc May 31, 2011

  “Le Blanc is the last village in France where francs are still being accepted as payment for goods and services,” Sarah Browne points out in her introduction to her exhibition Second Burial at Le Blanc . The commune, on the banks of the River Creuse in central France, capitalises on a legislative loophole: French banks [...]