GradCAM researcher Gráinne Coughlan to present paper at AAH annual Conference, April 2020

Gráinne Coughlan will present her paper “Managing Labour in A Fair Land” as part of the panel Art, Labour and Inequality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference. Her paper focuses on the participatory artwork A Fair Land that was developed by Grizedale Arts and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in 2016. Drawing from management studies and organisational aesthetics, Gráinne will examine the distribution but also the management of labour in A Fair Land. Rather than assume participation per se as a democratic gain, she will explore good management as a necessary tool to negotiate equitable distribution of labour in participatory art and to this end, compares how labour was managed in the model village and in the inter-institutional relationships that produced it. The paper develops Gráinne’s ongoing research interest in the organisation and management of socially engaged art and typologies of participation