This year’s exhibition is different. As graduates, we have had to adapt to new and challenging circumstances. Moving to an online environment, we had to think of alternate ways to make our Graduate Exhibition come to life. In its translation into a digital space, the very real and tactile nature of the work we produce is obscured. In our daily lives, there is a sense of human and material touch which is equally obscured. Working from home, graduates are in a new environment. Their creative output extends into their domestic lives as their studies come to a close. It is the parallel between the materiality of our work and the absence of the sense touch that frames this year’s Graduate Exhibition.

This website presents the work of 102 graduating students from the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts, School of Mechanical and Design Engineering and School of Media. The exhibition represents the culmination of years of full-time study and gives our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imagination, hard work, and creative skills.

Identity by Joana Ferreira, Hugh Kavanagh, Eva Martin, Ben Nagle.

TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
TU Dublin School of Mechanical and Design Engineering
TU Dublin School of Media

Contemporary Visual Culture

Imogen Sweeney
Talking Points

This abstract discusses a section of the event ‘Seeing in the Dark’ as part of the Talking Points module. ‘Seeing in the Dark’ was a semi-public event that took place in the LAB gallery on the 5th of December 2019. For my section of the event, the value placed upon clubs and venues catering towards club culture in Dublin was discussed. Give Us the Night and FourFour magazine also attended the event and took part in a panel discussion about club culture in Dublin.

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Talking Points

The process of venues catering towards club culture and night culture in Dublin being shut down and replaced by commercial venues and hotels is becoming increasingly frequent in the city. In the case of this essay, the venues that catered towards club culture will be looked at in terms of place and space. The hotels, which will replace the venues that were once home tonight and club culture in the city, will be looked at in terms of being non-places. By looking at these venues in terms of places and non-places, the process of cultural venues being replaced by venues such as hotels is looked at thus allowing for the consideration of the value that these venues are seen to have within the greater scope of Dublin. This is done by looking at how the hotels, or non-places, are replacing the venues that catered towards club and night culture in the city, which will be considered as places in this essay. This reveals that the club and night culture in the city is not valued as highly as venues such as hotels within the culture of the city at an official level as these hotels are prioritised over cultural venues.