BASIC TALKS ~ Mark O’Gorman with Francis Halsall ~ April 2025

1pm, 4/4/2025

Hugh Lane Gallery

Basic Space is delighted to present Mark O’Gorman with Francis Halsall for our April BASIC TALK - 1pm on Friday the 4th of April 2025 at the Hugh Lane Gallery.

Francis Halsall and Mark O’Gorman will participate in a basic conversation.

A basic conversation can not be scripted or planned in advance.
A basic conversation develops naturally as the participants react to each other’s words, gestures, and energy.
A basic conversation prompts the participant to adjust their tone, topic, and language in response to their conversational partner.
A basic conversation often involves creativity and flexibility.
A basic conversation allows humor, narrative, and metaphor to appear spontaneously in real-time.
A basic conversation does not involve performative monologues.
A basic conversation is an improvised act.

Image courtesy @nolanisabel (illustration of Richard Scarry does Hegelian dialectics)

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BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.

BASIC TALKS are FREE book below or come on the day subject to availability. 

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