Freedom? (Síreacht: Longings for Another Ireland, 1)

As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal - the first exemplified by Isaiah Berlin's contrast between negative and positive liberty, and the second by Philip Pettit's neo-republican conception of freedom as non-domination. Located within the realm of lived experience however, freedom is invariably forged from context-specific constraints and takes the form of cultural practices. 0In this contribution to the Síreacht series, the collaborative platform 'Two Fuse' examine the practice of freedom in the context of neo-liberal enterprise culture, focusing specifically on how this is shaped by power relations that sustain social suffering by generating an equality of inequality. Responding to this situation, Two Fuse look to socially-engaged art with a view to exploring possibilities to reimagine the practice of freedom, paying particular attention to the 2016 performance 'Natural History of Hope' by Fiona Whelan, 'Rialto Youth Project' and 'Brokentalkers'.

• | Author: Kevin Ryan, Two Fuse, Fiona Whelan
• | Publisher: Cork University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 140 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1782052399
• | ISBN-13: 9781782052395