Registration is now open for Space, Place, Obligation, a conference on art and Irishness. The decision to live and work in Ireland, as writers, artists and cultural producers is one which we have made consciously or unconsciously – or perhaps we never made it. Perhaps things just turned out that way. The degree to which, if at all, we address Ireland and concomitant ideas of Irishness, of belonging, of exile, out outsider status and insider status, as oppositional, as black sheep or members of a tradition, differs from artist to artist and project to project. Gender effects this; ethnicity effects this; experience effects this. Space, Place, Obligation will be a one-day conference dedicated to art and Irishness featuring writers, artists, academics, and cultural producers working in Ireland today. The event is open to student, academics, artists, writers, and anyone interested in the intersection between creativity and identity.