Hospitality : Introduction

Guide Expert: Jennie Moran

This guide was made in collaboration with Jennie Moran, who has offered her invaluable insight and expertise to help us introduce you to the world of hospitality and art. Keep up to date with Moran's work and teaching at NCAD through the links below:

Jennie Moran Artist Website

Luncheonette Website

CFA Electives at NCAD: Creative Hospitality, Jennie Moran

The Luncheonette at NCAD (2013-2021)

From 2013 - 2021 the college canteen was home to the Luncheonette. An extraodinary art project by the artist Jennie Moran, the Luncheonette had a profound effect on the college and all the visitors, staff and students that spent time there during the 8 years it was open. The Luncheonette is described as follows on their website:

"It is a prolonged exploration into the complex alchemy of placemaking, centred around the provision of shared experiences using nourishment, shelter, comfort, warmth, light, and tone to treat places so that they feel easier for people to be in and more poetic."

You can find out more about the Luncheonette at NCAD (and discover the recipes to its wonderful menu) in How to Soften Corners by Jennie Moran.

Introduction: Hospitality and Art

In this libguide we explore items in the library that cover the topic of the creative applicaiton of hospitality. The following items are designed to show you how contemporary artists have used this medium and items which can be used as source material for pursuing these practices.

Jennie Moran, Table Lumps for Stone Soup, 2023. Photo by Louis Haugh. (Image Source)

Rirkrit Tiravanija. untitled 1990 (pad thai). 1990. Opening event at Paula Allen Gallery, New York, 1990. (Image Source)