News: 15 new podcasts on create-exchange

15 new podcasts on create-exchange

Create-exchange is the main audio resource about collaborative arts in Ireland.

NEW AUDIO:

Anthony Haughey interview, Parts 1-2;
Collaborative Arts: Community, Authorship and Practice, Parts 1-5;
Culture and the City - Keeping Dublin Creative!, Parts 1-8.

Anthony Haughey is an artist and Lecturer in Photography in the School of Media and formerly Head of the Department of Media, DIT. He was a Research Fellow (2005-8) at the Interface Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design at the University of Ulster.

He spoke to Create about "Between": a collaborative research project exploring issues of contested citizenship and emerging migrant narratives in a Government of Ireland reception centre for asylum seekers and "Postcards" Listen: Anthony Haughey interview, Parts 1-2, January 9 and February 10, 2009.

Collaborative Arts: Community, Authorship and Practice was a Create event in partnership with the Arts Offices of the Midlands. A panel discussion was chaired by visual artist and curator Michelle Browne, with artists Michael Fortune (film maker and visual artist), Deirdre O' Mahony (visual artist), Martina Coyle (visual artist) Mary O'Sullivan (Cork Traveller Women's Network ) and Feidlim Cannon, (co founder, Brokentalkers). Listen: Collaborative Arts: Community, Authorship and Practice, Parts 1-5, December 3, 2008.

Culture and the City - Keeping Dublin Creative! was a conference hosted by Temple Bar Cultural Trust in partnership with Dublin City Council.

This one-day conference provided a platform for discussion, debate and exchange of experience from Irish and international practitioners around some of the key issues affecting cultural development in Dublin.

The conference explored ways of achieving a more integrated approach to planning and development for culture in Dublin city. It also explored ways of enhancing the level of civic engagement and public participation in the cultural life of the city.

Speakers: Dick Gleeson, Franco Bianchini, Laura Magahy, Jude Woodward, Mary Cloake, Catherine Bunting, José Manuel Amaral Lopes. The Keynote Speech was given by Sir Ken Robinson, World Renowned Expert on Creativity and Innovation. Listen: Culture and the City - Keeping Dublin Creative!, Parts 1-8, October 21, 2008.

Create-Exchange is a new initiative from Create. It is the first dedicated arts audio site in the Republic of Ireland. Create is committed to the promotion of collaborative arts practice and diverse ways of disseminating information about collaborative arts projects. The create- exchange audio site intention is to evidence the discussions that are taking place countrywide on the exciting work by artists working collaboratively with communities. Not only will the site feature audio from Create events but it will also contain audio from seminars and events nationally and internationally that focus on collaborative arts.

The audio content focuses on collaborative arts as a contemporary arts practice in Ireland and will feature arts practitioners, critics, curators and academics. The aim is to encourage discussion on collaborative arts that is part of broader critical debate on arts and culture and to afford artists who work collaboratively the opportunity to talk about the processes and the ideas that inspire them and inform their work; and also to encourage interaction between communities, members of the public, artists and cultural commentators. The site is designed so that visitors can access audio content in a variety of ways; by streaming from the website; downloading content to computer or MP3 player or subscribing to receive podcasts of the very latest discussion. www.create-exchange.ie.