News: Collaborative Arts: Community, Authorship and Practice
| Collaborative Arts - Community, Authorship and Practice |
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Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, in partnership with the Arts Offices of Offaly, Westmeath, Laois and Longford present a day long event, Michelle Browne Michelle Browne is an artist based in Dublin. She has a first class honours degree in Fine Art Sculpture and History of Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration from University College Dublin. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently taking part in Urban Wasanii, Kenya, Art@work. Roscommon, Transitopia, Naas, Documenta Urbana, Kassel and TULCA in Galway. She is the recipient of the NCAD Student Prize, The RDS James White Art Award 2006 and has recently been awarded an Artist's Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland. She has written for Circa Magazine, Visual Artists News Sheet and Create News. Michelle is the founder and curator of OUT OF SITE, a festival of live art in public space in Dublin. Feidlim Cannon Feidlim Cannon is a co founder and co artistic director of Brokentalkers, formed in 2001 by Gary Keegan and Feidlim Cannon. Their work to date has included very diverse forms of theatre and social choregraphy. In June 2006 Brokentalkers premiered the critically acclaimed “Track” as part of the first \We Are festival. The piece, which was funded by Project Arts Centre and Dublin Docklands Development Authority, focused on members of Dublin’s Chinese community in a collaboration intended to promote understanding between different cultures living in Dublin City. In 2007, Brokentalkers began a mentoring project with British/German performance company Gob Squad.. In August 2007 Brokentalkers and Dublin Youth Theatre presented “This Is Still Life” in the space upstairs, Project Arts Centre. The show featured a cast of 18 young people and was a critical success. In 2008 Brokentalkers directed ‘Silver Stars’ a song cycle based on the stories of older Irish gay men and produced as a new work ‘In real time’ as part of the ‘We Are Here’ festival. Most recently Brokentalkers directed ‘Drinking Dust’, a site specific dance theatre piece in collaboration with Junk Ensemble . ‘Drinking Dust was awarded the Culture Ireland Touring Award. Martina Coyle
Martina Coyle, currently based in Westmeath, was born in Dublin in 1966. She is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes collaborative and residential public projects in various locations around Ireland and France. Her work covers many different mediums and modes of fabrication including video, sculpture, drawing, installation and sound.
Solo exhibitions include The Silver, Lavelle’s car showroom, Black Sod Bay, Co. Mayo, in light, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, and sculpture and works Michael Fortune Michael Fortune's artistic practice spans the formats of writing, video and photography. Working predominantly in video and photography, his work explores the circumstantial boundaries between art and culture, folklore and interpretation and fact and fiction. Fortune's practice revolves around the collection of material. He does not script or storyboard, instead he generates material out of the relationships and experiences he develops with the people and circumstances he encounters. Deirdre O’Mahony
Deirdre O’ Mahony is a graduate of St Martins School of Art, London 1979; MA through research from the Crawford College 2005 and is currently researching her PhD through practice at the University of Brighton, entitled New Ecologies between Rural Life and Visual Culture in the West of Ireland: History, Context, Position, and Art Practice. Mary O’Sullivan
Mary O’Sullivan is a member of the Cork Traveller Women's Network. She co-coordinated the Barrel Top Wagon Project initiated as part of the Community programme of Cork 2005 European capital of Culture. The wagon was built in the National Sculpture Factory by a group of Traveller men and was out-fitted with handmade curtains and quilts by Traveller women’s groups across Cork. It is now a permanent exhibit as a legacy of Traveller heritage and craftsmanship which now forms the centre piece of the Traveller Culture Exhibit in the Cork Museum. WORKSHOP FACILITATORS Declan Gorman Declan Gorman is the Associate Artistic Director of Upstate Theatre Project. Declan has been active in Ireland for over twenty years as a performer, writer, director, producer and arts policy expert. As a producer, he oversaw the original Dublin and London productions of Frank Pig Says Hello (stage version of Patrick Mc Cabe’s The Butcher Boy) for Co-Motion Theatre Company of whom he was a founder member in 1985. His own plays Hades and Epic have toured extensively in Ireland and abroad, with Hades winning a BBC/Stewart Parker playwriting award in 1999. As well as performing in and directing cutting edge new Irish theatre, his work has covered innovative playwriting and teaching in community-engaged contexts; involvement in a vast range of policy initiatives including coordinating the Arts Council Review of Theatre in Ireland 1995 – 1996 and chairing the erstwhile Abbey Theatre Outreach Education Working Group; and most recently working as a tutor on the New York University Study Abroad Programme in Community-Engaged Theatre. Annette Clancy
Annette Clancy is an arts and business consultant with more than 20 years experience. Her recent assignments include the design and management of a nation wide consultation process for the Arts Council of Ireland that informed the current national strategy for the arts; conflict resolution at a national health care organisation; executive coaching of the vice president of an Irish technology firm establishing a US office; assisting Irish cultural industries embrace the challenges and benefits of social media. Prior to establishing her practice as an organisational consultant she spent over 12 years as a senior manager within the arts and cultural sector in Ireland. |