Land Walks is a collaborative sound and visual art project by artist William Bock and residents of West Cork, that maps experiences of belonging and uprooting in the West Cork landscape through walking, storytelling and collaborative field recording. Over six months, William Bock walked with nine asylum seekers living in Clonakilty Lodge Direct Provision Centre…
Jeanne Van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalise the local”. She works on long term community embedded projects that question art’s autonomy by combining performative action, discussions and other forms of organising and pedagogy in order to assist communities to take control of…
Artist Tania Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life; focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education and politics. In 2018 and 2019, Bruguera created a number of interventions in Tate Modern,…
Anna Furse: Collaborative Practice and the Body Anna Furse in conversation with Susanne Bosch “AN ANATOMY ACT deals with the morbid, but with humour. I’m taking people on an uncomfortable and disturbing journey. I hope people feel comforted by the fact that these taboos about death, our own imminent passing, and of our bodies being…
Caroline Cowley in conversation with Grainne Coughlan “Working with artists within the local authority has the potential to change how we all do things. I am aware too that while the artist may work on these local platforms, their reputational reach is International. I am interested in how the local responds to the global through…
Direct Provision Diary Vukasin Nedeljkovic “There are many people of different nationalities speaking their native languages. Men, women, and children wait impatiently to be assessed. I am brought to a small room where two forensic officials take my fingerprints…” Vukasin Nedeljkovic is an artist and founder of Asylum Archive. His recent works include Reiterating Asylum…
Talking Between Statues Chris Baldwin Chris Baldwin, creative director for Galway2020, is widely known for Teatro de Creación, an approach to making large scale interdisciplinary performance about place, for that place and in deep collaboration with the people of that place. He discusses some of his work before coming to Ireland and offers us a…
Bodies, Borders and Movement Deirdre Mulrooney interviews Sandra Noeth Sandra Noeth, dramaturge, curator and writer is undertaking a research residency in Ireland as part of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) in an initiative between Dublin Dance Festival, Dance Limerick and Create. Academic and broadcaster Deirdre Mulrooney spoke to her ahead of her visit about…
Lynnette Moran interviews Selina Thompson Selina Thompson, UK based artist, undertook the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) Residency with Create and Fingal Arts at Lynders Mobile Park Portrane in autumn 2016. She sat down during her time in Ireland to talk with Lynnette Moran, lead producer of CAPP and director of Live Collision, covering a…
Bodies and Subjects Participation and the Differential Field of Art’s Encounters Dave Beech This longer special edition of Create News features an edited version of a paper given by Dave Beech at the Create Networking Day in IMMA, November 2015 ‘Today one of the key debates within art concerns the bundle of questions related to…
Making Cork Ignite Sheelagh Broderick For this special issue of Create News, we invited Dr Sheelagh Broderick to write a critical reflection on Cork Ignite by Simon McKeown. ‘Cork Ignite by artist Simon Mckeown was a spectacular event following two years of preparation that illuminated arts and disability practice. Unabashedly revelling in its own conceits…
A Lived Practice Kate Zeller In this month’s Create News, we invited Chicago-based curator Kate Zeller to write about A Lived Practice which she co-curated at the Sullivan Galleries with curator, writer, educator and Executive Director of Exhibitions Mary Jane Jacob. A Lived Practice was a series of exhibitions, programmes symposia and publications which explored…
