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Irish Aphasia Theatre (IAT) is a socially engaged company which uses theatre to artistically engage, train, facilitate and produce the work of participants who have cognitive, communication and physical disabilities, in particular aphasia. IAT was founded by theatre director, writer and facilitator, Gráinne Hallahan, in 2018. This project was funded by the Arts Council’s Artist…
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It was our great pleasure to welcome world-renowned socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera as our keynote speaker for Create’s National Networking Day 2019. Tania discussed her work on the Tate Modern Turbine Hall Hyundai Commission with Áine O Brien, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts.
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TransActions publication series is an international partnership between Stockyard Institute Chicago and National College of Art & Design Dublin, Ireland, and is led by Jim Duignan (SI) and Fiona Whelan (NCAD). Issue #2 Field and Academy: Knowledge and counter knowledge in socially engaged art (2017) is a collaboration between NCAD, Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Create,…
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Artist Tania Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life. In 2018 and 2019, Bruguera created a number of interventions in Tate Modern, including bringing together the Tate Neighbours, people who live or work nearby Tate Modern, to work with her and guide the project whilst exploring the role of…
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In the second panel of Networking Day 2019, chaired by Patrick Fox, Director of Heart of Glass, Sören Meschede, curator and coordinator of Concomitentes, Spain and artists Mark Storor and Linda Curtin of the per cent for art project I Can Colour Between the Lines But I Choose Not To in Knocknaheny Cork explored community-based…
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In the context of the Decade of Commemorations and how Ireland’s struggle for independence played out very vividly in Cork, we chose to close Networking Day 2019 with a discussion about the notion of commemoration and the symbolic role of public art. We were joined by Hammad Nasar, initiator of Let Our Statues Speak project,…
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Connect Create Change: Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland, Create’s Strategy 2020 – 2025, was launched on the 26th September 2019, following Create’s Networking Day. It was launched by Independent Senator Colette Kelleher, with contributions from Deirdre Figueiredo, MBE, Chair of the Create board, Ailbhe Murphy, Director, and world-renowned socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera.
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Create’s National Networking Day 2019 was held in Cork City Centre, and featured a keynote session with world-renowned socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera, as well as panel discussions, roundtables, workshops and breakout sessions across the City.
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Create publishes this strategy, Connect Create Change; Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland at a time of significant global change and in the firm belief that by working together, artists and communities can purposefully explore how collaborative arts engage in distinct, relevant and powerful ways with the urgent social, cultural and political issues of our times….
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Made Ground is a collaboration between artists Eva Richardson McCrea, Frank Sweeney and the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society (DDWPS). Taking the DDWPS online archive of over 3,500 photographs as its starting point, the work draws on a range of source material including interviews, institutional and personal archives, documents and original footage. The two channel video…
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The 2019 Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice took place in Killary Lodge, Leenane, Co Galway in July 2019. The Summer School brought together 13 artists, thinkers, and activists on a five-day residency with international guest speakers enabling a ‘think and do’ collaborative approach, utilising creative workshops, critical and comparative case studies, and…
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Impossible Glossary is an editorial project by hablarenarte that follows the CAPP project until 2018. The compendium of this second and printed edition of 2018 is comprised of ten chapters, adapted from the digital first edition of 2016. The publication features text and interviews on the themes of agency, autonomy, authorship, context, collaboration, work, return,…
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