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Dr Maurna Crozier, with Dragan Klaic In the late 1980s the all-pervasive ‘two traditions’ model of Irish society was being widened, mainly to be more inclusive of the variety of economic, social, gender and age differences which it failed to articulate. It gave way to the more generic ‘cultural traditions’ which aimed to give a…
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Michelle Browne ‘What matters is the exemplary character of production, which is able first to induce other producers to produce, and second, to put an improved apparatus at their disposal. And this apparatus is better the more consumers it is able to turn into producers – that is readers or spectators into collaborators’ – Walter…
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Cliodhna Shaffrey with Tadhg O’Keefe “Façadism – but we are going in” says Tadhg O’ Keefe, archaeologist and practitioner on a unique experimental archaeological project, Placing Voices, Voicing Places, that partners UCD School of Archaeology, UCD School of Sociology, UCD School of Cultural Policy, Dublin City Council, Office for Integration, Create, and the commissioned artists…
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Sheena Barrett with Hans Ulrich Obrist Producing Communities – A Marathon not a Sprint. Sheena Barrett in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist. Sheena Barrett is Assistant Arts Officer, Dublin City Council and Curator of The LAB.
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Annette Moloney Contemporary arts practice is increasingly integrated into healthcare settings in Ireland, allowing for the creative expression of our own sense of humanity and at times giving voice to our isolation and loneliness. But how do we articulate the value of integrating arts practice into healthcare situations and why place art and artists in…
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Faisal Abdu’Allah Faisal Abdu’Allah, Private Views, ed Judith Palmer (Serpents Tail) My practice is a visual auto-biography played out in text, image and space, each one a true testament to my uncompromising and critical analysis of the collective I live in. My work in the community is the perfect catalyst to summarise my work ethic…
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Daniel Jewesbury Dr Daniel Jewesbury is a visual artist based in Northern Ireland. All art-making proceeds by questions. And each attempt at an answer brings more questions: it’s a dialectical process, always unfinished, always leading to some other consideration, some new problem that can enrich the understanding of a situation, not necessarily by being ‘answered’…
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Michael Seaver It’s been said many a time, but the story of dance in Ireland is the story of individuals. It’s a thin history, made up of individual threads of practice that has never been interwoven with schools of thought or aesthetics. The thin warp of personal ideals has never been joined by a weft…
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Mick Wilson The task set for this short text is to consider the role of art and artists in: (i) supporting a sense of possibility within civil society; and (ii) preventing the shutting down of social and community discourses now regarded as outmoded by various institutional and political interests. These are quite daunting themes to…
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Joshua Sofaer Artist and writer Joshua Sofaer introduces Create’s Collaborative Arts Theatre Pack. He writes here on the development and thinking behind the Live Art Pack which has inspired the making of Create’s Collaborative Arts Performance Pack. Like the original Pack developed by Joshua Sofaer, the Create Collaborative Arts Performance Pack is both an artwork…
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Ruairí Ó Cuív Public Art has been an evolving practice over many decades now, moving from the artwork (often sculptural) commissioned by architects or planners for the adornment of buildings or public spaces to much more complex and interesting practices embracing all art forms. That is not to say that on occasions a permanent artwork…
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Grant Kester With the exponential growth of collaborative and dialogical art practices over the past decade we begin to see something like a crisis in contemporary art criticism, as conventionally trained historians and critics struggle to come to terms with a form of artistic production which challenges many of their normative assumptions about the work…
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