Periodical
Gabriel Gbadamosi I was born by a river I grew up in London, within the sound of Big Ben, a short walk to the Houses of Parliament. It was a lively, crowded place of poor, largely immigrant families and bomb-damaged houses. Our first playgrounds were bomb sites. We were living on the ruins of a…
more information
Periodical
Róise Goan In 2011, the Arts Council took a bold step in initiating a conversation with a number of festivals nationally around the observed interest and growing international trend towards the presentation of projects rooted in arts and health practice at festivals.
more information
Periodical
Chrissie Tiller on The Spectrum of Participation “It’s one of the great joys of travel, and indeed life, to come across something so unexpected and mind-bendingly wonderful in the midst of what appears to be the bleakest of places, that one’s ideas of what’s possible change entirely.” Thinking about this piece on the spectrum of…
more information
Periodical
Artist As a Double Agent Susanne Bosch ‘I am sitting at the airport, about to fly to Berlin. For the millionth time, I find myself in a contradictory position between knowledge and action; what it is that I know and what it is that I do. ‘I am flying again, an action that I intended…
more information
Periodical
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 how it is…
more information
Periodical
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 the history and…
more information
Periodical
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 and delights, it…
more information
Periodical
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 a number of issues…
more information
Periodical
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 glimpse into how…
more information
Periodical
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 Archive: documenting direct…
more information
Book
Field Notes: The Inaugural Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice documents the first such Summer School in 2018, an initiative of the Arts Council. The Summer School brought together artists, activists, and thinkers for a four day residential, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts. This publication features sketches and perspectives from participants alongside…
more information
Video
A major transnational event exploring questions of negotiation, exchange and representation in contemporary collaborative arts practice, held in Dublin, 20 – 23 June 2018. Hosted by Create as lead partners of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP), an ambitious, innovative four-year collaborative arts programme, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, and…
more information
