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Create News Special: Sheelagh Broderick on Cork Ignite

Create News Periodical 3 February 2016

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…

 

Create News 19: Kate Zeller on A Lived Practice

Create News Periodical 13 November 2015

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…

 

Create News 18: Susanne Bosch on Nomadic Practice

Create News Periodical 16 July 2015

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…

 

Create News 17: Chrissie Tiller on The Spectrum of Participation

Create News Periodical 26 November 2014

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.”1 Thinking about this piece on the spectrum of…

 

Create News 16: Róise Goan reflects on Festivals and Collaborative Practice

Create News Periodical 22 June 2014

Róise Goan reflects on Festivals and Collaborative Practice 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.

 

Create News 15: Gabriel Gbadamosi on Representation and Diversity

Create News Periodical 1 November 2013

Gabriel Gbadamosi on Representation and Diversity 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…

 

Create News 14: Grant Kester on Collaborative Art and the Limits of Criticism

Create News Periodical 13 June 2013

Grant Kester on Collaborative Art and the Limits of Criticism 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…

 

Create News 13: Ruairí Ó Cuív on Collaborative Practice and Public Art

Create News Periodical 10 October 2012

Ruairí Ó Cuív on Collaborative Practice and Public Art 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…

 

Create News 12: Joshua Sofaer on collaboration and performance

Create News Periodical 12 April 2012

Joshua Sofaer on collaboration and performance 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…