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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Create News Periodical 16 November 2011
Mick Wilson on understandings of civil society 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…
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Create News Periodical 28 August 2011
Michael Seaver on artisitic excellence and change 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…
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Create News Periodical 15 September 2010
Daniel Jewesbury on the value of mentoring 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,…
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Create News Periodical 18 May 2010
Faisal Abdu’Allah on experimenting with risk 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…
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Create News Periodical 21 October 2009
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 such loaded…
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