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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Create News Periodical 30 March 2009
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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Create News Periodical 30 October 2008
“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 Ursula Rani Sarma and Sean…
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Create News Periodical 29 May 2008
Michelle Browne reflects on the Inter Art College Placement Programme ‘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…
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Create News Periodical 4 September 2007
Dr Maurna Crozier, former Director, Cultural Diversity Programme, NI Community Relations Council interviews 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…
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Create News Periodical 25 April 2007
Brian Maguire reports on Practice, Process and Audience. What do we want to achieve? Six artists from Ireland and four artists from the UK initiated and continued an intense conversation, part in private, part in public, over two days in Middlesex University and Soho Theatre, London on the 26th and 27th February. The initiative forms part…
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Create News Periodical 19 October 2006
Willie White interviews artist Andrew Cross. The thrill has gone from travel. While we may fancy ourselves to be Born to Be Wild, congestion, fuel prices, pollution, and talk radio conspire to degrade our daily journey to an ordeal to be endured rather than an adventure to be embraced. Over the long haul, if the…
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