Resources

In Conversation: Grant Kester and Gráinne Coughlan

Audio

Create, in partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Age & Opportunity, University of Limerick, Fingal Arts Office, and the Engagement and Learning Dept of IMMA, is delighted to share this In Conversation event with renowned US-based art historian and educator Grant Kester, and Gráinne Coughlan, Independent Researcher and PhD candidate TU Dublin. The event was chaired by Professor Kerstin Mey, President, University of Limerick.

A full resource page with examples and links mentioned throughout the conversation can be found here.

published 28 April 2021

related programme Evaluative Register for Collaborative Arts

 “Walking Whid/ Walking Story” – a journey through Tuam with Oein DeBhardúin

Audio

Join Oein DeBhardúin, inaugural recipient of Creative Places Tuam’s Thinking on Tuam residency on this journey through the town, hearing about the stories, folklore, legends and history of Tuam, the Traveller Community and its relationship with Tuam. A transcript of the walking tour is available here. You can download the tour by clicking on the download button on the top right hand side of the picture.

This Walking Whid is inspired by the history and story of Tuam. We would like to credit Michael Waldron & Tuam Tidy Town’s Tuam Heritage and Nature Trail published in 2015 for text referenced in the Whid. Other resources used for this work were sourced from an assortment of Journal of Tuam Society (JOTS) publications, and Oein’s memories of stories told.

This Walking Story was first shared on Culture Night 2020. Route Map and Guidance and Full Transcript available.

published 18 September 2020

related programme Creative Places: Tuam

Tuam Creates: An ode to place

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“Footloose and fancy free,
if I wanted to live in New York I’d live in New York,
if I wanted to live in Paris I’d live in Paris,
but Kilaloonty is where I roll out my blanket this past 16 years…”

An ode to Tuam by artist and musican Little John Nee, first performed at the launch of Creative Places Tuam, January 2020

published 28 April 2020

related programme Creative Places: Tuam

Traveller Collection Roundtable at Pavée Point

Audio by Seamus Nolan

Seamus Nolan’s work, Traveller Collection, a CAPP commission, investigates the idea of archive, deconstructs ideas on ‘heritage’ and engages with communities of place and of interest, involving Traveller activists and archivists.

On the 21st June 2018, a roundtable discussion was held in Paveé Point on Representation and the archive, with Seamus Nolan, artist; Rosaleen McDonagh, Paveé Point; Dr. Eve Olney, Artist and Ethnographer; Jessica O’ Donnell, Head of Education and Community Outreach, Dublin City Gallery, and chaired by Oein de Bhairduin. This wide-ranging discussion explored questions of ownership, agency, and representation of Traveller culture and heritage.

This audio record of the Roundtable discussion opens with a song from Mary Collins.

published 16 July 2018

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

The Realm of Possibility – an Acoustic Footprint

Audio by Susanne Bosch & Seán Mac Erlaine

Between 2015 and 2018, Susanne Bosch, CAPP Artist Researcher, gathered about 200 hours of audio recordings from the CAPP network meetings, events, dialogues, conversations and exchanges. She captured countless moments attempting to verbally de-construct and newly construct this field of interconnectedness through collaborative arts. A sound piece has been developed in collaboration with composer, musician and producer Seán Mac Erlaine that captures the polyphonic, multi-layered complex web of conversations.

published 2 July 2018

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

Selina Thompson in conversation with Lynnette Moran

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Artist Selina Thompson in conversation with Lynnette Moran

Selina Thompson, UK based artist, undertook the Resort Residency at Lynders Mobile Park Portrane with Create and Fingal Arts as part of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) in autumn 2016.

She sat down during her time in Ireland to talk with Lynnette Moran, lead producer of CAPP and director of Live Collision, covering a wide ranging number of issues in relation to live art practice and the creation of her award winning performances.

Read more in CREATE: NEWS 21 [PDF]

published 26 February 2017

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

Asylum Archive

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As part of the launch of Asylum Archive in Galway, March 2015, Create featured Vukasin as a part of a panel discussion alongside Anthony Haughey, Anne Mulhall, Charlotte McIvor and Megs Morley, chaired by Katrina Goldstone. The discussion centred on the themes evoked by Asylum Archive.

published 16 July 2015

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme