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Gravity Express #1

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Gravity Express #1

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In late 2021 artist Kate O’Shea began a process of critical reflection and review of twelve years of her artistic practice with mentor Dr Ciaran Smyth. Gravity Express #1 is a publication which they co-constructed with a view to sharing some insights from that mentoring process. Focusing on the ruptures, transitions and re-formulations over the course of Kate’s sustained commitment to art and activism, Gravity Express captures some fragments from their work together in the form of a critical archaeology of artistic becomings. Presented in the style of the popular tabloid newspaper, it was first made publicly available as part of an in-conversation event at the Cork Mid-Summer Festival, June 2022.

Gravity Express #1 was in part supported by an Arts Council Of Ireland Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme Bursary Award in Collaborative Arts and Community Development, awarded to Kate O’Shea.

published 10 January 2023

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Create and Counterpoints Arts Learning Lab on Collaborative Arts, Diversity and Social Justice

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Create and Counterpoints Arts Learning Lab on Collaborative Arts, Diversity and Social Justice

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In July 2020, Create and Counterpoints Arts, a UK-based arts agency dedicated to Art, Migration and Social Change, held a Learning Lab on Collaborative Arts, Diversity and Social Justice, which brought together artists, activists, policymakers and racial justice/ human rights advocates and activists, to think about how we might put the principles around ‘equality, diversity and human rights’ into practice in Ireland. The Learning Lab coincided with the European Union marking the 20th anniversary of the Race and Equality Directive (June 29th) and was framed in the context of the Irish Arts Council’s Equality Human Rights and Diversity Policy
and Strategy (2019).

This report document comprises an edited transcript of the conversations held that day.

published 9 June 2021

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Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

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Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

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At the Create Networking Day (9th December 2020), close to two hundred delegates came together in a facilitated interactive session, entitled “Connect” which offered a chance to meet, talk, share, and strategise together. We collectively built a resource pack for the sector; talks, books, projects that have inspired, kept us going and which encourage our work as collaborative artists and cultural and/or community practitioners.

This resource, made up of everyone’s recommendations and co-produced by Create and Heart of Glass, is reflective of a sense of collective wisdom, provocation and support by our field of practice at this time.

Each resource can be accessed by clicking the heading for each item.

published 10 December 2020

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AIC Scheme Cultural Diversity Research Report

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AIC Scheme Cultural Diversity Research Report

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AIC Scheme Cultural Diversity Research report

Artist in the Community Scheme Cultural Diversity Researcher Evgeny Shtorn interviewed artists from minority ethnic backgrounds who have engaged with the AIC Scheme, as well as evaluating literature and research in this field to create this research report in early 2020. This report evaluates the current state of affairs for migrant and minority ethnic artists working in collaborative arts in Ireland through interviews and quantitative analyses, before establishing a number of recommendations for the field.

published 21 April 2020

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Connect Create Change: Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland

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Connect Create Change: Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland

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Create publishes this strategy, Connect Create Change; Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland at a time of significant global change and in the firm belief that by working together, artists and communities can purposefully explore how collaborative arts engage in distinct, relevant and powerful ways with the urgent social, cultural and political issues of our times.

This strategy provides a framework to support the ecology, resources and relationships that will develop discourse, policy and next practice from 2020 to 2025. Our five strategic goals are designed to increase the reach of collaborative arts, enhance its value and ensure its ongoing sustainability. Our actions will create key focal points for the sector over the coming years.

published 26 September 2019

AIC Scheme FAQs 2019

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AIC Scheme FAQs 2019

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published 4 February 2019

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Transactions #2 Field and Academy: Knowledge and counter knowledge in socially-engaged art

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Transactions #2 Field and Academy: Knowledge and counter knowledge in socially-engaged art

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TransActions publication series is an international partnership between Stockyard Institute Chicago and National College of Art & Design Dublin, Ireland, and is led by Jim Duignan (SI) and Fiona Whelan (NCAD).

Issue #2 Field and Academy: Knowledge and counter knowledge in socially engaged art (2017) is a collaboration between NCAD, Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. Drawing threads from the meta to the micro level of knowledge production, issue #2 sets out to pose questions for the field of socially-engaged art and education practice in 2017.

published 4 December 2017