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Create News 27 – Time & Trust: Durational interventions in collaborative art

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Artist Tania Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life. In 2018 and 2019, Bruguera created a number of interventions in Tate Modern, including bringing together the Tate Neighbours, people who live or work nearby Tate Modern, to work with her and guide the project whilst exploring the role of the institution in the local area. Tania was keynote speaker at Create’s National Networking Day 2019, held on the 26th September in Millenium Hall in Cork City. This issue of Create News is an edited transcript of the conversation between Tania and Dr. Áine O’Brien, Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts.

published 3 December 2019

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Create News 26 – I Am Not a Piece of Meat

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Collaborative Practice and the Body, Anna Furse in conversation with Susanne Bosch

“AN ANATOMY ACT deals with the morbid, but with humour. I’m taking people on an uncomfortable and disturbing journey. I hope people feel comforted by the fact that these taboos about death, our own imminent passing, and of our bodies being opened are somehow okay. It’s ok to have that anxiety. In death we’re all the same. The tone of dead skin is very similar after it has been treated for dissection, no matter what skin colour in life. But the cadaver is both about common human denominators and individual nuances. Surgeons say that every heart is unique. Everybody’s interior has its own character and I find that utterly fascinating.”

published 2 April 2019

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

Create News 25 – The Infrastructure of Public Art

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Caroline Cowley in conversation with Grainne Coughlan

“Working with artists within the local authority has the potential to change how we all do things. I am aware too that while the artist may work on these local platforms, their reputational reach is International. I am interested in how the local responds to the global through art, where the site/s are constantly shifting and making different connections back to Fingal.”

published 16 December 2018

Create News 24 – Direct Provision Diary

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Vukasin Nedeljkovic

“There are many people of different nationalities speaking their native languages. Men, women, and children wait impatiently to be assessed. I am brought to a small room where two forensic officials take my fingerprints…”

Vukasin Nedeljkovic is an artist and founder of Asylum Archive. His recent works include Reiterating Asylum Archive: documenting direct provision in Ireland, 2018 and Asylum Archive: an Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland, 2016, 2017.

published 1 April 2018

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme
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Create News 23 : Talking Between Statues

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Chris Baldwin

Chris Baldwin, creative director for Galway2020, is widely known for Teatro de Creación, an approach to making large scale interdisciplinary performance about place, for that place and in deep collaboration with the people of that place. He discusses some of his work before coming to Ireland and offers us a glimpse into how his approach will bring interesting insights to Galway´s preparations to become the European capital of culture in 2020.

published 1 November 2017

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Create News 22: Bodies, Borders and Movement.

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Deirdre Mulrooney interviews Sandra Noeth

Sandra Noeth, dramaturge, curator and writer is undertaking a research residency in Ireland as part of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) in an initiative between Dublin Dance Festival, Dance Limerick and Create.
Academic and broadcaster Deirdre Mulrooney spoke to her ahead of her visit about a number of issues in relation to her practice, and the synergies and complications between her work and social and political actions.

published 1 May 2017

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

Create News Special: Dave Beech on Bodies and Subjects

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Participation and the Differential Field of Art’s Encounters
Dave Beech

This longer special edition of Create News features an edited version of a paper given by Dave Beech at the Create Networking Day in IMMA, November 2015
‘Today one of the key debates within art concerns the bundle of questions related to how it is encountered. At the same time, there has been a marked ethical turn in contemporary art. Putting these two developments together, we can say, since art’s social turn it is not the formal properties of art objects that count but the ethical character of its social relations. Ethics has become one of the key economies through which contemporary art is judged.

published 1 November 2016

related events Create National Networking Day 2019, Cork

Create News 21: Gender, Performance & Identity

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Lynnette Moran interviews Selina Thompson

Selina Thompson, UK based artist, undertook the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) Residency with Create and Fingal Arts at Lynders Mobile Park Portrane 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 her live art practice and award winning performances. Create News 21 features an edited transcript of the conversation between Selina Thompson and Lynnette Moran. The full interview will be available on Create’s soundcloud channel.
CAPP Residency was funded by the Creative Europe Programme.

published 1 October 2016

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

Create News Special: Sheelagh Broderick on Cork Ignite

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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 and delights, it also simultaneously contributed to an inclusive public space. … ‘

published 1 January 2016

Create News 19: Kate Zeller on a Lived Practice

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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 the history and contemporary field of social practice in Chicago.

published 1 October 2015

Create News 18: Susanne Bosch on Nomadic Practice

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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 to stop even though I currently what might be called a nomadic practitioner. More ironically still, I’m coming from a four-week residency dealing with sustainability and future viability and going to Berlin to participate in EU project to look at ways of enhancing transnational mobility for collaborative artists…’

published 1 May 2015

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

Create News 17: Chrissie Tiller on The Spectrum of Participation

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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.”
Thinking about this piece on the spectrum of practice I believe is art and participation, I am indulging in ‘useful’ procrastination. Today it takes the form of flicking through a Lonely Planet Guide. Then I come across the statement above. It is indeed one of life’s unexpected ‘joys’, that what I go on to read is about a small town in Sicily called Favara. Previously known for two things, ‘some of the highest unemployment in Italy’ and its ‘many ugly buildings’, for the past four years lawyers Andrea Bartoli and Florinda Saieva have been transforming it, through participatory arts practice, to, ‘a better piece of the world, a small community committed to inventing new ways of thinking and living.’

published 1 October 2014

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme