Resources

The Textual Trace: Writing and Socially Engaged Practice – Fiona Whelan and Gretchen Coombs in conversation

Video

As part of Create’s Conversations for Change series with leading practitioners, thinkers and activists, we are delighted to host a conversation between Irish artist, writer and educator Fiona Whelan and Australian based academic Gretchen Coombs. This conversation explores writing both as a form of practice and encounter in collaborative work and writing as a form of advancing the analysis of practice and its critical coordinates in the diverse contexts in which socially engaged art occurs.

published 28 May 2020

related programme Art and Society Learning Programme
related programme Evaluative Register for Collaborative Arts

Cultural Diversity and the Artist and the Community Scheme

Video

Create has been working with the Arts Council in recent years to widen access to the Artist in the Community Scheme, through our Cultural Diversity Strand. Watch this short video to find out more about the enhanced award, residencies and summer school offered through this strand. Then visit the AIC pages on this site to read more!

published 3 February 2020

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

What is the Artist in the Community Scheme?

Video

Are you interested in applying for the AIC Scheme? Watch this short video to find out more about Create and the scheme, which offers funding each year for artists and communities to work collaboratively together.

published 3 February 2020

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Irish Aphasia Theatre: an AIC Scheme funded project

Video

Irish Aphasia Theatre (IAT) is a socially engaged company which uses theatre to artistically engage, train, facilitate and produce the work of participants who have cognitive, communication and physical disabilities, in particular aphasia. IAT was founded by theatre director, writer and facilitator, Gráinne Hallahan, in 2018. This project was funded by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme Project Realisation award and Fingal County Council Arts Office.

Video Arcade Film, courtesy Gráinne Hallahan

published 20 January 2020

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Tania Bruguera and Dr Áine O’Brien in conversation: Networking Day 2019

Video

It was our great pleasure to welcome world-renowned socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera as our keynote speaker for Create’s National Networking Day 2019. Tania discussed her work on the Tate Modern Turbine Hall Hyundai Commission with Áine O Brien, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts.

published 16 December 2019

related programme Networking Day

Networking Day 2019: Hammad Nasar and Mary McCarthy

Video

In the context of the Decade of Commemorations and how Ireland’s struggle for independence played out very vividly in Cork, we chose to close Networking Day 2019 with a discussion about the notion of commemoration and the symbolic role of public art. We were joined by Hammad Nasar, initiator of Let Our Statues Speak project, to reflect on questions of memory and whose history gets written in or out of the urban fabric in broader processes of commemoration. Hammad was in conversation with Mary McCarthy, Director of the Crawford Art Gallery.

published 2 December 2019

related programme Networking Day

Networking Day 2019: Community-based Commissioning and the Politics of Place

Video

In the second panel of Networking Day 2019, chaired by Patrick Fox, Director of Heart of Glass, Sören Meschede, curator and coordinator of Concomitentes, Spain and artists Mark Storor and Linda Curtin of the per cent for art project I Can Colour Between the Lines But I Choose Not To in Knocknaheny Cork explored community-based commissioning and the politics of place, accompanied by Kath Gorman, Head of Participation and Engagement for Cork Midsummer Festival.

published 2 December 2019

related programme Networking Day

Connect Create Change: Strategy Launch

Video

Connect Create Change: Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland, Create’s Strategy 2020 – 2025, was launched on the 26th September 2019, following Create’s Networking Day. It was launched by Independent Senator Colette Kelleher, with contributions from Deirdre Figueiredo, MBE, Chair of the Create board, Ailbhe Murphy, Director, and world-renowned socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera.

published 31 October 2019

related programme Networking Day

Create Networking Day for Collaborative Arts 2019

Video

Create’s National Networking Day 2019 was held in Cork City Centre, and featured a keynote session with world-renowned socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera, as well as panel discussions, roundtables, workshops and breakout sessions across the City.

published 16 October 2019

related programme Networking Day

Made Ground: An AIC Scheme-funded Project

Video

Made Ground is a collaboration between artists Eva Richardson McCrea, Frank Sweeney and the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society (DDWPS). Taking the DDWPS online archive of over 3,500 photographs as its starting point, the work draws on a range of source material including interviews, institutional and personal archives, documents and original footage. The two channel video work considers the movement from manual to knowledge based forms of labour in the Docklands, the changing architecture of the area and the impact of these changes on the surrounding communities

Video courtesy of the artists.

published 29 August 2019

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice, 2019

Video by KILIG Productions

The 2019 Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice took place in Killary Lodge, Leenane, Co Galway in July 2019.

The Summer School brought together 13 artists, thinkers, and activists on a five-day residency with international guest speakers enabling a ‘think and do’ collaborative approach, utilising creative workshops, critical and comparative case studies, and one-to-one mentoring.

Facilitated by Áine O’Brien, Co-Director, Counterpoints Arts, with arts consultant Mary Ann Devlieg and artist Isabel Lima,the Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice is an initiative of the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, and is delivered through a partnership between Create and Counterpoints Arts.

published 26 August 2019

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme