Land Walks is a collaborative sound and visual art project by artist William Bock and residents of West Cork, that maps experiences of belonging and uprooting in the West Cork landscape through walking, storytelling and collaborative field recording.
This issue of Create News is based on a conversation between William Bock, Zoë O’Reilly, researcher and author of recent book ‘The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration’, Vukasin Nedeljkovic, artist and creator of Asylum Archive, Donna Treya from West Cork Development Partnership and project participants Lora Mildred, Mariama Bah and Khanyo Dlamini.
Field Notes II documents the second Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice, held in July 2019.
The Summer School brought together artists, activists, and thinkers for a five day residential, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts. This publication features writings from Summer School participants and facilitators, as well as from Dr Ailbhe Murphy, director of Create and Dr Áine O’Brien, co-director of Counterpoints Arts, who frame the publication in light of the significant challenges to collaborative, socially engaged art presented by Covid 19
Cultural Diversity and the Artist and the Community Scheme
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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!
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.
Irish Aphasia Theatre: an AIC Scheme funded project
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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.
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
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.
2019 Residency with Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios – Rajinder Singh
Video by John Beattie
Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios are pleased to share this behind the scenes look into Rajinder Singh’s 2019 Artist Residency Award based at Fire Station Artists’ Studios.
Rajinder Singh’s photography, video and performance work explore ideas around the vulnerable body and its pain, interrogating the economies of power that deny it space and shape.
This AIC Scheme-funded residency, which aims to support an artist from an ethnic minority to develop their collaborative and socially engaged arts practice, is offered through a partnership between Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios.
Field Notes: The Inaugural Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice documents the first such Summer School in 2018, an initiative of the Arts Council.
The Summer School brought together artists, activists, and thinkers for a four day residential, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts. This publication features sketches and perspectives from participants alongside contributions from Ailbhe Murphy, director of Create, Áine O’Brien, co-director of Counterpoints Arts, Áine Crowley, Programme Manager, Arts and Engagement with Create, and Evgeny Shtorn, sociologist and Summer School participant.
Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice, 2018
Video by KILIG Productions
The inaugural Summer School brought together fourteen artists, thinkers, activists and practitioners with a shared goal to explore the concept of ‘cultural diversity’ and its various applications through the lens of the Artist in the Community Scheme and contemporary socially engaged practice.
Over four days, the attendees partook of workshops, presentations of past and future work, challenges, performances and mentoring, directed by Áine O’Brien, Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts, and co-facilitated by Mary Ann DeVlieg, international consultant in arts, arts mobility and policy and Khaled Barakeh, international artist and cultural activist.
2018 Residency with Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios – Hina Khan
Video by John Beattie
Hina Khan was the inaugural recipient of the Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios Residency for an Artist from an ethnic minority background.
Hina’s work is the constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and express ideologies through symbolism. Using a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques, Hina’s work portrays social issues, immigration and humanitarian crisis like prostitution, gender discrimination, restrictions, trauma, child abuse and killing. This residency provided Hina space to work with freedom, enhancing her capabilities as an artist and provided an opportunity to develop her collaborative arts practice further, while immersing herself in contemporary Irish art practice.
“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.
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.
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.
Sheelagh Broderick on collaborative processes and the AIC Scheme
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Sheelagh Broderick, artist and visual artist, & Sherkin Island Development Society Ltd, on collaborative processes; collaborative practice as a contingent practice and the role and importance of documentation and evaluation.
This video was originally published in 2012 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Artist in the Community Scheme