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Create News 28 – Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local

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Create News 28 – Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local

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Jeanne Van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalise the local”. She works on long term community embedded projects that question art’s autonomy by combining performative action, discussions and other forms of organising and pedagogy in order to assist communities to take control of their own futures.

This is an edited transcript of a presentation given by Jeanne Van Heeswijk in Common Ground’s Studio 468 in February 2020.

published 19 June 2020

Survival is Not Enough! Gregory Sholette and Megs Morley in Conversation

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Survival is Not Enough! Gregory Sholette and Megs Morley in Conversation

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As part of Create’s Conversations for Change series with leading practitioners, thinkers and activists, we are delighted to host curator and artist Megs Morley and New York based artist, activist and writer Gregory Sholette. This series aims to amplify the means of creative and social solidarity between artists and communities, much needed in these unprecedented times.

published 18 June 2020

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

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

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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

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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

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Cultural Diversity and the Artist and the Community Scheme

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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!

published 3 February 2020

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What is the Artist in the Community Scheme?

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What is the Artist in the Community Scheme?

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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

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Create – Who We Are

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Create – Who We Are

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Create is the national development agency for collaborative arts. Our work initiates cross-sectoral national and international partnerships which support artists and communities to co-create work of depth, ambition and excellence.

Our mission is to lead the development of collaborative arts practice by enabling artists and communities to create exceptional art together.

Watch this short film to learn more about the breadth of our work.

published 21 January 2020

Irish Aphasia Theatre: an AIC Scheme funded project

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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.

Video Arcade Film, courtesy Gráinne Hallahan

published 20 January 2020

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

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

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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

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

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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

related programme Networking Day

Networking Day 2019: Hammad Nasar and Mary McCarthy

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Networking Day 2019: Hammad Nasar and Mary McCarthy

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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

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

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

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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

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Connect Create Change: Strategy Launch

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Connect Create Change: Strategy Launch

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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

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Create Networking Day for Collaborative Arts 2019

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Create Networking Day for Collaborative Arts 2019

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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

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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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Read Connect Create Change

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

Made Ground: An AIC Scheme-funded Project

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Made Ground: An AIC Scheme-funded Project

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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