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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

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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: 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

Create News 16 : Róise Goan reflects on Festivals and Collaborative Practice

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Róise Goan

In 2011, the Arts Council took a bold step in initiating a conversation with a number of festivals nationally around the observed interest and growing international trend towards the presentation of projects rooted in arts and health practice at festivals.

published 1 May 2014

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Create News 15: Gabriel Gbadamosi on Representation and Diversity

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Gabriel Gbadamosi

I was born by a river
I grew up in London, within the sound of Big Ben, a short walk to the Houses of Parliament. It was a lively, crowded place of poor, largely immigrant families and bomb-damaged houses. Our first playgrounds were bomb sites. We were living on the ruins of a city our parents came to rebuild. We thought everyone was like us…

published 1 November 2013

Create News 14: Grant Kester on Collaborative Practice and the limits of Criticism

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Grant Kester 

With the exponential growth of collaborative and dialogical art practices over the past decade we begin to see something like a crisis in contemporary art criticism, as conventionally trained historians and critics struggle to come to terms with a form of artistic production which challenges many of their normative assumptions about the work of art.

published 1 May 2013

Create News 13: Ruairí Ó Cuív on Collaborative Practice and Public Art

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Ruairí Ó Cuív 

Public Art has been an evolving practice over many decades now, moving from the artwork (often sculptural) commissioned by architects or planners for the adornment of buildings or public spaces to much more complex and interesting practices embracing all art forms. That is not to say that on occasions a permanent artwork is not suitable or even brilliant. In this context, I think of commissions, such as, the iconic ‘Perpetual Motion’ by Remco de Fouw and Rachel Joynt for the Naas, bypass (N7),1995 commissioned by Kildare County Council or the highly nuanced sculpture ‘Misneach’ by John Byrne commissioned by Breaking Ground, Ballymun, installed in 2010. These two artworks espouse all that is excellent in such commissioning practice. But all too often this approach can be clumsy, simplistic, and populist (in the worst of ways) resulting in poor quality artwork, which is foisted on us permanently.

published 1 October 2012

related programme Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme
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Create News 12: Joshua Sofaer on collaboration and performance

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Joshua Sofaer 

Artist and writer Joshua Sofaer introduces Create’s Collaborative Arts Theatre Pack. He writes here on the development and thinking behind the Live Art Pack which has inspired the making of Create’s Collaborative Arts Performance Pack. Like the original Pack developed by Joshua Sofaer, the Create Collaborative Arts Performance Pack is both an artwork and education resource.

published 1 April 2012

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