Create News 31 – The Power of the Arts in Enacting Social Change
News, Create News Periodical 22 June 2022
John Bissett is a community worker who lives and works in Dublin. John has been involved with a broad range of social movements working to effect positive change and to challenge the imposition of policies and actions which dominate and inflict suffering across the social body. He has been involved with grassroots youth and community…
Create News 30 – Art, Language and Migration
News, Create News Periodical 14 April 2021
Francesca La Morgia, originally from Italy, has been involved in a range of community projects primarily with migrant families in Ireland and in the UK for a number of years. In 2017, she created Mother Tongues, a non-profit organisation that aims to support migrant families in raising children with two or more languages. Francesca is…
Create News 29 – Land Walks: A Conversation on Identity, Belonging and the Irish Landscape
News, Create News Periodical 8 December 2020
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. Over six months, William Bock walked with nine asylum seekers living in Clonakilty Lodge Direct Provision Centre…
Create News 28: Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local
Create News Periodical 19 June 2020
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…
Create News 27: Time & Trust: Durational interventions in collaborative art
Artist Tania Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life; focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education and politics. In 2018 and 2019, Bruguera created a number of interventions in Tate Modern,…
Create News 26: I Am Not a Piece of Meat
Create News Periodical 2 April 2019
Anna Furse: 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…
Create News 25: The Infrastructure of Public Art
Create News Periodical 16 December 2018
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…
Create News 24: Direct Provision Diary
Create News Periodical 7 June 2018
Direct Provision Diary 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…
Create News 23: Talking Between Statues
Create News Periodical 11 January 2018
Talking Between Statues 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…
Create News 22: Bodies, Borders and Movement
Create News Periodical 3 July 2017
Bodies, Borders and Movement 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…
Create News 21: Gender, Performance & Identity
Create News Periodical 18 November 2016
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…
Create News Special: Dave Beech on Bodies and Subjects
Bodies and Subjects 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…