An extensive research process was undertaken by Mary Jo Gilligan in the development of her project, including establishing a research body called Dublin City Agency for the Sensory Investigation of Constructed Space. Her work for Culturstruction, Tastes Like Lego, was an investigation into sensory awareness of, and in, architecture. Research was presented in a number of formats including "a buffet of buildings" and a blindfolded tour of architectural space, which subverted the usual ocular centric engagment with design and appraisal of architecture. Six tours took place over the weekend, and all were fully booked.

Jesse Jones created a new book and audio piece called Psychic Architecture, which was sited in the National Library, Kildare Street. The book and audio accompaniment could be requested from the librarian and were to be experienced in the main reading room at the Library. An important outcome of this work was that one of the books (with accompanying audio) has been catalogued and will be permanently available on request at the National Library.  

Pádraic E.Moore's work was called A Place in Time. Moore selected several modernist buildings in Dublin City and temporarily installed a number of screen printed posters in each. The posters (produced in collaboration with Swollen Design Studio) were intended to contrive a situation which drew attention to the aesthetic qualities of the buildings while underscoring their status as historical buildings which have at some point been the site for significant events.

Eilis McDonald's work layers atmospheres, energies and aesthetics. For Culturstruction, McDonald produced Dublin City Colouring Book, a twenty page lithographic print which was made available for free from a number of city centre locations. Dublin City Colouring Book merges our familiar urban environment with elements of fantasy and imagination creating new a new landscape for visual play.

In addition, Culturstruction Screenings was a complementary selection of recent art films with an architectural relevance. These were projected in Temple Bar's Meeting House Square as a starting point for reflection on the idealism and compromise inherent in the flagship redevelopment of our built environment. In each of the selected films a whimsical or light-hearted tone masks a deeper sense of questioning and unrest.

Specific tour groups for Mary Jo Gilligan's tours. All six tours over the weekend were fully booked in advance (four places per tour).

There was a large passing audience for Meeting House Square Screenings.

Ongoing audience for Jesse Jones piece which has been made permanent at the National Library.

A young audience engaged with Eilis McDonald's Colouring Book.

Review in Circa Art Magazine written by Elaine Reynolds

Review in Visual Artists News Sheet January / February 2009, written by Sarah Lincoln.

A critical essay was written by Cliodhna Shaffrey, commissioned by Dublin City Council Arts Office.

Culturstruction is a collaborative practice of Jo Anne Butler and Tara Kennedy which positions itself at the intersection of art and architecture to explore ideas of cultural production within the built environment.

Butler and Kennedy graduated from NCAD in 2005, both having obtained a first class joint honours degree in Fine Art Sculpture and History of Art and Design.

Following graduation Butler worked as Assistant Arts Projects Manager with Breaking Ground, the Ballymun Regeneration Ltd. Per Cent for Art Scheme.  Projects here included Jochen Gerz's Amaptocare, Seamus Nolan's Hotel Ballymun, Adam Chodzko's Around. Butler also maintained her own practice, with work including co-curating Going Blind, a live art/music event at Ard Bia Art Space, Galway with artist Eilis Mc Donald and more recently exhibiting The Folly (2008) in response to Transitopia, Naas, Co.Kildare.

Kennedy established a practice working interactively, and often collaboratively, in a variety of public art contexts. In 2007 she worked with Studiorogers Architects for the RSUA's Two Minds residency. Hope Inherent is an ongoing collaborative project with Jennie Moran, supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council and currently participating in _unit, Portlaoise, with Laois Arts Office. Other work includes Transplant (2006), Sandymount Strand, Dublin and projects for the Dublin Fringe Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival and Kildare County Council. Kennedy has exhibited in Ireland at Temple Bar Gallery, the RIAI, the Golden Thread Gallery, and at rm103, Auckland, New Zealand and Careof, Milan, where she was awarded the FAR Epson Award for Artistic Research in 2006.

In 2007 Kennedy and Butler began studying Architecture at UCD. This route from art, towards architecture has formed the starting point for Culturstruction, and for further exploration of how art can be the ideal forum in which to provoke much needed critical debate around architecture, the built environment, and the ways in which meaning and memory are created through buildings and public spaces.

In February 2009 Culturstruction presented an exhibition entitled a silent year at The LAB, Dublin City Council, featuring film work by Gareth Kennedy, Ruth Lyons and Bea McMahon.

Further biographical information on the artists is available at the Culturstruction website.