Essay on Dublin Ships, commissioned by Dublin City Council for the Dublin City Public Art Programme

An introduction to the commissioning process of Sightless Cinema under the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (dlr) Per Cent for Art Progr...

a participatory audio theatre project with blind and visually impaired collaborators

First published in Art Monthly 331: November 2009.

Discuses: Collaboration; Residencies; Public Art; Place-making; New processes;

Commissioned by Create: The National Development Agency for the Collaborative Arts

Discusses; Monuments. Memorials. Selection Processes. Studio Negri and Henessy. NJBA. Seamus Nolan. OPW. Critical reception. 

Temporary Architecture; Redefining Art; Redefining Architecture; Anthony Vidler; Balance of Power; Users and creators of the built environment; Gor...

artist-led, commissioning, socially engaged, site specific, Ground Up, Fiona Woods, X-PO, Deidre O'Mahony, Gareth Kennedy, Carol Anne Connolly, Ali...

The heart of public art is relational.  But what is a public?  Alice Lyons recounts her thinking about the 'multiplicity of publics' refl...

Mounuments and Memorials; Cultural Tourism; Equestrian Statues; The O' Connell Monument, Dublin;  The Spire; Minimalism; Jochen Gerz, Monument...

What artists need to be aware of when engaging an engineer; stresses and foundations; withstanding forces - wind, water; stability and equilibrium,...

Discusses; Regeneration. Instrumentalisation. Public/Private space. Breaking Ground, Ballymun, Dublin. National Sculpture Factory, Cork. Upsta...

A personal overview written by Mayo County Council public art co-ordinator, Gaynor Seville on her beliefs with regard to the value of art comm...

'The food thing' is an ongoing, open-ended, collaborative project which emer...

Discussed; Song, African music, New York, Angola, civil war, Rwanda, history, visual poetics, reading research, disparate economies, Giuseppe Ungar...

The shift in the traditional cycle of commissioning and production; the  expanded arena for public art; complex institutional frameworks; rela...

Discussed: Amaptocare and the National Memory Grove projects in Ballymun reflecting on the differences between price, cost and value; Jochen Gerz; ...

Some practices of in-between considers a number of current art and architectural practices that engage with the in-between as a site of prod...

The question of art’s encounter with its various publics is a vexed one. Art practices that are oriented towards the social have generated a whol...

Discussed: Slack Spaces, Creative Limerick Initiative, Simon Sheikh, publics, counter-publics, the Celtic Tiger, Exchange Dublin, Richard Florida, ...

Discussed: Design, housing, public space, private space, laboratory, TUNING, Umberto Eco, advice-giving, cats, weddings, urban software, 1:1 scale,...

Discusses: Aesthetic strategies, counter-culture, self-management, capitalist productivity, appropriation, artistic intervention, neo-liberal ideol...

strained muscles, double helix, biennials, rhetoric of place, short term residencies, ubiquitous reading zones, sightseeing and insight, engagement...

Discusses: Heavy metal, New Labour, aesthetic regime, Ode Projesi, ethical turn, The folk archive, social inclusion, collectivity, hidden assumptio...

Seeders, torrent files, time, old roads, city space, post taxidermist visit, missing persons, memory and fragility, monumental baggage, romanticizi...

The non-metropolitan; a site of resistance (Text based on a talk given by Fiona Woods at

Discussed; spectatorship, private sphere, fragmentation, agonism, Jürgen Habermas, Counter-publics, participatory models, Oskar Negt, Alexander Kl...

Discussed: Localness, Bourriaud, Liam Gillick, art-market politics, Altermodern, in betweenness, Alan Phelan, Star Trek, NCAD, 'radicant' artists, ...

Coming of age, Charles Esche, Vasif Kortun, Istanbul, Liverpool, Lewis Briggs, City as research subject, Hal Forster, participant, viewer, collabor...