switch is an exciting new initiative which provides an accessible alternative viewing platform for contemporary visual art. In its inaugural year eight art works (lens based media) were shown simultaneously in various locations in the Nenagh town centre every evening during the last week o...

A promenade performance in Dún Laoghaire Ferry Terminal, created by Ciarán Taylor with Carpet Theatre. It explored themes of departure, return and our complex relations with Britain and featured character movement with a specially devised live score performed on electric guitar, cello, v...

This theatre project, The Avenue was an art commission which took place in Listowel and Lixnaw, County Kerry in 2004. The play was written by playwright Christian O'Reilly and directed by theatre director Jessica Curtis. It is set in present day Listowel and is a personal story, exploring ...

Founded in 2006, Askeaton Contemporary Arts (ACA) aims to promote and provide contemporary visual art to the locale of Askeaton Co Limerick. Within this, Welcome to the Neighbourhood is an annual programme of invited international and Irish artists who live and work in the town o...

Martina Coyle, an artist from the Mayo County Council artist's panel, was commissioned to produce a site responsive artwork in the Erris area. After an initial research period living and exploring Erris, Coyle returned to Mayo to spend four months in residence in the Blacksod area early in 2006. ...

Through re-staging and re-appropriating of the 'drive-in', the artist Jesse Jones created a collective social and political space. Set in the disused industrial setting of Pigeon House, a site formerly familiar for manufacturing in Dublin's Docklands. This concept of drive-in was reminiscent of t...

An artist's book derived from the artists explorations of the harbour in Sligo and up river to Lough Gill. The work is based on the artists photography, filming, drawing and research into peoples local knowledge including walkers, residents and fishermen. 

Mackey spent much time in the Sli...

Deirdre O'Mahony and members of various communities, longstanding groups, newcomers, interested parties and artists spent a year looking at ways of answering the questions highlighted above. In re-activating the post office, a space with a history of being a site of exchange and social contact, t...

Hotel Ballymun was conceived by artist Seamus Nolan. From 23 March to 27 April 2007, the 15th floor of Clarke Tower, one of the last remaining tower blocks in Ballymun, was transformed into a short stay hotel.  Nolan ...

A rock music Per Cent for Art initiative where 27 students and three professional musicians collaborated to produce a CD.

The musicians were Peter Baxter and Chris Teusner, specialist music facilitators with Songschool, and Iain Archer, solo artist formerly with the band Snow Patrol.