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The Blue of the Sky, The Green of the Grass,
The Red of a Rose
Fergus Martin takes into
account contemporary thinking
about assisted living by
creating colour-based paintings
for the shared areas within
the HSE Residential Care
Neighbourhood. This is a sitespecific
collaboration with
McCullough Mulvin Architects
and Todd Architects.
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Phoenix Care Centre Art
Aisling Prior curated two
commissions – Joy Gerard, Dusk/
Dawn and Oisín Byrne, Long Live
the Weeds and the Wilderness
Yet for the HSE Phoenix Care
Centre. Essay by John Graham.
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The Life of Loans: On the Politics
of Belonging and Co-Existence
Christina Kennedy, Senior
Curator: Head of Collections,
IMMA, writes about the role
of public institutions in
lending art. She describes
the unique lending scheme
devised to accommodate artists
to lend existing artworks to
the HSE Grangegorman Primary
Care Centre.
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Stories Between Us
Janine Davidson creates a
bespoke memory box about play
through intergenerational
discussion and exchange between
young students and senior
citizens. This art project,
comprising workshops and
exhibition, involved partnering
with the National Museum of
Ireland, St. Gabriel’s National
School, Henrietta Adult &
Community Education Service
and Phibsboro Active Retirement
Association.
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TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
Kieran Corcoran, Head of
Dublin School of Creative
Arts, gives an account of
the transformation of the
DIT School of Art, Design and
Printing into the TU Dublin
School of Creative Arts,
bringing the visual arts
together with music, drama,
film, gaming, media, languages,
the Humanities and Social
Sciences into a custom built
building with studios, concert
and recital halls.
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Time As Form: Nasir El Safi, Hina Khan,
Hichem and Nala.
Anita Groener writes about
how the TU Dublin School of
Creative Arts opened its
annual summer studios programme
to artists from Spirasi, a
locally-based organisation that
works with asylum seekers and
refugees with a special concern
for survivors of torture,
and gives her experience of
curating a public exhibition
of resulting works.
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Confinement
Trish McAdam writes about her
approach to creating a digital
film and outdoor projection
narrated through the fictional
voice of the deceased Henrietta
resident and dancer Tony
Rudenko. This work incorporates
her discovery of pre-1900
patients admission photographs
to The Richmond Asylum,
now housed in the National
Archives. With music by Roger
Doyle, this work contributes
to contemporary questions of
socially-acceptable norms and
the outcome of Colonialism.
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The Aesthetics Group
Jeanette Doyle, Cathy
O’Carroll, Mick O’Hara and
Connell Vaughan write about The
Aesthetics Group – a research
group affiliated with The
Graduate School of Creative
Arts and Media (GradCam), whose
present focus is to research
the aesthetics of language and
politics in the digital age.
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Crocosmia
Clodagh Emoe forms a community
of interest with Spirasi and
schools in the Dublin 7 area
to continue her investigation
of place that questions
received notions of what is
‘native’ and what is ‘foreign’.
Finding that croscosmiflora
(Montbretia) grows in the
locality and that it is native
to South Africa, the group
replanted a publicly accessible
seating area within the
Grangegorman campus, creating
a new place and metaphor for
diversity in Ireland.
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Grangegorman
Luke McManus, a local resident
of Grangegorman, writes with
insight about living in the
locality during this period of
change and suggests that the
perceived fear associated with
mentioning ‘Grangegorman’ is
being rapidly transformed.
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What Does He Need?
Brokentalkers, Fiona
Whelan, and Rialto Youth
Project supported by Create
have initiated an ongoing
performative workshop project
that explores how men and boys
are shaped by and influence the
world they live in. Essay by
Charlotte McIvor.
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Wear a Bonnet – Living Art Installation
Christina Henri’s installation
began with an invitation that
grew to become a large public
gathering to mark and remember
those who were transported
from the Grangegorman depot to
Tasmania between 1840–1853.
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Incarceration Altars
Bernie Masterson has produced
and toured a series of short
films by people in prison
based on a singular chosen
item. In this way she explores
relationships between person,
place and object. The work is
accompanied by a publication
with essay by Aislinn O’Donnell.
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The Masterplan and I’ll Be In Your Camp:
Will You Be in Mine?
Jennie Guy curates these two
nodes alongside John Beattie,
Ella de Búrca, Karl Burke,
Naomi Sex, D7 Educate Together,
‘the Brunner’/St. Paul’s
CBS and TU Dublin School of
Creative Arts in creatively
questioning what school is,
was and will be for, and in
developing creative new ways of
bridging the gap between second
and third level students. Essay
by Fiona Gannon.