writing

Radical Togetherness

Artwork

I’m part-way through studying for the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World at the National College of Art and Design. Last year our class made a collective publication; we each wrote texts, gathered notes on radical art collectives, designed our own pages, and shared the crediting. So if you read it you have to guess who wrote what. I wrote (giving the game away) something about obedience and the city, after finding out that the Latin motto for Dublin translates along the lines of: Obedient citizens make a happy city.

Radical Togetherness evolved out of a class led by artist Sarah Pierce, and the overall design and cover were by Ellen Martin-Friel. The publication was selected to be shown and sold at the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios annual Art Book Fair 2024, guest curated by Adrian Duncan to the theme Fictions: The makings of other worlds. We made a small profit which was donated to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.

Ireland mapping report for IETM

Other work

Screen Shot 2015-06-19 at 18.05.02Earlier this year, I was commissioned by the secretariat of the IETM international network to write a ‘mapping’ report that outlines the current situation of the contemporary performing arts in Ireland. Incredibly difficult to distill it all down, but I had a go.

Here it is in all its sweeping, unsubtle, gap-filled glory.

(Thanks to Cian O’Brien of Project Arts Centre for being the outside eye and reassuring me that you’d never guess from reading it that I was a left-leaning liberal.)