Writing

Freedom? (2018)

Freedom? is a publication that examines the ways in which freedom in contemporary Ireland has become a race without a finishing line, while also exploring possibilities to reimagine the practice of freedom. Freedom? was launched in May 2018 as part of the series Síreacht – Longings for another Ireland, Cork University Press. Read more…

Beating the Bounds of Socially-Engaged Art? A Transdisciplinary Dialogue on a Collaborative Art Project with Youth in Dublin, Ireland (2016)

Since 2004, artist Fiona Whelan has built a socially-engaged practice in the Rialto area of Dublin City, working with stories as a way of exploring conflictual and collaborative power relations and challenging inequalities. Kevin Ryan is a sociologist, and his approach to the study of power is primarily historical. Beating the Bounds of Socially-Engaged Art? was our first collaboration, a dialogue aimed of ‘unfolding’ the field of socially engaged art by discussing some of the ways that Fiona’s practice – which is both dialogical and durational – is also in critical dialogue with its own history and conditions of existence. Read more……