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Producing Strategies
Hosted by Francis Halsall; Vaari Claffey · EN
In Producing Strategies an academic and curator talk to experts from creative spheres (including art, writing, theatre, dance) about how they produce things. We often find that when talking abour creativity things like form and content are what are mostly discussed. In Producing Strategies we consider the other work that goes on when producing things and which is sometimes overlooked.
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PS - Vivian Crockett: curator as mediator in times of crisis
Mar 500:35:18Tap to summarizeWe talk to curator Vivian Crockett about her curatorial work at the New Museum (New York) and the museum's Sixth Triennial, co-curated with Isabella Rjeille, Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP).We consider curation as collaboration, mediation and a hustle in the context of crises in institutions.This conversation was organised as part of the IRELAND INVITES initiative.
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PS - Amanda Wilkinson: curating as translation (live at the Mermaid Bray)
Feb 1500:36:20Tap to summarizeWe talk to gallerist Amanda Wilkinson about running Amanda Wilkinson Gallery and her role in managing the estate of artist, filmmaker, author and activist Derek Jarman. Such activities involve building audiences and communities (particularly of queer and trans people) and strategies of production as processes of translation. This conversation was recorded live at the What is a Creative Producer? Event organised by Kunstverein Aughrim’s Creative Producer Programme, at the Mermaid, Bray.
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PS - Anita Reilly: conversation as practice
Feb 600:41:35Tap to summarizeAnita Reilly speaks about her work which includes disability advocacy and community programming and liaison. This work, centring around communication often intersects with artistic practices and approaches, including Augusto Boa's Theatre of the Oppressed. In her own words: "I'm community activist and broadcaster based in the Liberties, Dublin. Born and raised in this vibrant neighbourhood, I'm a 55-year-old mother of four with roots deeply planted in community. Family is my world, and the neighbourhood is my comfort blanket. With a knack for juggling many things at once, I take life one step at a time with a smile.I've dabbled in broadcasting, and my work includes disability advocacy, community programming, and liaison, often intersecting with artistic practices like Augusto Boa's Theatre of the Oppressed. I'm always finding new ways to contribute and connect in the Liberties"Interview in The Liberty newspaper about life in The Liberties and being on the hit Virgin Media show Gogglebox.
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PS - Cleo Prickett: the fashion atelier as shed
Jan 2700:43:28Tap to summarizeFashion designer Cleo Prickett speaks about running her practice of a contemporary tailoring fashion brand, made 'in house' from her studio and home in the Liberties, Dublinhttps://cleoprickett.com/
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PS - Lian Bell: Interactions with people in space
Jan 2700:52:57Tap to summarizeLian discusses working across different art forms, media and spaces, and how there is: "no dividing line between artist and arts worker in my practice". With a background in scenography, visual art, cultural project management, and social activism, she has worked for over twenty five years with some of the most significant arts organisations and contemporary performance makers in Ireland.Alongside her own creative practice, her collaborative work in the performing arts, and her work supporting others through facilitation, she is perhaps best known as Campaign Director of #WakingTheFeminists.Links:Website: https://lianbell.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelianbell/Gap Day: https://www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/artist-support/gap-dayGap Exchange: https://www.irishtheatreinstitute.ie/artist-supports/gap-exchange-international-residency-initiatives-scheme-2025/#WakingTheFeminists overview: https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0118/1538986-wtf-happened-the-legacy-and-impact-of-wakingthefeminists/WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the movement that changed Irish theatre: https://www.ucdpress.com/page/detail/wtf-happened/k=9781739086398Arts Coaching Collective: https://www.artscoachingcollective.ie/findacoach/lian-bell
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PS - Alice Butler: presenting experimental film
Nov 400:48:04Tap to summarizeAlice Butler talks about aemi (Artists' and Experimental Moving Image, which she founded in 2016 and co-directs with Daniel Fitzpatrick) and curating, commissioning and presenting experimental film.Some linksHere Is Information. Mobilise by Ian White, https://www.rile.space/books/here-is-information-mobiliseDissolutions 2025 - https://aemi.ie/dissolutions-25/fanvid DIY film club - https://www.instagram.com/fanvid_dublin/?hl=enThaddeus O'Sullivan, On a Paving Stone Mounted, https://aemi.ie/event/dissolutions-25-on-a-paving-stone-mounted-closing-event/'First Wave' Irish Cinema - https://ifi.ie/ifiifilmdirectory/international-category/?category=first-waveMyrid Carten - A Want In Her - https://awantinher.comMyrid Carten - aemi commission - Sorrow Had A Baby - https://myridcarten.com/sorrow-had-a-babyHolly Marie Parnell, Cabbage, http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/visual-art/holly-marie-parnell-cabbageExperimental Film Club - https://experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com/p/about.htmlPlastik Film Festival - https://www.templebargallery.com/news/plastik-festival-of-artists-moving-image-2015LUX - https://lux.org.ukIFI film season 'Beyond The Bechdel Test' - https://ifi.ie/bechdel/
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PS - Nathan O'Donnell: editing and pedagogy
Nov 400:44:07Tap to summarizeNathan, editor of PVA (Journal + Books), talks to us about how he uses strategies of editing across his diverse practice, from producing publications to working in educational scenarios. https://www.instagram.com/nathanhughodonnell/?hl=enhttps://papervisualart.com/
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PS - Mark O'Gorman: collaboration and improvisation
Nov 400:46:12Tap to summarizeMark (curator, The Complex Gallery, Dublin) talks to us about the strategies behind his practice of collaborative exhibition making.https://www.thecomplex.ie/
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PS - First episode: Francis and Vaari
Oct 3000:45:33Tap to summarizeIn this first episode, Francis talks to Vaari about her wide-ranging curatorial practice and using strategies of production taken from different ways of reaching publics, varying from films to festivals.
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