Discussed; Song, African music, New York, Angola, civil war, Rwanda, history, visual poetics, reading research, disparate economies, Giuseppe Ungar...

Discusses: Heavy metal, New Labour, aesthetic regime, Ode Projesi, ethical turn, The folk archive, social inclusion, collectivity, hidden assumptio...

Discusses: Laboratory, White Cube, Maria Lind, wilful instability, Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, work-in-progress, being at the vanguar...

Discussed: Amaptocare and the National Memory Grove projects in Ballymun reflecting on the differences between price, cost and value; Jochen Gerz; ...

The shift in the traditional cycle of commissioning and production; the  expanded arena for public art; complex institutional frameworks; rela...

The heart of public art is relational.  But what is a public?  Alice Lyons recounts her thinking about the 'multiplicity of publics' refl...

Mounuments and Memorials; Cultural Tourism; Equestrian Statues; The O' Connell Monument, Dublin;  The Spire; Minimalism; Jochen Gerz, Monument...

artist-led, commissioning, socially engaged, site specific, Ground Up, Fiona Woods, X-PO, Deidre O'Mahony, Gareth Kennedy, Carol Anne Connolly, Ali...

Temporary Architecture; Redefining Art; Redefining Architecture; Anthony Vidler; Balance of Power; Users and creators of the built environment; Gor...

What artists need to be aware of when engaging an engineer; stresses and foundations; withstanding forces - wind, water; stability and equilibrium,...

strained muscles, double helix, biennials, rhetoric of place, short term residencies, ubiquitous reading zones, sightseeing and insight, engagement...

Coming of age, Charles Esche, Vasif Kortun, Istanbul, Liverpool, Lewis Briggs, City as research subject, Hal Forster, participant, viewer, collabor...

The Austrian historian Robert Musil noted, 'there is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument'. Despite their commemorative rhethoric, memo...

Design Academy Eindhoven, architecture, urban environment, Cyprien Gaillard, lectures, debates and libraries, James Turrell, Platform for Architect...

Seeders, torrent files, time, old roads, city space, post taxidermist visit, missing persons, memory and fragility, monumental baggage, romanticizi...

The non-metropolitan; a site of resistance (Text based on a talk given by Fiona Woods at

Discussed; spectatorship, private sphere, fragmentation, agonism, Jürgen Habermas, Counter-publics, participatory models, Oskar Negt, Alexander Kl...

Discussed: Localness, Bourriaud, Liam Gillick, art-market politics, Altermodern, in betweenness, Alan Phelan, Star Trek, NCAD, 'radicant' artists, ...

Discusses: Aesthetic strategies, counter-culture, self-management, capitalist productivity, appropriation, artistic intervention, neo-liberal ideol...

Discussed: Design, housing, public space, private space, laboratory, TUNING, Umberto Eco, advice-giving, cats, weddings, urban software, 1:1 scale,...