PS² Freelands Artist Programme
September 2018 - December 2023
Cohort artists 1: Janie Doherty, Michael Hanna, Julie Lovett, Jan McCullough and Emily McFarland; Cohort 2 artists: BROWN&BRÍ, Jane Butler, Mitch Conlon, Jasmin Märker, Thomas Wells ; Cohort 3 artists: Myrid Carten, Phillip McCrilly, Helouise O'Reilly, Robin Price, Jonathan Ross
The Freelands Artist Programme was created to support and enhance collaboration between 80 emerging artists and four arts organisations from across the UK and to build and strengthen professional arts practice outside of London. As with all the Foundation’s initiatives to date, the programme was established following extensive research into the current landscape of post-university support for emerging artists in the UK. Partner organisations participating in the programme alongside PS² are Site Gallery, Sheffield, England; g39 in Cardiff, Wales, and Talbot Rice Gallery, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Open dialogues- Writing about contemporary art in Northern Ireland
March 2021 - July 2021
Jill Clerkin/Jasmin Märker;
This project wants to change the lack of critical writing about contemporary art in Northern Ireland by creating a programme of studio visits and conversations between students and emerging artists and by supporting related writing on these encounters.
Open Communal Shared Drawing
January 2021 - January 2022
Tuesday online drawing sessions
All unnamed participants and Alastair MacLennan, Bronagh Lawson, James King, Tonya McMullan, Rachel Macmanus, Elaine McGinn, Sarah, ... and many others.
PeasPark
April 2013
Outdoor community project in North Belfast.
PeasPark started as an open-gated community garden project on a derelict building site in 2013 as part of a temporary art project and as continuation of initiatives by local residents to green the area.
Walk and sketch in the park
June 2019 - September 2019
Series of free walking and sketching events in Belfast's parks with Sharon Kelly and Cilla Wagner
Temporary Places
April 2013 - August 2014
Art and community project at an interface in North Belfast
A collaboration between New Lodge Arts, PS² and Skegoneill & Glandore Common Purpose. Participating artists: Joanna Hopkins, Laura O’Connor, Mairead Dunne, Duncan Ross, Yvonne Kennan, Charlotte Bosanquet, Duncan Ross, Paddy Bloomer, Philip Hession, Anne-Marie Dillon
UP- Down. 4 community art workshops + 1 Village Fair
February 2011 - May 2011
Testing ideas and practices into rural cultural projects in the village of Ballykinlar, Co Down
RHYZOM
May 2009 - October 2010
Collaborative network for local cultural production and trans-local dissemination
Lead organization: aaa (Paris)
Co-organizations: cultural agencies, Istanbul; public works, London; Agency, Sheffield; PS², Belfast
city supplements
May 2009 - June 2009
An alternative urban survey and audio-visual biography of Donegall Street
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: aaa, Paris; Seamus Harahan, Belfast; Grace Weir, Dublin; Dave Beech, Manchester; Chris Murphy, Belfast; Mark Orange, New york ; Gillian McIver, London. With contributions from Biggy Bigmore, Daniel Jewesbury and Ruth Morrow
Space Shuttle
March 2006 - April 2007
Six projects of urban creativity and social interaction
Participating artists and groups- Mission1: Call Centre Collective [Aoife Ludlow; Doris Rohr; Ruth Morrow; Emma McClintock; Saoirse Higgins]; Mission 2: Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy; Mission 3: Aisling O'Beirn; Mission 4: Siraj Izhar ; Mission 5; Mick O’Kelly; Mission 6: Amy Russell
street archaeology
November 2005 - November 2005
street archaeology, an audio-visual biography of Donegall Street, Belfast.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: aaa, Paris; Seamus Harahan, Belfast; Grace Weir, Dublin; Dave Beech, Manchester; Chris Murphy, Belfast; Mark Orange, New york ; Gillian McIver, London. With contributions from Biggy Bigmore, Daniel Jewesbury and Ruth Morrow
Urban Clearance
July 2005 - August 2005
Urban Clearance 4 projects of urban intervention and public interaction, Belfast
atelier d’architecture autogeree (aaa), Paris; LUNA NERA London/Berlin; Daniel Jewesbury and Stephen Hackett, Belfast; Lois& Franziska Weinberger, Vienna
Publications
SPACE SHUTTLE
Six Projects of Urban Creativity and Social
Interaction
Published by PS², Belfast 2007
ISBN:978-0-9555358-0-2
96 pages, price £5
Orders via bookshops or pssquared or read online: http://www.spaceshuttle.org.uk/publications.htm
city supplements
An alternative urban survey
Published by PS², Belfast 2009
48 pages + 7A3 pull out supplements, price £5.
ISBN: 978-0-9555358-1-9
Orders via bookshops or pssquared
Book Contributions
Old Land New Waters
Edited by Edward Ball, published by Freelands Foundation, 2021, 288 pages. To order contact: Freelands Foundation.
Old Land New Waters celebrates two
years of activity by the first cohort of artists participating in the
Freelands Artist Programme. The publication follows each artist’s journey through two
years of artistic practice, observing ideas unfolding or making
tentative explorations with new mediums and processes. This richly
illustrated book also includes material from the Freelands Artist
Programme Symposium 2019.
Spaces of rehearsal: theorising socio-spatial practices in a post conflict context
Ruth Morrow, Peter Mutschler, Timothy Waddell.In: arq- architectural research quarterly, volume 24, number 2, 2020 page183-203
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The Rural (Documents of Contemporary Art)
edited by Myvillages, co-published by Whitechapel GalleryISBN 978-0-85488-271-7
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Learn To Act. Introducing Eco Nomadic School
Edited by Kathrin Böhm,Tom James and Doina Petrescu. Published by aaa, 2017.
A pdf of the publication is availabl at: link
The Social (Re)Production of Architecture
Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice
Edited by Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal . Routledge, 2017
TRANS-LOCAL-ACT
CULTURAL PRACTICES WITHIN AND ACROSS
Edited by Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou,
Nishat Awan.
Published by atelier d’architecture autogérée,
Paris 2010. Price: £22
ISBN 978-2-9530751-13
A free PDF of the book is available for downloading
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