Cultural Heritage Management
2012 Section Editor for Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York.
Urban Arts & Activism Panel
An introduction to my work in urban arts and heritage for the A Better World by Design 2010 panel on Urban Arts & Activism.
Unquiet Pasts: Risk Society, Lived Cultural Heritage, Re-designing Reflexivity
2010 Ashgate, Aldershot. (edited with Stephanie Koerner) Read more here.
Art in the Land
Presentation from the Art in the Land conference, Sculpture in the Parklands, Co. Offaly, Ireland – September 2010.
Heritage, identity and roots: A critique of arborescent models of heritage and identity
2009 in G. Smith, P. Messenger & H. Soderland (eds.) Heritage Values, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek. Read it here.
Sculpture in the Parklands Videos
2008-2009 A series of audio-visual documentation of the artistic process of artists-in-residence at Sculpture in the Parklands, Lough Boora, Co. Offaly.
‘From bodies to building blocks | Antony Gormley’s One and Other’
Presented at the Body as Site and Sign Conference Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University – 30 April 2010
‘Tara’: Deep maps and psychogeographies
Presented at ‘Tara: The Symposium’ – School of Archaeology, UCD & John Hume Global Irish Institute – 24-6 October 2009 The Hill of Tara is one of the most famous historical and archaeological sites in Ireland. Although the archaeological surveys and excavations have provided significant knowledge about the sites and features on the hill, this […]
One and Other: Sky Arts Interview
Trafalgar Square, September 2009 – Sky Arts Read about the project here.
‘Curating collaborative heritages: Dissonance, relational aesthetics and some lessons from inner-city Dublin’
Delivered at the 2009 Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists Heritage spaces are often assumed to be ‘from the past’ or ‘just about the past’. Heritage is assumed to be a ‘stoppage’ of time. The choice to create ‘heritage’ is, however, a contemporary decision requiring collaboration and social partnership. Through a recalibration of temporal […]