Artist Talk by Betsey Biggs on “The Providence Postcard Project”

Posted by Ian on Feb 13, 2012 in arts, news, publications, video

From the Winter 2012 Symposium of the Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice International Research Collaborative. More information here.

A New Vision on College Hill

Posted by Ian on Oct 6, 2011 in arts, interviews, news, press, publications

New appointment as curator of Brown University’s Bell Gallery featured in the October 2011 issue of Providence’s East Side Monthly. Article by Renne Doucette.

EU Transformations Curatorial Report: Ireland Project Scenario

Posted by Ian on Apr 13, 2011 in academic, articles, arts, essays, news, publications

2011 Curatorial Report for Transformations, an European Union funded land-art initiative. Read the article here.

Urban Arts & Activism Panel

Posted by Ian on Mar 20, 2011 in academic, arts, graphic design & layout, publications, video

An introduction to my work in urban arts and heritage for the A Better World by Design 2010 panel on Urban Arts & Activism.

‘Curating collaborative heritages: Dissonance, relational aesthetics and some lessons from inner-city Dublin’

Posted by Ian on Mar 20, 2011 in academic, publications, video

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 […]

Placing Voices, Voicing Places: Archaeology in Inner-Cty Dublin: Spatialitiy, Materiality and Identity-Formation among Dublin’s Working Class and Immigrant Communities

Posted by Ian on Mar 20, 2011 in academic, books, publications

2008 Hertiage Council of Ireland INSTAR Report. (With Pat Cooke, Alice Feldman, Cormac O’Donnell, Tadhg O’Keeffe, Sarah Tuck and Patrick Ryan) Read it here  

Art, archaeology & the contemporary: The Abhar agus Meon exhibitions

Posted by Ian on Mar 20, 2011 in academic, articles, arts, publications

2008 in Museum Ireland, Vol. 18 (2008), pp. 85-105. Read it here.  

Chronoscope

Posted by Ian on Mar 20, 2011 in arts, catalogues, publications

2008 Ábhar agus Meon, Green On Red Gallery, Newman House, UCD & Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin. Read it here. View the installations here.  

World Archaeological Congress Sponsors Groundbreaking Exhibition

Posted by Ian on Mar 19, 2011 in academic, arts, press, publications, reviews

2007 in Current Archaeology, no. 213 (December), 8. Read it here.