An interdisciplinary approach to using Imagination and Co-creation with communities, each project reflects a collaborative process of emergent knowledge-making, grounded in lived experience and artistic inquiry.
MIGRATION & BELONGING
Co-creation with displaced peoples as part of community building and integration.
The work centres on amplifying negotiated and shared narratives that support resilience and resist reductive representations.
Featured Project:
CEPA
CEPA (2023) demonstrated the power of improvisation in co-creation by giving Ukrainian refugees choice around the emergent narrative shared through performance art with the wider community.
In partnership with Dublin City University
Funded by Irish Research Council
Collaborative creation of performance using the “Viewpoints” approach
Choric and choreographed performance art gathering diverse experiences of loss and resilience
Public presentations to expand discourse on migration.
Research outputs
Joseph Gerard Photography