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The decisions database gives a listing of 2007-2013 Arts Council funding decisions.  Decisions are routinely published in the Arts Council newsletter, and  historical decisions are recorded in the Arts Council's annual reports which are available online in the publications section.

 

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Project Award 2013, Round 1


Panel: Deirdre Moynihan, Brian Carson,Linda Buckley, Katherine Atkinson,Lucina Russell,Claude Madec,Peggy Sue Amison,Tara Byrne, Daniel Jewsbury,Jurgen Simpson, Phelim Donlon, Deborah Kelleher, Chantal McCormick, Dominic Campbell, Jenny Roche, Catherine Young, Marian Lennon, Margaret Corkery, Neil Connolly, Mark O'Halloran


The project award supports specific projects in the field of a particular artform commencing in 2013. The Arts Council received 217 applications for the Project Award 2013 Round 1. 48 awards were made to the value of € 1,442,229.00

Recipient Description Artform/practice Location Amount Awarded

ANU Productions

To produce a series of 13 inter-connecting works unravelling over the 13 days of the festival to mark the centenary of the 1913 Lockout in partnership with the Dublin Fringe Festival and 1913 committee.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

€47,700

Association of Irish Composers

To create new works in a context of mentoring collaboration. To hold a live presentation of new works before a large audience To provide a significant development opportunity to young composers.

Music

Dublin City Council

€9,000

Brett, Marie

To develop an alternative form of arts and health participatory practice. To collaborate with musician Kevin O’Shanahan and Dementia Care to produce an audio-visual artwork and exhibit as an installation in two gallery settings.

Arts participation

Cork County Council

€26,500

Broken Talkers

To create a socially-engaged performance based on William Butler Yeats' Four Plays For Dancers. To collaborate with a cast of older performers, a composer and a choreographer. To explore themes of mortality, faith, and national identity.

Theatre

Fingal County Council

€49,100

Byrne, Oisin

To collaborate with AA Bronson, one of the founding artists of General Idea. To make a performance, film and artist book on the spiritual history of Skellig Michael. To exhibit at Model, Sligo and Institute for Art Religion and Social Justice in New York.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

€6,000

Chrysalis Dance

To commission an original work from a talented British dance artist for performance in spring 2013 as part of a double bill.

Dance

Galway County Council

€35,455

Cinemobile

To continue to build a sustainable audience for an alternative cinema programme with film clubs. To develop new marketing initiatives for film clubs. To initiate a children's cine club programme that offers an alternative to mainstream Hollywood titles.

Film

Galway City Council

€20,000

Cleary, Siobhan

To complete the final element of the Jack Ashore project by incorporating live electronics and film. To collaborate with Boston Metro on a future production in Ireland. To collaborate on the stage elements to provide a template for future productions.

Opera

Sligo County Council

€13,000

Commonage

To commission the making of a new work through a collaborative process. To uncover potential narratives about the unique heritage of an inaccessible site of national interest: Dublin Electricity Generating Station/Pigeon House Precinct.

Visual arts

Kilkenny County Council

€9,500

Conroy, Amy

To present an ambitious show in partnership with Dublin Fringe Festival, that exposes and interrogate the failures and triumphs of the education system. To present the show at Fringe and on tour in Axis and Draíocht.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

€77,300

Cork Operatic Society

To create a re-imagining of Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck in association with the Everyman, Cork .The production will use two singers, six actor/musicians and a ballet dancer. The professionals will be joined by Cork Operatic Society.

Opera

Cork City Council

€73,500

Cousson, Guillaume

To develop a new show using circus, dance and technology. To work with a circus choreographer and an artistic director; to collaborate with a music composer to develop a unique soundscape.

Circus

Cork City Council

€9,103

Cutaya, Michaele

To publish new issues of Fugitive Papers with better developed promotion and distribution. To maintain sustainable partnerships with contributors, hosting venues, libraries and art spaces.

Visual arts

Galway City Council

€18,000

De Buitlear, Niall

To develop a series of sculptures using laser-cutting technology. These sculptures will use an innovative new method synthesising drawing and sculptural practices.

Visual arts

Fingal County Council

€5,000

Decadent Theatre Company

To create a production of The Cavalcaders that tours nationally to ten venues over seven weeks.

Theatre

Galway City Council

€99,500

Depaul Ireland

THEATREclub will collaborate with Depaul Ireland service users to create a theatre piece about the different memories they have of their time on the streets. THEATREclub will present this piece for a five-night run in a city centre theatre.

Arts participation

Dublin City Council

€30,370

Doyle, Roger

To create an opera based on the life and works of Giordano Bruno. To rehearse the opera with cast and instrumentalists. To perform a staged version of part one in collaboration with Dublin Theatre Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival and Mermaid Arts Centre.

Opera

Wicklow County Council

€79,982

Dublin Sound Lab

To present Mirrors of Earth, a new version of acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s score for Maa, in four concert performances, re-imagined with newly commissioned video by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain.

Music

Dublin City Council

€24,000

Duggan, Brian

To make a new collaborative digital HD film. To develop creative relationships with international practitioners, John Hurt and David Mansfield. To strategically engage and build on new audiences from a recent high-profile public interactive installation.

Visual arts

South Dublin County Council

€10,000

Enclave Review

To continue production of Enclave Review for one year and maintain standards of intellectual ambition, range of coverage and design quality. To keep Enclave Review free of charge while expanding the distribution network and print run.

Visual arts

Cork City Council

€6,700

Ether Productions

To create a new show, Strapped, using suspended ‘debris’ that adapts traditional circus equipment skills to new, organic performance scapes.

Circus

Dublin City Council

€18,000

Fortas, Darek

To produce a photographic project that looks at the origin of the communist resistance movement in Central Europe. To redefine the approach and aesthetics associated with 'conflict photography' by exploring its foundations.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

€7,400

Fouéré, Olwen

To create a performance through the voice of the river in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. To offer audiences an experiential engagement with the multiplicities of text, language and ideas embedded in the Wake.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

€49,000

Garry, Mark

To make a new collaborative film work that combines a number of cultural fields and employs a novel method of sonic narration.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

€7,500

Haouche Perren, Lanka

To create an experimental film that is a poetic study of neglect and abandonment. The film will be a visual and aural representation using moving image, poetry, sound composition.

Film

Dublin City Council

€33,200

Hill, Mark

To create a processional street-circus sculpture that is tall enough to suspend an aerialist performing on silks or corde lisse and easy to transport and assemble so as to access new performance spaces and audiences.

Circus

Donegal County Council

€4,200

junk ensemble

To create a new dance work that explores blindness and invisibility. To work with production partners, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival and Project Arts Centre, in collaboration with a highly experienced artistic team.

Dance

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

€40,000

Kaleidoscope Night

To present 12 Kaleidoscope nights at the Odessa Club and one night at the Sugar Club in 2013. To continue to provide a platform for professional musicians and composers in Ireland and abroad.

Music

Dublin City Council

€30,000

Kennedy, Gareth

To realise a new public work in St Petersburg, Russia. To conduct a one-week site visit and three-week production phase in the city in 2013. To liaise and network with Russian and international practitioners within the urban and social space of the city.

Visual arts

Leitrim County Council

€10,970

Knezevic, Barbara

To create an ambitious body of eight new sculptural works and installations in 2013. To produce works concerned with notions of the art object as a receptacle of meaning, explore the role of knowledge, perception, value and the elusive nature of objects.

Visual arts

South Dublin County Council

€10,185

Livin Dred Theatre Company

To rehearse a new piece of theatre,The Bridge Below the Town, adapted by Pat McCabe from his 2010 novel The Stray Sod Country. To perform this production at The Ramor Theatre, Virginia, County Cavan. To tour the production to four other venues.

Theatre

Cavan County Council

€75,100

McAtamney, Aoife

To develop and rehearse, Egg Charade, a new Irish/German dance duet about fertility with outdoor and indoor performance elements, which has been invited to premiere at Project Upstairs as part of the Dublin Dance Festival 2013.

Dance

South Dublin County Council

€20,000

Monster Truck Gallery and Studios

To create a visual art programme of contemporary art works. To increase support to artists through gallery facilitation, production and exhibition fees. To present diverse works that engage audiences, aid the development of artists and visual art

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

€19,500

Morley, Megs

To realise a collaborative project for exhibition in Derry (City of Culture) 2013. To create an artwork provoking the relationship between the language of politics, performance and cinema. To extend the scope to work with writers, actors and new technolo

Visual arts

Galway County Council

€11,915

Murphy, Luke

To create a new quartet work of dance theatre with an internationally-renowned group of collaborators. To perform the work throughout Ireland and abroad by working with a host of international partner organisations.

Dance

Cork City Council

€27,990

Nilsson Waller, Maria

To create a solo dance piece that fuses choreography, sound, video and light projections to achieve a full range of artistic expression. To perform the work in Dublin and throughout Ireland and abroad.

Dance

Dublin City Council

€6,150

O'Dwyer, Adele

To present five Café Music Nights in Tullamore, County Offaly. To spark a curiosity for the new sounds of contemporary music by highlighting the work of Irish composers. To create developmental opportunities for practitioners through cross-fertilisation.

Music

Offaly County Council

€20,000

Ormston House

To support artists and curators in developing and making new works. To deliver a series of experimental and ambitious exhibitions. To grow the audience through targeted development strategies.

Visual arts

Limerick City Council

€23,220

Rashidi, Rouzbeh

To create three experimental medium-length instalments of the Homo Sapiens Project. Each of these three films will explore one of three main concepts: fear, anxiety and alienation. To explore this topic visually within the medium of avant-garde cinema.

Film

Dublin City Council

€15,000

Resurgam

To open up the great and relatively unknown Russian Orthodox choral tradition to local choirs and audiences. To commission a new work to look afresh at that tradition. To perform one of the great works from the choral canon.

Music

Dublin City Council

€32,000

Rigaki, Evangelia

To rehearse the opera Antimidas or Bankers in Hades by W.N. Herbert and Evangelia Rigaki To collaborate with internationally-renowned opera director and designer John Lloyd Davies. To present the opera in 2013 at the Beckett Theatre, Dublin.

Opera

Dublin City Council

€46,433

Sex, Naomi

To produce a multiple, synchronised series of live performative lectures. To situate ten lectures in ten key Irish educational institutions simultaneously.To cultivate the educational space to a wide audience for contemporary art.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

€6,500

Sligo Jazz Project

To host an international jazz summer school in Sligo in July 2013 with an accompanying jazz festival that offers significant development opportunities for musicians of all ages and backgrounds.

Music

Sligo County Council

€30,000

Theatre Lovett

To develop a new and dynamic show for 4 to 6 year olds inspiring them in their make-believe. To combine theatre, music and the magic of the Foley artist in collaboration with sound designer Carl Kennedy.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

€5,900

Tierney, Moira

To make a 20-minute experimental, non-narrative film about cultural resistance in New Orleans. To investigate concepts of territory as they play out on the streets and walls of New Orleans.

Film

Dublin City Council

€29,371

Wide Open Opera

To give a concert performance, with lighting and projections, of the premiere of Oskar and Alma by Raymond Deane (music) and Gavin Kostick (text) with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the chorus of Wide Open Opera and a cast of singers.

Opera

Meath County Council

€77,085

Winters, Carmel

To present the world premiere of a new play, Best Man, with the Everyman, Cork Midsummer and Project Arts, in Cork and Dublin. To galvanise public debate with a radically subversive theatrical vision of family life today.

Theatre

Cork County Council

€94,400

Woods, Steve

To make a ten-minute experimental dance film that poses questions of time, modernity, heritage and tradition.

Film

Dublin City Council

€41,500