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
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Recipient
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Description
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Artform/practice
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Location
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Amount Awarded
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ANU Productions
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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.
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Theatre
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Dublin City Council
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€47,700
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Association of Irish Composers
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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.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€9,000
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Brett, Marie
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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.
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Arts participation
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Cork County Council
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€26,500
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Broken Talkers
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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.
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Theatre
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Fingal County Council
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€49,100
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Byrne, Oisin
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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.
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Visual arts
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Dublin City Council
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€6,000
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Chrysalis Dance
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To commission an original work from a talented British dance artist for performance in spring 2013 as part of a double bill.
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Dance
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Galway County Council
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€35,455
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Cinemobile
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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.
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Film
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Galway City Council
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€20,000
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Cleary, Siobhan
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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.
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Opera
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Sligo County Council
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€13,000
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Commonage
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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.
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Visual arts
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Kilkenny County Council
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€9,500
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Conroy, Amy
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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.
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Theatre
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Dublin City Council
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€77,300
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Cork Operatic Society
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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.
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Opera
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Cork City Council
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€73,500
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Cousson, Guillaume
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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.
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Circus
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Cork City Council
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€9,103
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Cutaya, Michaele
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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.
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Visual arts
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Galway City Council
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€18,000
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De Buitlear, Niall
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To develop a series of sculptures using laser-cutting technology. These sculptures will use an innovative new method synthesising drawing and sculptural practices.
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Visual arts
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Fingal County Council
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€5,000
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Decadent Theatre Company
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To create a production of The Cavalcaders that tours nationally to ten venues over seven weeks.
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Theatre
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Galway City Council
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€99,500
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Depaul Ireland
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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.
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Arts participation
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Dublin City Council
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€30,370
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Doyle, Roger
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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.
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Opera
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Wicklow County Council
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€79,982
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Dublin Sound Lab
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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.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€24,000
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Duggan, Brian
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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.
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Visual arts
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South Dublin County Council
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€10,000
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Enclave Review
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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.
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Visual arts
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Cork City Council
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€6,700
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Ether Productions
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To create a new show, Strapped, using suspended ‘debris’ that adapts traditional circus equipment skills to new, organic performance scapes.
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Circus
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Dublin City Council
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€18,000
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Fortas, Darek
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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.
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Visual arts
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Dublin City Council
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€7,400
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Fouéré, Olwen
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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.
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Theatre
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Dublin City Council
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€49,000
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Garry, Mark
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To make a new collaborative film work that combines a number of cultural fields and employs a novel method of sonic narration.
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Visual arts
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Dublin City Council
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€7,500
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Haouche Perren, Lanka
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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.
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Film
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Dublin City Council
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€33,200
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Hill, Mark
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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.
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Circus
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Donegal County Council
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€4,200
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junk ensemble
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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.
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Dance
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Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
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€40,000
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Kaleidoscope Night
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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.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€30,000
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Kennedy, Gareth
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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.
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Visual arts
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Leitrim County Council
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€10,970
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Knezevic, Barbara
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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.
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Visual arts
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South Dublin County Council
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€10,185
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Livin Dred Theatre Company
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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.
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Theatre
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Cavan County Council
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€75,100
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McAtamney, Aoife
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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.
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Dance
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South Dublin County Council
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€20,000
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Monster Truck Gallery and Studios
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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
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Visual arts
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Dublin City Council
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€19,500
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Morley, Megs
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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
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Visual arts
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Galway County Council
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€11,915
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Murphy, Luke
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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.
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Dance
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Cork City Council
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€27,990
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Nilsson Waller, Maria
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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.
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Dance
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Dublin City Council
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€6,150
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O'Dwyer, Adele
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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.
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Music
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Offaly County Council
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€20,000
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Ormston House
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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.
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Visual arts
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Limerick City Council
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€23,220
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Rashidi, Rouzbeh
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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.
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Film
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Dublin City Council
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€15,000
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Resurgam
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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.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€32,000
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Rigaki, Evangelia
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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.
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Opera
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Dublin City Council
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€46,433
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Sex, Naomi
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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.
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Visual arts
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Dublin City Council
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€6,500
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Sligo Jazz Project
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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.
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Music
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Sligo County Council
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€30,000
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Theatre Lovett
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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.
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Theatre
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Dublin City Council
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€5,900
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Tierney, Moira
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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.
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Film
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Dublin City Council
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€29,371
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Wide Open Opera
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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.
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Opera
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Meath County Council
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€77,085
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Winters, Carmel
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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.
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Theatre
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Cork County Council
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€94,400
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Woods, Steve
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To make a ten-minute experimental dance film that poses questions of time, modernity, heritage and tradition.
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Film
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Dublin City Council
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€41,500
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