Broken Fields presents: ‘Art, What is it good for?’, a social space guided by the question: ‘How can we co-create a space with the public in Clonmel?’ It is a work-in-progress for the duration of the festival, punctuated with encounters that stimulate discussion and support collective creative practice. Activities include collective canopy making, printmaking and conversations with a series of invited artists, printmakers, community workers, architects, writers, musicians, and activists.

Broken Fields is a multi-disciplinary collective made up of individual practitioners Louise Harrington, Enya Moore, Aideen O’ Donovan and Kate O’ Shea. 

Broken Fields brings together experience, knowledge, and practice from the fields of socially engaged art, architecture, community work, activism, research, and writing. The name Broken Fields refers to the breaking down of disciplines, siloes, and fields. In the breaking down of these constructed boundaries, Broken Fields brings together the strengths of diverse practices in processes, projects and spaces that are deeply place-based.

Saturday, 1July: 2-4pm

Building Worlds with Words: Poster Making and Collective Canopy Making with Broken Fields and Print Van Go. This is a drop in workshop with a maximum capacity of 15.

Saturday, 8July:: 2-5pm

●     2-3pm: Building Worlds with Words: Poster Making and Collective Canopy Making with Broken Fields and Print Van Go. This is a drop in workshop with a maximum capacity of 15.

●     3.15-4.30pm: Round Table Discussion with Red Wheelbarrow Productions (RWP). RWP is a creative platform for examining questions of governance, power and social justice in the field of youth work and community development. In this Round Table discussion Red Wheelbarrow will focus on the deprivation index and how it is used as a measure of poverty. Artist Aoife Barrett of Print Van Go will print LIVE in response to the conversation, which will be accompanied by the presentation of a Red Wheelbarrow Productions poster series produced for the South Tipperary Arts Centre / Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.

●     4.30-5pm: Song into the Unknown: Independent song writers Padraig Stevens and Siobhán Kavanagh respond to Social Space through instruments and song.

Further Info on Round Table with Red Wheelbarrow Productions

Roundtable -Description

In this Round Tablediscussion Red Wheelbarrow will focus on the deprivation index and how it isused as a measure of poverty. Proposed by Jim Lawlor, this focus on deprivationarises from a recent book by John Bissett, entitled It’s Not Where You Live,It’s How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate (Policy Press,2023). The book challenges the deprivation index approach and proposes a verydifferent way of looking at poverty and the so-called disadvantage model. Ourdiscussion will explore these questions more deeply and see how they connectwith the questions of  governance andneoliberalism which we have been grappling with as a collective.

Artist Aoife Barrett of Print Van Go will print LIVE in response to theconversation, which will be accompanied by the presentation of a RedWheelbarrow Productions poster series produced for the South Tipperary ArtsCentre / Clonmel Junction Arts Festival. The posters feature articles in theworks for a forthcoming, limited-edition newspaper Gravity Express, Issue No.2‘On Governance’, (Co-Eds: Ciaran Smyth, Vagabond Reviews and Kate O’ Shea)which will serve as a vehicle for expanding the conversation on youth work,community development and neoliberal modes of governance.

Red WheelbarrowProductions - Bio

Red WheelbarrowProductions is a Dublin-based creative platform for examining questions ofgovernance, power and social justice in the field of youth work and communitydevelopment. It was co-founded in 2019 by Jim Lawlor, then Manager of theRialto Youth Project and currently founder of Athrulann, John Bissett,community worker writer and activist, Tony MacCarthaigh, Management CommitteeMember of the Rialto Youth Project and Ciaran Smyth, Vagabond Reviews. Currentmembers also include Dannielle Mc Kenna, Project Leader, Rialto Youth Project,Sinead Mc Mahon, Lecturer, Maynooth University and artist Kate O’ Shea.

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Email: info@southtippartscentre.ie

June 30 - August 5

10 - 5pm Tuesday to Saturday

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