Producing Strategies

Helen Nisbet is Director of Glasgow International . Prior to this, she was Artistic Director of Art Night, CEO of Cromwell Place and Curator at Cubitt Gallery. She has curated and commissioned major projects with artists including Mark Leckey, Helen Cammock, Tai Shani, Anne Tallentire, Jasleen Kaur, Christine Sun Kim and the Guerilla Girls. Helen was a jury member for the 2023 Turner Prize and is...

Adekunle Gomez is the secretary and programme director of the African Cultural Project (also known as, The Africa Institute in Ireland ). The main objective of the African Cultural Project is to provide information on Africa to the Irish public. Through the facilitation of cultural and educational events featuring Africa’s rich and diverse cultural traditions, the project aims to promote an unders...

Todd Sekuler is Oberassistent in Empirical Culture Studies at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich . He holds a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and a PhD in European Ethnology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses broadly on the intersections of memory, health, and politics, wi...

Florian Dombois (*1966, Berlin) has focused on wind, time, labilities, and tectonic activity. His artistic practice includes a variety of media and repetitively articulates in happenings and sound installations. His works have been shown internationally. 2010 he received the German Sound Art Prize . Since 1998 Dombois has held various teaching positions in Europe and the Americas and since 2011 ha...

 Miranda is the Creative & Executive Producer at Luail - Ireland's National Dance Company . She is a senior arts manager and multidisciplinary producer with nearly 20 years’ experience across art forms. From 2020-2022 she was the Executive Director of Solas Nua, Washington, D.C. and Visual Arts Curator-in-Residence at the Irish Arts Center, New York. Between 2014 and 2019 she was Artistic Dire...

We talk to Roise Goan, director of Dublin Theatre Festival about the practical challenges of being a producer in the realm of theatre, the economic issues in play, criticality, how administration can creative, and trusting audiences.

Frank and Sara from Space Forms talk about their production company and helping artists realise their projects. We discuss production-as-practice, working through materials, problem-solving and decision making. We also discuss their long-standing relationship with Ireland at the Venice Biennale (architecture and art) most recently fabricating work and infrastructure for Isabel Nolan's presentation...

We talk to curator Vivian Crockett about her curatorial work at the New Museum (New York) and the museum's  Sixth Triennial , co-curated with Isabella Rjeille, Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). We consider curation as collaboration, mediation and a hustle in the context of crises in institutions. This conversation was organised as part of the IRELAND INVITES ini...

We talk to gallerist Amanda Wilkinson about running Amanda Wilkinson Gallery and her role in managing the estate of artist, filmmaker, author and activist Derek Jarman . Such activities involve building audiences and communities (particularly of queer and trans people) and strategies of production as processes of translation. This conversation was recorded live at the What is a Creative Producer?...

Anita Reilly speaks about her work which includes disability advocacy and community programming and liaison. This work, centring around communication often intersects with artistic practices and approaches, including Augusto Boa 's Theatre of the Oppressed . In her own words: "I'm community activist and broadcaster based in the Liberties, Dublin. Born and raised in this vibrant neighbourhood, I'm...

Fashion designer Cleo Prickett speaks about running her practice of a contemporary tailoring fashion brand, made 'in house' from her studio and home in the Liberties, Dublin https://cleoprickett.com/

Lian discusses working across different art forms, media and spaces, and how there is: "no dividing line between artist and arts worker in my practice". With a background in scenography, visual art, cultural project management, and social activism, she has worked for over twenty five years with some of the most significant arts organisations and contemporary performance makers in Ireland. Alongsid...

Alice Butler talks about aemi (Artists' and Experimental Moving Image, which she founded in 2016 and co-directs with Daniel Fitzpatrick) and curating, commissioning and presenting experimental film. Some links Here Is Information. Mobilise by Ian White, https://www.rile.space/books/here-is-information-mobilise Dissolutions 2025 - https://aemi.ie/dissolutions-25/ fanvid DIY film club - https://www....

Nathan, editor of PVA (Journal + Books), talks to us about how he uses strategies of editing across his diverse practice, from producing publications to working in educational scenarios. https://www.instagram.com/nathanhughodonnell/?hl=en https://papervisualart.com/

Mark (curator, The Complex Gallery, Dublin) talks to us about the strategies behind his practice of collaborative exhibition making. https://www.thecomplex.ie/

In this first episode, Francis talks to Vaari about her wide-ranging curatorial practice and using strategies of production taken from different ways of reaching publics, varying from films to festivals.