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Marilyn Lennon



CONJUNCTION 2021-current
A founding member of CONJUNCTION – a globally dispersed collective of mid-career and established curators, artists, designers, educators, and public arts practitioners



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PLoT 2018 -current
The People's Land Trust explores issues of sustainable urban land use and custodianship for the next 200 years that transcend individual need and considers wider ethical questions. It asks us to imagine what we might be able to share through collaboration, exchange and generosity, and what would happen if we produced communal knowledge, organised collectively and pooled resources. A collaboration between Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers.


Peoples Land Trust School 2020 -current
The Peoples Land Trust School is a space for civic co-learning. The radical school explores the Community Land Trust model as a way of opening up new thinking and possibilities in Cork City around the way we use and care for urban land into the future. A collaboration between Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers.


FUTURE LAND COMMONS 2020
A triptych of billboard artworks that seeds a vision for one of the first urban Community Land Trust’s in Ireland. The artworks aimed to spark conversation and speculation; How do we imagine approaches for collective ownership, stewardship and future urban land use?
A collaboration between Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers.


MA SPACE 2010 - current
Programme co-developer and joint programme leader.
In 2010 MA SPACE, the Masters in Social Practice and the Creative Environment, was the first masters programme in socially engaged art practice in Ireland and the UK.



Water Broadcasting Secret Stations 2019
Water Broadcasting Secret Stations was a water divining and mapping performative action. The artwork aligns with critical thinking that examines how engagement with supernatural beliefs or re-enchantment enables urban dwellers to navigate and understand their towns and cities. A collaboration between Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers.



Institute of Dwelling 2018-19
The Institute of Dwelling was a year long artistic enquiry devised by artists Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers. The enquiry investigated ideas of ‘dwelling’ and ‘being’, to excavate its ontology and foreground embodied knowledge and human agency within the current discourse around the construction of homes and dwellings in 21st century Ireland.
A collaboration between Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers.


IoD Foundation Ritual 2019
The Dwelling Agents performed the action under the guise of a ‘Health and Safety’ certification inspection, in collaboration with the self-builder and included beating the boundaries of the site with branches of the birch tree, salting the boundaries of the house, clearing e-smog, etc.
A collaboration between Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers.


SpiritStore Art Cafe 2009-10
Founded by Marilyn Lennon in 2009, SpiritStore was a group of diverse practitioners aligned through an interest in the ecologies and spatial practices at play in urban spaces and places. The SpiritStore Art Café, became a site for a host of collaborators to image an alternative to the status quo during the Irish economic crash. Creatives and citizens came together to negotiate, occupy and community manage the empty public house as a city centre social space.



WayMarkers 2012-17
The WayMarkers project engaged in the co-creation of an online map of hikers routes that criss-crossed the IRL/UK border on the island of Ireland. Embedded, situated and embodied knowledge of place gives club ramblers a particular voice and perspective on their hiking terrain, in the Knockatallon Ramblers case 'the border' between rural Co. Monaghan and the adjoining three counties across the border. Their voices, in the form of a map, gives an alternative narrative of this highly contested place.



Learning Lab 2019
PERFORMATIVE ACTION, CREATE & COUNTERPOINTS ARTS, ST PETER’S CHURCH, CORK, 2019
LEARNING LAB: ART, CULTURAL DEMOCRACY AND THE CITY
Dwelling Agents enacted a research action in response to an invitation and provocation to consider How might we imagine – from the perspective of 2019 – Cork city in 2050?
A collaboration between Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers.


IoD Where Lies the Brazen Moon? 2019
A billboard sized riddle was inserted into Skibbereen towns’ public space generating a different kind of dialogue between art and public. The billboard instigated a process, a questioning or highlighting of the inherent ability of the human body to tune in and to sense its environment at a deep level.
A collaboration between Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers.


NSK State Folk Biennale 2016
WayMarkers poster exhibited at
NSK State Folk Biennale
BURREN COLLEGE OF ART



Poetry Depot 2010-11
The SpiritStore Poetry Depot art project developed an experimental co-writing methodology between poets and citizens. The Poetry Depot art project explored voicing and exchange through poetry as a form of solidarity.
A Collaboration with Inkstorm Poets.


Packet&Tripe EVA International Biennale 2010
SpiritSore Packet & Tripe, a public cafe, was created in response to discussion with ev+a 2010 MATTERS curator Elizabeth Hatz, (Swedish architect and academic) e+va is Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art.



CATDIG EVA International Biennale 2010
SpiritStore' Catherine Street Cultural Dig was a curated 3-day programme of public
cultural workshops, talks, walks, performances and installations over a long weekend. A street festival, aimed to excavate the complex strata of this 500 meter long street in the heart of Limerick's Georgian city centre.
Curated by SpiritStore for ev+a 2010.



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