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
MA SPACE 2010 - 2021 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.
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. Art workers 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 digital online map, gives an alternative narrative of this highly contested place.
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.