CFA Creative Futures Academy Outside the Box, NCAD Gallery

Outside the Box, NCAD Gallery

Pace Borza

Published - April 24, 2024

Creative Engagements with the SICCDA archive

Creative learning with the content, context and structure of a unique archive of the South Inner City Community Development Association (SICCDA) based in Meath Street in Dublin Liberties.

13th May 2024

Creative Futures Academy are delighted to award Brian Hand (NCAD) €800 to develop a public engagement side of a creative learning project with the content, context and structure of a unique archive of the South Inner City Community Development Association (SICCDA) based in Meath Street in Dublin Liberties.

Join students from the MA in Art and Social Action as they explore CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE SICCDA ARCHIVE in NCAD Gallery on Monday 13th May form 6pm to 7.30pm.

This exhibition of MA students work at NCAD gallery will involve a reception and informal symposium around the important community archives with specific focus on the SICCDA archive which is now going to enter a process of moving to the Dublin City Archive on Pearse St.

This event is for students their friends and family, the board of SICCDA, local community workers connected to SICCDA past and present, archivists and the course team of the MA in archives and record Management at UCD.

Event Details

6:00 pm – Meet and Greet Reception in NCAD Gallery

6:45pm – Welcome from Fiona Whelan and Brian Hand, short overview of the project and acknowledgements in Harry Clarke lecture theatre.

6:50pm – Lorraine McLoughlin to speak about community archives and approach to documenting and archiving the work of community activists and the new plan for the SICCDA archive unfolding with City Archives and introduce MA student Dinín Molloy from UCD and summer plan.

7:05pm – Austin Campbell will respond on behalf of SICCDA/the Liberties Community Project marking this initiative.

7:10pm – Tom O’Dea (NCAD) will talk about archive boxes and rules around access and ownership in the context of ongoing research project with Van Abbe Museum archive The Netherlands.

7:20pm – Q & A session with Students Groups

7:30pm – Event concludes. Attendee’s are encouraged to stay on and view work in the gallery.

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Please direct all enquiries to Brian Hand at handb@staff.ncad.ie

Brian Hand

Brian Hand is an artist and educator. At NCAD he is Head of the Department of Sculpture and Expanded Practice and a core lecturer and tutor across all trimesters of the MA/MFA Art and Social Action. He has a deep interest in post-colonial historiography and the challenges of historical representation, his art practice is broadly concerned with creatively exploring and researching events in the past that can potentially disrupt a secure sense of the ‘present/future’, making temporary public work and time-based installations.