TEN
(2014)

TEN: Territory, Encounter & Negotiation (2014) is a self-published critical memoir exploring a decade of socially engaged art practice from the vantage point of the primary artist involved. It offers a personal and subjective insight into the complex working relationships, methods of engagement, creative processes and analyses from a long term project exploring power and policing that operates at the intersection of art, youth work, critical pedagogy and activism. The memoir tracks the collaborative decision making process coupled with my own thought process at each juncture of the work, to retrospectively identify the methodology inherent in the practice.

TEN has 254 pages (including a foreward by Áine O' Brien), 50 photos, and 16 hand drawn illustrations (by Orla Whelan).

Limited run self published in 2014.

TEN was launched at NCAD on 5 November 2014 by Martin Drury (Strategic Development Director, the Arts Council), following a half day seminar Territory, Encounter and Negotiation – Collaborative Practice in a Youth Work Context. The seminar included inputs from Professor Kathleen Lynch (UCD), Professor Desmond Bell (NCAD), Professor Maurice Devlin (NUIM) and Katherine Atkinson (Professional Development, CREATE, the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts) along with a performance lecture drawing from the publication titled 'Performative Readings (Mis)Readings of a Shared Practice, by Nichola Mooney, Jim Lawlor and Michael Byrne (Youth workers, Rialto Youth Project) and Fiona Whelan (artist). The seminar was co-organised by Fiona Whelan and Rialto Youth Project and moderated by Dr. Áine O’Brien (Co-Director Counterpoints Arts). TEN was relaunched in Galway in 2015 at an event hosted by the Para-Institution in partnership with the Community Knowledge Initiative – National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) and Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) – Centre for Creative Arts And Media (CCAM) with inputs from Megan Johnson (The Model Sligo), Megs Morley (Para-Institution), John Langan (GMIT) and Deirdre O’ Mahony (GMIT), GMIT CCAM.