Common Ground

All set for Everyone Should Have A Home opening this evening Centre Culturel Irlandais with Augustine O' Donoghue & Conor McCabe The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Arts Office St. Andrew's Community Centre

ARCH/IVE 25 is making great progress. One room painted & one to go. We're looking forward to opening up to local groups, artists & the public in the next 6 weeks or so. Thanks to so many for their support, advice & contributions to this stage our board members Rita Fagan & Catherine Marshall Ruth Martin Design Thomas Core YS Irish Film Institute archives. Most especially
míle buíochas to & Vee Dyas for “I know you from the Archive, but you don’t know me

What I see: A Reflection on the task of artistically responding to Common Ground’s Twenty-Six (almost 27) Year Archive ”

Meet Clodagh Assatta Boyce , resident artist here with us at The Lodge 🌟

Influenced by the radical traditions of Black feminist thought, their work is rooted in diasporic memory, the politics of care, and practices of refusal. Clodagh’s curatorial and artistic projects challenge extractive logics, turning instead toward slowness, opacity, and interdependence as strategies of resistance.

As part of Common Ground’s award, Collective Futures, Clodagh has explored Dublin 8’s 18th century ties to the transatlantic slave trade through sugar refineries and Georgian architecture. Exploring spatial relations through sound and study, Clodagh sets out to interrogate early racial capitalism as a frame for our lived experience of Dublin.

📷: Evanna Devine

**To learn more and register, go to the link in our bio.**

An afternoon of participatory workshops, open to everyone! Join for the whole afternoon, or drop in at any time for a session. Food and snacks will be provided throughout.

The four workshops of this event, hosted at Studio 468, St. Andrew’s Community Centre, are an open space for activists, researchers and local residents to discuss how different forms of research and investigation can shape organising around work and housing.

Drawing on experiences across Ireland and Italy, and from London to Berlin, each workshop will introduce a set of ideas and resources, with space for a shared discussion on different methods and examples of organising.

The final session will be a discussion with Neil Gray about his forthcoming book, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy (Common Notions), the first systematic study of radical urban politics and transformation across Italy’s rebellious 1970s.

The full afternoon schedule is available on the event registration page (linked in our bio).