CONJUNCTION 2021 - 2023 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 Joint programme leader 2010-2021 In 2010 MA SPACE, the Masters in Social Practice and the Creative Environment, at Limerick School of Art and Design was the first masters programme in socially engaged art practice in Ireland.
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
Situated in a derelict bar in Limerick city, SpiritStore was a group of diverse practitioners aligned through an interest in the ecologies and spatial practices at play in urban spaces. The SpiritStore Art Café, became a site for collaborators to image an alternative to the status quo during the Irish economic crash in 2009-10. Artists and citizens came together to negotiate, occupy and community manage the empty public house as a city centre social space hosting over 70 public events.
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 where Marilyn Lennon grew up. 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 contested place.
Packet&Tripe EVA International Biennale 2010 SpiritSore performed a pop-up cafe serving the traditional dish Packet and Tripe for EVA 2010, MATTERS, curator Elizabeth Hatz
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.