Future Forecast

In 2020 and 2021, Project Arts Centre is presenting a strand of its programming through the lens of Future Forecast, a series of events and artistic interventions forming part of a speculative voyage towards the future.

Future Forecast was developed as part of a process to develop a new future for Project. The questions we are asking about our future, and the future, both inform Future Forecast and are informed by Future Forecast. Working with provocations from artist, journalist & commentator Una Mullally, we’re asking:

Who “gets” access to cultural and creative spaces? What happens to a “programme” when no rules apply? How do a building and an organisation inform the art it facilitates/creates/presents and how does that art, in turn, impact it? What questions are artists asking and how can a cultural organisation help artists explore potential answers? 

Project Arts Centre is powered by creative ideas, critical thinking and debate. As we look to our future in an uncertain world, we want to examine the ways in which our community can reflect, mediate, challenge and shape our collective fate.

We’re thinking about hope. About bravery. About new ideas. 

About Big Art Energy.

In the future, everyone is an artist, everyone is the audience, and everyone is invited.

Join us.

Cian O’Brien
Artistic Director, Project Arts Centre

Future Forecast: Online
During the spring and summer months of 2020, Project presented the first iteration of Future Forecast, a series of commissioned online responses from Project resident and associate artists; Malaprop, Nyree Yergainharsian, Brokentalkers, José Miguel Jiménez, Junk Ensemble, One Two One Two and Shaun Dunne.

Future Forecast: Online

Future Forecast: HAVEN
In October, PAC announced the three recipients of the 2020 Future Forecast: HAVEN Commissions: Renèe Helena Browne; Oisín Kearney; Rosaleen McDonagh, Tracy Martin and Noah Halpin.

The artists were asked to think about community, resistance, solidarity, scale, spectacle, purpose, liveness, ecology, togetherness, sustainability, flexibility, reclamation, autonomy, space to develop, honesty, openness, generosity and spontaneity.

Future Forecast: HAVEN

Future Forecast: WORKSPACE
We are delighted to announce the recipient of the Future Forecast: WORKSPACE Commission, Ciara Murnane.

Ciara Murnane is a Dublin based Set and Interior Designer. With her background in Architecture, she has a keen interest in creating high functioning spaces which draw their form from the use by the end space user. 

WORKSPACE is an opportunity for an artist, architect or designer to design and build a new artist workspace studio in our Cube space. 

Future Forecast: WORKSPACE

Future Forecast: Flux Artists Open Call
Creating a space to allow art to rebuild & restore, we have residencies on offer for three Flux Artists, valued at EUR 3,000 each, to take place in our new Cube artists’ WORKSPACE

We want to support artists to lay the ground for all the new art that will emerge from this crisis and to create a safe space for investigation, questions and discussion.

February 1–April 30, 2021.

Future Forecast: Flux Artists Open Call

Future Forecast: BAE (big art energy)
Announcing the release of BAE (big art energy)!

This limited edition publication is designed by Bureau Bonanza, edited by Louise Bruton & Cian O’Brien, and includes contributions from Vanessa Ifediora, Soula Emmanuel, Gary Farrelly and Club Comfort. 

BAE (big art energy) is available for pre-order now and comes with an exclusive A4 art print, designed by Bureau Bonanza.

Purchase BAE (big art energy)

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