Traction – A Restless Art

Traction – an EU research project

An article by Emanuela Barbiroglio published in Horizon, The EU Research and Innovation Magazine,10 August 2022 A prison opera and digital

Early in 2020, Irish National Opera (INO) began work on an unusual community project—a new VR opera, co-created with people from three

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian Concert

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw

As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the

For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is

In the previous post, I outlined a range of resources that professional artists can draw on in their work, including

This photograph of the artists working on Irish National Opera’s Out of the Ordinary project was taken on 20 August 2021, at