D-Project Unltd.

The art of journalism and the act of art
D-Project Unltd. is an international performance project that connects art, grassroots activism and journalism. Created in collaboration with Irish and international artists, D-Project Unltd. disrupts the standard news format to experiment with what news might be, and bring art works from geographic peripheries to an online international audience.

An experiment and a provocation
An online experimental performance connecting grassroots dispatches made by artists in Ireland, Jordan, Palestine and the US. 

Artists George Hooker and Áine Ní Laoghaire take over Ireland’s broadcast newsroom and invite international artists Mirna Bamieh (Palestine), Kate Conroy (US) and Samar Zughool (Jordan) to share their grassroots work to an online international theatre audience, responding to questions such as: Can the art of theatre infuse journalism? Can artists sharpen the citizens’ senses? Or are we better off dancing the news?

Performances
As part of this experiment in-person performance workshops took place at The Digital Hub, Bay 1 where audiences are invited to witness artists Áine Ní Laoghaire and George Hooker making news and with them unpack the performativity and value of glocalised information.

In D-Project Unltd. the artist takes on the roles of journalist, reporter and editor. Can art sharpen the senses of news consumers? How does the performance of news relate to theatre and film? And what vital information are we missing from the news? This project is a provocation to consider the hierarchy and importance of information.

Discussion and online performance:
This second free streaming and Q & A marked International Human Rights Day 2022. 

The live online Q&A discussed the potential of (national) media channels as places to create or start radical change. We will discuss citizen journalism, protest and its connection to the status quo and the state of our current democracies.

https://youtube.com/live/nrP9Zsj1b7o

Q&A chaired by Vukašin Nedeljković creator of the Asylum Archive project. with collaborating artists and additional speakers Marty Correia and Lola Flash and Remon Rabah.

Links

Mirna Bamieh https://palestinehostingsociety.com/ and https://mirnabamieh.info/

Samar Zughool YouTube, Povod, SIDE 

Kate Conroy www.kateconroy.com

George Hooker https://www.georgehookerfilms.com/