The Artist and Academia

Introduction

Essay 1: The Artist Turned Inside Out

Helen Phelan

Interlude 1: Outside In

Oscar Mascarenas

Part I: The Artist as Educator and Mediator in Academia

Essay Two: '... to know the place for the first time ...': Exploring and Researching through the Arts

Christopher Frayling

Essay Three: A Gallery of Hanging Thoughts: Framed Questions, Open Answers. Dance-artists in Conversation about the Process of Creating and Performing their Own Work.

Mary Nunan

Interlude 2: Stories

Joseph O'Connor

Essay Four: Landscapes of the In-Between: Artists Mediating CulturesAnya Peterson Royce

Interlude 3: An Island in the Middle of the Ocean

Alan Doyle

Interlude 4: The Land of Silence

Laura Murphy

Essay Five: The Artist-Teacher as Cultural Mediator

Marie McCarthy

Interlude 5: 'Crossing the Threshold: a Music Teacher's Journey into the Academy'

Jean Downey

Essay Six: Collaborative Knowledge Sharing for Mind and Body: Celebrating the Role of Arts in Health




Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain, Triona McCaffrey, Amanda M. Clifford, Joanne Shanahan, Olive Beecher, Hilary Moss.

Part II: The Artist as Educator and Subversive in Academia

Essay Seven: The Subversive Potential of Praxis and Political Emotions in Arts Academies

David Elliott and Marissa Silverman

Interlude 6: The Well-Spring Deep Inside

Dana Delany

Essay Eight: Protest, Subversion and Critical Citizenship: Reflections on an Irish Singer-Songwriter

Aileen Dillane

Interlude 7: A Cello Can Be Stronger than a Machine Gun

Nigel Osborne

Essay Nine: Contesting and Negotiating Hegemonic Discourses: Constructing and Developing a Masters Programme in Irish Traditional Dance Performance Within a University Context Catherine Foley

Part III: Case study examples of the lived experienced of the Artist in Academia from the Irish World Academy

Essay Ten: Cultural Redress and the Growth of Love: A Guided Autoethnography

Micheal O Suilleabhain

Interlude 8: Singing Out, Singing Up

Kathleen Turner

Interlude 9: The Academy as a Space of Musical Fosterage

Tommy Hayes

Interlude 10: Dancing as a Citizen of the World

RAS Michael Courtney

Interlude 11: The Academy as Transformation

Colin Dunne

Conclusion

Essay Eleven: Why the arts and artists are important