Christodoulos Makris

On 6 April I'll be taking part in the third of four events comprising 'Conversations with the Contemporary' , a series of readings and discussions about craft and context conceived, programmed and hosted by Niamh Campbell, University College Dublin (UCD) Writer in Residence 2021. From the introduction to the series: Style is the writer's ghost in the language machine: a series of decisions about what to write and how to write it which is both unconscious and deliberate. With this series UCD Writer in Residence Niamh Campbell is delighted to invite 8 writers to describe and discuss their process, craft, and the context of contemporary life - a world mediated by the internet, ruminating on recent history, making room for new stories, or pushing back against these - in relation to their work and their sense of style. We will talk about possible selves, multiple selves, found or concrete iterations of 'self'; the self online, the self on drugs, the embodied or disem...

I'm very pleased to be selected for participation in the inaugural Platform 31 programme - a nationwide artist development award scheme for mid-career artists led by Ireland's 31 local authority Arts Offices in collaboration with The Arts Council of Ireland. Platform 31 is a national opportunity for artists to develop their practice and test new ideas of collaboration, research, audience development, place-making and sharing their work. Designed to support and offer career development for 31 mid-career artists (one artist in each of the 31 local authorities around Ireland), the scheme will establish a peer networking framework for participating artists, introducing them to a pool of critical thinkers to share their work and learnings, and encouraging a national conversation about creating work in local contexts. The exact nature of this artist support framework, which will last for approximately 6 months from February 2021, will be informed by the proposals and interests of t...

I'm pleased to be contributing a new poem to the inaugural issue of SPROUT , an eco-urban poetry and art journal led by artists, urbanists, and researchers involved in The Nature of Cities, an international platform for discussion about cities, nature, and people. The Nature of Cities is a non-profit based in New York City. It was founded in 2012 and has since built a network of over 900 transdisciplinary contributors in 27 countries and on 6 continents. It is a 'boundary' organization, specifically interested in discovering what can be learned at the frontiers between art, science, design, policy, and activism, with a mission to foster more resilient, sustainable, liveable, and just cities that strengthen our relationships with nature. From the editors' commission call: "We hope that SPROUT will become a space for trans-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary collaborations between artists, researchers, and citizens with a focus on geographical diversity, polyvocali...