MARKING 25
Common Ground has been working across the communities of Inchicore, Rialto and Bluebell since 1999. To mark and acknowledge our work throughout the last 25 years we began to organise our archive alongside the commission MARKING 25.
Artists Frank Sweeney and Veronica Dyas were commissioned individually to work together on site with full access to the archive, which includes paper files and comprehensive audio visual documentation (about 200 hours).
Veronica Dyas’ response is now complete:
“I know you from the Archive, but you don’t know me
What I see: A Reflection on the task of artistically responding to Common Ground’s Twenty-Six (almost 27) Year Archive” by Veronica Dyas
MARKING 25 Commission for Common Ground, December 2024 to June 2026.
Published by Common Ground 2026.
ISBN: 978-0-9539024-9-1
There are three ways to engage with this new work.
The Text is accessible here
The Audio Version is accessible here
1 Single Manuscript is available to view in Common Ground’s Archive, by appointment.
Special thanks to volunteer Jemima Valentine-Lake and interns Bridget De Maria and Elisabeth Kyungae Park for their assistance in cataloguing the archive and to Irma Grothuis who has written an overview of the work and history of the organisation, which now accompanies the archive.
