The Air We Share – Artist Residency

The Air We Share is an initiative that engages with the increasingly important issue of air quality and pollution through artistic interventions, citizen science and community action, through bringing together an interdisciplinary consortium of local partners led by Galway City Council with Galway Arts Centre, University of Galway’s Centre for Creative Technology and Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies and Physics, Galway Culture Company, Creative Climate Action, and Westside Resource Centre, to develop creative and innovative responses to climate and environmental issues spanning culture, technology and citizen science in collaboration with the community of Westside, Galway.

The aim of The Air We Share Programme is to examine and make visible the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to air pollution and to foster a deeper understanding of air and its critical relevance to our shared environment.

The Air We Share is a recipient of the Creative Climate Action fund, an initiative from the Creative Ireland Programme. It is funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in collaboration with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. The fund supports creative, cultural and artistic projects that build awareness around climate change and empower citizens to make meaningful behavioural transformations.

For more information, visit www.theairweshare.ie. 

Residency Programme

We are delighted to announce an open call for three significant artist-in-residence opportunities in Galway City. The residencies will respond to air pollution research, and engage with creative, climate, and community-driven solutions to air pollution as part of the climate action project, The Air We Share. 

Open to artists and collectives from all disciplines, the Artist-In-Residence (A.I.R.) Programme will serve as the creative core of The Air We Share project. The residencies will run from October 2024 through till July 2025. 

Artists are invited to propose ambitious, innovative, and collaborative projects that engage with the Westside communities, responding to scientific research on air quality and climate conducted by local citizen scientists and climate scientists from the University of Galway. 

The Air We Share project tackles the issue of air quality and pollution through artistic interventions, citizen science, and community action in Westside, Galway. It explores air pollution issues and aims to propose creative solutions. Led by Galway City Council and supported by Creative Ireland, the creative production is managed by Galway Arts Centre. 

The selected artists will begin their residencies in October 2024, with project outcomes to be completed by July 2025. The deadline for applications is Monday, 30 September 2024. 

For more information view the The Air We Share Artists Residencies Briefing Document.