Research Associates 2021
Each year five CCA Research Associates are selected through an open call (with at least two from Northern Ireland) for emerging research-based practices. Over a two-year tenure Research Associates have the opportunity to access to our archives and networks with the potential to develop longer-term projects with CCA and our wider programmes. An annual event brings the associates to CCA to share their practices with each other and our audiences through workshops, performance, lectures and more. CCA also acts as a critical friend and supporter to help them develop their practices.
Meet our Research Associates for 2021:
Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell, Chinasa Vivian Ezugha, Marie-Andrée Pellerin, Ben Weir, Frances Whorrall-Campbell.
The new cohort join the 2020 Research Associates:
Renèe Helèna Browne, Alessia Cargnelli, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Borbála Soós and Katharina Stadler.
Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell investigates ways of engaging people in creative expression through co-operative play. This kaleidoscopic practice includes interactive installations; performance and curating. Born and based in Belfast, she is a member of Bbeyond, the Array Collective and #WeShallNotBeRemoved. Siné

Expanded Studios, collaboration with Rebecca Gamble photograph by Julian Hughes, Belfast (2019)

Chinasa Vivian Ezugha, 'Rara Avis, the perception of the Gothic' at ArtVault, Southampton (2018)

Marie-Andrée Pellerin, video still from 'Une seule oreille gigantesque capable d’absorber tous les bruits du monde' (2020)

Ben Weir, 'Casa Vilaró' (2020). Photograph by José Hevia
Frances Whorrall-Campbell is a researcher, archivist, and creator of text-based performances based in England. Their practice is engaged in articulating the conditions that surround various forms of knowledge production (and reception) and imagining an alternative by turning these exclusionary structures inside out, dismantling and distributing them using the tools of their own manufacture.Towards this end, they are one of the curators of Conversations Across Place, a writers’ and artists’ workshop promoting queer and decolonial approaches to landscape, and a specialist with Banner Repeater on the Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing.

Frances Whorrall-Campbell, research documentation (2020)