Fiona Whelan is a Dublin based artist, writer and joint coordinator/lecturer on the MA Socially Engaged Art + Further Education at NCAD. Her collaborative practice is committed to exploring, exposing and reconfiguring power relations through durational engagements with people and place. From 2004-16 she was a resident artist with Rialto Youth Project (RYP) where she collaborated with the RYP on projects exploring issues related to class, gender and policing and co-produced public works including The Day in Question (IMMA, 2009), Policing Dialogues (The LAB, 2010) and Natural History of Hope (with Brokentalkers, Project Arts Centre, 2016). Fiona’s recent published writing includes Freedom? (Two Fuse, Sireacht series, Cork University Press, 2018), Beating the Bounds of Socially Engaged Art (with Kevin Ryan, Field Journal, 2016) and TEN: Territory, Encounter & Negotiation (2014). Fiona is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice in DIT