TRESPASS: Forgotten urban landscapes
The LAB
brought to you by Dublin City Council
is pleased to present
TRESPASS
TRESPASS is a collaborative art project by Aoife Desmond and Seoidín O'Sullivan that engages research and action with forgotten urban landscapes
Preview - Thursday 5 March 2009 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition continues to 18 April 2009
Gallery Talk: Tuesday 7 April 2009
Stalker/Observatorie Nomade are an architectural collective based in Rome who explore nomadic possibilities within the urban environment. For this talk/event Francesco Careri and Lorenzo Romito will present Stalker/Observatorie.
Aoife Desmond and Seoidín O'Sullivan will guide the event. The intention is to create an engaged discussion into the functions and potentials of wasteland sites in cities.
Trespass investigate and intervene in disused urban space. They research and reveal the delicate balance between nature and the built environment. ‘Trespass’ investigates the different issues around land use and ownership through documentation and performative actions. This project was initiated in Dublin where the two artists are based. They have been working with several sites in Dublin over the last 3 years. They recently were awarded a Project New Work Award by the arts council in 2007 and participated in The One Year Project 2 at The Land Foundation for 2 months in 2008 where they developed a new body of work in response to their time there.
Contact: TRESPASSproject@gmail.com
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Labels: art, visual art
Present absences: Lost - The Art of Asbestos
How many things go unnoticed in our day to day lives? How many things get taken for granted?
The Art of Asbestos' mutli-series project over the last few years in Dublin has been urging the human traffic of footpaths around the city to think about just such things.
The 63 interventions in the 7 series of '
Lost' take as subjects the things in our daily lives that we don't really think about that often, but ironically, when they go missing they can become a central story in the telling of a day's or life's adventures. In the spirit of
Heidegger's object-oriented philosophy in '
Das Ding', the '
Lost' series highlights our
ontological relationships to things that we rarely acknowledge until they become absent or broken.
Beyond its charming and insightful qualities, the '
Lost' project also illustrates the effectiveness of viral design in
guerilla art interventions in the generation of lateral relationships and social reflection. Mobilising the passing moments waiting for buses or walking a long a footpath, the 'Lost' project offers an amusing and gentle provocation to think more broadly and laterally about how we engage in our world.
Labels: art, material culture, theory, visual art
The writing is on the wall: Graffiti Archaeology
[From: http://grafarc.org]
Graffiti Archaeology is a project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years. The photos were taken in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and other cities, over a timespan from the late 1990's to the present.
Using the
grafarc explorer, you can visit some classic graffiti spots, see what they looked like in the past, and explore how they have changed over the years.
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For example - notice the palimpsestic changing of this wall over time.
Labels: archaeology, art, visual art
The Cardiff Arcades Project
Friends in Cardiff have for few months embarked on a place-making project.
The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary explores the famed arcades of Cardiff. The city is known for having the highest concentration of Victorian and Edwardian arcades in the UK, hence its rebranding as the city of arcades (not just rugby folks).
The lead artist
Jennie Savage assisted by
Andrew Cochrane have developed a series of art events and responses to
Walter Benjamin's unfinished
Arcades Project on the the Parisian arcades. The events both interrogate the spaces from theoretical and aesthetic perspectives, but they also seek to engage with the communities of businesses, patrons and passersby who frequent the arcades, activating and enhancing the social percolations of urban architecture in inner city Cardiff.
The project features artist talks, peripatetic media (a la
Janet Cardiff) and a 3D mapping project. Savage's process focuses on response and interaction with others hoping to draw out the constellations of linkages and meanings shared by all those frequenting the arcades.
Labels: archaeology, architecture, art, material culture, performance, visual art
New Londoners: Reflections on Home
New Londoners: Reflections on Home is a collection of photographs and stories by young refugees who have been mentored by a selection of London's most established and up and coming photographers.
The book was launched by Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, at the Tate Modern on October 20th.
The New Londoners come from around the world, with diverse experiences and backgrounds. They are aged from 13 to 23, and come from ten different countries. The participants all share one common experience: they are young refugees separated from their families and homes, who are re-building their lives in London.
Photographer mentors on the project are: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Gayle Chong Kwan, Marysa Dowling, Suki Dhanda, Jillian Edelstein, Liane Harris, Crispin Hughes, Anna Kari, Anthony Lam, Jenny Matthews, Jo Metson Scott, Sarah Moon and Ilona Suschitsky, and Othello de Souza Hartley.
The book has additional contributions by writer Hari Kunzru, broadcaster George Alagiah and curator Charlotte Cotton.
Through the work we glimpse a side of London little seen and understood, from the point of view of some of the city’s newest arrivals. It reflects on their experiences of home: both the place they have left and the place where they have arrived.
For further information about the New Londoners project,
click here.
Labels: art, visual art
Sean Lynch | Recent Finds | Gallery of Photography
Cut-out archival photograph from work titled: ‘Views of Dublin' 2008 . © Artist - Sean Lynch
September 25th to November 9th 2008
http://galleryofphotography.ie/exhibitions/sean_lynch.html
Sean Lynch’s artworks investigate a wide range of almost-forgotten historical subjects. Using his practice as a platform against the cultural amnesia that surrounds varied topics, Lynch’s research, photographs and installations disclose and build upon fragile stories and objects, magnifying traces of an often-idiosyncratic existence.
Views of Dublin, a new artwork commissioned by the Gallery of Photography, is presented as part of the exhibition. In cut-out archival photographs and an accompanying publication, Lynch traces and interconnects a series of events taking place during and after the making of the film, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, in Dublin in spring 1965. A replica of the Berlin Wall was constructed in Smithfield Market. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton stayed at the Gresham Hotel for ten weeks, attracting much attention around the city. Afterwards, the materials of the wall were recycled to form part of Saint Christopher’s School, the first Travellers’ school in Ireland. Situated in Cherry Orchard, the school was organized and run independently of the Department of Education by civil rights activist Grattan Puxon.
Provoking an active remembering that reinterprets the role of history, Lynch’s speculative energy circulates in several more artworks. A collection of photographs and artifacts consider the remains and rumours surrounding Richard Long’s artworks in the Irish landscape; Joseph Beuys’ Irish visit of 1974; the last street Walter Benjamin saw; and a vandalized statue of Bill Clinton.
About the artist: Sean Lynch was born in Kerry in 1978. He studied history at the University of Limerick and fine art at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He has completed solo exhibitions at Heaven’s Full, London (2008), Galway Arts Centre (2007), Limerick City Gallery of Art (2007), and has featured in recent group exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork and Office Baroque, Antwerp.
Sean Lynch was awarded the Gallery of Photography Artist Award for 2008. An article previewing the exhibition written by Isobel Harbison, appears in the autumn edition of the Irish Arts Review, media partner for the Award.
Opening reception: Wednesday September 24, 6pm
Artist’s Talk: Wednesday October 22 at 1.15pm
Gallery of Photography is open: Tuesday - Saturday 11am-6pm and on Sunday from 1pm-6pm
All events and access to the Gallery are free.
For further information, press scans or to interview the artist, please contact: Tanya Kiang, Gallery of Photography 353-1-6714654, tanya@galleryofphotography.ie
Labels: art, visual art
