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The Cardboard School
11.10.2011
The Cardboard School is a participatory art and education project put together by collaborative artists Kathryn Maguire and Aine Ivers. They have created a cardboard structure influenced by the ancient Greek agora. Space for assembly and the exercise of democracy is at the heart of this participatory project. It serves both as an structured area of debate for young visitors and a private space of reflection for the passer-by. This installation fuses an environment that encourages participation with a desire to make contemporary art accessible to all. The ‘school’ that happens in the cardboard agora comprises of 12 young participants,…
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Ferris Wheel from Chernobyl in Dublin Contemporary
03.10.2011
Колесо обозрения из зоны Чернобыльской АЭС в Дублине Жители Дублина и гости столицы в эти дни могут детально, до мельчайших подробностей рассмотреть колесо обозрения из парка аттракционов города Припять. В самом сердце Дублина, в пяти минутах ходьбы от парка St. Stephen’s Green установлена его точная копия-макет. Тысячи посетивших международную и на сегодняшний день самую большую в истории Ирландии выставку современного искусства Dublin Contemporary поймут, что речь идет о работе Брайана Даггана (www.brianduggan.net) «Эта временная эвакуация, Припять, Чернобыль, 30-тикилометровая зона» (“This Short-Term Evacuation, Pripyat, Chernobyl, 30km Zone”). Ирландский скульптор, автор многочисленных инсталляций и перформансов, Брайан Дагган подготовил этот проект специально для…
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Studio Visit: Mark Cullen
23.09.2011
Mark Cullen’s piece “Ark, I could sleep for a thousand years” in Dublin Contemporary 2011, originated from his fascination with the night sky. Having had his view of it thwarted by light pollution from the city he started to make work in response to this which developed into an exploration of science and elements of futurism. The interactive installation which consists of a wooden deck two metres from the ground with lower closed quarters was built on site. To engage with the piece, the viewer must climb the steps to the deck; from here it is possible to take full…
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Lisa Yuskavage - Outlier?
15.09.2011
I knew it was her when she walked into the Royal Hibernian Academy resembling a rock and roll queen rather than the illustrious artist Yuskavage is, I waited like a fan at the stage door to see if she’d sign my arm like a tattoo, something I wouldn’t wash off. She’s got that Manhattan look, there’s a way New York (although originally Philadelphia based) creatives have their clothes down and Lisa Yuskavage is saying it’s cold today but ready, looking well traveled she’s come all this way to be a part of the biggest show in town. Great words have…
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Photo Competition
13.09.2011
Have your work displayed in Earlsfort Terrace! Photo: Peter Fingleton We’ve launched an exciting new Photo Competition which could see your work displayed in Earlsfort Terrace for the last week of the exhibition. A huge aspect of DubCon11 is provoking a conversation with the public about the exhibition. This conversation can be textual or visual, and we’re specifically looking for your visual responses to the show in photographic form. Unusually for an art exhbition, all of the artworks at Earlsfort Terrace can be photographed by the public (with one exception Brian Maguire in room S18), and the building itself is…
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Dublin Contemporary Launch night - This is why I love you.
12.09.2011
After the din ringing in my ears subsides and my stumbling walk goes unnoticed by the neighbours I make it home in the colder part of the day after meeting so many people, so many fine noisy people friends of yours who I haven’t seen in so many years and some I had never met before. A night out with you can sometimes be more than promised, than first expected. Maybe taken for granted you can still throw some surprises; tonight was one of those nights. Off Stephens green in the dark evening there’s a huge line of people trying…
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Studio Visit: Ciara Scanlan
09.09.2011
Scarlett O’Hara’s famous line from Gone with the Wind, “As God as my witness, I’ll never be hungry again”, was Ciara’s starting point for her interactive installation, entitled Hungry Again, at Dublin Contemporary 2011. This line is read by the participant while standing inside a booth that has been built “in the style of a karaoke booth”. Their actions can be seen recorded outside the booth on a touch screen. I asked Ciara if she made the work especially for the Dublin Contemporary exhibition and she said that she had been thinking about using the line for a piece for…
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Intervention
30.08.2011
As a rule opinion varies dramatically about Graffiti’s influence on culture as a whole, it’s obvious that it has its roots in the irreverent streets and its heart and soul surely beats because its immediate inspiration is actually where its arena tends to be. I’m reminded by Richard Hoggart’s literary work from the late fifties that chartered the shift in opinion about culture not just being associated with academia but also with normal hardworking people, his works like ‘The Uses of Literacy’ or ‘Everyday Language, Everyday life’ started a conversation about challenging a stereotype that art and the best art…
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