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The City
Suburbban sprawl
transport
The City as a work of art
Digital films
2007-2009
music
Dinahbird
JP Renoult
The City is a force of nature in its own right, constantly reshaping and reinventing itself, struggling to shake off a century old skin of concrete, iron and asphalt that it has outgrown. The transformation of the Boulevard Barbès is one of the waves of works sweeping the north of Paris, urban regeneration sparked by a growing sensitivity to the environment.
Produced with support from the Département de l’Art dans la Ville (Mairie de Paris) and the Mairie du XVIIIe Paris
The Observer Effect. 19’50”
Moscova. 09’32”
Vico Road. Extract 03’14” With Jobst Graeve
EarthWorks 02’57”
The essential paradox of filming everyday journeys is that once you point a camera at something, it ceases to be everyday. People are inhibited by it or they perform for it, and the camera is naturally drawn to ‘remarkable’ things: beautiful shots and strange happenings.
The Baths at Blackrock and Dun Laoghaire were unheated saltwater swimming pools on the coast. The two abandoned edifices are still there today, battered ruins in whitewashed concrete. Further along the coast is one of the most beautiful spots in the world: the Vico Road bathing place.
Moving Dublin explores this everyday world of movement in Dublin and its vast sprawling suburbs spreading out west from the coastal city. We consider the beauty and the agony of the city’s everyday life and the universal issues embodied in the private preoccupations of its citizens.
2007-2008
Moving Dublin has been commissioned by South Dublin County Council through In Context 3 and funded under the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government’s Per Cent for Art Scheme.
Paris
Films
Moving Dublin explores the everyday world of movement in Dublin and its vast sprawling suburbs. A synthesis of two years of work in Dublin, the one hour film looks at how far the contemporary world of the Dublin commuter has strayed from the civic realm it constituted when Joyce wrote the Wandering Rocks chapter of Ulysses.
NEWS
‣AIB Art Award 2009. Wiinners of Irelands foremost contemporary art award. June 2009, to create the work Still life with…
‣RVB at Tulca 2009, Galway 6-21 November 2009
‣Sortie Française de Moving Dublin, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. 27-31 Oct 2009.
‣Sombras e Luz, Sesc Pompéia, Sao Paulo 15 Sept-6 Dec 2009
‣Noughties But Nice. LCGA, Limerick 10 Sept - 8 Nov 2009.
‣Luas Carol premiered in Abbey Theatre, Dublin 9 January 2010
RECENT FILMS
Luas Carol (38’48”)
Moving Dublin (65’57”)
The Observer Effect (19’50”)
Moscova (09’ 32”)
Studio 1: Plus/Minus. Clip 02’34”. Music by Remote
Studio 2: Colour/Motion. Clip 01’53”. Music by Remote
Studio 3: Mobility/Stillness Clip 02’15”. Music by Remote
VITRINE: Then/Now. Clip 01’08”
123456SIX. 10’00”
PublicWorks 03’43”
In addition to our 2007 study of work - 12345SIX, about the making of stripes - we have been looking at the city we live in at rest - the little park of Moskova - as well as continuing the theme of work with a series of five short films about Nature in construction. EarthWorks: piercing the earth; TarWorks: the hotness of bitumen; StoneWorks: the hardness of masonry; WoodWorks: the perrenial cropping of trees; PublicWorks: layers of urban life printed on the pavement.
The film is a composite image of many journeys in many different times or seasons. We used the train as a Dolly to provide us with moving shots of Dublin’s girdle. Luas Carol is composed as a single composite journey, where movement, sights, and sounds reflect the living, moving city.
Luas Carol. Extract (Museum) 01’20”
Video Installation
In Production
2007-2009
Image
Anne Cleary
Denis Connolly
Sound
Jean-Philippe Renoult
DinahBird
Sombras e Luz. Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo. 15 Sept - 6 Dec 2009
AñoSOS 4.8
Murcia, Spain. January/May 2009
Working with 8 local dancers, a giant LED screen and a projection on the facade of Rafael Moneo’s City Hall, we offered the people of Murcia the opportunity to engage with a series of new media artworks set up in front of the Cathedral.
Danza. 31 January 2009. Clip 03’31”
Public Sessions. 31 January, 2009. Clip 01’26”
