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The City
Suburbban sprawl
transport
The City as a work of art
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. There are five Natures in Construction: EarthWorks: machines pierce and tear the earth; TarWorks: hot bitumen; StoneWorks: the weight and hardness of masonry; WoodWorks: urban trees are shorn; PublicWorks; layers of urban life printed on the pavement.
The Observer Effect. 19’50”
Moscova. 19’50”
You'll Come And Find The Place (03’30”)
Vico Road. Extract 03’14” With Jobst Graeve
Natures Construites. 17’03”
Digital Video
Photographs
Text
Published in
April 2009
Gandon Editions
With
Jobst Graeve
Suzy Murphy
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
Shopping centres in Dublin, in contrast with the suburban streets, are teeming with life: teenagers hanging out, children running up escalators, family excursions to the cinema, café meetings, old people strolling... All aspects of everyday life seem to have been sucked into these commercial cathedrals.
Moving Dublin is a synthesis of two years of work in Dublin. We look 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.
Premiered at the new Tallaght Arts Centre in December 2008
NEWS
- 3 June 2009
Cleary Connolly win
- 23 April 2009
(the Book and the Film) Launched by Minister Eamon Ryan at the Broadcast Gallery Dublin.
RECENT FILMS
Moving Dublin (65’57”)
Natures Construites (17’03”)
Moscova (09’ 32”)
Not a Fish (09’ 10”)
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
Murcia
AñoSOS 4.8
VITRINE: Then/Now. Clip 01’08”
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