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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
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‣In the Works. Upcoming publication on our recent participative projects, Gandon Editions, September 2010.
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‣Close to Hand. Crawford Gallery, Cork, 23 July – 9 October, 2010.
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‣In the Picture, Barbican, London. 24-25 July 2010.
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‣Cindy through the Picture Frame. Performance with Cindy Cummings at the Hunt Museum. 10 July 2010.
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‣Still life with… opens at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, 3 June 2010 (AIB Award 2009).
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‣Noughties But Nice. Solstice Art Centre, Navan, 20 May- 3 July 2010.
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‣We Can Fly launched by an Taoiseach Brian Cowen at St. Dymphnas & St. Nicolas’ Schools in Ballina, Ireland. 21 May 2010
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
Still life with… Hunt Museum Limerick, June-August 2010
We Can Fly. Public Commission for two schools in Ballina, Ireland
Our recent exhibition in the Pompidou Centre, Pourquoi pas Toi?, engaged a heterogeneous public. We set up three environments that were both studios of creation and exhibition galleries. These studios were more or less empty and it was clear that without the participation of visitors, nothing would happen; the empty studios would remain, literally, empty. But once visitors enter the studio, is it enough for them to be present, watching, for the studio to come to life?
Our invitation to them did not specify their involvement, there were no instructions. We brought them to the threshold between observation and participation, where they could step in and out of both worlds. As artists, we had set up the rooms with cameras and projectors and infrared lamps and created the computer programmes to manage these entanglements. Were we observers then? Were we participants?
Moving Dublin. Book/Film/Participative Project/Web-site.
In the Picture at the Barbican, London. 24-25 July 2010
A public commission for the new Mediathèque in Sorgues. To be launch in September 2010. A series of five works inspired by the different cultural practice in Sorgue’s new cultural complex, one work for each of the institutions housed in the new building: the Dance School, the Theatre, the Music School, the Socio-educative Workshops and the Library. Each work involved the local community in a series of participative workshops.