ART CITIES:Dublin-The Wild
Celebrating its 50 years, Project Arts Centre a pioneer of alternative ideas, bold ambition and artistic freedom in Irish culture, from October 2016 onwards, present a season of work by both Irish and international artists which celebrates our past and anticipates our future entitled “Project 50”, part of this project is the group exhibition “The Wild”.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Project Arts Centre
The exhibition “The Wild” is a celebration of the networks and communities, friends and co-conspirators, memories and visions of Project Arts Centre. It is a collaborative group exhibition that changes, evolves and develops over time, as practices and art forms collide, collaborate, push and pull together and apart. Experiences and artworks will accumulate, and the show will shape-shift, grow and shrink at will. Featuring the work of: Eleanor Duffin, Dylan Coburn Gray, Megan Kennedy, Áine Stapleton, Sarah Jane Shiels, Seamus Nolan, Liv O’Donoghue, Barbara Knezevic, Oisín Byrne, Oonagh Kearney, Sarah Pierce and Vaari Claffey, Caoimhín O’Raghallaigh, Dylan Haskins and Bisi Adigun, the exhibition brings together visual artists, theatre makers, dramaturges, musicians, writers, filmmakers, playwrights, dancers, broadcasters and lighting designers, creating temporary collaborations between individual practices and art forms, showcasing the depth and breadth of Project’s relationship with the creative community over the last 50 years. Megan Kennedy is a choreographer and artist whose interest lies in creating work in unconventional spaces and working within non-specific genres and with a variety of collaborators, the artist presents “Tasting Blue” a durational performance installation exploring death and the voyeur. As the voyeur looks through a series of holes in a constructed netting the artist attempts to reflect the voyeur through the eye of the body, amongst hundreds of animal bones. Eleanor Duffin’s performance “The Bird with the Human Tongue” is an investigation of the metaphysical relationship we have with clay, the physical, earthy and elemental connectedness of it. The performed text is fictional piece that is rooted in informed investigation based around the act of Geophangia, the action by humans and animals of eating raw clay. It takes the form of a ritualistic reading and physical accumulation, happening sporadically in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. Liv O’Donoghue presents “TEN: Reworked” a study in pure movement, distilled from ten independent sections and developed into a duet. Created in collaboration with sound designer Tom Lane, the work premiered in 2011.
Info: Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex St, Dublin, Duration: 11/11/16-28/1/17, Days & Hours: Mon-Sat from 11:00, http://projectartscentre.ie
