In a very cool piece of public art work in Drachten, The Netherlands artist Henk Hofstra painted 1,000 metres of road blue to create an urban river. Hofstra wants the work, which was completed in April, to show up on Google Earth.To date there’s no sign.
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For you to be right about what you are doing, not everybody else has to be wrong.
The good folk over at Indymedia are distributing (free and 100% legal) Route Irish documentary via bittorrent you can grab the torrent file here, it’s being well seeded so should be a fast download. The film’s also available on archive.org
Finally a filter for stupidity on the internet (but isn’t that the point?)
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Tulca ends tomorrow the 25th so it’s your last chance to walk the Tulca Freedom Trail as part of Tulca 2007. Of course you can follow the trail anytime by visiting the Freedom Trail site and downloading the audio guide and printing the map.
Joyce Walks Installation view : Best in Show, Digital Hub Dublin
Best in Show the selected best of this summers graduate exhibitions which is showing my Joyce Walks has been held over for another week due to popular demand and now ends Nov 23rd.
Opening tonight in Dublin: At Pallas Contemporary Projects Current Trends – Past Prospects. Sarah Browne and Gareth Kennedy, The work in this exhibition is derived from sources that include a 1977 Hollywood film; a fragment of a script from TV show Dallas (1987); an advertising jingle Bringing Home the Oil – promoting the Gulf Oil company based in Bantry Bay (1969), and a Dáil debate (1985, after the Betelgeuse disaster). The actors in these texts are concerned with global economics and natural resources, and as a series, these obscure cultural artefacts begin to re-trace an alternative historical trajectory linked to contemporary concerns.
And at the Hugh Lane THEN a new Breaking Ground multi-part public art work in various locations across Dublin by Adam Chodzko. Chodzko’s work blatantly subverts expectations of what ‘public art’ is and who it is for. “Chodzko’s work is a wryly philosophical look at how an area is read and how individuals present themselves within society.
Both at 6-8pm get your art shoes on and do both.
The Tulca festival of art opens tonight in Galway, the packed program features over 70 Irish and international artists in 13 venues and on the streets of Galway. Of course I’ll be launching a new project The Tulca Freedom Trail created specially for the festival based in Merchants Road but taking place on the streets of Galway. Highly recommended.
Bodycity is a Dublin based visual arts project in three parts curated by Shelagh Morris, Nigel Rolfe and Cliodhna Shaffrey which sets out to explore the complex ideas surrounding the human body in relation to the cities in which we live. How might our material, political and social environments alter perceptions, our existential experience, and our sense of being in the world?
The first part of the project is Video Apartment a month long exhibition of video art in an apartment in the regenerated docklands featuring work from over 30 Irish and international artists. The exhibition runs until November 30th, 12-7pm Tuesday to Saturday, Apt 20 Asgard Road, Hanover Quay, Docklands, Dublin 2.
More details and map here
The Tulca Freedom Trail is a self guided audio tour based on a remapping of the famous Boston Freedom Trail to Galway. Created for Galway arts festival TULCA 2007 the project launches Friday November 9th and continues until the 26th.
TFT is part of an ongoing series of work collectively known as Cultural Tourism which seeks to facilitate a culturally minded audience in reducing their carbon footprint by enjoying the cultural highlights of the world without leaving their home town. Inspired by the Situationist concept of the psychogeographical derive the trail draws on the historic connections between Galway and Boston, explores the troubled concept of American freedom in the contemporary political climate and encourages the user to see Galway in a new and unexpected way.
I’ll be leading a guided tour of the Tulca Freedom Trail on Saturday November 10th at 3.30pm starting at Tulca 1-5 Merchants Road Galway. I hope you’ll join me on the walk and in a free flowing conversation about freedom, art, cultural tourism, situationism and the art of getting lost.
The Tulca Freedom Trail.
The full Tulca 2007 program
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
