THIS MUST BE THE PLACE March 28th – April 19th
Opening Friday 27th 6.30pm
An exhibition of new work by ten artist – led collectives at The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art. Curated by Paul Murnaghan and Sally Timmons.
The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday the 28th of March and runs for four weeks, 12.00 -18.00 hrs Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
How many artists does it take to change a light bulb?
… and what will be illuminated?
This inaugural exhibition will bring together ten artist-led organisations currently working in Ireland and ask them to consider the question, how do we think?
This question is also an invitation that stipulates that the answer be articulated as a new collaborative, physical artwork. The exhibition will include over thirty artists, most of whom are well known in both Irish and International contemporary art circles and all of whom are working to a contemporary budget.
IMOCA (The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art) is a recently established artist – led initiative situated in Inchicore, Dublin. It includes two spaces of 560 m2 and 100m2 and is three minutes walk from the Blackhorse stop on the LUAS red line. The exhibition entitled THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is open to the public from Saturday the 28th of March.
The collectives include:
ART/NOT ART
PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS
JECO SWORD
MART
MONSTER TRUCK GALLERY
MONGREL
G126
BLACKLETTER
HOPE INHERENT
THE GOOD HATCHERY
IMOCA (The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art) is situated at 90 Jamestown Road , Dublin, 8.
Further information can be found at www.imoca.ie
So RTE has apologised for even reporting that someone stuck up a nude portrait of Brian Cowen in the RHA and the National Gallery. Of course the report was on youtube before RTE took it off their site and the Gardai are investigating but apparently it’s not a crime to add to the collection so it’s not clear what they’ll do if they catch the culprit.
The GPS track of last weeks GPS drawing walk, the word spelt out was FUCKED? (the question mark being of course crucial these days). OK it’s a little hard to make out but that’s a factor of my handwriting and the fact that Dublin isn’t a geometric grid. Still a good time was had by all.
You can check out some images of the event including a bigger version of the track. The walk was of course organised with Tactic who are now into their last week of events as part of their residency at the Lab.
Writing the City :GPS Drawing Walk from Stunned on Vimeo.
Join me and TacTic tomorrow Friday the 13th March, 10am at Church Street Bridge ( see map) for a magical mystery tour though the streets of Dublin as we use GPS to write a giant word on the city, which can be seen later in Google Earth.
Come join in, have a walking conversation about your projects or ideas, or anything you like. If you have any experiences or scenes you want to create along the route, please let us know.
The walk will continue from 10am to about 1pm, ending with a concrete picnic. You can join in at any time and follow us on twitter or call/text 086 3667857 to find out where we are at anytime.
Vague Terrain 13 citySCENE has been launched and includes a piece I wrote about my Joyce Walks project. The issue which is curated by
Greg J. Smith indexes a wide range of strategies for representing and visualizing urban space. Drawing on the collective talent of an international pool of new media artists and scholars,
citySCENE catalogs how cartography, infrastructure and locative media shape perception in the contemporary city. Many submissions also explore more subjective urban experiences and consider notions of vision, acoustic ecology, movement and agency through experiments and
interventions staged in a number of global cities.
Contributors: Abinadi Meza, Andrea Rojas, Mattia Casalegno & Michael
Langeder, Michael Chen & Jason J. Lee, Conor McGarrigle, David Drury, Franke Dresme, Greg Giannis, Hector Centeno, Katharine S. Willis, Michael Surtees, Mitchell Whitelaw, Olga Mink, Ivan Safrin & Christian Marc Schmidt, Thomas Dreher, Tori Foster and Yukiko Bowman.
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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.
