Connolly Arts Project: Streets: Past, Present and Future
The Connolly Arts Project: Streets: Past, Present and Future located at Connolly Luas Stop will be an interactive video, light and sound installation. Twenty-seven community groups in the north inner city and many individuals living and working locally have contributed to the final artwork. A temporary installation will run for approx two years in 2008 and 2009 and it is hoped that a more permanent artwork will be located at one of the new Luas Stops on the extension of the existing Luas Red Line to The Point in coming years.
Background
In 2003, visual artist Ciara O’Malley was awarded the ‘Fire Station Artist in the Community Studio Award’ for a residency project that aimed to explore the concept of Streets: Past, Present and Future. Ciara worked with a cross section of the community in Dublin’s north inner city, incorporating young and old in an artistic process that would allow them to reflect on their local neighbourhood, and express their hopes for an area undergoing massive regeneration, both physically and demographically.
Phase one of this residency culminated in a multi-media exhibition entitled Streets in the spring of 2004. This exhibition showcased the work of five local community projects around the theme of streets.
Phase two built on the outcomes of phase one when RPA came on board as project partners agreeing to host an interactive sculptural project reflecting the theme of Streets at the Connolly Luas Stop.
Ciara collaborated with audio visual artist Sven Anderson for phase two of this project. Ciara and Sven issued an open invitation to local people to get involved and contribute something to become part of the final artwork; a piece of text, a drawing, a collage, a sculpture, a video, photography, poetry, sound clips, a rap song etc.
The outcome of this will be the Connolly Arts Project: Streets: Past, Present and Future located at Connolly Luas Stop which will include a temporary interactive video, light and sound installation in 2008 and 2009 hopefully followed by a more permanent artwork located at one of the new Luas Stops on the extension of the existing Luas Red Line to The Point in coming years.
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