Visual Arts
Transit
Curated by Mark Garry and Ciara Healy
This year’s Dublin Fringe Visual Arts programme includes a series of artistic interventions in various transitional venues throughout the city. On the platforms and waiting rooms of these timeless, transitional spaces, fixed identities are transformed and imagined communities continue the process of re-imagining themselves. The works in this year's show draw inspiration from different aspects of travel, displacement and global movement. The artists selected for this years show use a variety of media and practices such as performance, sound, sculptural installation and lens based media. Works that respond to space physically, sonically and ideologically.
Praxis: www.twobodies.com
The interventions of this New York based performance group will take the form of a temporary radio station for a period during the festival .The programming for this station will be made up of a broad range of activities including interviews with local artists, writers, live bands playing and vinyl mixing tutorials.
Tim Lloyd: Dublin Port Ferry Terminal
This video work calls attention to the potential energy of everyday objects and through a performative engagement invites a reassessment of the physical and perceptual possibilities of such objects.
Gavin Murphy: Dublin Port Ferry Terminal
With this piece the artist undertakes an investigation of the difference between internal and external change: The notion of change (that which involves no movement) as allowed/imposed by state-media-society, versus change (that which requires displacement) which is the desire in individuals for control over their own narrative.
Glen Loughran: Various Locations
Through a series of posters and signage placed on the back of Dublin Bus buses the artist intends to address issues of risk and insecurity regarding labour processes and rental markets. To categorize these as health issues is to prompt ideas about the relationship between displacement and governance.
Rhona Byrne: Pearse Street DART Station
This piece explores the notion of escapism from the routine of everyday life and urban existence, contemplating our constant quest for personal fulfillment and considers our ideals of greener pastures and the possibilities of an alternative perspective on life. This piece explores the idea that through both a physical and mental journey 'travel' has the ability to break psychological cycles and repetitive states of mind.
Stephen Rennicks + Melissa Agate. Audio Cd
Stephen Rennicks and Melissa Agate are creating new compositions from sounds that they have originated for each other in transitional venues in London and Dublin. Dublin-based artist Stephen Rennicks produces art, writing and music under the umbrella name of Secret Society. Melissa Agate aka sAnso-xtro is an Australian drummer and multi-instrumentalist who weaves together acoustic and electronic sounds, angular rhythms and fragile melodies drums and a collection of small instruments.
This cd will be distributed with Transit catalogue.
Lynda Quinlan: Pearse Street DART Station + Connolly Train Station
The artist’s practice is involved in the production of an evolving installation project, a sculptural landscape which touches on how technology and the culture of consumerism is shaping our society's identity and landscape.
An engaging visual narrative takes place through the process of the objects placement due to the various associations and fragments of history attached to them. The work reflects an imaginative metropolis evocative of the industrial era, expressing biological futurism.
Yvonne McGuinness: Dublin Port Ferry Terminal
A collection of possible reflections by Irish women on the journey between two countries while being in a transitory state of pregnancy. Since 1981 it is estimated that 80,000 women from Ireland have made this journey, most of them in secret.
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