In Context 3 - South Dublin´s project update
We're about a year into the Evaluation of the
South Dublin Council's In Context 3 project
and art is starting to happen all over the place. I've just got back from
one of the regular 'meet the artists' review meetings and can happily report
that they are all doing exciting, innovative and compelling things.
Since giving artists time to research and
really understand the place was a key goal of the programme, it is contrary
to demand evidence of progress at half way. But there are some interesting
things about already.
The first artist's web site has gone live:
Jackie Sumell is authoring Bacon Instead. Composer/musician
Jennifer Walshe has made great progress with building a community of sound
artists in the area, go find them on Facebook - no clues for this one,
it's part of the fun.
Others are working hard in the community
and begining to form ideas about their projects but it's too soon to show.
Writer Dermot Bolger hit the ground running
in this project, with workshops and previews devoloping his new play "Walking
the Road". You can see lots of links and read my own impressions here.
Altogether the project looks like shaping
up to a significant set of artistic outcomes - many of which I think the
stakeholders and the artists will want to share outside the immediate area
of South Dublin. Smart gallery curators and arts producers might do well
to get in there early.
Watch this space.
Our picture shows the In Context 3 team at
the recent get together.
Front row L - R
Claire Nidecker – Programme Manager,
Orla Scannell – Arts Officer, Jackie Sumell - Multidisciplinary Artist,
Jennifer Walshe – Composer, Anne Cleary –Filmmaker, Sarah Searson- Mediator,
Liesbeth Bik – Visual Artist
Back row – L- R
Peter Cox – Evaluator, Fiona Galvin
- Arts Worker, Dermot Bolger – Writer, Jos Van Pol – Visual Artist, Denis
Connolly - Filmmaker
