Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
To this day, Peter Pearson still stops to take a look when he sees a skip – in case something of value and heritage is about to be lost.
The aim is to focus on art that is relevant to the local area, not “parachuted-in”, said City Arts Officer Ray Yeates.
Antonio D’Souza says the group is inclusive, not exclusive – a place for artists who might not otherwise be included in Ireland’s art scene.
A typical All Times Now Nothing show incorporates a live recording of a television fed through Clíona Ní Laoi’s webcam, and Alfred Brooks using his sampler to regurgitate particularly apt lines.
Among other projects, Áine O’Hara is working on an interactive game show where people can come into the gallery and play to win or lose their health.
Every time Kevin Gaines has worked with or around other artists, he’s picked things up – a mallet, a forgotten skill, or just the energy and creativity of a place, he says.
The hope is to recreate the 19th-century salons hosted by Lady Jane Wilde, also known as Speranza. A recent Saturday was the first event.
Artist Avril Corroon’s exhibition of toxic cheese wheels, made from mould in Dublin and London’s apartments and workplaces, opens soon at the LAB Gallery.
Daithi Hanly, later a Dublin City Council architect, in 1942 outlined his vision for a new city at the Hill of Tara in Meath in a magazine published by a far-right group.
“At least, there’s a bright spark here,” said artist Robert Ballagh at the launch last week, in a former retail unit in the Phibsboro Shopping Centre.
“Pixo”, which finds its origins in protests against urban inequality in Brazilian cities, has found a familiar canvas on derelict and vacant buildings around the Liberties and the Coombe.
The idea came from discussions with others in the community, said Austin Campbell, director of the Robert Emmet CDP. “How do we define ourselves when this is happening?”