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.
The short film is an eerie, sometimes frantic psychological drama about Alice, an artist who is haunted by a toxic former relationship.
Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Current, at The Complex.
Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”
Filmmaker Sarah Share’s “The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry” tells the story of the Mississippi-born musician, who is now living in Ireland.
Ellen Be, and the band Cozinha Preta, brought a message of cultural awakening and ancestral power.
“The work isn't fully satisfying. There's a kind of contingent element, or an element that you know is only going to exist in a certain way at a certain time.”
The idea is for this spot next to Dublin Castle to host choirs, chamber music, trad music, poetry performances, and more.
It’s a good moment for a conversation about local and national policies to ensure state bodies don’t switch out artists for AI, says illustrator Eva Kelly.
“There aren’t enough opportunities to practise, so the idea here is good, just to provide a forum,” says Anne McGough, who dropped in last Sunday.
Others should take the closure as an inspiration and fill the gap, says Coco Fabulasio. “Let’s build new things.”
It’s from Darren and Colin Thornton, the sibling team behind 2016’s “A Date for Mad Mary”, “one of the truly great Irish films of the last 10 years”.