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The pandemic nixed their traditional end-of-studies exhibitions, so a group of artists set up their own show, the Crux Project, in the wilds of south Dublin.
Aoife Spillane-Hinks has worked with around 25 writers, she says, as the lead artist at the Axis Ballymun’s pop-up literary department.
For Nghai Mai, what matters most is letting his audience know there’s more to Vietnam than American vets getting “flashbacks of Nam” in Hollywood films.
This book “is a must have for those investigating the history of piracy … or even for those who just want to see the fact beyond the fiction”.
It’s part of a wider projected called “What Does He Need?” which is trying to create a public conversation about the current state of masculinity.
“In this dream world, Dulu wanders soundscapes that feel endless in every direction, each song resembling fragments of different half-remembered hallucinations.”
This documentary tells the story of Dr Phil Kennedy, and his experiments on his patients – and himself – to create man-machine interfaces.
“I don’t want to express why I go there,” she says. “It just depends on what you’re ready to receive.”
Buildings on Merchants Quay and Bridgefoot Street would be transformed into artists’ studios, with community and rehearsal space – if it happens.
In this new book, animal exploitation is used as a lens to reflect the changing social, cultural and ideological fabric of the city of Dublin as it moved towards a new model of urban civilisation in the nineteenth century.
In this genre-savvy vampire film, a local tourist attraction becomes a death trap when an ancient evil awakens.
The jumping-off point for the exhibition is the way that living life on Zoom and other virtual platforms leaves people “with a false sense of community”, says Aoife Banks, one of the artists.