An introduction to the successful artists and the six new public art projects set to be commissioned under IN CONTEXT 4 - IN OUR TIME.

Wednesday 26th April 2017 | 10.30am-1pm
Green Room, RUA RED - South Dublin’s Arts Centre
Limited capacity, please RSVP to info@incontext4.ie

The aim of the Artists’ Introductions session is to bring together the IN CONTEXT 4 - IN OUR TIME commissioned artists in a public event for the first time. The event is aimed at communities of interest, artists' peers and anyone curious about the successful projects.  Artists Nathan O’Donnell, Fiona Dowling and George Higgs, Rhona Byrne and Yvonne McGuinness, Sarah Browne, Veronica Coburn and Ciarán Taylor will present their projects ideas and inspirations to an intimate audience.

Writer Nathan O’Donnell’s project, The Mill, will engage with a group of young people in Clondalkin to produce a magazine, derived from a history of radical publishing. Visual artist Fiona Dowling and composer George Higgs will collaborate with workers from a cross-section of workplaces, both industrial and rural, to create Work Songs, a musical portrait of South County Dublin's economic profile. The Central Field is a proposed large scale temporary land artwork conceived by artists Rhona Byrne and Yvonne McGuinness that draws on the idea of an amphitheatre. Visual artist Sarah Browne’s project imagines the gym or leisure centre as a space of transformation. Clamour & Roar – A Citizens’ Chorus is a mixed discipline, multi-generational, cross-community participatory art project which will culminate in an original theatre performance devised by theatre artist Veronica Coburn. Inspired by Oisín I dTír na n-Óg, who carried a boulder up the mountains near Tallaght, Ciarán Taylor’s Rock to the Top invites the people of South Dublin to take up the challenge of recreating this mythic feat.

Programme

10.30am Tea and coffee, on arrival at RUA RED cafe

10.40am Welcome and Introduction - Claire Power, IN CONTEXT 4 Co-Curator

ARTISTS' PRESENTATIONS

10.45am Nathan O’Donnell, The Mill

11.05am Fiona Dowling and George Higgs, Work Songs

11.25am Rhona Byrne and Yvonne McGuinness, The Central Field

11.45am Sarah Browne 

12.05pm Veronica Coburn, Clamour & Roar – A Citizens’ Chorus

12.25pm Ciarán Taylor, Rock to the Top

Open floor

12.45pm-1pm Q&A