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.
Led by writer Nathan O’Donnell, The Mill is inspired by the Clondalkin Paper Mill and the legacy of the 1980s’ strikes there.
Visual artist Sarah Browne’s project imagines the gym or leisure centre as a space of transformation.
Inspired by the story of Oisín i dTír na n-Óg, who single-handedly lifted 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 by working together.
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.
Artist duo Yvonne McGuinness and Rhona Byrne’s project The Central Field is a temporary Live Land Artwork taking place from March to May 2018.
IN CONTEXT 4 - IN OUR TIME is South Dublin County Council’s Public Art Programme 2016-2019 under the Per Cent for Art scheme.
The IN CONTEXT 4 - IN OUR TIME Open Call aimed to attract radical, ground-breaking and extraordinary artistic proposals across all contemporary art forms including: architecture, circus, dance, film, literature, music, opera, performing arts, theatre and visual arts/visual culture.
IN CONTEXT 4 - IN OUR TIME Launch Commission
Cathy Coughlan (Havoc Dance Company) created a new site-specific dance commission responding to the context of South Dublin County.
SUBTOPIAN BALLAD sought to document and to capture the pulse of South Dublin County in order to illustrate the context for the IN CONTEXT 4 - IN OUR TIME programme.