Artworks

Michelle Browne – Border-Border

The artist offered to transport commuters from Sallins/Naas Train Station to their final destination in the town via a lift on the back of a bicycle. In exploring the in-between spaces that exist in our lives the performance references an informal transportation system that grew up in Africa at the borders of neighbouring countries. Each participant was given headphones and offered the choice of a variety of audio tracks to accompany their journey.  Each track featured a commuter describing their general commute or narrating their commute in real time.  The commuters experiences were recorded by the artist via telephone.  You can listen to the audio here :

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Rachel: New York

Catherine: London

Dominic: Kildare 

Marie: Cayman Island

Jonathon:Galway

 Kevin: Singapore

 

All tracks are downloadable.  If you wish to bring your mp3 player along on your next bus/train/car/bicycle journey you can listen to commuters in places near and far and experience a taste of the Border Border project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jo Anne Butler – The Folly

The artist’s construction was a witty intervention into the Naas Civic Garden. Her scale model housing estate set up a deliberate tension with the oblique lines of the celebrated Áras buildings that was at once both playful and inquisitive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl Giffney

 

Giffney undertook a mobile research project on the commuter lines N6, M4, N7 for the Academy of Future History in conjunction with Parking Meter Arts. The artist focused on the N7 Naas-Dublin road for Transitopia. Giffney will present current findings at the launch event and in the  Transitopia publication.

Find further information on the artists website here:

http://carlgiffney.wordpress.com/transitopia-naas-ireland/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dara McGrath

McGrath is produced site specific photographic research in conjunction with Parking Meter Arts, focusing on the documentation of  the disused industrial space of Donnelly Mirrors. His work will be featured in the Transitopia publication.  

          

 

 

 

 

Elaine Reynolds

 

 

 

 

 

Reynolds investigated the secret life of street lamps and how they relate to  Naas commuters. The work was sited beside a relic of Naas’s industrial past, Donnelly Mirrors, and a main commuter gateway to the N7. The artist created a heightened experience of an everyday transient moment through a poetic mirrored video projection.  The event took place wed 20th – sun 24th Aug 2008 from dusk until midnight.  The projection was visible to passing motorists aswell as visitors to the artwork.

 

                    

 

 

 

Dominick Thorpe – Terrain

 

Thorpe sought a local participant when forming his project.  The artist worked closely with an individual commuter whose experience informs the artwork.  His exchanges with local man Chris O’Neill and his undergoing of O’Neill’s habitual journey to work combined to form a video installation.  

 

 

       

      

                                      

 

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Chris O’Neill Audio

 

 

 

 

 

The opening night in Aras Chill Dara saw the installation include a bed, turf and red bricks, while the work was simply installed on a monitor as a video piece on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd Aug 2008.