Who doesn't love free events in these mind-your-pennies times? This afternoon, strollers who walk along the seafront from Clontarf to the Bull Wall in Dublin are in for an artistic treat.
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Peeling off and dipping a toe into art on promenade
If you ever plan on explaining the sea to an uneaten potato, then get down to Clontarf on Dublin on Saturday afternoon for a few pointers. read more
Promenade Art
'Anyone taking a stroll along the promenade at Clontarf in Dublin will experience more than just fresh air and sea breezes. The Area is being turned into an open-air art gallery with 10 artists using bathing and seating areas to present their work to the public'.
Spencer Tunick ... without the nudity
People will be stripping off in Clontarf in Saturday - but unlike Spencer Tunick there won't be any nudity. Read more
High Stakes
Joan Fowler discussess a seminar on the role of risk in art practice, held at the Odessa Club, Dublin in August
Great outdoors art in Dublin
If you're in Dublin this weekend, keep an eye out for some of the Out Of Site events. The festival of live art in public spaces has been running since Wednesday, with more than 30 performances by 16 national and international artists in the city centre, Temple Bar, Liberties, Smithfield and other places, exploring how people in Dublin navigate, negotiate and experience urban life. The live art performances will range from intimate happenings on quiet streets and alternative tours of the alleyways and side streets of Temple Bar. Out Of Site had it's debut in last year's Dublin Fringe Festival, and curator Michelle Browne says the object is "to bring live art out of the gallery onto the street, offering the general public the opportunity to experience contemporary art in their everyday lives".
Michelle Browne aus Dublin ist Leiterin der Kunstlergruppe "Out Of Site", die sich mit interactiven Elementen mit dem Thema der Migration in Europa auseinandersetz.
Activating public space
Michelle Browne, curator of Out Of Site outlines the development and presentation of ths series of live art projects, which was part of Dublin's Fringe Festival.
As Out Of Site was going to be a part of a festival dominated by theatre, I wanted to play with ways of differentiating live art from a theatre program. I decided to create a series that would blend with the everyday. There would be no curtain call, the performances would just spring up out of nowhere - from 'out of site' - and happen. Unsuspecting viewers would be presented with these actions in their normal habitat and would have to negotiate their understanding of them on those terms.
Keeping it surreal on the streets
There seems to be a lot of strance activity during the Dublin Frince Festival - but it's ok, it's art
Brian O'Connell's installation in Temple Bar Square on the first Saturday of the Fringe festival was a particularly successful invention, his market stall blending in the natural environs of Saturday afternoon and attracting active participation from genuine browsers, who gradually realised that the virtual reality goggles (that let you see both sides of the face of a two-faced politician), the generic experiments and the prim development sites for sale on the moon were sophisticated satirical marketing strategies designed to make them think differently about political issues of local and global importance.
17th September 2006 -
Sunday Independent Why you should know about Vaginal Vinyl
Last night, the girls played slow sets on the Nitelink for travellers on their way home from town. Tara explains: "We had battery operated turntables and played everything on vinyl!" The performance was part of the Out Of Site live art series, which was "guerilla performance art".
18th August 2006 -
Irish Times Dublin's burning
Out Of Site, a performance art project curated by Michelle Browne, in which 6 performances will "just happen" in various outdoor locations around the city. Browne is a firm believer in "the accidental audience" and this playful and accessible example of "guerilla art" exists not to be sought out, but discovered. "I'm really interested in the idea of art blending in more with real life," she says. "People don't feel they have to read up on it. They look at it to see if it relates to ow they use the space, or how they feel about the space they inhabit. But there isn't an audience waiting at 1 o'clock for it to happen. It's about being there."
12th August 2006 -
Irish Times Ready to take to the streets
Personal mythology, truth discovery, heavenly beings reflecting on social chance, transgender lives - all this and more is promised at the Dublin Fringe Festival next month. The programme, which was launched this week at Dublin's louche and luxurious Camden Deluxe Hotel Pool Lounge, comprises 116 shows over 16 days.
"The big thing this year is that it will be out in the city. Everybody will be aware of the Fringe", said artistic director Wolfgang Hoffmann, citing the opening event on George's Dock, involving 3000 candles, as well as a lantern exhibition along the boardwalk and a series of Out Of Site performances, in which artists will interact with the city in different locations on every day of the festival.