Out Of Site 2008 in association with Dublin City Council presents PromenadeDate: 8th November
Time: 12-6pm
Out Of Site presents Promenade, a day of live art along the Clontarf walkway to Bull Island. Out Of Site has invited 10 artists to respond to the Clontarf walkway. Promenade will use the sheltered bathing and seating areas, the walkway and the sea along the Clontarf seafront to present multiple performances to the public. The name Promenade refers to the walkway, the wandering from work to work and the notion of displaying oneself.
Promenade is part of Dublin City Council's Open Spaces. Open Spaces is a programme of partnered events, talks and critical response through which Dublin City Council aims to stimulate dialogue, inspire new thought and suggest creative partnerships to support artists' engagement with Dublin's open spaces. For more information on Open Spaces go to www.dublincity.ie
Promenade is kindly funded by Dublin City Council and Dublin Port Authority.
Performances:
Please note Amanda Coogan's performance will take place from 1.30-3.30pm and not as previously advised. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Frances Mezzetti - Between and Beyond. 2.30-3.30pm
Nestled in the trees along the beginning of the walkway the artist will create a portrait based on her interactions with the local nursing home. Looking at the use of the area by the local people and their relationship to it, the performer engages the public in questioning the place of the older generation in society.
Gareth Kennedy - Shout! 2-2.30pm
The artist will convert one of the iconic concrete booths of Clontarf Seafront into a bunker. A brass section from The Artane Band will occupy this enclosure while performing songs by the 80's rock band, Tears for Fears. Pieces will include Everybody wants to rule the world (1985), Mad World (1982) & Shout (1984).
Sinead McCann - Live Hand to Mouth 3.30-4.15pm
Sinead McCann presents a performance that continues her interest in the built environment and power structures inherent in it. Through various performative narratives the piece explores the power structures that existin daily lives of individuals who live on the margins of society.
Dennis McNulty - infrastructure/flow 4-6pm (10 minute performances)
A scratch dj sculpts sounds - spoken word and musical fragments. As he works the decks, the sound appears to flow from outside the building, through the performance space and back out into the world. For the duration of this piece, the audience are invited inside Tom De Paor's award-winning pumping station at Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, to immerse themselves in the flow and listen.
infrastructure/flow is a sound-performance scored for a scratch dj and a diffusionist. Dj - George Brennan, Diffusionist – Enda Bates
Pauline Cummins - Head above Water 4-5pm
A figure clings to a metal ladder that rises from the sea. Ascending and descending constantly clinging, holding on, hanging off, gripping, slipping, suspended. The pull of the sea compels her descent: The desire for safety urges her upwards to solid ground. Her only options: up and down or letting go.
Alex Conway - Sonic Glass 1-2pm
Alex Conway will present a live improvised sound performance using a bus shelter.He will work with pick ups,water,movement,effects to create a soundscape intertwined with the natural ambient sound of the Clontarf walkway.
Dominic Thorpe - Between 1-3.30pm
Dominic Thorpe will present a two hour performance where he explores notions of memory. Through multiple tasks of writing and singing the performer challenges himself in his effort to find the place between remembering and forgetting.
Michelle Browne - Synchronised Swimmers 12.30 - 12.50pm
The public are invited to join the artist in a group performance. Bring your towel and swimsuit and get your limbs tangled as we don our suits as only the Irish know how. Performance will last approximately 20 minutes. Participants advised to arrive at 12 noon.
Alastair McLennan - RAITS STAIR 12-6pm
'.......stroll for gentle exercise..........proceeding dance......going to and fro.......mixing ground...... ........lead about to show.......riding new...... ........audience standing.......leading bound....... ........walking through.......'
Amanda Coogan - How to explain the sea to an uneaten potato 1.30-3.30pm
Continuing Coogan's investigation into duration and presence in live performance, for this six hour work she will reconstruct Beuy's 1965 performance, and Abramovic's 2005 re-enactment of same. Using the emblematic Irish food Coogan will ponder hte world beyond this island.
See location page for more details.
