[PR] Launch of Multi-Media Art Installation - Connolly Luas - 29 April 2009 at 7pm

[Colm Moore]

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Launch of Multi-Media Art Installation at Connolly Luas Stop on 29th April 2009 at 7pm

Streets - Past, Present and Future, a is a video, light and sound installation created by Dublin’s North Inner City community with artists Ciara O'Malley and Sven Anderson.

Streets - Past, Present and Future at Connolly Luas Stop
Streets - Past, Present and Future is a video, light and sound installation located at Connolly Luas Stop, the Red Line terminus, created by the community of Dublin’s North Inner City with the artists Ciara O'Malley and Sven Anderson.

The art installation will be officially switched on by local writer-director Peter Sheridanon 29th April 2009at 7pm, Connolly Luas Stop. Sheridan grew up locally and is best known for his interpretation of fellow Dubliner Brendan Behan’s works both on stage and in film. The Streets - Past, Present & Future installation will run for 12 months, and can be viewed for six hours after dusk each evening.

The installation reflects the ever-changing urban landscape of the North Inner City. Using a collective community voice, the piece expresses the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the community. The installation presents a story that mirrors the complex history and culture of the streets and the communities it represents while inviting Luas passengers, pedestrians and passing traffic to view, interact with and experience the story from different perspectives.

Participation by local people took place over 2003 and 2004 during the artist Ciara O’Malley’s ‘Studio Award’ residency in the local Fire Station Artists’ Studios.

Writer and critic Gemma Tipton has praised this new Luas feature. She called the piece “a poem to the North Inner City,” and noted that “the projections come to take on the role of the city speaking for itself, as if it is telling stories and making arguments that come from within its own collective memory.”

[Colm Moore]

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STREETS—PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
Multi-Media Art Installation at Connolly Luas Stop

Streets-Past, Present and Future is a video, light and sound installation located at Connolly Luas Stop, the Red Line terminus, created by the community of Dublin’s North Inner City with the artists Ciara O'Malley and Sven Anderson.

Streets-Past, Present and Future was officially switched on by local writer-director Peter Sheridan on 29th April 2009 at 7pm on Connolly Luas Stop. Sheridan grew up locally and is best known for his interpretation of fellow Dubliner Brendan Behan’s works both on stage and in film. The Streets—Past, Present & Future installation will run for 12 months, and can be viewed for six hours after dusk each evening.

The installation reflects the ever-changing urban landscape of the North Inner City. Using a collective community voice, the piece expresses the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the community. The installation presents a story that mirrors the complex history and culture of the streets and the communities it represents while inviting Luas passengers, pedestrians and passing traffic to view, interact with and experience the story from different perspectives.

Participation by local people took place over 2003 and 2004 during the artist Ciara O’Malley’s ‘Studio Award’ residency in the local Fire Station Artists’ Studios. Bringing the installation to fruition, has though a lengthy and challenging experience for the artists, it has been worth while. The project has involved input from various technical experts including audio-visual technologists, Luas operator and RPA architects’ office.

Writer and critic Gemma Tipton has praised this new Luas feature. She called the piece “a poem to the North Inner City,” and noted that “the projections come to take on the role of the city speaking for itself, as if it is telling stories and making arguments that come from within its own collective memory.”

Click here to view or download Streets-Past, Present and Future Launch Stop Poster

[Colm Moore]

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Future
Connolly Arts Project: Streets: Past, Present and Future

The Connolly Arts Project: Streets: Past, Present and Future located at Connolly Luas Stop will be an interactive video, light and sound installation. Twenty-seven community groups in the north inner city and many individuals living and working locally have contributed to the final artwork. A temporary installation will run for approx two years in 2008 and 2009 and it is hoped that a more permanent artwork will be located at one of the new Luas Stops on the extension of the existing Luas Red Line to The Point in coming years.

Background
In 2003, visual artist Ciara O’Malley was awarded the ‘Fire Station Artist in the Community Studio Award’ for a residency project that aimed to explore the concept of Streets: Past, Present and Future. Ciara worked with a cross section of the community in Dublin’s north inner city, incorporating young and old in an artistic process that would allow them to reflect on their local neighbourhood, and express their hopes for an area undergoing massive regeneration, both physically and demographically.

Phase one of this residency culminated in a multi-media exhibition entitled Streets in the spring of 2004. This exhibition showcased the work of five local community projects around the theme of streets.

Phase two built on the outcomes of phase one when RPA came on board as project partners agreeing to host an interactive sculptural project reflecting the theme of Streets at the Connolly Luas Stop.

Ciara collaborated with audio visual artist Sven Anderson for phase two of this project. Ciara and Sven issued an open invitation to local people to get involved and contribute something to become part of the final artwork; a piece of text, a drawing, a collage, a sculpture, a video, photography, poetry, sound clips, a rap song etc.

The outcome of this will be the Connolly Arts Project: Streets: Past, Present and Future located at Connolly Luas Stop which will include a temporary interactive video, light and sound installation in 2008 and 2009 hopefully followed by a more permanent artwork located at one of the new Luas Stops on the extension of the existing Luas Red Line to The Point in coming years.

Please click here to view images from Connolly Arts Project: Streets: Past, Present and Future