Isla Blue
(2019)
A Commission with Project Arts Centre, Dublin , 2019
Isla Blue was commissioned for Active Archive – Slow Institution – The Long Goodbye a research project by Lívia Paldi, Curator of Visual Arts, Project Arts Centre, Dublin. This initiative was devised as an exploration of the art centre's history of programming. Between 1998 and 1999, Valerie Connor had curated an Off Site visual arts programme produced by Project Arts Centre during the redevelopment of the art centre building at its current address. Valerie Connor was invited by Lívia Paldi to reflect on the purpose of the Off Site programme. In 2019, the gallery at Project Arts Centre was transformed into a workspace, where documents relating to its archives and history were shared and examined, giving cause to new conversations and connections to emerge. I was invited to visit locations in Dublin city centre where the Off Site programme had transpired and respond to those places as they are now. Inspired by the spirit of Off Site and its ability as a programme to unfold in both a nomadic and structured manner, I engaged with these places, those events, that history and the city through a contemporary lens.
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The final sets of photographs were presented in 5 individual folios released at various points throughout the shows duration.
Release Dates: (Folio 1 - 14/02/2019) / (Folios' 2+3 - 28/02/2019) / (Folios' 4+5 - 14/03/2019)
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Further Info + Curators' texts - 'Active Archive – Slow Institution – The Long Goodbye'
A Commission with Project Arts Centre, Dublin , 2019
Isla Blue was commissioned for Active Archive – Slow Institution – The Long Goodbye a research project by Lívia Paldi, Curator of Visual Arts, Project Arts Centre, Dublin. This initiative was devised as an exploration of the art centre's history of programming. Between 1998 and 1999, Valerie Connor had curated an Off Site visual arts programme produced by Project Arts Centre during the redevelopment of the art centre building at its current address. Valerie Connor was invited by Lívia Paldi to reflect on the purpose of the Off Site programme. In 2019, the gallery at Project Arts Centre was transformed into a workspace, where documents relating to its archives and history were shared and examined, giving cause to new conversations and connections to emerge. I was invited to visit locations in Dublin city centre where the Off Site programme had transpired and respond to those places as they are now. Inspired by the spirit of Off Site and its ability as a programme to unfold in both a nomadic and structured manner, I engaged with these places, those events, that history and the city through a contemporary lens.
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The final sets of photographs were presented in 5 individual folios released at various points throughout the shows duration.
Release Dates: (Folio 1 - 14/02/2019) / (Folios' 2+3 - 28/02/2019) / (Folios' 4+5 - 14/03/2019)
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Further Info + Curators' texts - 'Active Archive – Slow Institution – The Long Goodbye'
