Critical Contexts

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    In Search of the Public
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    by Fiona Woods

    The question of art’s encounter with its various publics is a vexed one. Art practices that are oriented towards the social have generated a whole swamp of terminologies, with each term staking out a slightly different political position. Furthe...

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    Arcadia Amongst the Ruins
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    by Andrew Dodds

    In autumn 2008, Andrew Dodds worked with Jenni Roche, an ecologist from Trinity College Dublin, to document and produce a forensic biodiversity survey of the vegetation at two brownfield sites in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim. The project, Arcadia...

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    The making of Between Earth, Sky & Home by Ríonach Ní Néill

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'Harbouring'

Commissioned in 2008, Harbouring by composer Ian Wilson, was the fifth Per Cent for Art music commission undertaken by Wexford County Council since its inaugural project in 2004.

Wilson's Harbouring is a choral work based on nine poems by both Irish and international writers.

The performances were conducted by Fergus Sheil and featured the Irish Chamber Orchestra, accordian player Dermot Dunne, choristers from Wexford Festival Singers, Gorey Choral Group, Enniscorthy Choral Society and sean nós singers from the traditional singing group, Whisht! 

Read more about this project in the Public Art Directory section of this website.

 

 

 

 

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