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THEN, an intriguing new Breaking Ground public art work in various locations across Dublin by acclaimed British artist Adam Chodzko.
Residents of Ballymun are perplexed by a series of posters, which have mysteriously appeared on hoarding along the Balbutcher Road, announcing a meeting taking place in Måløy, Sogn og Fjordane, on the island of Vågsøy in the Ulvesund, along the Eidsfjord.
Each afternoon, on the top floor of the recently restored Na Píobairí Uilleann /Uillean Pipers headquarters on Henrietta Street, a new film, ’Around’ , documenting the paranormal and uncanny properties of an otherwise unremarkable boundary wall is being projected.
While visitors to the Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, by participating in ‘M-Path’ will swap their shoes for someone else’s, which they’ll wear as they walk around the Gallery’s exhibitions and permanent collection.
Adam Chodzko is recognised internationally for his multi-media work which triggers a shift in perception of where we think we belong in the world. Fact and fiction are casually mixed up, and terms such as ‘community’ and ‘the public’ are deviated as we enter a surrealist world which plays on things that we take for granted and assume that we understand! says Aisling Prior, curator of Breaking Ground.
Chodzko was invited to make work through Breaking Ground, the Ballymun per cent for art programme, as his work blatantly subverts expectations of what public art is and who it is for. Chodzko’s work is a wryly philosophical look at how an area is read and how individuals present themselves within society. For this new commission, ‘Then’, the quasi sci-fi film, the posters advertising an irrelevant meeting in a far off place and the shoe-exchange, whereby residents of two parts of Dublin (Rathmines and Ballymun) donated their unwanted shoes, are inter-related works. Each intends to have a momentarily transformative quality, which spurs us into asking ourselves if we are, in fact, in the right place, if we are meant to be somewhere, or even someone, else, or did we just get everything wrong?! says Aisling Prior
M-path, at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, and Around, at Na Piobairi Uilleann, 15 Henrietta St, Dublin 1 both run from 16th November 2007 to 13th of January 2008.
Meeting [Ballymun, Dublin], is on Balbutcher Lane, Dublin 11.
Garden is a project to appear in a publication, to appear in January 2008.
For further info contact Breaking Ground on 01.8832112 or info@breakingground.ie
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