IPS at NCAD Gallery
A daily question will be posed to the public for the duration of the IPS 'The Value of Water II' 27th Feb. - 3rd March
ALL invites you to respond via the NCAD Gallery and our Facebook Page HERE Wednesday 29th February
IPS at NCAD Gallery
A daily question will be posed to the public for the duration of the IPS 'The Value of Water II'
ALL invites you to respond via the NCAD Gallery and our Facebook Page HERE
Monday the 27th February:
ALL PRESENTS
The Value of Water IPS travels to NCAD Gallery, Dublin.
This IPS will run from 27th February - 3rd of March 2012.
Occupy Space is a non-commercial gallery in the heart of Limerick City, established through the Creative Limerick Scheme in 2009. As part of the programme at NCAD Gallery they have invited Art Links Limerick (ALL) present their on-going research about Irish water to the public in the form of an Interactive Public Studio (IPS). ALL will disseminate their research to date while continuing to use the gallery as an open studio space over a six day period, encouraging interaction and dialogue within the space.
Occupy Space at NCAD Gallery is open to the public for participation from 27th February – 3rd March 2012.
* Presentations by Aoife Madden, Creative Limerick Coordinator and by Noelle Collins and Kevin O’Keeffe of Occupy Space on Tuesday 28th February, 12 – 2pm, NCAD Gallery.
* Presentations by Creative Limerick Spaces: Faber Studios; Ormston House and Raggle Taggle on Friday 2nd March 12pm – 2pm, NCAD Gallery.
ALL PRESENTS
The Value Of Water
20th - 22nd January 2011
RaggleTaggle Gallery, Sarsfield St, Limerick City
In response to the film 'Water Rising' (below), Art Links Limerick have initiated primary research into how Ireland utilises water as a finite resource. ALL will present ongoing research about Irish water to the public using the Raggle Taggle Studios Space as an Interactive Public Studio. ALL will disseminate current research while continuing working in the gallery-as-studio space over three days. The public are encouraged to view, read, listen and give feedback on this preliminary research. They are also invited to submit their own research to this Interactive Public Studio, to create a dialogue and stimulate exchange about water and its use. It will be an opportunity for members of the public to become involved in the development of a project by ALL in relation to the issues raised regarding Irish water.
The Value of Water aims to establish Art Links Limerick’s practice as a collaborative and engaging process within the public sphere and to highlight the emerging prevalence of Socially engaged Art in Limerick City.
'Water Rising'
‘Water Rising’, a film by Aisling Crudden and Muireann de Barra, will be screened in Raggle Taggle at 8pm on Thursday 19th January 2012.
In the wake of mass protests against water privatization in Bolivia, Water Rising documents a community in crisis and transition in the early 21st Century, where private control over water failed to meet basic needs. The film addresses issues such as global privatisation and commodification of water and the importance of water in everyday life. The film makers will be present at the screening for a Q&A session after the film.
Pitch your Project
Magisters Panel
Thursday November 24th 2011
Limerick City, Ireland
Thank you to all those who participated in Pitch Your Project on November 24th in Occupy Space. We will be posting the video from the event here shortly.
For now please find details below of the Artists, Designers and Theatre Company that contributed on the day.
With special thanks to:
Occupy Space for hosting the event:
Brian Fitzgerald: Video and Photography
Steven Lavin: Video and Photography
ALL PRESENTS
Pitch your Project
Magisters Panel
Thursday November 24th 2011
Limerick City Ireland
We are inviting artists to pitch an art project or idea to the Magisters Panel.
The modern day artist is half creator half business commodity.
We aim to engage this idea of the contemporary artist by setting up a Pitch your Project Event.
We are three qualified Magisters Artium and we offer our expertise in Art and Design. The Magisters panel is a once off art event that will give you feedback, advice and critique your project or idea. We are investing our interest in your project.
The Magisters Panel is a performance based art piece which aims to help other artists and professionals but also engage in discussion about art and design. This performance will be filmed and used in future projects by the Art Links Limerick collective. All projects and ideas remain the property of the artist who pitch them.
The Pitch:
You have 5 minutes to pitch their project or your idea.
You will receive ten minutes of feedback and suggestions from the Magisters.
Successful Project Pitches will be offered the opportunity to further their project with the help of the Magisters.
Statement:
As an professional artist in the current climate it is essential to be not only a productive creative practitioner but also a self contained business unit, performing the roles of a marketing executive, sales person, financial manager, publicist and spin doctor amongst others.
The idea of art as a commodity has been discussed by Grant Kester who acknowledges that it has become 'increasingly difficult to establish a firm ontological boundary between "the work of art" and the commodity'.(1) He also suggests that 'works of art are purchased not simply for spiritual power or beauty but as investments that are expected to appreciate in value.' (2)
The artwork, the process and labour undertaken by the artist to produce a given work become profit making activities to be sold as commodities for what Marx called 'exchange value'. It is the creation of this ‘Exchange Value' that we aim to explore in ‘Pitch your Project’.
(1) Conversation Pieces, Grant Kester,p30
(2) ibid p31.www.yourvideohere.com
