Lismore Castle Colaborate Art in the Making 2012

the details:
Venue: Lismore Castle
Date: 6th March 2012

 

the colaboration:

Art in the making is striving here at CCAD and from looking at their blogsite [view here], NCAD are having as much fun as we are with the project. Moreover on the 6th of March 2012 for the first time CCAD and NCAD we will be joining forces for a huge Art in the Making Project.

the framework:

You will be organised in groups of 6-8 with students from both colleges, and work collaboratively within this group. The conceptual / contextual framework of the event is its site-specific nature. Ways of approaching this may be through the following categories 

• Historical
• Comparative
• Formal
• Symbolic
• Relevant
• Political
• Poetic
• Game
• Gravitas
• Tradition
• Animate
• Mythical

A list of basic materials and equipment to bring down which you may (or may not) use could include paper, pencil, charcoal, string, rope, bluetack, camera / video camera etc. Also please bring any other materials you may like to use.

Fom 3pm-4.30pm each group will present on some aspect of the day. These will be informal presentations and approx. 5 mins.

As there is no cafe on site, each person is asked to bring one dish based around ideas of a banquet / castle / medieval period etc. As a group we will create a 'banquet' from the dishes for lunch, which will also form part of the collaborative element of the day.

Please note the castle grounds are generally closed at this time of the year, but if the weather is nice they will be opened for us. A number of inside spaces have been allocated to us for that day.

 

travel information:

-The bus for Lismore will leave the Crawford at 9.30am SHARP.

-€1.50 Deposit is required

-Please leave your name with Eamonn Shanahan, Catherine Hehir or Margaret O' Brien if you would like to go - There are very few places remaining.

 

 

Week 5 CCAD Art in the Making

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Week 4 CCAD Art in the Making

Art in the Making Week 2

Host: Grace O' Leary & Roisin Bohan

Venue: DLT, CCAD.

Invented on a sunny Sunday afternoon in 199AD. It dates back thousands of years across many different cultures such as Ancient Egyptians, the Celts and the Native American Indians. It has been used for a wide variety of purposes that weren’t just all for fun and play. This unique art process also includes use for camouflage, religious purposes, entertainment, inclusion in sports and as a statement about society. It is a medium of expression as well as functionality based, depending on the sole intentions of the creator. Why restrict yourselves to a rigid structure when you can work on a moving canvas.

Week 2 CCAD Art in the Making

Art in the Making - Week 2

Venue: Art Trail

Host: David Upton

For the first installment of Art in the Making students and staff met at one ofthe venues in use for ArtTrail 2011, a disused furniture shop on Perry Street. The venue housed three groups of work by local and international artists with a strong emphasis on lens based media. David Upton, a recent graduate from the Crawford College who recieved an ArtTrail graduate award this year and one of the artists exhibiting in the show, led a discussion on the rise in video art and its current ubquity in contemporary art.

The group discussed issues relating to video as a medium such as the problems of working in a medium where the newest technological developments become outdated and appear old fashioned in a matter of years and tackeling viewers familiarity with the production standards and budgets of film and television. The group debated whether or not video is a democratic medium though its origins lie in the counter culture of the 60s has it sold out? As a medium associated the conceptual movement and non-objecthood can it be seen as anti-capitalist? Methods of presentation were also discussed from the cinematic projection to the everything goes video installation, opinion was divided on the presentation of accompanying sound with video headphones definetly not being a preferred method.

24 Hour Print Workshop



13th December 2011

Crawford College of Art & Design

24 Hour Print Workshop

www.24hourprintpopup.com

24 hours is collaborative print project involving artists from Cork Printmakers, Limerick Printmakers Studio & Gallery, Belfast Print Workshop, Black Church Print Studio and Artichoke Printmaking Workshop, London. The initial collaboration at the Limerick Printmakers Gallery in February 2011 sprung from a passion for the medium of print and willingness to the push the boundaries of what is sometimes perceived as a traditional art form.

The group comprises of established artists who have exhibited both nationally and internationally and at times represented Ireland at international symposia. In the past, their careers have overlapped in different capacities and this has created a level of dialogue and interaction that has now led to this collaboration. Cork Printmakers 24 hours project artists are Gemma Dardis, Morgan Doyle, Pamela Dunne, Clare Gilmour, Catherine Hehir, Marianne Keating, Des Mac Mahon, Lorraine Neeson, Noelle Noonan, Margaret O’Brien, Suzannah O’Reilly, Derek O’Sullivan and Fiona Quill.