Seeing Across Boundaries | Ireland
EU Peace III Funded
Brief – Commissioned to work with arts organizations in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to create a community engagement artist programme that addressed cross border identities, land, mapping, and the Troubles. Utilised surveillance as art as theme to examine, particulary through the history and medium of the camera obscura.
Output Type: Master class art programme for the benefit of cross border regional artists in Northern Ireland (County Fermanagh) and the Republic of Ireland (CountyCavan & Monaghan), Exhibitions at Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2010) and Bluewall Gallery (2011); Community outreach programme; Proposal for Public Art Monument (Camera Obscura chamber Dates: September 2009 - February 2011
Media:
Hogan, Sinead. ‘International experts in Cavan for Seeing Beyond The Lens’ Arts Feature, Anglo-Celt, Cavan, July 14, 2010.
The mentorship programme ensured that both the lead artist and participants responded to how both architectural and digital forms could illustrate how surveillance can be a theme to comment on the recent Irish socio-political histories as well as be part of a larger contemporary art vocabularies. The project succeeded in producing a new civic ontology that explored how audiences respond to geography, borders, information mapping and architectural space within their own familiar landscapes through exhibition and cross-border dialogue.
EU Peace III Funded
Brief – Commissioned to work with arts organizations in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to create a community engagement artist programme that addressed cross border identities, land, mapping, and the Troubles. Utilised surveillance as art as theme to examine, particulary through the history and medium of the camera obscura.
Output Type: Master class art programme for the benefit of cross border regional artists in Northern Ireland (County Fermanagh) and the Republic of Ireland (CountyCavan & Monaghan), Exhibitions at Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2010) and Bluewall Gallery (2011); Community outreach programme; Proposal for Public Art Monument (Camera Obscura chamber Dates: September 2009 - February 2011
Media:
Hogan, Sinead. ‘International experts in Cavan for Seeing Beyond The Lens’ Arts Feature, Anglo-Celt, Cavan, July 14, 2010.
The mentorship programme ensured that both the lead artist and participants responded to how both architectural and digital forms could illustrate how surveillance can be a theme to comment on the recent Irish socio-political histories as well as be part of a larger contemporary art vocabularies. The project succeeded in producing a new civic ontology that explored how audiences respond to geography, borders, information mapping and architectural space within their own familiar landscapes through exhibition and cross-border dialogue.
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Upper left: Seeing Across Boundaries exhibition (2010) at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre; Right: Seeing Acoss Boundaries participants learning to construct functional camera obscura boxes for landscape recording, and drawing. Lower left: Group ready with completed camera obscura boxes to record, draw, and photograph the local area.
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Sylvia Grace Borda discusses the concepts behind the Seeing Across Boundaries project (2011)