New LED outdoor screening of PERFORMING NGI.988
PERFORMING NGI.988 screening at Wilton Park, Dublin.
PERFORMING NGI.988 screening at Wilton Park, Dublin.
PERFORMING NGI.988 screening at Wilton Park, Dublin.
PERFORMING NGI.988 screening at Wilton Park, Dublin.
PERFORMING NGI.988 screening at Wilton Park, Dublin.
PERFORMING NGI.988, originally produced in 2016, re-edited and adapted for the Living Canvas project LED public outdoor screening installed at Wilton Park, Dublin. Screening times of PERFORMING NGI.988 : Dec 2021 - March 2023.
A 35mm color slide film, transferred to digital, silent, duration 18mins. Originally commissioned by Dublin City Arts Office and the Centre for the Study of Irish Art, the National Gallery of Ireland.
This work was first shown at The LAB gallery, curated by Sheena Barrett (DCC), and Donal Maguire (NGI). Performing NGI.988 was commissioned in 2016 to critically reflect on the commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. The images show a number of staged scenes and historical artifacts that include: the National Gallery of Ireland Conservation Project, at Malahide Castle, of The Battle of the Boyne 1693 painting by Jan Wyck (NGI.988); Drawings from Jack B. Yeats sketch books depicting the aftermath and destruction of Dublin city in 1916 from the artists point of view; the NGI Minutes book which note the events of 1916 and the damage to the city and its cultural artifacts; an exhibition catalogue of the NGI’s 1966 exhibition Cuimhneachán 1916; and a selection of scenes of archival storage spaces and documents from the National Archives of Ireland. These images have been compiled and reconstructed into a silent visual narrative, were each image simultaneously marks a separation with the past and a connection to it, in our present time.
New and specially commissioned art works by Clare Langan, Barbara Knezevic, Aideen Barry, Alan Butler, Bassam Al-Sabah, and Ailbhe Ni Bhriain are also on display from Dec 2021 - March 2022.
The project called Living Canvas is a new “ cultural initiative by IPUT Real Estate Dublin which establishes new ways of exhibiting art works on large scale outdoor formats across Dublin city centre. It is part of IPUT’s commitment to creating a layered city, in which spaces for arts & culture are valued alongside places to live & work”. The curved LED screen at Wilton Park measures 21 metres wide and 4 metres high, and was designed and produced by Algorithm. It is the largest ever outdoor screen to be dedicated solely to art in Europe, and presents the city with a new and dynamic space to view and experience art work in public space at a large scale. The project will continue to evolve over the next year to include newly commissioned works by national and international artists.
This new cultural initiative by IPUT Real Estate has been developed in collaboration with Patrick Murphy - the Royal Hibernian Academy, and Sheena Barrett - Dublin City Council Arts Office, and the Museum of Literature Ireland .
For more information on the project - see here: https://www.iput.com/living-canvas/
To view PEFORMING NGI.988 in full, and also, in the wide format of the LED screen, please visit: https://www.johnbeattie.ie/jbprojects/living-canvas-video/