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18/6/2000

Poetry 2000

Civic Offices, Dublin

It's all go at DUBCIT, Dublin City Writers' Workshop, the community arts project endeavouring to promote the careers of artists, writers and musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds. For starters, they are organising 'Poetry 2000', a celebration of living poets at the turn of the 21st Century, which is also an art exhibition. This will be presented at the foyer of the Dublin Corporation Civic Offices from 19th - 30th June, and will coincide with the second Dublin Writers' Festival.

The way it works is that a copy of 'Portrait of the Artist as an Abominable Snowman', by poet and chairman of the project Gabriel Rosenstock, has been sent to 400 leading lights in the international poetry world, with the request that these poets send by return post an autographed copy of one of their own volumes of poetry, to be included in a 'sculpted library'. This hand-carved piece is commissioned as the centrepiece of an exhibition, which will travel to the Berlin International Literature Festival in June 2001. Thereafter the sculpted exhibition, which will be dedicated to world peace, will be put on permanent display, and be available on CD-ROM at public libraries internationally, thus the works will be circulated throughout the European Commission. It will remain a public trust exhibition, which may find a home at the Irish Writers Centre and will not be used for private commercial profit.

On top of all this activity, there is a residential placement at Newpark House in rural Roscommon during the months of May and June this year which encourages co-operation between artists of all artistic disciplines, encouraging common cultural themes. The arts placements are subsidised by the European Commission CULTURE 2000 Programme, and FAS. There are also six German, six Irish, six Italian and six Spanish visual artists, writers and musicians resident at the centre for seven weeks. Participants on the placement programme have accommodation, food, transport and arts materials provided. The programme places the main emphasis on facilitating the access to culture and wider cultural participation by the people in Europe, in all their social, regional and cultural diversity. The artists in residence are concerned with furthering individual work practices through dialogue and conversation between practitioners from different artistic and cultural backgrounds. Fundamental to the discourse are the poetry books, which act as a starting point for conversations and as a source of inspiration for artworks and texts. This is a project involved with language, music, art, and literature. Included in the exhibition will be painting, sculpture, video, drawing, performance, text and installation work; in certain cases site-specific projects have been undertaken especially for the occasion of the exhibition.

Newpark House is a period house surrounded by acres of land, with 18 bedrooms, a reception area, kitchens, a dining room, a hall/studio, a pub-with-no-beer, and other rooms. It provides location space for video production, rehearsal space for musicians, studio space for writers and art studio space for artists. This was the only project in Ireland that was awarded funding by the European Commissions Culture 2000 Programme as a lead organiser. Other co-organisers in Ireland for various continental lead co-organised actions include the National Museum and the Opera Theatre Co. Ltd.

The German participants are; Grit Baginski; writer, Christian Fischer; writer, Dietrich Fobbe; writer, C. Rudy Hoppe; writer, Uljana Wolf; poet.

The Irish participants are; Olivia Barr; photographer, Neil Bristow; musician, Conor Coady; artist, Katie Holten; artist, Niamh Maguire; sculptor, Seamus Quinn; actor.

The Italian participants are; Fabia Barbirato; sculptor, Elena Bernadini; visual artist, Vanni Donato; musician, Daniele Meneghelli; sculptor, Nicola Quaglia; musician, Erika Scandola; painter.

The Spanish participants are; Marco Antonio; musician, Alejandro Benito; painter, Carmen Luisa Moreno; writer, Pablo Moreno; painter, Juan Luis Sanchez; painter, Pilar Sanchez; painter.

RESIDENCY: Newpark House, County Roscommon, Ireland. 15 May - 30 June 2000
EXHIBITION: Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland. 19 - 30 June 2000

Preview: 19th June, 6-8pm

For further information please contact Liam O'Reilly, Project Manager, at DUBCIT, 40 lower Clanbrassil Street, Dublin 8, Ireland. Tel: 01 4733272.

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