Goshka Macuga and Declan Clarke will make a bandstand and a functioning fountain in the gallery at Project. This new sculptural work is an experimental collaboration between the two artists and attempts to combine their individual concerns and sensibilities by merging them into an unexpected third.
Friendship of the Peoples
Goshka Macuga and Declan Clarke will make a bandstand and a functioning
fountain in the gallery at Project. This new sculptural work is an
experimental collaboration between the two artists and attempts to combine
their individual concerns and sensibilities by merging them into an unexpected
third.
Goshka Macuga mixes utopian idealism with DIY production values, grouping
together artworks by others into a collective whole. These works play with
traditions of archiving, museum display and public spectacle in ways that
disorientate and delight.
Declan Clarke connects language, site, history and narrative in a manner that
is both political and comic. With Clarke, these categories converge in
artworks that explore the elasticity of meaning, stable entities such as
names, notices and public monuments become exposed to multiple and conflicting
interpretations.
The work is conceived as a notional civic structure that is simultaneously
monumental and half-baked. It contrasts the idealism of collective endeavour,
social cohesion and optimistic planning with the reality of disappointment and
social dysfunction. As an artwork it explores the tensions inherent in any
collaborative project, revealing both the marks of individual creativity and
evidence of negotiation and compromise.
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street Temple Bar Dublin 2
Admission free