Curatorial statement

Following on from our presentation last week, we would like to update you on the collective aspect of our project.

As a means of exploring our interest in simultaneous spaces, we would like to invite all the groups participating in the Public House project to submit a piece of work for display in our installation in the rowing club.
We suggest that you may like to use this as an opportunity to reflect on your collective experience of the project within your group, and of the clubhouse, and allow the ideas arising from this to influence your submission, although you are, of course, free to submit anything you wish.
Every group has been allocated a space that is approximately 280mm wide, 318 mm high and 208 mm deep.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions

Archive without archive

This is an example of another extremely interesting image which I came across.I feel that by altering the individual containers, such as in the image, we may enhance the idea of the individual lending to the formation of the collective. In many mays the archive may seem a stronger proposal for its simplicity - by the ommision of any physical objects which each group may lend to our archive. An archive without physical documentation if you will. The archive then fails to take on too literal a meaning and becomes open to individual interpretation and percecption, as the building has done for decades. Each container creates differing conditions - a spatial representation of a groups involvement with the scheme or project in the previous three weeks. The simplicity lends to its complexity. http://www.geekologie.com/2008/03/26/tetris-shelves-3.jpg

- Gavin

Mood Board as Archive

An idea arose reguarding the construction of the archive of percecption through linear time. I came across this image, very provocative i think. Simple yet refined. Perhaps our archive could take on a similar physical state. We are grappling with 16 individual containers for each group, perhaps one group or collective container, in this case a mood board, where each group pins what they feel relevent to their individual idea on the board, may be just as effective and provoke just as strong feelings. - Gavin

THe most noticable contained space within the building, the "vacuum" space

Summery of Meeting in Limerick Boat Club

Statement:
We are concerned eith the present pasts of spaces; with human experiences of the world which we believe to be both amassed and recommunicated simultaneously within our environment. We propose to make explicit the multiplicity of narratives of individual and collective that occurs side by side, transending the boundariesnof individual perceptions and linear time.

For the discussion in the boat club building, feb 18th, our group (Laura, Eilish, and Gavin) we were concerned with continuing our idea which involved introducing a living archive in the intermediate vacuum space inside the front entrance of the club.
The archive involves each group placing a piece relating to their concept in the Living archive. The archive occupies the window space in the form of vessels or containers. The archive will encourage people to pause in the space and occupy the space which would not in other circumstances be occupied. The perception of the space is altered. the question arose about the use of this space - was it appropriate. The space itself acts a s a container seperated by thresholds, within which a spatial experience can be realised through the position of the archive. It acts on a larger scale as an archive as transition, through time and space. The question also arose about how it was relevant to the project - it is a responce to the three weeks of work and exploration of percecptions rather than the space or building as an object. The issue of what each group could donate to this groups project also was highlighted in the discussion. It remains at the discression of each group to what they consider relevant to exhibit in their individual vessel within the archive.

- Gavin