calling all those lovers of this town -The Moore Street Lending Library -S27 - O15

dublin | arts and media | news report Monday September 26, 2005 13:57 by dunk fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk

open participative creative systems for a better world

The Moore Street Lending Library is a unique public access space/facility/resource which will be managed by participating artists for three weeks from 27th September, with a dynamic and one-of-a-kind launch event on 30th September (see page 4 for further info). It is an event marking the social, economic and political life of the historic quarter of Dublin surrounding The Moore Street Market area.
Contributions and donations are welcome at The Moore Street Lending
Library from 27/9 unitl 15/10 2005.

Individuals and groups are invited to use the resource during the three
weeks of its existence as a meeting space, reading room and research
resource for information relating to the Moore Street market area of
Dublin, its histories and future development.
it is hoped that seomra spraoi and indymedia will participate in this event, along with many other activists, artists, anarchists, buddhists, clowns, discoers, eccentrics, fun lovers, gandhians, hippies.........

is this the death of Moore Street - NOT IF WE CAN HELP IT

links and background:

seomra spraoi
Seomra Spraoi collective invites you to a night of play, art, discussion, film, food, disco
(includes many many links to audio, photo, essays, groups, events......)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71888

Take Back The City
summary of last saturdays free street party and more
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72157

Food not Bombs Dubv3.2 - The Story So Far
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66179&search_text=moore%20street
punks who get free "waste" food from the street traders and use it for feeding activists on demos, at events or giving to the homeless at night

communication is the key
past attempts at moore street festival and exhibition
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62183&search_text=moore%20street

previous indymedia ireland stories about moore street:

is this the death of moore street?
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66571

through streets broad & narrow: crying five for 50, and ten for a pound. The end of Moore Street?
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69798&search_text=moore%20street

16 Moore Victory? Rally & March { photos & audio }
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=48165

The Moore Street Lending Library, more
In association with Dublin’s Fringe Festival and Fire Station Artists Studios, The Moore Street Lending Library will open its doors at:
55 Moore Street from 27th September to 15th October 2005.

Current artists of The Moore Street Lending Library include:

John Beattie, Mark Clare, Susan Gogan, Amanda Healy, Daniel Jewesbury, Sarah Kenny, Glenn Loughran, The Metropolitan Complex, Katherine Sankey, Louisa Sloan and more tbc.

The artist Katherine Sankey initiated the Moore Street Art Project with Fire Station Artists’ Studios.
Moore Street Lending Library is curated by Sandra Grozdanic, Declan Sheehan and Sally Timmons
Email: [email protected]

The Moore Street Lending Library : Where? When?

Visit The Moore Street Lending Library web page for information about the artists involved with the project and updates of programmed events for The Moore Street Lending library during Dublin’s Fringe Festival 2005 or visit the Moore Street Lending Library to pick up a free programme of events and information about this unique project happening on Dublin’s historical market street – Moore Street Lending Library, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance Sampsons Lane), Dublin 1. Open from 11.30am – 7.30-pm Tuesday – Saturday. Entrance can be gained to The Moore Street lending Library on Sampsons Lane (around the corner from Talk Cents call centre).
http://www.firestation.ie/pps/index.html
Email [email protected] for more info.

The Moore Street Lending Library - Open from 11.30am – 7.30pm Tuesday – Saturday. 27th September to 15th October 2005.

Launch event, 3pm-7.30pm, Friday 30 September.

Entrance can be gained to The Moore Street Lending Library on Sampsons Lane (around the corner from Talk Cents internet café and call centre).

Moore Street Lending Library, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance Sampsons Lane), Dublin 1.

Planned projects by artists at the site include a radio broadcast, a newsheet publication with contributions from local business owners and residents in the area, including performances and screenings in the venue - which will also be open as a learning resource and drop-in centre open to the public and invited participants for three weeks. The library will exist as a kind of - shop of curiosities - whose shelves will be packed with artifacts, documents and useful information related to the street, its histories and future development. Suffice to say, that this is a unique and groundbreaking project which attempts to step away from the conventional approach of developing community-based artistic interventions and seeks to become a sustainable and useful resource in the ever changing and evolving fabric of Dublin's inner city.

There is also an open invitation to artists to participate in this unique event by using The Moore Street Lending Library in their practice as a resource, or through a response to it - for part or all of the time of the project. All participation in The Moore Street Lending Library will be archived, and covered in the regular publications emanating from the site.

Moore Street Lending Library artist’s info:

John Beattie
John Beattie is currently artist in residence at Draiocht, Dublin. He completed an MFA at The University of Ulster in 2005. The artist has exhibited both in Ireland and internationally since 2001. Beattie’s work is about the process of making art and its cultural and aesthetic motivations.

Mark Clare
Mark Clare is an Irish artist currently based in Dublin’s Temple Bar Galleries and Studios. He completed an MFA at The University of Ulster in 2004. Clare is founder of The Potlatch foundation - in existence since 2003 – dealing with social concerns through a wide range of mediums. The artist has exhibited internationally and has had solo exhibitions in Japan, China, Norway, and Derry among other places. Clare will be exhibiting in Temple Bar Gallery in August 2005.
[email protected]

Susan Gogan
Susan Gogan is an Irish Photographer based in Dublin. Gogan is a co-founder of the artist led initiative - Via and has implemented off-site shows in Dublin’s city centre since 2001. The artist is currently investigating issues surrounding social space in the modern urban environment through photography. Gogan received the award of Arts Council Bursary in 2005.
http:/www.via.ie

Amanda Healy
Amanda Healy was born in Co. Cork, Ireland. She graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology with a B.A. Photography in June 2005. Healy is the youngest of the artists who have been selected to take part in The Moore Street Lending Library and this is an exciting departure for this emerging artist’s career. Healy’s practice considers political and social issues and is consciously ephemeral in its production quality to allow for easily reproducible material for mass distribution. Healy was awarded a Cork 2005 Bursary for a body of work title: Safe.

Daniel Jewesbury
Born in London in 1972, Jewesbury completed a research-based PHD in University of Ulster in 2001. Jewesbury is currently editor of the critical newssheet - The Variant and has been a member of Catalyst Arts in Belfast for over ten years. Jewesbury’s art practice currently examines biography, memory, political and historical truth, and the ‘authority’ of different forms of narrative.
http;//www.variant.randomstate.org

Sarah Kenny
Sarah Kenny is an artist based in Firestation Studios, Dublin. Kenny implemented her first solo show, Here Came The Summer, in 2004. Her artwork uses text and video to make biting critique of life in Ireland. Sarah Kenny is one of the original artists to initiate The Moore Street Lending Library.

Glenn Loughran
Glen Loughran is an Irish artist based in Dublin’s inner city. Loughran completed an MFA at the National College of Art and Design in 2005. His current body of work - Cosmopolis is based around research into urban practices such as The Theatre of The Oppressed originally introduced to Ireland in 1982 by the cultural activist Augusto Baol. For Cosmopolis, Loughran constructed temporary architecture “to make room for different kinds of production and discourse”.

Sarah Pierce
Sarah Pierce was born in the USA and is based in Dublin. Pierce is an artist, curator, and writer. The Metropolitan Complex is a visual arts practice that occupies social space in a variety of ways, including a publishing project by Pierce set up through group and one to one exchanges.
http://www.themetropolitancomplex.com

Katherine Sankey
Katherine Sankey is an Australian artist currently living in Dublin. Sankey initiated the Moore Street Art Project with Fire Station Artists’ Studios helping them to apply for revenue funding for the project as well as developing a body of research around the history, present situation and future plans for Moore Street before the project was handed over for curation in March 2005. Sankey’s interests lie in connecting artistic activities to wider audiences and she has exhibited and contributed to projects both in Ireland and internationally.

Louisa Sloan
Louisa Sloan graduated from The National College of Art and design, Dublin in 1999, she has since completed a masters in Film Production and Theory through The Dublin Institute of Technology. Sloan employs a variety of mediums, more significantly photography and video in order to explore personal anxieties and desires. Sloan is currently artist in residence at Firestation Artists Studios, Dublin.
http:www.louisasloan.com

The Moore Street Lending Library launch event

The Mr Whippy Sound System (an ice-cream van converted into a sound system) will park at the laneway beside the Moore Street Lending Library for the afternoon/evening event. Babalonia Dj’s will feed the atmosphere with a cosmopolitan mix of urban beats.

The launch will be a casual event running from 3pm to 7.30pm , allowing people working around the area and on the stalls to close up shop and come along for a drink and some locally produced food.

This innovative and unique launch event is possible only through the generous support of Bia bar and its regular Friday night set - Babalonia, which will be the follow on evening venue for the daytime launch.


The Moore Street Lending Library : Where?-When?- How?

Visit The Moore Street Lending Library web page for information about the artists involved with the project and programmed events for The Moore Street Lending library during Dublin’s Fringe Festival 2005

http://www.firestation.ie/pps/index.html

or visit the Moore Street Lending Library to pick up a free programme of events and information about this unique project happening on Dublin’s historical market street – Moore Street Lending Library, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance Sampsons Lane), Dublin 1.

Open from 11.30am – 7.30-pm Tuesday – Saturday. Entrance can be gained to The Moore Street lending Library on Sampsons Lane (around the corner from Talk Cents call centre).

Email [email protected] for more info.

The Moore Street Lending Library - Open from 11.30am – 7.30pm Tuesday – Saturday. 27th September to 15th October 2005.

Launch event, 3pm-7.30pm, Friday 30 September.

Entrance can be gained to The Moore Street Lending Library on Sampsons Lane (around the corner from Talk Cents internet café and call centre).

Moore Street Lending Library, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance Sampsons Lane), Dublin 1.